On 4/25/2017 6:59 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:


Don't get me wrong. I think there are two main problems with
education in America:

1. Parents. If it's not the ones who don't think it's important
that their kids show up to school prepared to learn, it's the ones
who think the rules don't apply to their precious little flowers.

2. Schools of Education, and by extension, the requirements for
obtaining a teaching certificate. Teachers should first and foremost
have a degree in a real discipline such as math, English, or one of
the sciences (including the fuzzy disciplines like history), and then
take training to present their knowledge in a classroom.

Really, I blame Women's Lib. We used to get a lot of smart women
teaching, and now they're all becoming doctors, lawyers, scientists,
and engineers, and teaching gets the dregs. I finished my B.S. at
school mainly geared toward cranking out teachers, and my classmates
were not the brightest bulbs in the box. I was there because I needed
to take classes in the evening and it was the optimization of "nearby"
and "good enough".

I wouldn't want to go back, though, to when most people thought women
were limited to being nurses, secretaries, or teachers.

Cindy Hamilton


Don't forget the Vietnam Era draft. You could avoid the draft by taking
courses and then becoming a teacher. The wusses became teachers, later
go into administration and the result is an ultra liberal school system
allowing children to become the precious little flowers.