Reply #2: MY union! Hopefully, something can be done about the crazy idea [View All]

[mbperrin]

that we can just a hole in students' heads, stick in a funnel, and pour in knowledge. That means any knowledge not in there was spilled by the teacher. Crazy idea.

Some of the problems in schools: children below Maslovian needs being met; large classes; boring curricula focused simply on passing one standardized test per year; resources being used in massive dose by AP/IB/Special ed and other "special" groups, while "regular" kids get shoveled into large classes, newest teachers, least materials, no access to tutoring or other ancillary activities.

Very difficult for a teacher to make up all that alone. And you're alone, because the folks in charge need badly to have someone to blame when things go wrong. There's a reason why school results in this country are forlorn since we began all this testing nonsense in 1984. If you examine the history, that is precisely when all the trouble started. These tests are simply a device to funnel money to private schools who do not have to meet the same standards or admit the same students that the public schools do.

There is hardly any problem that can be solved faster with less education. If we gave someone a pile of rocks, a quart of grease, a frying pan, and said make hamburger out of that, no one would think that was fair. Happens all the time in education, except they throw the rocks at you.