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Originally Posted by peter12
While I don't agree that ALL teachers are lazy, I would say from my own fairly complete experience with both private and public education systems. That most teachers are a pretty entitled, whiny bunch. Why?
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My wife was in IT before she switched careers and went into teaching. The one thing she notices is that a lot of teachers don't have any idea how the "corporate world" works (of course, the argument could be made that people in the corporate world don't know anything about any other types of environments)
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Maybe if there was an ounce of reward available for teachers on the basis of merit, instead of years spent in the system. Maybe if there was a way for more direct disciplinary actions towards the many teachers who use and abuse their position of authority over students as if it was a God-given right.
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Plenty of teachers that I have talked to would love some sort of meritocracy - but every unionized environment will put value on seniority over anything else...
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Maybe if parents were allowed more input into the educational process.
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Not sure how many parents have any clue about handling/teaching kids...enough parents treat schools as babysitters, don't they?
Just my $0.02