Why haven't teachers in the upper grades been up in arms about student inability to read? How can a teacher in 4th or 5th grade hope to succeed when the kids haven't been taught to read, but are still passed to the next grade? Why on earth are the teachers themselves not raising holy hell? Instead, they defend the status quo and complain that we don't understand how hard their job is.
Why haven't teachers in the upper grades been up in arms about student inability to read? How can a teacher in 4th or 5th grade hope to succeed when the kids haven't been taught to read, but are still passed to the next grade? Why on earth are the teachers themselves not raising holy hell? Instead, they defend the status quo and complain that we don't understand how hard their job is.
Why? Because they can effortlessly pass the problem on to the next highest grade. This leads to the students that go to college wasting their first years learning that which they were supposed to learn in high school. For those that don't go to college, they get to learn what they need to get the job done through the normal newbie-at-work training that accompanies most jobs.
There is no accountability in our schools, and there will not be any unless the powers of the unions to protect the less-than-competent are curtailed.
Why haven't teachers in the upper grades been up in arms about student inability to read? How can a teacher in 4th or 5th grade hope to succeed when the kids haven't been taught to read, but are still passed to the next grade? Why on earth are the teachers themselves not raising holy hell? Instead, they defend the status quo and complain that we don't understand how hard their job is.
Why? Because they can effortlessly pass the problem on to the next highest grade. This leads to the students that go to college wasting their first years learning that which they were supposed to learn in high school. For those that don't go to college, they get to learn what they need to get the job done through the normal newbie-at-work training that accompanies most jobs.
There is no accountability in our schools, and there will not be any unless the powers of the unions to protect the less-than-competent are curtailed.