Is our education system so crappy because of the great amount of liberal teahcers?

Question

I somewhat remember one of my best teachers being an Independent and one of the worst and most uninformative being a liberal.

Answer 1

All the more reason to homeschool your kids. Liberal scum and con scum won't be able to influence the children with garbage!

Answer 2

actual education research shows, and has continuously shown for over 30 years, that the single most important variable in a child's education is the child's mother.

Teachers are only the second or third most important variable and don't even account for half the value of the mother. In fact. everything associated with the school is only as important as the mother by herself.


Are some teachers poor? sure.

What do you expect in a government run system?

Government is almost always a low quality provider no matter what the product is, and is especially so when it effectively has no competition.

Government garbage collectors, for example, are a lot more efficient when they can lose the district's contract to private enterprise. Same for government bus drivers, and government water meter readers.

Why anyone would think that government doctors and hospitals would be any different if they had no competition is a continuing mystery to me.

:-)

Answer 3

I don't remember any of my teachers espousing their political beliefs in the classroom.
The schools are bad because:

1. Schoolboards that go over budget on things students DON'T need... and do not know how to effiecently run their district with the money they get. I can see how you could contribute that to a liberal mindset.

2. Public schools in poorer urban areas are less successful because of funding issues. Obviously a large amount of a school's budget is derived from taxpayers, and with less taxpayers and more low income students to burden the system, the quality of education is lacking.

3. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act hurts schools with limited budgets. The schools have to focus their expendatures on standards and testing and has to drop extracurricular programs such as sports and arts to accommidate. I've seen this happen in several districts in my area.

Answer 4

I think it might have something to do with the public education system being so chronically underfunded - it's been starved of funded for decades.

This is the fault of BOTH the democrats and the republicans (they've both been in power during that time).

The personal political viewpoints of a teacher has no bearing on how good or bad they are. Of my two best teachers, one was a liberal (a proper left-of-centre liberal, not the pretend ones you see in the US) and the other was a right-wing conservative. Yet they both enthusiastic about their subjects and got me interested.

Answer 5

The best teachers I had were mostly liberal because they teach you to think for yourself. Even more so than the "independent" ones. Maybe if people would just stop pointing fingers and going on witch hunts to avoid the issues the real problems would be brought to light and fixed.

Answer 6

I went 6 years to college and I was going to become a teacher but then I found out that after so many years of college and the huge costs I had to pay to get through college, the pitiful salary I was to get wasn't good enough considering I would be helping to produce rocket scientists and future politicians and so on.

They want to pay those people great sums of money but they don't want to pay the people who taught them on their way up the ladder. I think that sucks big time so now I own my own business and I'm better off. Screw the educational system, they don't pay well.

Answer 7

No.

Our education system is so crappy because the money needed for schools goes to the military. How are kids supposed to learn about anything with outdated books and technology? And how are they supposed to learn when they are crammed in 40 to a classroom (in a good situation)?

The money that is in the Iraq war right now was enough to build, staff and equip over 700 schools in this nation. That is 14 new schools per state.

And since it is a conservative that is pissing away all of this much needed money, I think that you know where the chips fall in the blame catagory.

Answer 8

Well, if you "somewhat" remember one of your best teachers being an Independent, maybe you are pretty old and can't really compare your experience to what's going on now.

Anyway, here you go, friend:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Education/SavageInequal_Revisited.html

Read that and then we can discuss education. If you dare. Still want to blame the liberals?

Answer 9

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Answer 10

I never thought about that before, but.... you're right !

In restrospect, my experience with liberal teachers is shockingly close to what Ronald Reagan once said: "It’s not that our liberal friends are ignorant, it’s just that they believe so much that isn’t true.”

I had a gym teacher.... yes, a gym teacher (conservative) who was better at teaching than the supposedly "brainy" Liberal teacher. His students learned! The other class floundered.

One of my most memorably worst teachers in High School was this ultra Liberal feminist shrew.

A teacher in college actually learned more from US than we did from him! This is no joke. He was a young Communist from Ireland. We had this small (10 person) class that met in a nice conference room of the library. He would spout all this Communist nonsense, but none of us were afraid to tackle him head on. Slowly and inexorably, we wore him down. The most priceless moment occured as he was making some typical defense of Communism, stopped in mid sentence, and said, "You know, I can't believe it, but you're starting to change my opinion of Communism. I used to believe it it, but now I see it has huge, glaring defects. Maybe I need to reconsider my whole political perspective".

I wouldn't be surprised if he is a card-carrying Republican today.

Answer 11

Teachers

like people come in many varieties

there is good and bad in us all

being a bad or good teacher is not confined or defined by ones politics

there have been many bad policies pursued by liberal as well as other teachers

but

the bottom line is that there is something DEFINITELY wrong with current education system

pity

because free education to all

is one of the GREAT contributions that

western democracies have come up with

contrast this to the backwards ways of many other societies still living in the past

it needs a

TOTAL OVERHAUL

and soon too

for from it

comes the majority of our future population

it holds the seeds of our future

just as our present is grown from the seeds of the past



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