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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: Dayuhan who wrote (8940)9/22/2003 9:36:16 PM
From: KonKilo   of 793808
 
A lot of the blame placed on schools belongs with parents who are asking the schools to do their job.

Who then interfere mindlessly on the child's behalf when school personnel finally do try to discipline one of the little dears.

Don't get me started...I taught school for twenty years.

One of the major problems, besides the cogent point you made, is the fact that classroom teachers have no real advancement path, other than going into administration. The best teachers do not wish to leave the classroom, so you end up with the poor teachers moving up into positions of authority, and then telling the excellent teachers what to do.

I don't know what the answer is, but until this fatal flaw is fixed, public schools will remain largely underachievers.
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