Teachers Are Dumb, And They're Making Students Dumber
thefederalist.com
It's been repeatedly shown that teacher quality is the primary thing affecting student achievement — behind curriculum quality.

Improving teacher quality in America’s schools will take much time and hard work. You would have to start from the ground up, training new teachers from scratch based on partially lost knowledge. You would have to raise college admission standards and require four years of academic work in the teacher’s core subject.

Education degrees and teacher licensing, by the way, should be done away with. They are expensive and ineffective.

    • PizzaMan
      73·
      1 year ago

      That is the primary reason why private schools excel, they don’t have to waste time dragging a kid to school.

      Leaving kids behind isn’t a bragging point.

        • PizzaMan
          43·
          1 year ago

          It’s not a mutual exclusive choice thanks to public education.

            • PizzaMan
              74·
              1 year ago

              at the expense of everyone else.

              Sometimes this is the case in bad districts, but in good ones this is not the case. A good district will get a child that is falling behind the help they need, and put them in a separate class to avoid making the education of others worse.

              Education goes a long way towards reducing poverty, so when a child is left behind it increases their risk of poverty, and therefore the crime rate and draw on public resources like emergency services, and welfare programs. The education system failing a student is ultimately a bigger expense.

              divert funds to educate them when they are ready later in life

              Unfortunately that’s not how life works. You can’t just learn to read after you hit your 30s.

              Children need to grow up, and a part of that is being able to handle the world around them using their education.

                • PizzaMan
                  52·
                  1 year ago

                  I’m talking about the kids that don’t want to be there.

                  I am aware.

                  Many people learned to read as an adult

                  Basically all of which were worse off for it.

          • ThrowawayM
            24·
            1 year ago

            Any given school has limited resources. Limited number of classrooms, limited teachers, limited hours in a school day, etc. Sure these limits can change over time, but they will never not be limited.

            It often is mutually exclusive because of these limits.

            • PizzaMan
              31·
              1 year ago

              Any given school has limited resources.

              It really isn’t that demanding.

    • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comOP
      22·
      1 year ago

      That is the primary reason why private schools excel

      That’s a good point.

      The article says that teachers teach subjects they’re not familiar with and decries education degrees. Are private schools hiring subject matter experts or people with education degrees and licenses? I suspect it’s the latter, which might suggest that those degrees aren’t useless at all.

      If that’s true, then maybe you’re more right than the article.