I once saw a teacher's union sign in my area that said, "If YOUR reading this, thank the union!" ....an educator that doesn't know the difference between "your" and "your're" kinda scares me.
Notice how the people who follow the law and try to help people the proper way get ostracized! LIKE TRUMP! That seperating kids at th e border law was passed in 1997 only the bureucratically owned media didn't report it. They only reported it now because as usual they wanted to make Trump look bad.
Once when I was in sixth grade I asked my teacher where Japan was on the world map and she said it wasn't important. I asked her later, then she pointed at Madagascar on the world map. She said that she's been there a few times, I asked her which city she's been to. She said Bangkok. 😨 major face palm 😰💢💨"Bangkok"
Down with the teachers unions! I think its a shame we have let them have so much control over our money and education. We need to start cleaning house. We are 26th in education and we spend more money than all the country's ahead of us. If our education system was GM they would have outsourced long ago to escape unions. Unions only benefit the incompetent and lazy. I understand some children are very hard to teach but that's why competition is good if one teacher cant teach them take them where one can. It shouldn't be up to some bureaucrat who just wants a guaranteed job no matter how good or bad they are. Fire the bottom 10% every school year is brilliant. It would free up space for new students graduating college who really want to teach.
Yeah and he probably makes more money than me and you combined in one week than we make in a year. Fox news is the most honest 24/7 new channel in the, which isn't saying much.
Is Matt Damon really that ignorant? "I want to be an actor, so I just become one." What is he talking about??? Actors make millions, and that's a really good incentive! And just because you say you're an actor, doesn't necessarily make you one. Lots of people want to be actors. But they have to be really lucky. You can't just walk up and and say, I'm an actor.
In denmark, it's 100% public school system, from kindergarten to college, and teacher are member of union but to be a teacher requires a high level of education, even in 1- 8 grade the teacher must have a 4 year bachelor degree. they can also be fired since, the individual superintendent, have responsibility for the quality of the school, also like in Belgium, student can freely choose from the schools available.
LuciferOnWheels Sadly, the US requires at least 4 years of university kindergarten through grade 12 and many have Master's degrees. That's why they make so much money. I think the universities need to be stricter in their curricula here. And to be honest, I think they've refused the vouchers due to racism.
LuciferOnWheels None of that really has to do with America's education problems. The purpose of a teacher, is their ability to produce in their students a desire to seek knowledge. The American eduction propagandizes students, and teaches them to rely on experts and their works as absolute forms of knowledge.
To my knowledge teachers in the US have to have a bachelors degree at the very least to be employed by a public school. It's not a matter of education but a matter of attitude and support.
+zaxx19 all the statistics show that Finland, and the other nordic countrys, have way better education system than usa...end of the story, their methods work
Of course this was reported by FOX all the other "news" stations are owned by the democrats and they are the ones WHO OWN THIS SCHOOL DEBACLE! They would never let CNN or MSNBC report on the scam of the public schools. damned democrats constantly holding people at the end of a rope and never helping them climb and when they manage to climb themselves they let a little more slack out...... so disgusting.
I completely agree with the argument that Mr. Stossel makes. The United States education system is caught in a cycle of mediocrity caused by the strangle hold the teachers unions have on progress. If more good & great teachers had the courage to stand up for change instead of trading failed policy for a pay check our nation's education system would be second to none. Look at the number of "views" on this documentary. Then look at the number of "thumbs up" & "thumbs down". What if the majority of the 74,000 viewers were made up of good teachers watching this piece and realized the wisdom of these words but at the same time they felt helplessly caught between self preservation & a desire for a better system? I bet they wouldn't want to be caught giving a "thumbs up" to this piece for fear of what might happen to them for speaking out against the very system that keeps them in a job. It's just a theory & I've been wrong about plenty of them but I do know for sure that "competition does make everyone better" & is always a good thing & a monopoly serves the good of consumers, but only those it truly serves... it's self.
I remember one teacher said in 7th grade, "This is my nation, I am the ruler, and I am the queen" as she does the royalty wave everyday. Everyone didn't like her attitude and lack of teaching skills, but she stayed for a good while. My most favorite teachers and the teacher I learned the most from were fun and interacting teachers. Mr. Gamble and Ms. Abdoe both showed interest. Ms Abdoe even allowed us to play Yu-Gi-Oh cards when we had break time and Mr. Gamble was heavily hillarious, and helped used comedy for 6th graders to remember the names and the "spelling" of ALL European countries. I was shocked that I remembered Czechoslovakia. However, I would say breaktime would reduce and students would find actually the desire to learn only if they move at their own pace. Khan Academy did a lot of good for me at my own freetime as an adult, and I understand why so many friends and relatives didn't like school. I didn't even like the school I went to. What really drives people to succeed is the pressure and stress, and/or making an illusion that you like what you're learning. A lot of people, for a while now, don't read books because they have a lot of stress already or feel it's boring. The desire to keep it going is higher than ever as we live faster lives in a more futuristic setting and lifestyle. Some can type better than they can speak, and it's not because they're "stupid" it is because the learning curve has changed, and what we're doing happens to be archaic and not up to par with our current mindsets as a whole. Thus why people find school, a lot if time, boring and useless. It's interesting how we show signs that, once a schooling system is up to par with our speed and desire to be more technological, it will follow when it's up to speed (games) and technological (computing). We create such a complex system and lie to ourselves thinking it works, when the stats show it hasn't changed for better or worse in decades, but still is at a low level anyways. It's kind of ridiculous and strange for people who regulate these public school and continue the existence of the "blob" happen to be, by the majority, from private schools and also take their children to private schools. Luckily, we know the more appropriate alternative happens to be. We just need the redundant characters in office to be out of office. Too many lies and no actual reason: example "We don't go by score levels. I can tell they're succeeding when I look into their eyes." :-/ Seriously? I didn't know we can harness that power.
I known the feeling man, when I was in High School in my Freshman Year, I have a Teacher who yelled at me which I ask a question that I didn't understand, she told me to not bother her, after that I never listen to her for whole Freshman Year.
Like the Gilded Age shows, the abscence of competition leads to imbalance and corruption. It is no less different with education. By providing competition in public schools, pressure will push schools to do better.
"how much money will it need ?" " More !!!!" "how much more ?" " MMOOOOAAAAAARRRREEE !!!! " just hilarious! Those teachers are the best. I wish I was one of them.
By looking at the emblem in the bottom left, I can see the reporter hates unions of any kind, but unions in and of themselves are not bad. Without unions we could be doing jobs for pennies. This teacher union though is run by a chauvinist, power-hungry militia.
This motivated me enough to learn more about opening up a charter school. My little sons, niece, and nephews deserve the best education, not bureaucracy!
That guy Ben Chavis from the Indian Charter School is amazing, kids need ppl to be real with them, and I'd fire an incompetent person the first day too.....and he's hilarious! 😂
That ass who can "look in his student's eyes and see they're learning" says they "don't focus on test scores, they focus on teaching kids....aaaaand by teaching kids I mean refusing to be held accountable for the results of my teaching and never losing my job even if those results are abysmal and these kids are paying the price." Thank God my 2 girls are in a school where the teachers ACTUALLY GIVE A SHIT!! It's an independent charter school in Columbus, OH that's been in business for years, and has a curriculum that is BY FAR superior to this common core shit they're teaching in the public schools here. We pay nothing for them to attend. I make 28k a year working in a call center, and my husband makes 40k a year working in a warehouse for Bath & Bodyworks, and we live pretty damn well bc we're smart and not focused on material bullshit - but IF WE GO TO WORK AND DO A SHIT JOB, WE DON'T HAVE A JOB. These teachers talking about tenure obviously don't live in the real world, like it doesn't have a huge impact on the quality of life of ANYONE who loses a job?? If that was an excuse we'd all still have our first job. If you don't have a love of teaching and seeing those kids grow, to the point where you feel like you need more than 100k a year in order to have the PRIVELEDGE of teaching these kids - FIND ANOTHER JOB. You obviously don't have ANY BUSINESS being a teacher. Hell looks like I need a tenured teaching position, that guy who hit kids had a salary of over $280,000 A YEAR?!? I'd smack a kid and take that pay for a year to sit on my ass, I mean WOW, wtf.
I am amazed that the parents aren't doing anything. Why don't they fight back against the teacher's union? Just shows that stupid people have stupid children.
I am a senior I'm high school. I had the choice between 3 different high schools in my tri-county area; my mom chose the best out of them. I currently have a teacher who has tenure and I have her twice a day. She, as a teacher, should be fired because she loses papers, doesn't know what she's doing, and is usually really confused. When I day confused, I mean she confuses herself. I have learned nothing in both of her classes and I wanted her fired. But, like I said, she has tenure.
I was blessed with a number of good teachers in the public school system I went to. I graduated from high school in the mid seventies. It seems that after that the system went straight down hill. It is a shame. A few years ago I became disabled and unable to work due to quite a few problems in my back. I tried to go back to school but my back was very bad and I was unable to go back. The state gave me a 9th grade test to see if I could qualify for the grant. I got a 98% on the test and this was 27 years after I graduated from high school. My point is that teachers seemed to be better and care more than they do now. All they talk about is the union with what seems to be little to no regard for the children.
The5465vick I really really hate to say this as a woman BUT as other fields started opening up for women the quality seemed to go down. Your teachers were probably very intelligent but had fewer opportunities (nursing, social work) Now, there are more women in medical school than men. And yes, I always thought that unions were a good thing but this is just disgraceful. I hope all is going well with your disability.
Lambieschmoo Thank you, and you are right about the opportunities for women. There are many more now than at that time. I had many good teachers of both gender. The best I had though was a man, not saying that I didn't learn a lot from my women teachers. Just saying that he seemed to care more than the rest. I too like unions, however only to a point. I worked in the Teamsters Union here and I did not care for it. Not saying they didn't do good things. I just didn't like being told to think a certain way or vote a way in which I did not approve.
The idea of unions was noble, and now they are just POWER HUNGRY groups that push others to conform to them. In Construction and Education there are people with talent that can help make a difference, but are not able since unions prevent any firing or hiring because that may push out a senior union member. However, these people are not able to be hired cause of the red tape unions provide. Competition is definitely what is going to make these teachers push and strive for better. I cannot stand these school chancellors defending mediocrity, and only worried about the incomes of the teachers. HELLO, what about the students that are failing under their tutelage? Does it matter to them. It's not our problem these teachers just don't have it. I wouldn't want the doctor that treats me to have a boss say. Hey, it's ok, you botched that up. Just keep trying and you'll get it. Oh no, these political officials wouldn't want it for their kids and family either, but us poor and middle class have to endure while they preach from their mansions and in their expensive attire. smh Good on 20/20 to reveal the underline truth, and I hope it shames the government enough to do something.
Factor in benefits and retirement and teachers are often well compensated. Our teachers' union dusted up a fuss over having to contribute something like $200/month toward their healthcare plan. Their healthcare plan was valued at $900/mo.
In some states they do give teachers a guaranteed job after a few years & that does make for some really bad situations. You end up with people that hate their job but won't leave because they are getting paid more for teaching than they could make doing something else. You have to be able to fire the bad teachers and you need to be able to get rid of the bad/disruptive students.
Suffolk County, New York where I live they do. All of the public officials, including teachers salaries are open to public. You can easily find them on google.
I see that in this documentary #2 he saw students WRITING , but in Rochester,NY.that is not the case...and the Union definitely has too much POWER..you can't get RID of a BAD teacher.,they go on PAID LEAVE and resign and then the schools that they leave have to give them a recommendation..TENURE ..who in the world thought of that.?.?.?.its not good for the TAX Payers or the schools...let-a-lone the children...but most important is the student attitude..most don't really want to be there let alone learn....
Stossel did three hour long shows on education, that's better than almost anyone in media. If you want to go even deeper, watch the Waiting For Superman documentary.
Your teachers are great... I attended an International school in the middle east...and it was my study discipline that got me straight As all the way...and my parents inculcated that discipline in me.... Teach your children to balance their activities...in academics and extracurricular activities...the passion for learning starts at home and when your kids go to school...their mind would say...learning is fun.. When one is interested to learn...any activity in school will be fun..
Again unions.... Unions have the role to protect teachers from abusive state and harsh economical conditions .... Maybe there is a necesity for unions ..!! But whean unions cross the line and protects teachers from the responsability at their job , then we have a problem !!!
Evildeathmonkey Indead !! I also found the idea of students calling the teacher all day long for help with homework stupid ... Yes I agree they are quite prone to extrems ... I am not american (also not native English speacker) , and my mother is a teacher . I do belive that unions have their fair of guilt in the story !! But in the end the school must offer the service of proper learning to the student !!!! Not to actualy learn the student !! What I mean is that if the school is doing their part of the job well , then it is the duty and responsability of the student to learn !!! Not every child will be the same , some may have bad grades , others may be on the olimpics ... But as long as everione knows his duty and responsability .....!!!
"School spending has increased, but school learning has not increased..." Ever heard of the terms "Cost of Living" or "Inflation". Of course, we spend more to educate our kids each year, because we can't buy a loaf of bread for .05 anymore!
So scary, and this is the next generation who will be running our country, I think that's why we've got the people we do currently running for president and the other offices. Bottom line, education and the good habits that support a child getting a proper start in life and in the education system (which is another discussion for another day) Starts AT HOME! It is not the schools job to instill the morals and habits that a child needs to be able to learn and be able to Use and apply what they have learned in the real world. School will teach the social skills but the child needs whoever is raising them at home home to instill the morals and habits, again, that is Not the schools job. They are not a babysitting service. I know parents/guardians often are not there for their kids with more and more single parent homes, parents are working, more & more, the time that parents do have with their kids is shorter and more precious day by day. I don't have an easy simple solution (nobody does)other than to remind the parent/guardian how moldable that young mind is from 0 to about 5 or 6 years old is. It cannot be wasted!. If that early time is ignored in a child's life, it is almost impossible to reverse the damage done.
I agree. I do have a problem with the whole "schools teach social skills." statement. They are socializing with their own peers mostly in their developmental years. You don't learn social skills like that. Children learn how to better socialize from watching mature adults interacting. Learning from peers and older, yet immature, children leads to improper social skills. this is why STD's, pregnancy, drug and alcohol use, bullying, etc... are such huge and growing issues.
Agreed. Also youth entertaining themselves alone @ their computers, @ their phones, not the best way to learn how to interact with others. They now lack valuable social skills. We learn those skills (& sometimes painful) lessons on the playground,in the classroom
The best teacher's i ever had where the toughest.. and i would like to thank Thomas burnhier and jim Peak as my best teacher not because they were nice guys. because they were tough in teaching.
That's stupid that they make the students go to the regional school district. I live in Ohio and if you want to ride the bus you have to be in the region, and if not your parents have to drive you.
Out of the 12 years that I went to Public School, I had one good teacher, and that was in the third grade. Teaching should be a calling, these people do something else, its all about money, and the thieves that show up to take advantage. Good job john.
***** Unlike most people that went to school, you got to have 'a real' learning experience, Hard times and situations are what makes us stronger and better people, if we let them affect us that way, some get bitter, but it is the better thing to just get stronger and more compassionate Most of the things that they teach you in school are all lies and propaganda anyway, Make your own path, then it will be joyful to walk down it. :) YHVH bless you..
The fear of being fired will never turn a bad teacher into a good one. However, even a good teacher can "relax" too much with time and stop caring about her or his students if this teacher is too comfortable about her or his job security. Knowing that you're accountable IS a stimulus to work hard and not to slack. Just like it is in pretty much every other profession.
In the 1990s no one in the MSM did not cover this "EVENT" except for a few handful newly graduated student journalists not influenced by the corrupt unions and corrupt politicians at that time. This "EVENT" is when a group of teachers went to Japan to check on how well students are doing so they randomly had chosen a rural school in rural Japan and randomly chosen a 5th grade Japanese boy student and gave him a series of tests and were all shocked for he finished them in record time without calculators, without open notes, without open textbooks, and the fact all of these tests are the same tests given to GRADUATING 4TH YEAR COLLEGE MATHEMATICIANS! Now Americans are wondering why Japan has near humanized androids while America is still catching up while keeping silent on the fact that most of their scientists and engineers are FOREIGNERS OF ASIAN AND HINDU INDIA ORIGINS!
Let me add my two cents again. Sylvan Learning Center and places like that have lesson plans that are already written; we sometimes have to CREATE our own curriculum. They don't have issues with having to have a certain amount of kids in certain categories. They don't have pressure to send low achieving students to special education programs so that they'll help the school get additional funding. If you really want to fix the public schools, you should fix them from the top! Also, at will employment for teachers is stupid if you want to retain seasoned employees, because even non-tenured teachers have at least a one year contract. You don't want to go to college for four to six years just to take a job that's at-will employment. That's just punishing teachers! Stop punishing teachers; we are not the issue. We do the best with what we have. New teachers aren't going to perform as well as seasoned teachers in most cases, bar none. By instituting at-will employment, you are PUNISHING new teachers.
My parents taught me at home...n in school..im was straight A student... It paid of... Got 2 degrees and iam an M.D. .... my father always said..."a kid learn most at home...schooling is just a formality to say that u had that education and a degree..."
I enjoyed rhe documentary & think it was done well. Why I decided to leave a comment is because of this: Here in Germany we do not have the teachers union blocking neccessary reforms & there is something like a competition between schools, but the school problems seem to be similar. Reforms never happen, the money goes in building swimming pools, erc, etc... while the kids learn less & less. Free choice of schools does not help much if they are, besides of a few exeptions, all on the same level & all teachers struggle with the same problem to get theyr audience in attention. Theyr minds are constantly wandering. They have problems to concentrate on a subject for longer periode of time. What was a bit boaring to me in the documentary where the constant repetitions of telling me what I am watching & the statements they wanted to hammer in my head. It is a habit that media in Europe have adopted since quite a while, since experts are convinced that the average span of attention rhat an average consumer is capable of lies between two or three minutes. Kids are recognized as consumers by the market & therefor treated by the media the same way. Isn't it somehow scchizophrenic to wonder why they have difficulties to concentrate on a boaring teacher that does not come with flashy colors & funny sounds for hours, without telling them in a booming jingle what class they are attending to?
I don't think this applies to modern schools. From what I've seen, though, schools aren't willing to train new teachers. They expect you to already know everything, and it is painfully stress-inducing. A lot of us aren't "lemons" by choice. We want to learn from more experienced teachers, but there's not system for quality teacher mentoring in our schools. Of course, I didn't go to college and work hard to finally get a job just to fail as a teacher. I definitely did not.
I, myself not being from the United States, find it grotesque to pay this much for any sort of education! "Competition makes things better". If it really did, then it would have been evident to either pay less, or have the best education. Neither of wich is true.
If a kid commits a crime, does the arresting officer go to jail? If an illegal alien crosses the border, does the border patrol get deported? If a patient is sick, does the doctor take the medicine? Would you recommend gastric bypass to an anorexic patient? Think! Stop blaming the hard-working dedicated teachers! It's time we held the STUDENTS accountable!
If schools were given the proper funding, teaching jobs were abundant, and quality teacher training were much easier to for new teachers to get, I might accept the idea that teachers don't need tenure, but right now it's important to protect the jobs of quality teachers. Tenure isn't earned until a teacher has been teaching at the same school for at least five years, meaning they've proven themselves already, and, don't worry, ineffective new hires can be gotten rid of quickly because principals have their pick from quality teachers due to a glut.
Why not hire better principals? That seems to be where some of the problem is. When the teacher is fired, why isn't the teacher responsible for at least half of the expenses? A real leader would go through the steps, if the teacher is that bad, in my opinion. Unions aren't all that bad . . . how can they be improved? Hire better leaders. Just one opinion on the issues we're facing as a nation. Do the, "bad", teachers get a chance to improve? If so, how long is that period to improve?
Hey Union Teachers, you should learn from Kokoro-Sensei from Assassination Classroom.😄 Also I have a great two teacher who taught me Writing, and Reading, but I have difficult in Mathematics which I pass average, but it took me awhile to understand it when I turn 22 years old in college.
salary and teachers are not the issues. Its the STUDENTS. Students who lose the interest in their future cuz they think they have much than less compared to other countries.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I thought lefties were all about choice. But, as demonstrated by some of the union officials and administrators, it's "choice for me, none for thee."
Also, I wish people would stop yammering about tests and test results. Education is not about TESTS. I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I have encountered students who excelled in tests, but were completely lost when confronted with a basic question from the same discipline that was not part of the test. Education is first and foremost about independent and critical thinking, not about memorizing information without truly processing it.
If the teacher has a history of failing students, you hold the teacher, not the student accountable. Tenure is the worst thing in the world with teachers. Bad ones stay on, molesters are hard to be fired and our kids are not learning. Of the industrialized nations in the world the US ranks 17th. That's not the kids fault, it's the fault of the educational system.
Do test scores know tell people if their children are learning? You don't just by looking in their eyes do you see they are learning. Additionally, Matt Damon should really check up on the annual salaries of teachers.
Please take into consideration that it is almost equally difficult to fire a teacher in the here quoted most successful countries. The one thing that this documentary isn't shedding some light on is the actual content that is being taught. There is no need for a very good teacher or a super-duper facility with headphone instructors to teach a 6 year old kid to write his or her name. Firing a teacher won't help pupils to do fractions when it isn't even in the books.
I think the Union should remain for the good teachers. Put some competition there though. They have to earn their spot in the union. With great quality work. Without it you can't be apart of the union. They should be reviewed yearly. If they want it, they will have to work hard for it. They want to teach. Then let's see you teach. That's the job. Plus competition to the actual schools. Like allowing parents to choose their children's school as well.
It's a shame. Americans are not stupid... I was raised in a very conservitive rual area where hard work, independence, and preseverence were taught by Parents and Teachers. Our testing were always ranked top in the State. But it seems that there was a trend building since 1962. I finally figured it out what it was. 'Ignoant people are easy to controll. Ergo who cas controll has the most votes.' It is suprising that Stossel (a conservitive) dosent know the trend for what it is. More and more college professors are becoming more idelogicly left (far left in some cases) and is trickling down into grade school teachers. It is so bad in some cases that in some schools a student is black-balled for being conservitive. In closing if you want to know the reason fo a decline in our schools look at the idiots in charge (Im talking to you DNC) I would ask you to please stop these selfish and self distructive polocys. But im afraid it will fall on deaf ears. Because... 'Ignoant people are easy to controll. Ergo who cas controll has the most votes.'
Good, now to the validity of your analogy. Demonstrate the fact that a sociological or whatever other kind of rigorous scientific approach you intend to apply here, is as proven as the scientific method as used in Physics. American education flourished for decades without recourse to any rigorous scientific assessment of what would work.
just because teachers want to teach, even for a shitty salary, doesn't mean they're good teachers. i've had plenty of teachers who really want to be good teachers, and are really nice and cool people, but they are just not teacher material.
There are some charter schools in the Miami-Dade and Broward County area that are ripping-off the public too. I suppose that this could be true for the rest of the U.S. It is not all one sided.
I like when they rip into Homschooling and Unschooling but the children I know who do these assuming the parents are caring and committed tend to be polite, respectful, intelligent and mature young people over the public school children in some cases.
It's "Union" people. I don't care wht it is, car making, teaching, construction, what ever... basket weaving, if it's union, I can show 100 examples of a non-union entity that does it better, quicker, etc, etc, etc. If a group is designed to shield and protect lazieness and substandard work, what the hell do you expect the finished product to be, better??? It's not that complicated to figure out the real problem here.
Notice how none of your comments addresses the evidence that charter schools work and other public schools aren't. Money is not the factor. Good teachers should be rewarded, bad teachers should be fired - that's how any other profession operates.
I once saw a teacher's union sign in my area that said, "If YOUR reading this, thank the union!"
....an educator that doesn't know the difference between "your" and "your're" kinda scares me.
I agree. I see it all the time. SAD!!! However, it's you're. :)
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The fact that you even had the explain what was wrong with that sign shows just how much American schools have failed American children.
Notice how the people who follow the law and try to help people the proper way get ostracized! LIKE TRUMP! That seperating kids at th e border law was passed in 1997 only the bureucratically owned media didn't report it. They only reported it now because as usual they wanted to make Trump look bad.
It's "you're," but never mind.
Once when I was in sixth grade I asked my teacher where Japan was on the world map and she said it wasn't important. I asked her later, then she pointed at Madagascar on the world map. She said that she's been there a few times, I asked her which city she's been to. She said Bangkok. 😨 major face palm 😰💢💨"Bangkok"
Down with the teachers unions! I think its a shame we have let them have so much control over our money and education. We need to start cleaning house. We are 26th in education and we spend more money than all the country's ahead of us. If our education system was GM they would have outsourced long ago to escape unions. Unions only benefit the incompetent and lazy. I understand some children are very hard to teach but that's why competition is good if one teacher cant teach them take them where one can. It shouldn't be up to some bureaucrat who just wants a guaranteed job no matter how good or bad they are. Fire the bottom 10% every school year is brilliant. It would free up space for new students graduating college who really want to teach.
Yeah and he probably makes more money than me and you combined in one week than we make in a year. Fox news is the most honest 24/7 new channel in the, which isn't saying much.
Is Matt Damon really that ignorant? "I want to be an actor, so I just become one." What is he talking about??? Actors make millions, and that's a really good incentive! And just because you say you're an actor, doesn't necessarily make you one. Lots of people want to be actors. But they have to be really lucky. You can't just walk up and and say, I'm an actor.
Teachers don't come before students
In denmark, it's 100% public school system, from kindergarten to college, and teacher are member of union but to be a teacher requires a high level of education, even in 1- 8 grade the teacher must have a 4 year bachelor degree. they can also be fired since, the individual superintendent, have responsibility for the quality of the school, also like in Belgium, student can freely choose from the schools available.
LuciferOnWheels Sadly, the US requires at least 4 years of university kindergarten through grade 12 and many have Master's degrees. That's why they make so much money. I think the universities need to be stricter in their curricula here. And to be honest, I think they've refused the vouchers due to racism.
LuciferOnWheels None of that really has to do with America's education problems.
The purpose of a teacher, is their ability to produce in their students a desire to seek knowledge. The American eduction propagandizes students, and teaches them to rely on experts and their works as absolute forms of knowledge.
To my knowledge teachers in the US have to have a bachelors degree at the very least to be employed by a public school. It's not a matter of education but a matter of attitude and support.
+zaxx19 all the statistics show that Finland, and the other nordic countrys, have way better education system than usa...end of the story, their methods work
Of course this was reported by FOX all the other "news" stations are owned by the democrats and they are the ones WHO OWN THIS SCHOOL DEBACLE! They would never let CNN or MSNBC report on the scam of the public schools. damned democrats constantly holding people at the end of a rope and never helping them climb and when they manage to climb themselves they let a little more slack out...... so disgusting.
I completely agree with the argument that Mr. Stossel makes. The United States education system is caught in a cycle of mediocrity caused by the strangle hold the teachers unions have on progress. If more good & great teachers had the courage to stand up for change instead of trading failed policy for a pay check our nation's education system would be second to none.
Look at the number of "views" on this documentary. Then look at the number of "thumbs up" & "thumbs down". What if the majority of the 74,000 viewers were made up of good teachers watching this piece and realized the wisdom of these words but at the same time they felt helplessly caught between self preservation & a desire for a better system? I bet they wouldn't want to be caught giving a "thumbs up" to this piece for fear of what might happen to them for speaking out against the very system that keeps them in a job.
It's just a theory & I've been wrong about plenty of them but I do know for sure that "competition does make everyone better" & is always a good thing & a monopoly serves the good of consumers, but only those it truly serves... it's self.
I remember one teacher said in 7th grade, "This is my nation, I am the ruler, and I am the queen" as she does the royalty wave everyday. Everyone didn't like her attitude and lack of teaching skills, but she stayed for a good while. My most favorite teachers and the teacher I learned the most from were fun and interacting teachers. Mr. Gamble and Ms. Abdoe both showed interest. Ms Abdoe even allowed us to play Yu-Gi-Oh cards when we had break time and Mr. Gamble was heavily hillarious, and helped used comedy for 6th graders to remember the names and the "spelling" of ALL European countries. I was shocked that I remembered Czechoslovakia. However, I would say breaktime would reduce and students would find actually the desire to learn only if they move at their own pace. Khan Academy did a lot of good for me at my own freetime as an adult, and I understand why so many friends and relatives didn't like school. I didn't even like the school I went to. What really drives people to succeed is the pressure and stress, and/or making an illusion that you like what you're learning. A lot of people, for a while now, don't read books because they have a lot of stress already or feel it's boring. The desire to keep it going is higher than ever as we live faster lives in a more futuristic setting and lifestyle. Some can type better than they can speak, and it's not because they're "stupid" it is because the learning curve has changed, and what we're doing happens to be archaic and not up to par with our current mindsets as a whole.
Thus why people find school, a lot if time, boring and useless. It's interesting how we show signs that, once a schooling system is up to par with our speed and desire to be more technological, it will follow when it's up to speed (games) and technological (computing). We create such a complex system and lie to ourselves thinking it works, when the stats show it hasn't changed for better or worse in decades, but still is at a low level anyways. It's kind of ridiculous and strange for people who regulate these public school and continue the existence of the "blob" happen to be, by the majority, from private schools and also take their children to private schools. Luckily, we know the more appropriate alternative happens to be. We just need the redundant characters in office to be out of office. Too many lies and no actual reason: example "We don't go by score levels. I can tell they're succeeding when I look into their eyes." :-/ Seriously? I didn't know we can harness that power.
I known the feeling man, when I was in High School in my Freshman Year, I have a Teacher who yelled at me which I ask a question that I didn't understand, she told me to not bother her, after that I never listen to her for whole Freshman Year.
Like the Gilded Age shows, the abscence of competition leads to imbalance and corruption. It is no less different with education. By providing competition in public schools, pressure will push schools to do better.
Thanks for uploading this.I've been looking for all 3 parts.
rare footage of honest reporting
"how much money will it need ?" " More !!!!"
"how much more ?" " MMOOOOAAAAAARRRREEE !!!! "
just hilarious! Those teachers are the best. I wish I was one of them.
LOL! "Stupid In America": I didn't know that John Stossel had written an autobiography!
S A V A G E
My child went to a charter school, thank goodness. I'm speechless with these unionized teachers.
By looking at the emblem in the bottom left, I can see the reporter hates unions of any kind, but unions in and of themselves are not bad. Without unions we could be doing jobs for pennies. This teacher union though is run by a chauvinist, power-hungry militia.
we focus on feel good things like diversity rather than reading,writing and math.
This motivated me enough to learn more about opening up a charter school. My little sons, niece, and nephews deserve the best education, not bureaucracy!
That guy Ben Chavis from the Indian Charter School is amazing, kids need ppl to be real with them, and I'd fire an incompetent person the first day too.....and he's hilarious! 😂
That ass who can "look in his student's eyes and see they're learning" says they "don't focus on test scores, they focus on teaching kids....aaaaand by teaching kids I mean refusing to be held accountable for the results of my teaching and never losing my job even if those results are abysmal and these kids are paying the price." Thank God my 2 girls are in a school where the teachers ACTUALLY GIVE A SHIT!! It's an independent charter school in Columbus, OH that's been in business for years, and has a curriculum that is BY FAR superior to this common core shit they're teaching in the public schools here. We pay nothing for them to attend. I make 28k a year working in a call center, and my husband makes 40k a year working in a warehouse for Bath & Bodyworks, and we live pretty damn well bc we're smart and not focused on material bullshit - but IF WE GO TO WORK AND DO A SHIT JOB, WE DON'T HAVE A JOB. These teachers talking about tenure obviously don't live in the real world, like it doesn't have a huge impact on the quality of life of ANYONE who loses a job?? If that was an excuse we'd all still have our first job. If you don't have a love of teaching and seeing those kids grow, to the point where you feel like you need more than 100k a year in order to have the PRIVELEDGE of teaching these kids - FIND ANOTHER JOB. You obviously don't have ANY BUSINESS being a teacher. Hell looks like I need a tenured teaching position, that guy who hit kids had a salary of over $280,000 A YEAR?!? I'd smack a kid and take that pay for a year to sit on my ass, I mean WOW, wtf.
I know my children are learning because I see it in their eyes
I know my Students are learning when I look them in the eye. WTF?
I am amazed that the parents aren't doing anything. Why don't they fight back against the teacher's union? Just shows that stupid people have stupid children.
This is excellent! And boy what a principle!
Progress and unions somehow do not belong in the same sentence..............
I am a senior I'm high school. I had the choice between 3 different high schools in my tri-county area; my mom chose the best out of them. I currently have a teacher who has tenure and I have her twice a day. She, as a teacher, should be fired because she loses papers, doesn't know what she's doing, and is usually really confused. When I day confused, I mean she confuses herself. I have learned nothing in both of her classes and I wanted her fired. But, like I said, she has tenure.
@John Sabp
If you are seriously a teacher we are in deep trouble.
Mary Mystery "When I day" ??? your reasoning just lost credibility kid.
I am both teacher and mentor. Thank you. Sorry to have hurt you.
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Teachers unions are not in business to improve level of education in USA, they are in business to increase pensions and salaries of the teachers.
I was blessed with a number of good teachers in the public school system I went to. I graduated from high school in the mid seventies. It seems that after that the system went straight down hill. It is a shame.
A few years ago I became disabled and unable to work due to quite a few problems in my back. I tried to go back to school but my back was very bad and I was unable to go back. The state gave me a 9th grade test to see if I could qualify for the grant. I got a 98% on the test and this was 27 years after I graduated from high school. My point is that teachers seemed to be better and care more than they do now. All they talk about is the union with what seems to be little to no regard for the children.
The5465vick I really really hate to say this as a woman BUT as other fields started opening up for women the quality seemed to go down. Your teachers were probably very intelligent but had fewer opportunities (nursing, social work) Now, there are more women in medical school than men. And yes, I always thought that unions were a good thing but this is just disgraceful. I hope all is going well with your disability.
Lambieschmoo Thank you, and you are right about the opportunities for women. There are many more now than at that time. I had many good teachers of both gender. The best I had though was a man, not saying that I didn't learn a lot from my women teachers. Just saying that he seemed to care more than the rest. I too like unions, however only to a point. I worked in the Teamsters Union here and I did not care for it. Not saying they didn't do good things. I just didn't like being told to think a certain way or vote a way in which I did not approve.
Jeanette Driskell I know what you mean.
Do not want the principal in my ear!
The idea of unions was noble, and now they are just POWER HUNGRY groups that push others to conform to them. In Construction and Education there are people with talent that can help make a difference, but are not able since unions prevent any firing or hiring because that may push out a senior union member. However, these people are not able to be hired cause of the red tape unions provide. Competition is definitely what is going to make these teachers push and strive for better. I cannot stand these school chancellors defending mediocrity, and only worried about the incomes of the teachers. HELLO, what about the students that are failing under their tutelage? Does it matter to them. It's not our problem these teachers just don't have it. I wouldn't want the doctor that treats me to have a boss say. Hey, it's ok, you botched that up. Just keep trying and you'll get it. Oh no, these political officials wouldn't want it for their kids and family either, but us poor and middle class have to endure while they preach from their mansions and in their expensive attire. smh Good on 20/20 to reveal the underline truth, and I hope it shames the government enough to do something.
WHERE ARE TEACHERS MAKING 100K in the US?! Links please
Factor in benefits and retirement and teachers are often well compensated. Our teachers' union dusted up a fuss over having to contribute something like $200/month toward their healthcare plan. Their healthcare plan was valued at $900/mo.
In some states they do give teachers a guaranteed job after a few years & that does make for some really bad situations.
You end up with people that hate their job but won't leave because they are getting paid more for teaching than they could make doing something else.
You have to be able to fire the bad teachers and you need to be able to get rid of the bad/disruptive students.
Suffolk County, New York where I live they do. All of the public officials, including teachers salaries are open to public. You can easily find them on google.
Don't swear it's bad for your Colin. An example of how Canadian education is better
I see that in this documentary #2 he saw students WRITING , but in Rochester,NY.that is not the case...and the Union definitely has too much POWER..you can't get RID of a BAD teacher.,they go on PAID LEAVE and resign and then the schools that they leave have to give them a recommendation..TENURE ..who in the world thought of that.?.?.?.its not good for the TAX Payers or the schools...let-a-lone the children...but most important is the student attitude..most don't really want to be there let alone learn....
Stossel did three hour long shows on education, that's better than almost anyone in media. If you want to go even deeper, watch the Waiting For Superman documentary.
Ahhh, the Dance of the Lemons. Love dat.
Your teachers are great... I attended an International school in the middle east...and it was my study discipline that got me straight As all the way...and my parents inculcated that discipline in me.... Teach your children to balance their activities...in academics and extracurricular activities...the passion for learning starts at home and when your kids go to school...their mind would say...learning is fun.. When one is interested to learn...any activity in school will be fun..
Schoolgirl says "it don't matter." Yeah, that's education, all right.
Again unions.... Unions have the role to protect teachers from abusive state and harsh economical conditions .... Maybe there is a necesity for unions ..!!
But whean unions cross the line and protects teachers from the responsability at their job , then we have a problem !!!
Evildeathmonkey Indead !! I also found the idea of students calling the teacher all day long for help with homework stupid ... Yes I agree they are quite prone to extrems ...
I am not american (also not native English speacker) , and my mother is a teacher .
I do belive that unions have their fair of guilt in the story !!
But in the end the school must offer the service of proper learning to the student !!!!
Not to actualy learn the student !! What I mean is that if the school is doing their part of the job well , then it is the duty and responsability of the student to learn !!! Not every child will be the same , some may have bad grades , others may be on the olimpics ... But as long as everione knows his duty and responsability .....!!!
Even Pro-Union F.D. Roosevelt said it would be foolish to have any employee unions in government.
This opened my eyes quite a lot.
Still, I was not terribly surprised - It explains quite a lot really.
Is it so hard to say "thousand"?
"School spending has increased, but school learning has not increased..." Ever heard of the terms "Cost of Living" or "Inflation". Of course, we spend more to educate our kids each year, because we can't buy a loaf of bread for .05 anymore!
Need more Teaching employment expectation like this..
So scary, and this is the next generation who will be running our country, I think that's why we've got the people we do currently running for president and the other offices.
Bottom line, education and the good habits that support a child getting a proper start in life and in the education system (which is another discussion for another day) Starts AT HOME! It is not the schools job to instill the morals and habits that a child needs to be able to learn and be able to Use and apply what they have learned in the real world.
School will teach the social skills but the child needs whoever is raising them at home home to instill the morals and habits, again, that is Not the schools job. They are not a babysitting service. I know parents/guardians often are not there for their kids with more and more single parent homes, parents are working, more & more, the time that parents do have with their kids is shorter and more precious day by day. I don't have an easy simple solution (nobody does)other than to remind the parent/guardian how moldable that young mind is from 0 to about 5 or 6 years old is. It cannot be wasted!. If that early time is ignored in a child's life, it is almost impossible to reverse the damage done.
I agree. I do have a problem with the whole "schools teach social skills." statement. They are socializing with their own peers mostly in their developmental years. You don't learn social skills like that. Children learn how to better socialize from watching mature adults interacting. Learning from peers and older, yet immature, children leads to improper social skills. this is why STD's, pregnancy, drug and alcohol use, bullying, etc... are such huge and growing issues.
Agreed. Also youth entertaining themselves alone @ their computers, @ their phones, not the best way to learn how to interact with others. They now lack valuable social skills. We learn those skills (& sometimes painful) lessons on the playground,in the classroom
These schools can send troubling students back to the public schools. They never have to deal with the problems of the public schools.
Im sending my kids to charters/private schools. I ain't taking no risk with shitty public schools and shitty unions.
The best teacher's i ever had where the toughest.. and i would like to thank Thomas burnhier and jim Peak as my best teacher not because they were nice guys. because they were tough in teaching.
nice series but does it have to be uploaded with potato resolution ??
look at that guys mustache. this has to be at least 6 years old
so 6 years ago there was no HD ??
not on mainstream satellite and cable.
We need more people like Rheed
That's stupid that they make the students go to the regional school district. I live in Ohio and if you want to ride the bus you have to be in the region, and if not your parents have to drive you.
Out of the 12 years that I went to Public School, I had one good teacher, and that was in the third grade. Teaching should be a calling, these people do something else, its all about money, and the thieves that show up to take advantage. Good job john.
***** Unlike most people that went to school, you got to have 'a real' learning experience, Hard times and situations are what makes us stronger and better people, if we let them affect us that way, some get bitter, but it is the better thing to just get stronger and more compassionate Most of the things that they teach you in school are all lies and propaganda anyway, Make your own path, then it will be joyful to walk down it. :) YHVH bless you..
The fear of being fired will never turn a bad teacher into a good one. However, even a good teacher can "relax" too much with time and stop caring about her or his students if this teacher is too comfortable about her or his job security. Knowing that you're accountable IS a stimulus to work hard and not to slack. Just like it is in pretty much every other profession.
In the 1990s no one in the MSM did not cover this "EVENT" except for a few handful newly graduated student journalists not influenced by the corrupt unions and corrupt politicians at that time. This "EVENT" is when a group of teachers went to Japan to check on how well students are doing so they randomly had chosen a rural school in rural Japan and randomly chosen a 5th grade Japanese boy student and gave him a series of tests and were all shocked for he finished them in record time without calculators, without open notes, without open textbooks, and the fact all of these tests are the same tests given to GRADUATING 4TH YEAR COLLEGE MATHEMATICIANS! Now Americans are wondering why Japan has near humanized androids while America is still catching up while keeping silent on the fact that most of their scientists and engineers are FOREIGNERS OF ASIAN AND HINDU INDIA ORIGINS!
again, it is called practical wisdom.
Very good documentary! The truth exposed.
Let me add my two cents again. Sylvan Learning Center and places like that have lesson plans that are already written; we sometimes have to CREATE our own curriculum. They don't have issues with having to have a certain amount of kids in certain categories. They don't have pressure to send low achieving students to special education programs so that they'll help the school get additional funding. If you really want to fix the public schools, you should fix them from the top! Also, at will employment for teachers is stupid if you want to retain seasoned employees, because even non-tenured teachers have at least a one year contract. You don't want to go to college for four to six years just to take a job that's at-will employment. That's just punishing teachers! Stop punishing teachers; we are not the issue. We do the best with what we have. New teachers aren't going to perform as well as seasoned teachers in most cases, bar none. By instituting at-will employment, you are PUNISHING new teachers.
I agree on your statement when you meant the STUPID UNIONS.
My parents taught me at home...n in school..im was straight A student...
It paid of... Got 2 degrees and iam an M.D. .... my father always said..."a kid learn most at home...schooling is just a formality to say that u had that education and a degree..."
I enjoyed rhe documentary & think it was done well. Why I decided to leave a comment is because of this:
Here in Germany we do not have the teachers union blocking neccessary reforms & there is something like a competition between schools, but the school problems seem to be similar. Reforms never happen, the money goes in building swimming pools, erc, etc... while the kids learn less & less. Free choice of schools does not help much if they are, besides of a few exeptions, all on the same level & all teachers struggle with the same problem to get theyr audience in attention. Theyr minds are constantly wandering. They have problems to concentrate on a subject for longer periode of time.
What was a bit boaring to me in the documentary where the constant repetitions of telling me what I am watching & the statements they wanted to hammer in my head. It is a habit that media in Europe have adopted since quite a while, since experts are convinced that the average span of attention rhat an average consumer is capable of lies between two or three minutes. Kids are recognized as consumers by the market & therefor treated by the media the same way. Isn't it somehow scchizophrenic to wonder why they have difficulties to concentrate on a boaring teacher that does not come with flashy colors & funny sounds for hours, without telling them in a booming jingle what class they are attending to?
Hans Wissmeyer well said
I don't think this applies to modern schools. From what I've seen, though, schools aren't willing to train new teachers. They expect you to already know everything, and it is painfully stress-inducing. A lot of us aren't "lemons" by choice. We want to learn from more experienced teachers, but there's not system for quality teacher mentoring in our schools. Of course, I didn't go to college and work hard to finally get a job just to fail as a teacher. I definitely did not.
I, myself not being from the United States, find it grotesque to pay this much for any sort of education! "Competition makes things better". If it really did, then it would have been evident to either pay less, or have the best education. Neither of wich is true.
Unions are not the problem. Unions in the public sector are the problem
If a kid commits a crime, does the arresting officer go to jail?
If an illegal alien crosses the border, does the border patrol get deported?
If a patient is sick, does the doctor take the medicine?
Would you recommend gastric bypass to an anorexic patient?
Think!
Stop blaming the hard-working dedicated teachers!
It's time we held the STUDENTS accountable!
If schools were given the proper funding, teaching jobs were abundant, and quality teacher training were much easier to for new teachers to get, I might accept the idea that teachers don't need tenure, but right now it's important to protect the jobs of quality teachers. Tenure isn't earned until a teacher has been teaching at the same school for at least five years, meaning they've proven themselves already, and, don't worry, ineffective new hires can be gotten rid of quickly because principals have their pick from quality teachers due to a glut.
At the root of any competitive act their is necessarily a conflict.
You edited this and still managed to use "their" incorrectly! You may be a product of the current public education system!
Stossel looks like Stan Lee son
Propaganda... Propaganda everywhere
Worth asking why we're still using as industrial model that treats every child like they should end up in the same place.
Why not hire better principals? That seems to be where some of the problem is. When the teacher is fired, why isn't the teacher responsible for at least half of the expenses? A real leader would go through the steps, if the teacher is that bad, in my opinion. Unions aren't all that bad . . . how can they be improved? Hire better leaders. Just one opinion on the issues we're facing as a nation. Do the, "bad", teachers get a chance to improve? If so, how long is that period to improve?
Hey Union Teachers, you should learn from Kokoro-Sensei from Assassination Classroom.😄
Also I have a great two teacher who taught me Writing, and Reading, but I have difficult in Mathematics which I pass average, but it took me awhile to understand it when I turn 22 years old in college.
salary and teachers are not the issues. Its the STUDENTS. Students who lose the interest in their future cuz they think they have much than less compared to other countries.
Earpieces and teacher coaching? Where are the actual teachers?
Pretty well Mr. Union Leader
Stupid or Governmental conditioned US Sick-O-Sins ?
Teachers don’t make more per hour anymore lol. Schools aren’t any better.
No doubt teachers’ unions have created progress. The question, though, is for whom. Just an aside: did anyone catch the signer’s face at that demo? 🤣
This is a Libertarian commercial.
libertarian commercial on fox news? I guess this is a pretty crazy world
You say that like it's a bad thing. I thought lefties were all about choice. But, as demonstrated by some of the union officials and administrators, it's "choice for me, none for thee."
Also, I wish people would stop yammering about tests and test results. Education is not about TESTS. I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I have encountered students who excelled in tests, but were completely lost when confronted with a basic question from the same discipline that was not part of the test. Education is first and foremost about independent and critical thinking, not about memorizing information without truly processing it.
If the teacher has a history of failing students, you hold the teacher, not the student accountable. Tenure is the worst thing in the world with teachers. Bad ones stay on, molesters are hard to be fired and our kids are not learning. Of the industrialized nations in the world the US ranks 17th. That's not the kids fault, it's the fault of the educational system.
Do test scores know tell people if their children are learning? You don't just by looking in their eyes do you see they are learning. Additionally, Matt Damon should really check up on the annual salaries of teachers.
Yep. $42,000 a year for starters with $165,000 masters degree.
Please take into consideration that it is almost equally difficult to fire a teacher in the here quoted most successful countries. The one thing that this documentary isn't shedding some light on is the actual content that is being taught. There is no need for a very good teacher or a super-duper facility with headphone instructors to teach a 6 year old kid to write his or her name. Firing a teacher won't help pupils to do fractions when it isn't even in the books.
Lol, Matt Damon mos def sends his kids to a private school. Most teachers definitely make a shit salary, but they definitely don’t work long hours.
How is this analysis "superficial"? Please specify.
I think the Union should remain for the good teachers. Put some competition there though. They have to earn their spot in the union. With great quality work. Without it you can't be apart of the union. They should be reviewed yearly. If they want it, they will have to work hard for it. They want to teach. Then let's see you teach. That's the job. Plus competition to the actual schools. Like allowing parents to choose their children's school as well.
It's a shame. Americans are not stupid... I was raised in a very
conservitive rual area where hard work, independence, and preseverence
were taught by Parents and Teachers. Our testing were always ranked top
in the State. But it seems that there was a trend building since 1962. I
finally figured it out what it was. 'Ignoant people are easy to
controll. Ergo who cas controll has the most votes.' It is suprising
that Stossel (a conservitive) dosent know the trend for what it is. More
and more college professors are becoming more idelogicly left (far left
in some cases) and is trickling down into grade school teachers. It is
so bad in some cases that in some schools a student is black-balled for
being conservitive. In closing if you want to know the reason fo a
decline in our schools look at the idiots in charge (Im talking to you
DNC) I would ask you to please stop these selfish and self distructive
polocys. But im afraid it will fall on deaf ears. Because... 'Ignoant
people are easy to controll. Ergo who cas controll has the most votes.'
Good, now to the validity of your analogy. Demonstrate the fact that a sociological or whatever other kind of rigorous scientific approach you intend to apply here, is as proven as the scientific method as used in Physics.
American education flourished for decades without recourse to any rigorous scientific assessment of what would work.
ITS ROCKIN AWESOME, SHOCK AND AWE MAN. But hey if we can get kids to learn the I think its good.
Why only black only schools in the documentary?
DC was a focus. Large black population in DC public schools.
That asian teacher is hot !!!
Maybe money is not the fucking answer.
just because teachers want to teach, even for a shitty salary, doesn't mean they're good teachers. i've had plenty of teachers who really want to be good teachers, and are really nice and cool people, but they are just not teacher material.
There are some charter schools in the Miami-Dade and Broward County area that are ripping-off the public too. I suppose that this could be true for the rest of the U.S.
It is not all one sided.
Yahya Edwards LMAO
Looks like Freddie Mercury
I like when they rip into Homschooling and Unschooling but the children I know who do these assuming the parents are caring and committed tend to be polite, respectful, intelligent and mature young people over the public school children in some cases.
It's a discipline problem
Ah, the Genesis of SJWs... now it makes sense...
must stop the killings!
It's "Union" people. I don't care wht it is, car making, teaching, construction, what ever... basket weaving, if it's union, I can show 100 examples of a non-union entity that does it better, quicker, etc, etc, etc. If a group is designed to shield and protect lazieness and substandard work, what the hell do you expect the finished product to be, better??? It's not that complicated to figure out the real problem here.
Dumbed down? Huh?
Princeton was boring?
@omgitsmikegravel bring your own lunch no?
Notice how none of your comments addresses the evidence that charter schools work and other public schools aren't. Money is not the factor. Good teachers should be rewarded, bad teachers should be fired - that's how any other profession operates.
READING READ, READ, READ , and test but VERIFY