For more than half a century, in Hollywood message movies from “Blackboard Jungle” to “Lean on Me,” Stand and Deliver” and “Dangerous Minds,” academic failure and juvenile crime have haunted the corridors of failing inner-city schools that were little better than war zones.
Docilely reflecting liberal conventional wisdom, such Hollywood films typically let the public school system itself off easy, instead tracing the “root causes” of inner-city school failure to American social injustice — poverty, inequality and underfunded schools.
But times have changed: The faceless bureaucrat and parochial union executive have replaced social injustice and neglect as the enemies du jour. A series of recent documentaries — most famously “Waiting for Superman,” but also “The Lottery” and “The Cartel” — have lambasted teachers unions for putting the demands of failed educators ahead of the needs of struggling children.
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i'm believing our citizens are finally waking up to the fact that government schools aren't the way to go to educate our nations children. they are seeing the facts, the numbers and they don't like it. we should have never allowed this to happen and let it slide for this long. they should have been challenged hard a long time ago. keep the pressure and heat on. continue speaking out against this failing system. get your children and grandchildren out of this failing system before it's too late for them.
It's a failing system because the kids are failed at home first. Do you wonder why there is so much violence in schools? Its because they have no one to answer to outside of school. Teachers can't fix the world, they can't fix parents who do not care what their children leave the house dressed like or if they have eaten meals or if they can even read. No now that is the schools responsibility as well. IT STARTS AT HOME, WHEN WILL PEOPLE START TO UNDERSTAND THAT. WHY WOULD TEACHERS LITERALLY RISK THEIR LIVES TO HELP CHILDREN WHO DO NOT WANT HELP BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS DON'T CARE?
You are absolutely right "It all starts at home", BUT if I am doing my job at home why should my children have to attend a school where alot or most of the other students parents "Don't" do their job at home. The distractions and the environment of these students that misbehave and cause problems takes away from my childs education! It is not the schools responsibility to raise our children, but my child should not have to deal with this behavior and if the choice is there to move my child in an environment with other children whose parents are "Doing" their jobs then I should be able to do so! the public education system is getting worse, something needs to be done and maybe this is a wake up call!
We all need to create a better system together, but pointing fingers at the teachers and the teacher unions isn't going to help create a better system. Read the Race to the Top Act -- it cripples education for one sole reason, the children are not held accountable. When the children are held accountable for their own learning then the teachers will teach better and the unions won't have anything to stand on.
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