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How in the world am I being defensive? Strange... This is a debate site, after all. I tire of hearing ignorant people say stupid things... don't you?
Your last sentence should answer the question you posed in your first sentence.
Bodhisattva said:Who is saying that the education system can't and shouldn't change? Perhaps instead of thinking that I have a chip on my shoulder, you should look to yourself and see why you are making such ridiculous assumptions like "nothing needs to be changed". In fact, the education system, mainly how teachers manage lessons, what to teach and how to teach it, is reviewed and reflected upon many many times over the course of the year in staff meetings, department meetings, with PD and more...
The issue here is not that.
Actually that's exactly what the issue is. The topic of this thread is "what would improve education in the United States." And the quality of parenting is not something that can easily be changed through better educational policies.
Bodhisattva said:The issue is that people blindly and ignorantly attack teachers and the education system.
The issue here is that some teachers view any attempt to improve the educational system as an attack on them personally, thus things don't change as quickly as they should. The fact that you viewed a thread on policies to improve our schools as "blind and ignorantly attacking teachers" shows how defensive and out of touch you are, as though a school's main function was to provide YOU with employment rather than to educate students as well as possible. Your attitude is a perfect example of why education reform is so slow in coming.
Bodhisattva said:I counter it and state that many of the points being brought up against teachers and education are really society and parenting... and what happens?
Teachers and education = Things we can actually change via policy, and therefore relevant to the topic of this thread and the forum in general.
Society and parenting = Things that cannot be changed via policy (at least not easily or predictably), and therefore not relevant to the topic of this thread or the forum in general.
Saying "parents need to do a better job" is meaningless, as there is nothing you can do about the quality of parenting. It's just a cop-out to avoid examining the flaws of our education system, or thinking about how things could be done better.
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