A good friend of mine closes all of his emails with this line:
UNEXPECTEDLY: ADV. FREQUENTLY USED BY PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, TO DESCRIBE UNPLEASANT EVENTS OR SITUATIONS THEY HAVE CREATED.
That definition kept going off in my brain as I read this next story about the dire straits in which the public education system finds itself. According to a Washington Post story headlined, Trust in teachers is plunging amid a culture war in education; the more parents know about public schools, the less likely they are to support them.
New polling suggests that fierce debates over what educators should be allowed to do and say in classrooms, an ascendant parents’ rights movement seeking control of what children learn at school, recent criticism of teachers from conservative lawmakers and news outlets and the lingering aftershocks from the pandemic have all sapped public confidence in the teaching profession.
In January, a Gallup poll found that Americans’ belief in grade-school teachers’ honesty had dropped to an all-time low, with 64 percent of adults reporting they believe those instructors are truthful and have ethical standards, down from a high of 75 percent in 2020, during the tensest days of the pandemic. In July, another Gallup poll found that just 28 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in public schools — the second-lowest this figure has been since Gallup began asking this question in 1973.
One of the most significant findings was not that barely a quarter of Americans had any confidence in public schools; it was that they couldn’t marshal a majority approval by the Democrat core constituency.
An additional fear is that as arguably more parents want their kids to grow up to run an OnlyFans site or turn tricks at the Greyhound station site than want them to be teachers, the profession may be nearing a point of no return.
I told you all this way before the pandemic started. Way before some eyes were opened.. now people are starting to notice the corrupt evil system of education.
school vouchers Get it on the ballot now it’s the only way to get government out of the education business where they don’t belong
Do you really think that Democrat Maryland would ever allow that issue to be on the ballot and decided by the voters.
There was a time when teaching was held to high regard by the public. Now, we only have two types of teachers; those remnants from the past and the rest of them and their tiktok videos and breathless social media warriors. No wonder nobody trusts them.
Half of them are not qualified but due to diversity BS and everyone being equal, they get teaching jobs. They are hired on gender, race and being a democrat is the biggest help of all.