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Originally Posted by Socks
Have you been to a school recently? Other than pay, the other reason the education system doesn't attract good teachers is: Who the fuck wants to be treated like shit every day by a bunch of selfish know it all teenagers, with no real recourse?
The teachers don't do themselves any favours either making people think they're a bunch of low paid people just scraping by. None of the kids in high school think their lives will "turn out as bad as having to be a teacher" right? They think teaching is what you do when you fail at all the other, better jobs. The kids really do think their teachers are low paid losers.
I like the idea of a larger 2 tier school system. Good kids who do their work get to go to the good schools. The kids who don't, don't. They can work hard and move up. The only caveat is the selections have to be done either A> by a computer or B> blind evaluations with only ID's. That way there's no bias about who gets to go where, and it doesn't just get abused by the rich people.
If your kid is an idiot, he goes to idiot school. Nuff said.
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The kids are a big part of what is wrong with the system for sure. Here is a good example. When I was in high school we didn't have a school uniform, but there was a dress code. If you wore shorts they had to be low enough that they came to within 2 inches of your knees. No tank tops, no spaghetti tops or sleeveless shirts. Now girls dress like strippers and guys have their pants so low their entire asses are hanging out. When I asked a teacher why the school lets them dress that way I was told that they can't stop them. Too many parents complained that this was the style so the school had to give in.
The kids run the schools these days. Hell, my nephew literally failed every class his 8th grade year and the school told my brother that they wouldn't hold him back unless his parents instructed them to. He is my brother's step-son and his mom refused to hold him back so he moved on to high school where he was expelled at the start of his junior year. He failed half his classes his freshman and sophomore, but still allowed to finish up a few homework packets and graduate. He has a diploma in hand and is, honestly, sadly, a functioning illiterate. He reads and writes at about a 5th grade level.