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Originally Posted by JABOOM
Yes that is ONE of the problems with the "education establishment" another problem is the misuse of funding going to inner city schools. Just because you spend money on new buildings and computers doesn't mean they are spending money to improve what is being taught.
If all you teach is that people of color have been benefited by oppression and the loss of cultural identity in order to survive you are already lowering a child's interest in history. Compile that with teachers that are in the field as a secondary choice of employment that come for mainly suburban area's with little interaction with the students they teach and the environments they come from the problem of educating the children is evident.
Yes parents have a major part in their child's education but most parents as well as make sure their child does their best, also put their faith in an already failing system.
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Misuse of funds in the inner cities? Exactly which school systems are you referring to and how are those school systems funded? There are city school systems and county school systems - they can be funded differently. In some states, public education is funded by property taxes in that system...in others its funded by sales taxes in that areas...and that's ALL the funds you get, period. The No Child Left Behind Act does not put one red cent into the Act itself. The mandates of this federal act are not funded by the federal government AT ALL. But this is just the money - the building, books, desks, all of that is secondary as you noted. It makes no difference how old or new the book is if its only opened within the schoolhouse walls.
Contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of teachers (more than 75%) are education majors - teaching is what they wanted to do...but more importantly, from my personal experience, teachers who came into teaching from another career are doing so because they want to teach, not because its all that was left. I haven't seen any credible survey or study that would lead me to believe a substantial percentage of people are just teaching because they have too. I know many are going into teaching because of that reason, but a substantial number? I dont think so. And no teacher nowhere, should be more concerned about an individual child's education than the parent or guardian of that child..unfortunately too often these days, the teacher is the ONLY one concerned.
If there is a top ten list of things wrong with the public education system, parents are #1 thru #6 on the list.