The summary of this article is that the parents are taking back the schools. Mayors and city councils are supporting laws and passing laws that make it possible for parents to override the school boards in their school districts. The parents now have the ability to fire teachers and do what they want with the schools like make them a private institution. My problem with this education system is that some parents are to blame for the way things are going as well as the government. These mayors have the nerve to support these new laws, but they are not going to there state government or to the federal government to handle these problems. They are the ones that need to take responsibility for the mess that the schools are in and the parents need to take more responsibility for not making their kids increasingly responsible for their grades (talking mainly high school with this comment). The parents are responsible to encourage and help their children get good grades and to focus on their education. They should punish for bad grades (not talking beating the crap out of them or anything like that). People are so quick to blame teachers, but in reality it is a combination of all three. I am not trying to make an argument that all teachers are good teachers, there are a few that are terrible teachers.
However, I think that everyone is responsible for the school systems failing. The federal government does not focus enough on education. They should focus on education because then you are going to have a surplus of workers for minimal wage or for specialized areas in the future. We need to encourage students to go to school and to do better than what is expected of them. They need to be taught by parents, teachers, and the government that school is important, they need to be encouraged. On the other hand, this is not a perfect world so there is always going to be people that are going to drop out, government officials that do not care, and teachers that are bad teachers.
The government needs to focus on math and science programs so that we can get Americans into the fields. However, that may not happen because employers can pay foreigners less than they can with Americans. Americans can still fight for a better educational system, but please stop putting all the blame on teachers, school boards,and the administration because it is not solely there fault. The parents need to make there children learn what responsibility and take responsibility if they have bad grades and if they think the teacher purposely gave them bad grades then they need to go to the school administration or the school board. For example, when I was in school I felt like my PreCalculus teacher was not teaching me correctly and I went to the school administration to take me out of the class and to make a formal complaint. In the end, he was gone sometime within the year.
Finally we are not going to have any real changes done unless we elect those that may have gone to a public school or put their kids in the public school system. Everyone in Washington Brother HL-2240 Laser Printer
