The Problem with Education is
Jul 17th, 2009 by David Anderson
Gays need the right to alter the definition of marriage or else our children won’t learn. That must be the case because the National Education Association is backing changing marriage. I am glad that someone is on top of the crucial issues facing our children.
They found other problems as well. They solved the problem with civics education and the lack of knowledge of American history and heritage. We have been focused wrongly. We are really citizens of the world. Promoting education is a global concern after all. The fact that we are trying to tell the rest of the world how to educate children has no irony whatsoever. Test scores are overrated. (NEA Youtube Channel)
Another issue holding our children back was addressed in over new business item 70 , “which had to do with whether the NEA should go on record in support of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in their organizing drive of the new Delta Airlines.” (July 9 Ed WK)
They also encouraged teacher training. Woe, how did that get there.
I am glad the NEA is looking out for my children.
The NEA is part of an educational establishment that promotes costly mediocrity and radical trendiness.
A high rating from them should be the kiss of death for any elected official or candidate.
I read this post twice and still can’t figure out what you are talking about.
Small, private ‘strip mall’ schools are the answer, where thirty students are guided by a single teacher from grades 8-12, with ‘guest teachers’ who are experts in their field. The basic curriculum would be taught via online courses, with teacher augmentation. No ‘education’ degrees required or even desired.
I call them ‘strip mall’ schools because space can be rented rather inexpensively in older strip malls.
We need to provide an escape from propagandizing, self-esteem building and ineffective NEA government schools.
The problem with education is that very few decisions are truly made based on learning and progression. Too many groups for appeasement … the groups that are key aren’t even at the table.
Noman, it was early for you. Don’t worry. These are the priorities of the NEA according to their representative assembly this month. They claimed all the while that education was their top priority, yet almost nothing was about bettering education.
Rick, that is an interesting idea. It sort of hails back to the one room school house, but with some really good updates and add-ons.
Here is the NEA’s mission statement:
What part of “advocate for education professionals” don’t you get?
Yes, not education but education professionals, I get it. Oddly a number of their action items had little to do with American educational professionals. A mission statement is little good when you try to do everything else.
A ‘mission statement’ means absolutely nothing. Their ‘mission,’ in the realm of objective reality, is to maintain the status quo….and thus, their own jobs.
Our public schools are an international joke and a domestic debacle.
There are some wonderful public schools and the secret is evading the grasp of the two bit hacks who often tend to infest boards of education.
Regrettably, some challenges to the establishment are mounted by single-issue candidates whose narrow goals doom them to failure.
We need to return to knowledge-based education and abandon the trendy and costly frills.
“Education Professionals” tend to be those who have endured mind-numbing courses in methodology but carry little in their heads in the way of real-world knowledge.
In the fever swamps of the ‘education establishment’, bureaucracy and mindless credentialism reign. This assures costlier substandard education but helps to create empires that benefit a few.
What does Orlando George bring to the table that makes him worth his bloated salary?
Art In addition to Lonnie George don’t forget the hundreds of $100,000 + administrators that infest our school system. They are both concentrated at the Townsend Building in Dover (nicknamed the Country Club by teachers0 and also inserted in all of the 19 districts in our state. Don’t forget there is a Superintendant for the Kent County and Sussex county Vo-Tech districts. These are districts that have one School.