A very misleading headline..a lie..

[Stuart G]

"The Problem with Educationis Teachers"....

view this at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com
This was up there at 7:15am Central Time...3/10..
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States proposing ‘common core’
of school standards
Education chiefs hope blueprint of when students should learn key lessons like poetry versus prose and Pythagoras’ theorem will replace hodgepodge of academic benchmarks. Full story

The problem with education is teachers
Newsweek: Failing urban schools must replace bad educators
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I saw this one at MSNBC.com..and it links to Newsweek.. Sure, there are some poor teachers. But to analyze the problems in education based on this one concept is more than misleading, it is a lie.
I taught for 27 years, in 3 different high schools in Chicago. One very good, and two inner city schools. Our problems in education were not just poor teachers who do not motivate. Lack of leadership, funding on many issues, parental cooperation, union issues, student motivation, outside influences like tv, are just a few reasons for the poor results we get from public education. To blame this problem on teacher is not only irresponsible, it is stupid, and a lie.

[boobooday]

1. But it's convenient, isn't it?

Makes it easy to attack individual people instead of addressing systemic problems.

Kind of like how we've been trained to despise a person smoking a cigarette while paying no attention to a power plant belching particulates.

[Stuart G]

3. Very convenient, and a lie.

[boobooday]

5. Not only that

It's a vicious, damnable lie.

As if it isn't hard enough to be a teacher already.

Love how they are to be held accountable, but the Wall Street Executives who stole their pension funds get a bonus.

[fasttense]

2. Yeah, we should fire all the soldiers when they lose a battle too.

How come we hold the people in the field like teachers accountable but we don't hold the individual soldier accountable when a battle is lost?

You know why. Because it's not just the soldiers fighting the battle, it involves the officers, generals and politicians. The same thing applies to school. Schools failing to educate our children is not just due to the individual teachers. Education involves administrators, local school boards, resources, funding, and of course politicians.

But it's always easier to blame the little guy. Which is exactly what Obama did.

[HereSince1628]

4. It's a matter of transference, it's a whole lot easier to see

if you consider the analogy to the community blaming therapists for mental illness.

[Lerkfish]

6. this whole meme is a trojan horse

for devaluing education for the unwealthy masses and upgrading education for the wealthy elite.

keep firing public school teachers, paying less for their replacements, and enter through the rabbit hole the Bush education in a videotape idea and charge poor families outrageous sums to remain stupid and grow up to malleable teabaggers

[Toots]

7. Republicans just want to dismantle our education system so everyone will be as smart as them.

:shrug: It is their only chance..

[Stuart G]

8. Or as dumb as them...or maybe as selfish as them..

But you really can't get more selfish.

[elleng]

9. Try to make sense of THIS!

Building a Better Teacher

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07Teachers-t.html?pagewanted=1&hpw