Teachers Are Dumb, And They're Making Students Dumber
thefederalist.com
It's been repeatedly shown that teacher quality is the primary thing affecting student achievement — behind curriculum quality.

Improving teacher quality in America’s schools will take much time and hard work. You would have to start from the ground up, training new teachers from scratch based on partially lost knowledge. You would have to raise college admission standards and require four years of academic work in the teacher’s core subject.

Education degrees and teacher licensing, by the way, should be done away with. They are expensive and ineffective.

        • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
          7·
          10 months ago

          at the expense of everyone else.

          Sometimes this is the case in bad districts, but in good ones this is not the case. A good district will get a child that is falling behind the help they need, and put them in a separate class to avoid making the education of others worse.

          Education goes a long way towards reducing poverty, so when a child is left behind it increases their risk of poverty, and therefore the crime rate and draw on public resources like emergency services, and welfare programs. The education system failing a student is ultimately a bigger expense.

          divert funds to educate them when they are ready later in life

          Unfortunately that’s not how life works. You can’t just learn to read after you hit your 30s.

          Children need to grow up, and a part of that is being able to handle the world around them using their education.

            • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
              5·
              10 months ago

              I’m talking about the kids that don’t want to be there.

              I am aware.

              Many people learned to read as an adult

              Basically all of which were worse off for it.

                • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
                  4·
                  10 months ago

                  How is learning to read as an adult make someone worse off for it.

                  This is such a week argument I’m not even going to bother.

                  The resources wasted to force a kid to learn could be better utilized on the back end when they want to learn.

                  Forcing a kid to learn isn’t a waste of resources. They will still learn.

                  And kids that don’t have the willingness to learn are only a subset of kids that are struggling in school that would be left behind by private schools.

      • Throwaway@lemm.eeM
        2·
        10 months ago

        Any given school has limited resources. Limited number of classrooms, limited teachers, limited hours in a school day, etc. Sure these limits can change over time, but they will never not be limited.

        It often is mutually exclusive because of these limits.

        • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
          3·
          10 months ago

          Any given school has limited resources.

          It really isn’t that demanding.