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If we're talking about teachers here, I've got a teachers story. My wife's friend is getting her master's in education right now. Everything is done online. I've seen the work she has to do. Believe me, its not worth the title of "Master's" The reason she's going to be a teacher is because (in her words) "its the easy way out." She wanted to be in pediatrics, but couldn't pass chemistry after one shot so she quit.
Right now she substitutes elementary and middle school. A couple weeks ago a 6th grader came up to her and asked her the difference between a dictionary and an encyclopedia. She said "I don't know. They're the same thing just with different words."
When she told that story to my wife, my wife told her that she's disgusting and was very mad at her. She couldn't understand why. She said she was going to be a 1st grade teacher anyway, so she wouldn't have to know those things.
Now I know there are plenty of people who teach because they care and they really want to help children grow up to be smart, competent, valuable citizens. But for every one of them there is one like the girl I just described. Then you have the teacher that cared at first, but then after years of babysitting becomes jaded and stops caring all together.
I think the whole system needs to be overhauled. If the education system was comprised of a number of private entities I would bet each school would try and higher the most competent teachers they could find. Our schools now a days aren't teaching kids anything. They are only going through the motions, promoting kids to the next grade because self-esteem is more important than actually learning how to read. Its a disgrace.
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"If I am such a genius why am I drunk, lost in the desert, with a bullet in my ass?" -Otto Mannkusser
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