Could you be a public school teacher ????

Question

Would you like to see anything done differently in the public schools ????

Answer 1

I was a teacher in public schools in Louisiana. I think I could do it again, but I'm not sure I'd want to.

There are too many things to list that I would like to see changed in the way public schools operate. However, the first step would be to hold children (and their parents) more responsible. When I taught in public schools what I noticed was that children had the upper hand. If a student was disciplined, it was always the teacher's word against the student's. All a student had to do was deny it and he could smirk his way out of trouble. Teachers were held liable (legally and financially) for the health, welfare, and learning of their students, but then their hands were tied by the system.

This idea that "everyone has a right to an education" sounds really good, but the result is that no one gets one. When you have a student in school who has demonstrated that he/she has no intention of learning and expends his/her energy disrupting the teacher, the class, the system, he/she should forfeit his "right" to an education. Public education should be about serving the public who fund it, not the individual. What's best for the public is that some students be expelled from school and all students be held to expectations of effort and attitude. Unfortunately, that is not very PC because it means that teachers rule and students obey.

It goes without saying that there have to be stopgaps in place to protect students from abusive teachers, but not "he said/she said."