Why Is American Public Education Failing? Teacher Unions!
Wednesday, 05-06-09- Here is a story about one of the reasons why our public edukation system is broken. To put it bluntly- Teacher Unions! When teachers organized as unions they lost status from being professionals to being labor. This move was all about protecting teacher jobs at the expense of actually teaching children. Anyone who doubts that the Amerikan Edukation System is all about supporting the jobs of the union and administration needs to read the following story:
www.latimes.com/news/la-me-teachers6-2009may06,0,6604006.story?page=1&track=rss
Tuesday, 1-13-2009– Here is a bright spot in American education. Check out this homeschooling story:
www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=2964
Will Pres. Obama Change Amerika’s Publik Schools?
Monday 11-24-2008– The Amerikan edukation system is not working. Will the Pres. who promised change break with the teacher’s union and do what is necessary to fix the public schools? I DON’T THINK SO!! This article is a call from within liberalism for Pres. BO to break with the unions and make the schools child focused instead of adult focused.
online.wsj.com/article/SB122748933977852023.html
I simply do not think that a demoncrat, a marxist/socialist like BO will be able to change the public schools; he shares their viewpoint too much and is beholden to the money the union has to offer. Amerika needs to wake up and realize that the publik school system is corrupt to the core and needs either radical change or all Christians, and cultural conservatives, must leave the schools and go to private schools and homeschooling.
Conservatives had better be getting ready to fight for the rights of homeschoolers by the way. I am pretty certain the demoncrats, once they eliminate Talk RAdio, will come after the homeschooling movement next.
No Child Left Behind Is Behind
Monday, November 10, 2008– In Pres. Bush’s first year he allowed Demoncrat Sen. Ted “Chappaquidick” Kennedy write the education bill and Bush promoted the No Child Left Behind program. That is pretty much when Bush lost my support by proving himself to be a Demoncrat. I see almost no role for the Federal Government in the education system in America, it quite simply is not in the Constitution. But in Amerika, we have the Dept. of MisEducation (I supported Reagan’s desire to eliminate that useless bureacracy.)
I mean, c’mon, how does this sound: “I’m from the Federal Government and I am here to help educate your young.”
Now, after 7 years of NCLB, the results are not good. Read the linked article by Diane Ravitch and see how NCLB is failing and then ask, “What will B. Hussein Obama do about it?”
www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/11/09/obama-education-president-oped-cx_dr_1109ravitch.html
Education is best handled at the local level with some State supervisory authority. The entire educrat monopoly that goes on with Teacher Colleges, Textbook Publishers and local schools is a recipe for failure. We need to give parents the choice to homeschool or go to private schools without government intrusion.
Here is a great book by Diane Ravitch that I read a few years ago:
search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Language-Police/Diane-Ravitch/e/9781400030644/?itm=1
The education system is really sad at its current state. It is something that can be changed, but it will take alot of effort of legislation and it must have the support of people who want the needed changes. However, with the current state of government, its not going to change, most likely going to get worse.
That is one reason that the teaching proffesion now is such a needed calling. A teacher really has s large influence on students through what they teach and how they model behavior. A christian teacher can renew and transform the lifes of their students through the teaching truth and modeling a christ like life and behavior.
Education at this point is sad though, all but two of the teachers I have observed do the least amount of work as possible in their class. Because of this, the class I am student teaching now, has students who cannot read in the 10th grade. Because education builds up on itself, the fact that teaching has gotten so bad shatters the whole formation. By the time students get out of high school they are confused, poorly educated, given conflicting values and ideas, and easily influeenced by others, society, and government.
For these reasons, the education system needs alot of prayer, guidence, and action to have any hope of changing the horrible system in its current state.
Tony
January 10, 2009
Tony,
I agree that Christian teachers can have a positive effect upon the students and the system of publik edukation. We do need Christians serving in the school system and in administration. I absolutely believe, however, that it is time for all Christians to do what they can to take their children out of the publik skools and place them in private, Christian schools or homeschool them. The system is evil, built upon a false philosophy, and ruins children.
While we should lobby our legislatures to fix what they can fix, what must happen is a new Reformation and Awakening in the Church so that we can recreate a culture that is so heavily influenced by the Gospel that it changes the philosophy of education at the teacher college level. Also, the average American family must be transformed because at least half of the problem in our schools is the lack of a God centered home life for these children. Parents raise their children to be little hellions and expect the teachers to teach them. It doesn’t work that way.
mark12ministries
January 10, 2009