Republicans are ruining American education

Yes but there is nothing in those videos that talk about the history of oppresive water. Can't be a good education.

 

My sister-in-law teaches college math. She has told me that she could tell a difference in the quality of her students when the "No Child Left Behind" kids started showing up in her classroom. Many of them have never failed a course before and when the failing test grades start piling up some thought that she would 'fix' it. Several, both boys and girls, have come to her office crying. I've also seen some of these students' handwriting first hand and it's pitiful. For that matter, the handwriting of the new hires where I work is sometimes unreadable. I have recently decided to make my job a lot easier and have them rewrite the assembler checklists they hand in to me. No nun that I knew in school would let a kid get away with it, why should I?

 

You're gonna get sued. Discriminating against a scholastically challanged.

 

Sounds like someone should have taught you how to unclog a stopped up without waiting for and paying for a plumber while they were cramming your head full of the important stuff.

 

Comparing teachers and plumbers is silly. Without teachers the entire country would be composed of morons instead of only half. And without plumbers we'd all be shitting in the backyard and digging cisterns. Besides, most of us wouldn't be very good at either job. I'd be fired from my teaching profession the first day for cussing at the entitled little bastards. And I've done some 'redneck plumbing' around the house...the results were predictable.

We pay people what they are willing to accept for the job we want done. In 2016 the median annual salary for high school teachers was $58,030. The best-paid 10 percent in the field made approximately $92,920, while the bottom 10 percent made $38,180. Meanwhile the median salary for a plumber was $51,450 in 2016. The best-paid pulled in about $90,530, while those in the bottom 10 percent earned $30,430 a year. I don't see anything outrageous about those figures. I've lived on much less.

Anyway, I guess if I were forced to choose between the two I would be a plumber. I prefer a sanitary work environment.

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/high-school-teacher/salary

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/plumber/salary

 

I don't know about half being morons. I've come across more than one moron that has a college degree. So it might be more than half.

 

One of the problems with truly ignorant people is that they don't realize ignorance is a problem.

 

No its because we are telling students that the only way they can get ahead is to get a degree. If supposedly we are teaching open and free thinking about all things is what education is, don't leave out that there are other things to think about besides getting a college degree. There is a HUGE shortage of trades now, that didn't exist before we "improved" our educational system to place emphasis on other things.

 

I am not questioning if teachers teach.

 

Not really

And society will judge you if you choose to be stupid sorry. Equally as interesting as my pro college stance is your extreme anti one. It can't possibly work for you.

 

Agree, instead of the goal being to get an "education" people should go to college to be educated for a specific job. Colleges are becoming factories for producing debt slaves as it's the only debt that can't be forgiven through bankruptcy.

 

Being well rounded doesn't necessarily lead toward repaying the nondischargeable debt. It's leading toward a whole group of people that actually have negative net worth. It was less of a problem before tuition tripled.

 

There could be some truth to that. I went before tuition really started to skyrocket and now the campus has at least 7 new buildings.