There is approved curriculum determined to be appropriate for the course. You think parents know better? You want teachers to try and teach 37 different curriculums per class?
In what universe would giving parents control over their students education (outside homeschooling) improve education?
The testing results for the students being abused by our education system have fallen from the top in the 1960's to the mid 20's today.
In the STEM disciplines, the testing results have fallen to the mid 30's.
In passing, the expense to educate each student remains at the top.
Our educators are the folks who are on the school boards, in the administration, in the classrooms and those who are teaching the teachers.
It is they who are completely and entirely responsible for the fall offs in the outcomes.
If the outcomes represent and illustrate failure at every step along the way and every step has been created and defined by a particular group of people, it seems like the actions employed by THAT GROUP take NEED to be reviewed.
If a particular hospital was under management that dropped it's success rates to astonishingly low levels, the people running the disaster NEED to be questioned.
If the goal of the system is to gain better pay for the administrators and the teachers, they are very successful. If the goal is to provide better outcomes for the students, they are failing.
I tend to connect the planned outcomes by the actual outcomes. If they have actually accomplished a particular goal, it seems reasonable to assume that the goal they accomplished is the goal they planned to accomplish.
If they continuously fail to accomplish a goal, whether they claim to be pursuing it or not, it seems likely that they have no real interest in the goal they fail to achieve.
As an example, Republicans have been promising for years to cut government waste and spending. Wudayuh think are their actual goals?
Why are you defending the indefensible?
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