The Dept. of Un-Education

Our teachers would have us believe they should be respected as paragons of society by virtue of nothing but the fact that they are teachers. In general they think there shouldn’t be any standard by which to measure their performance they need to adhere to. They act outraged whenever anyone questions the quality of their teaching. They constantly complain that they are under paid. Yet the product they are producing overall is very inferior.

Is this to say that all teachers are this way? I do not believe that all of them are this way, but the reality is that far too many of them are. They view their jobs more as social engineering and social experimentation. They are so full of themselves that they really don’t believe anyone else is qualified to judge what they are doing, even the parents.

The Dept. of Education loves to tell us they need more money and that the reason for the poor outcome is the lack of money and poor parenting. The blame always belongs somewhere else. I can’t help but wonder, if they have no sense of personal responsibility how can they teach it?

Many of them have a blatant disregard for the facts and for knowledge. They would rather teach philosophy and political ideology! They teach these things as though they were facts but become quite annoyed when someone asks for hard supporting data. At this point they become indignant, change the subject, ridicule, or make a statement that amounts to, “Everyone knows…” This response is as much as to say, “You’re too stupid and either not capable of understanding the answer or not worth the time it would take to explain.” Either of the reasons would certainly indicate that they are really not teachers at heart and thus not qualified for that profession.

They are not really interested in teaching. They do not thrill to see a student truly learn. They simply love teaching their communist and socialist views of the world. They do far worse than the teaching by rote so many of them quickly and easily criticize.

Why do we continue to put up with such teachers? The answer is simple. They have unions that make it nearly impossible to have them fired no matter what they do and because they know this they feel free to do pretty much anything they want. This is the reason the problem with education continues. I personally have seen teacher trying to teach simple math fractions who don’t have a clue how fractions work, so how do they expect to teach their kids? The answer is simple they don’t, and they don’t really care. This is something that any 5th or 6th grader knows, but these teachers can’t seem to teach it properly. I suspect what is really happening is that the parents are doing the teachers jobs at home because they DO care if their children can do these things. The parents also recognize that being able to do these things really is important.

These same teachers are more than ready and willing to strike at the first sign that anyone would require them to actually do an effective job. They will even become violent as we saw in Wisconsin if someone should threaten their easy life. Sadly many of our teachers are communists or socialists or at least lean heavily in that direction. Why do have such people teach our children un-American principles? The right to criticize the government is granted by the constitution, but the right to teach our children things that are not constitutional, especially funded by the government is not granted and certainly not right.