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Originally Posted by Punk.of.Ages
This is a scapegoat...
Any kid is capable of succeeding. Those super moldable minds and all... To say some children will fail no matter what demonstrates the problem with our education system, the unwillingness of the schools to find a way to interact with all students on the level they need it.
I know this isn't in whole the teachers' fault, or even the school system's. It's the lack of proper governmental funding, which is a complete joke, because our shitty government is just going to get shittier as they continue to not educate properly...
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I think you missed my point - when a large array of forces come to bear on a student in such a way as to discourage him from succeeding, a good teacher (or even a group of good teachers) may lack the capacity to overcome this influence. A teacher can't always turn a shitty parent into a good parent, or change a community's values, or convince the government to increase funding, or remove an extra chromosome. They're teachers, not social engineers, and it doesn't make sense to require them to sacrifice the quality of their teaching to make changes that are the responsibility of parents and community leaders.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
Last edited by inBOIL; 07-01-2009 at 06:46 AM..
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