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
    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.

          • PizzaMan
            42·
            1 year ago

            How is learning to read as an adult make someone worse off for it.

            This is such a week argument I’m not even going to bother.

            The resources wasted to force a kid to learn could be better utilized on the back end when they want to learn.

            Forcing a kid to learn isn’t a waste of resources. They will still learn.

            And kids that don’t have the willingness to learn are only a subset of kids that are struggling in school that would be left behind by private schools.

              • PizzaMan
                42·
                1 year ago

                You can’t force a kid to learn

                Sure you can. Pretty much every student is forced to learn.

                if you could then 19% of highschool graduates wouldn’t be functionality illeterate.

                That is not a measure of how easy it is to force kids to learn.

                Resources are limited I’d rather apply those resources to kids that are struggling then a kid that doesn’t want to learn.

                A kid that doesn’t want to learn is one of the students that are struggling.

                  • PizzaMan
                    42·
                    1 year ago

                    It’s clear you know nothing about teaching or children. You can’t make a kid pay attention. They can be looking right at you and not listen to a single word you say.

                    If that’s how children teach you, no wonder you think that some can’t be taught.

                    If it was possible to force kids to learn all kids graduating the 12th grade would be able to read at 3rd grade level.

                    That is not a measure of how easy it is to force kids to learn.

                    There’s a big difference between a kid that wants to learn but has difficulties and a kid that doesn’t want to learn.

                    I never said there wasn’t a difference. But both groups are kids that are struggling.

                    Again if you had more experience with teaching or children you might understand this.

                    This is just an ad hominem.