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Originally Posted by lindix
I am disgusted by the radical inhuman monsters turned out by evil madrassas. They do, however, point out just how a child can be taught to believe religious nonsense. Terrible, anti-social, bigoted and evil nonsense. Okay. It's a fact. It can be done.
Now why is it that our American educational system, from kindergarten to 12th grade, has so much troubler turning out graduates that can't read their own diplomas? We have poured money on the problem to the point that we have proven that it is not the problem. Okay. What is?
(1) Qualified, college educated teachers should be paid wages that are competitive with other vocations.
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With other graduate level professionals.
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(2) Tenure should be dropped as a stupid relic of the past.
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Tenure is simply the removal of the probationary period after TWO years. What other profession has a TWO year probationary period?
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(3) Teacher's Unions have ruined the process of education and should be replaced by standards, values, and competition.
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Teachers' Unions are a necessary protection for teachers and a scapegoat for those who don't really want to help public education, but want to gut it.
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(4) A teacher's object is not to teach - but rather to increase their student's knowledge.
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A teacher's job is to teach the material...a student's job is to learn the material. A teacher can bring that student to the education, but the student must take an active role...unfortunately, many do not.
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(5) A teacher's measure of success must be determined by appropriate grade level student testing.
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All professionals should have their job performance measured by factors out of their control.
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(6) No student should be advanced to the next grade level without passing.
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Agreed...until you end up with 16 year old 4th graders.
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(7) Beginning in 4th grade, all teaching must be done in ENGLISH only.
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Not all non-English speaking students show up in kindergarten.
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(8) From Kindergarten thru 3rd grade non-English speaking children must undergo instruction in the English language.
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They do.
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These steps are far from a perfect start - but isn't it time we fixed our badly broken educational system?
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To work on the teachers/educational system is simply rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The problem is with the students and their parents.
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What might you suggest?
Lindix
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See above. How do we make students and parents step up and do their part?