Wow! We received plenty of great responses to our “Biggest Issue Facing Education” poll. Many of you responded to the poll by selecting one of the multiple choice answers. However, others submitted your own answers in the “other” category.
Are you wondering what “other” issues are facing educators? Here are some of those responses just as you suggested them:
* Poor infrastructure
* Incompetence of High School Teachers and their “guilty until proven innocent” at
* status of teaching
* taking teacher’s expertise out of the classroom
* Too many political hands in the education pot
* No teacher voice in decision making
* Lack of respect for the profession leads to all of the above
* The “reform movement” based on public opinion NOT RESEARCH!!!!!!!!!!
* Fearful Adults
* Not enough planning time for all the documentation required with new reforms
* Insufficient training of our teachers
* Outdated system that is more a bureaucracy than individual students’ education
* Staff unskilled in behavior management
* Political correctness and changing American history
* Test-and-Punish education system
* Undermining public confidence in our institutions by focusing on our weaknesses
* Too much big-government mandates-back to local control
* Closed-ranks unions with no foresight
* Broken families/families not placing education as a priority
* All of the above
* Privatization of public education
* Lack of discipline in the schools
* Indoctrination
* The out of control spending, regulations and devestating Health Care Reform Bill
* Insufficient technology–laptops smartboards etc
* Larger class size (overcrowded classrooms) results from insufficient funding.
* Lack of current resources and technology
What do you think? Add your response!
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This is another maze of confusion…you can do better. Too complicated communication system. Great effort but not a near miss for member… a bulls eye status quo…few will get to read this…or continue the discussion…unfortunate for members, schools, and students.
Everyone is looking for a “one size fits all” fix for education. The only thing that should be standardized in education is a national graduation test. Of course, this test should be developed by educators in conjunction with the business world.
When a child graduates from high school, potentional employers should know what they are capable of. High schools drop the ball on preparing students for the real world. That includes preparing students for the work force as well as preparing them for real life situations.
Time wasted on preparing students to take tests and having in-services to prepare teacher to prepare their students to take “the test” would be better utilized just teaching.
The differences between teaching in the suburbs and teaching in the city is so totally different and yet we are all judged with the same standards.
I could go on, but no one ever listens to the teachers anyway.
1. The differences between teaching in the suburbs and teaching in the city is so totally different and yet we are all judged with the same standards.
2. I could go on, but no one ever listens to the teachers anyway.
Amen to statements 1 and 2.