Part of the prblem is that public schools cannot expell students very easly.
SHould a child be misbehaving the parents can (and most do) claim that it's the teachers fault.
Should a student not want to do the rquired work it isn't because the student is lazy or stupid it's because the teacher did not motivate them.
We ask our public school teacher to be phycologists, councelers, social engineers.
However looking at that one could argue that it is of course that private schools have a better sample of students and that they of course will have better results. (he who has better seeds sows a greater crop).
But these same people who say that private schools have better students also claim that private schools have inferior teachers.
I just read a book by Thomas sowell reagrding the state of public education, It was very interesting.
So because private schools get the better students they get better results, but what if a state was to contract with a private school to run a "public school". Well the results were pretty shocking. Thoose lower priced teachers were able to get more out of the inferior students than their high priced counterparts.
Charter schools have been for the most part a success, nad the national teachers union has doen all to assure that these privately run schools will not get the light of day. Why would an orginization that claims to be about educating our young be so against these charter programs?
It could be because they use non union workers, But that is just a though.
The teachers union has done everything in it's power to make it nearly impossible for anyone to become a teacher in california by adding new requirements each year to new teachers. They claim that these new requirements are essential to assure that our children are properperly educated, yet if your are already a teacher you are exempted from the requirement. My sister reallyu wanted to be a teacher and each year shge would get the requirements and go do them only to find out that she needed more. After 3 years she gave up.
Why would the teachers union want to stop incoming teachers? Wouldn't a union want as many members as possible? Well not if you can use a shortage to your advantage.
I was walking into fry's one evening about three years aho in san diego. That fry's was (and might still be) know for the nuber of petitioners out side. There was a young lady with two petitions. One was for a maniditory class size reduction and the other was for some obscure requirement that the teachers union wanted to be added for incoming teachers.
There were two signs one read "GET CLASS SIZE DOWN"
The other read "ensure the quality of incoming teachers"
as I walked by with my almost two tear old son, the lady asked me to sign the petition, I said no thanks to which she responded "I guess you don't love your son"
Now I am pretty opionated and rarley do I lose my cool, and this was no exception. I picked up my son and walked over to her, and asked what they were.
She explained that the Califonia chapter of the teachers unbion was trying to get manitory class sizes on the ballot. I asked were the teachers were going to come from she didn't know. Without signing I asked about the second. She explained that we needed to ensure that new teachers needed better training. I calmly asked if EXCISTING TEACHER were going to be required to have the "NEEDED TRAINING" she said no. and assured me that the current teachers were well trained. I pointed out that if te current teachers were in fact well trained there would be no reason to add any additional requirements for incoming teachers as they will have gone through the same training as the excisting teachers she gave me a dumb stare and said that that just wasn't the case and "if you love your son and care about his future you will support theese bills"
She was a public school teacher. All in all I believe that me my son spent about 40 minutes discussing the merits of her proposed legislation and I did not sign either one of her petitions.
Nor did the numorous people that stop to see why this lady was getting all flustered with ta 20something guy holding a todler.
It did open my eytes quite a bit and I discussed it with a family freind who is a teacher, He lefgt california because he was fed up with the teachers union and the public school system in general. The California teachers union wants more teacher jobs but not nessisarly more teachers. If there is a shortage of teachers the teachers make more money and because the state is required to hire union teachers and the union is able to have more say in te requirements to become a teacher they dictate the way that califonia is going in the education system.
I love my son very much and I love my daugher as well, and that is part of the reason I left CA.
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