Friday, February 03, 2006
John Stossel's Stupid in America
How Lack of Choice Cheats Our Kids Out of a Good Education
This is an excellent examples of why I support school vouchers and school choice. As you read the article, ask yourself why does it have to be like this? Who is to blame, the parents, the students, or the system? Who is suffering, the parents, the students, or the system?
As in all professions, there are good employees and bad employees. In my opinion, as long as teachers unions are more concerned with maintaining employment for sub-standard teachers in sub-standard systems and less concerned with providing the best opportunities for students these problems will continue to exist. Where schools and teachers are graded, and parents are empowered with a choice, education of students is the result. Education is not about maintaining a system to create jobs for incompetent teachers, it is about the greatest return on investment for our educational tax dollars.
It is just that simple.
As in all professions, there are good employees and bad employees. In my opinion, as long as teachers unions are more concerned with maintaining employment for sub-standard teachers in sub-standard systems and less concerned with providing the best opportunities for students these problems will continue to exist. Where schools and teachers are graded, and parents are empowered with a choice, education of students is the result. Education is not about maintaining a system to create jobs for incompetent teachers, it is about the greatest return on investment for our educational tax dollars.
It is just that simple.
# posted by Eric : 5:54 PM
