Let us not forget what a good job they did with you before we totally reject them.

I was thinking about your disagreement with teachers spending class time on the practice of passing notes rather than teaching.

If the note pertained to the subject at hand, it might POSSIBLY be part of the teaching. Even then, the one writing the note isn’t really listening to the teacher while writing it. The one receiving the note isn’t actually listening to the teacher while reading it. The ones relaying the notes back and forth are distracted from the point the teacher is trying to cover. The ones watching the note being passed back and forth are wondering if the note is about them and what they are saying behind their backs.

The ones passing notes are to some degree wasting teaching/learning time even if the teacher ignores the practice.

And that’s even assuming the note’s related to the subject at hand rather than some totally unrelated matter which an honest person would admit is more likely. The student’s often accustomed to television programs which are background noise to watch if they’re interesting or ignored if they’re ever the least bit boring.

So maybe the old meanie was actually trying to teach the subject at hand as well as the unwelcome idea that there’s a time and a place for all things and that distracting others from learning is stealing from their educations. (Many employers favor workers who do their jobs.)

Just consider the possibility that the teacher really DID want to teach and could teach if given a chance. [Maybe not.]

David for listening

The best schools are the ones who that don’t put up with ridiculousness. They make education a privilege, not a right. Speaking as a teacher, if you have one student that won’t behave, that makes it difficult to teach. If you have you have five, teaching is miserable. If you have more than that, it’s time to clean house because no learning will be happening.

Behavior starts in the home.

Currently a student in high school, and I just thought you should know we have electives that cover pretty much all of those things.

So each class all we got to hear was the teacher being crazy on some students over something dumb.

Half of the teachers were coaches who used class time to focus on sports instead of teaching

In the 1990s we had heath class that used text books from the 1960s!!

We had teachers that over looked topics or judged based on religion or who they knew in the community. Or about how a student was dressed

The schools are obsessed with the childs personal life rather than teaching anymore. Teachers need to be tested, cameras with audio and video recording in every class

Parents should be involved but they never are , most households both parents work and when they are home, they are cooking/cleaning . Having someone at home full time to help a kid study is an extreme luxury that most people dont have.

I think the solution is more wide rage of real world classes. Schools now days dont teach about how to get credit, maintain credit, pay bills, vote, wash clothes, iron clothes, cook foods, use computers , type resumes , child care and more. We need a greater focus on these types of skills

Yes student count should play into the funding, but teachers are forced to play warden, to the trouble makers, because the administration doesn’t want to loose the funding. It seems maintaining head count is more important than maintaining a quality education. The schools with better behaved students are the schools with the better test grades.

I can imagine, “You have 3,000 students, but your total funding is only this amount. Make do.” as well as, “You only have 30 students at your school but your total funding is still this amount. Enjoy.”

It just looks like the number of students attending a school should be a factor in deciding how much money that school needs.

Maybe I’m missing something, though.

David for the perfect balance and perfect education

In the lower performing schools, the children don’t care about their education, because the parents don’t care about their education. The teachers can’t teach for all the disruptions and distractions, by those who don’t care. When the children get home they see those returning home from prison getting more respect then those returning from college. In that environment, the ability to whip someone’s tail is more respected than a good education and a real job.

End school funding on student count. Give the teachers the ability to get trouble makers out of the class room. Give the administration the ability to get the chronic trouble makers out of the school. Then let the parent have the responsibility of educating them.

Don’t allow trouble makers hold up the education of others.