EDUCATION: WHAT'S WRONG.
HOW WILL WE FIX IT?
WHAT IS WRONG?
1. Congress calls Education bureaucrats teaching 'experts' just because they have a Ph.d. in Education. The truth of the matter is that Ph.d.'s in Education sought that degree to escape from the reality of the classroom.
2. A teacher is required to have an Education degree for certification. Promotion or higher pay requires additional graduate courses in Education.Isn't the reason for the decrease of standards obvious?You can't teach what you don't know!!! Education courses talk about how to teach but don't teach the SUBJECT!!
HOW CAN WE FIX IT?
1. No Federal funding will be given to any state that requires more than three (3) Education courses for teacher certification. Let the teachers decide which courses will allow them to do their job! Take Federal money away from the Ph.d. bureaucrats and put it into the school system!
2. Give teachers protection from lawsuits when making a professional judgment much like that given to judges. Teachers cannot keep discipline when they fear their every move is subject to litigation! We cannot expect teachers to motivate and inspire a sense of strong will and personal responsibility in students if we don't allow teachers to be individuals also.
3. Put people into Congress that demand clear wording in each law that is passed. Consider the wording in the Americans with Disabilities Act: "...reasonable accommodation...". Lawyers have become rich while arguing what is reasonable. The intent of the law was commendable but the wording turned it into a nightmare for every school and business in America. Our schools cannot teach when their every move is bounded by what some court has determined is reasonable!
WHY CHARLIE THOMPSON?
....Charlie isn't frightened by Ph.d.'s in Education. As a working teacher Charlie gets a daily dose of what is wrong with American Education. He isn't interested in 'fine tuning' America's schools. He wants to dismantle forty years of Education and return to the America where teachers had degrees in majors like English, Mathematics, Biology, History, along with a few courses that showed them how to set up a lesson plan and avoid simple mistakes made by most beginning teachers.
....We don't need to spend more money on education in America. We need to spend less (preferably zero) on the Education bureaucrats that have stripped every bit of freedom from our teachers. We need principals that teach at least one class each day. We need school systems that have administrators with MBA's not EED's. Most of all we need someone in the Senate that will fire every Educrat that failed to produce 'A+' results.