NC Teachers
The Charlotte Observer has
an editorial a
news story with the following headline:
Keeping N.C. teachers will take more than pay, licensing efforts
As usual, the headline is rather misleading. The news article doesn't mention any ideas by anyone for actually doing anything OTHER than giving more cash and relaxing licensing requirements.
Instead, the article focuses on the lack of teachers, the various school districts that cannot hire enough, and the various cash incentives and bonuses that are being used to attempt to attract teachers.
The easy solution is the one that's overlooked -- if the state can't find enough teachers, stop trying. Seriously. There's no reason that the state should be the only provider of education. The state should simply give up, perhaps starting at the high school level -- just stop providing high school, let the market take over, and give tax credits to anyone with school-age children.
Of course, the politicians are way too entrenched to ever give up any power, so that's not going to happen.
If you cannot attract employees with cash, try another option -- give the damn teachers some authority. Change their working conditions so THEY are in charge of the classroom, not the children.
Allow teachers to dictate what will happen in the classroom. Allow teachers to throw children out of the classroom when they are disruptive. Don't send convicted felonious sex offenders into the classrooms with the teachers. Allow teachers to arm themselves against the gangs and violence. EXPEL students who are involved in felonious assaults and gang wars on school grounds.
But then, you'd have to get rid of students who won't learn -- and that would reduce the federal funding -- so that's not going to happen, either.
So what's the solution? Take your own children and get them out of the government school system and let it collapse under it's own weight.
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I agree with you on giving teachers more power. They should have the say on what goes on in their classroom. I also think they should allow bus drivers to kick off trouble kids and make them walk home even if they are on the road/interstate!
Posted by: Arbitratorofall at December 08, 2005 12:34 PM (/k+l4)
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The buses are another issue -- if we weren't transporting students 30-40 miles to get to school, they wouldn't even be an issue. But the Mecklenburg School is vehemently opposed to people actually having ANY freedom of association, so they continue to use forced busing -- and always will as long as Democrats run that board.
Posted by: Ogre at December 08, 2005 12:42 PM (/k+l4)
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Fundamentally public education has a number of issues. Allowing teachers to have very little authority is a big problem.
Another issue is there is common understanding of the purpose of education. Why are kids who cause trouble in school? To give them an education! What does that mean? Well they are suppose to learn. Are they learning? Well no.
People have been trying to fix education for several decades, and things have only gotten worse. What is the line about doing something you have been doing, but hoping for different results.
As you say at the end of your post, the answer for any parent who can is to get their children out of the public schools.
Posted by: Henry Cate at December 14, 2005 11:50 PM (3c3/D)
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Here in Charlotte, we have convicted felonious sex offenders in class -- so others can experience diversity. And the school board sees nothing wrong with that. Anyone else want to volunteer to be a teacher?
Thanks for stopping along, Henry!!
Posted by: Ogre at December 15, 2005 12:54 AM (uSCkp)
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The teachers' unions are the people who lobby to restrict their authority in the classroom. It gives them an excuse to ask for lower class sizes and more money.
Maybe all the teachers in NC are up here in Illinois. There is a surplus here who can't get work. The perks here must be better and they can't be fired.
Posted by: Lennie at December 15, 2005 03:24 AM (3eRXR)
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I know a number of teachers that have quit here in North Carolina, and a couple who haven't. They all say that the working conditions are just horrible. They have zero authority over anything that happens in the classroom, including classroom discipline. They can remove no one from their classrooms, short of witnessing and actual felony, and even if that happens, the student will only be suspended a couple days. Seriously.
And we don't have unions here -- that's why we don't have a surplus -- the free market works better without unions.
Posted by: Ogre at December 15, 2005 10:19 AM (uSCkp)
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