Quote:
Originally Posted by Ooloo
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Teacher's union kills charter schools, which are by and large much better at educating kids. It's also almost impossible to fire a public school teacher, no matter what garbage they're teaching or how badly their students are failing.
Education, especially during k-12, is incredibly influential on the outlook of any child, because their brains are still elastic and developing. That's why many people never change their mind about anything, ever, due to what they learned during their formative years. And it's just as bad post-highschool. Teachers and professors are supposed to teach you *how* to think, not what to think. How to reason, be skeptical, be self-critical, interrogate all ideas to distill what is actually true, no matter how uncomfortable the conclusion. That's what education should be.
|
For profit schools are obviously better, I mean just look at the high quality education we got from ITT tech and Globe University. Profit motive could never possibly be more important to these institutions than a good solid high quality education.
And I am sure it has nothing to do with the consistent de-funding for public schools (by primarily republican legislatures, who by no coincidence receive campaign money or are invested in the charter schools). Or the fact that republicans in power just have no desire for a well educated electorate, because we dont want people actually exercising critical thought and challenging the notion that they are being fooled by social/cultural issues into voting against their own self interests.