Reply #22: I feel I am in a unique position

[Angry Dragon]

I have no children, have no grandchildren, I am not in the teaching profession so I have no axe to grind when it comes to education.

I graduated from a top high school, the neighborhood that I grew up in had a fairly large number of teachers. For the most part I found them to be caring people.

I have read most of the posts on DU about the system that duncan and Obama are trying to implement. I have commented on a large number of them. I have stated before and I will state it again. What they are doing is dumbing down the youth of America. They are not teaching them to think on their own. They are teaching them facts and nothing more. The only people that will benefit from this system are the administrators. They will fill their pockets with as much money as they can, and walk away when things start falling apart, and they will fall apart. The taxpayers will then have to pony up more money to start the schools up all over again.

They walk into a school and state the tests are showing failing schools without looking at the students that that school has. They want to set the schools up like factories. I understand factories because I have 40 years of factory experience. in the factory you throw out the material that is damaged. That is what they plan on doing with the students. Throw out the students that are slow learners, the disabled, the ones from foreign countries.

The system that they want to implement is stupid without looking at all the facts and not just look at test scores.

end of rant for now

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