Frustration with school leaders, not pay, forces teachers out

I went to a public high school in California.

I can understand what it's like.

It's a tragedy indeed...

 

The bureaucracy is entrenched precisely because the schools are funded with tax money - which is money taken by threat of force and force if necessary. All attempts at reform on a wide-scale level have failed. This article demonstrates precisely why more money will not solve the problem. We already spend more than any other country in the world AND OUR SYSTEM IS FAILING:

"Report: U.S. No. 1 in school spending

Test scores fall in middle of the pack

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States spends more public and private money on education than other major countries, but its performance doesn't measure up in areas ranging from high-school graduation rates to test scores in math, reading and science, a new report shows.

"There are countries which don't get the bang for the bucks, and the U.S. is one of them," said Barry McGaw, education director for the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which produced the annual review of industrialized nations.

The United States spent $10,240 per student from elementary school through college in 2000, according to the report. The average was $6,361 among more than 25 nations."

Rest of article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/09/16/sprj.sch.education.compared.ap/

 

What we have here is a multitude of spineless school boards who do not listen to their customers, but to entrenched lobbyists. If school boards would grow a pair and run the system with discipline and purpose, teachers would have all the support they need. If a principal charges an 8 year old with sexual assault for kissing a classmate, the boards should bring him/her in front and center, and slap him around a bit. Then this bullsh*t would end. They need to stop teaching urban students about multiculturalism and racism (which they already know like experts), and teach them to read and write so they can escape the ghetto.

 

Especially that last part. Public schools spend so much time kissing up to state and federal institutions to get funding that there isn't time for much else.