Last weekend I met with a recently retired middle school teacher who came to me with a very serious concern, students misbehaving.
This former teacher is now 82 years old and has clearly been in the education system for quite a few decades. While I stated I wasn’t sure if ANYTHING could be done at this point she assured me that all of you could help come up with a variety of ideas in the hope of bringing the public school system back to its former glory.
So let’s think about this topic as ALL of you know this is a very serious problem. What do YOU think could be done to garnish respect for not only teachers but other students who truly want to learn.
For me personally, I do believe that the majority of issue starts at home. I believe the alphabet gender issue and drag queen issues are a problem and need to be completely eliminated. I believe the board members at the BOE need more conservative members who can publicly battle these sick minded individuals. Books need to be monitored as school is about preparing you for your adult future and not all about sex. I firmly believe if a school isn’t proficient with grades they do NOT deserve new schools. I also believe you should not be taxed if you no longer have children in school. That in itself is a massive scam.
The list goes on and on but the goal here is to garnish your wisdom and thoughts. We look forward to your comments.
Bring back the paddle !!!!
Some would like that !!
i made it a point to be involved in my children’s lives and their education. Don’t know how may times there were problems fights etc in their schools. Would go to board meetings and was always saddened to see just a handful of concerned citizens show up. It’s not the kids it’s the adults who are the problem. even animals take better care of their young! so sad but they will answer to our Lord for their evil lazy ignorant ways!
End the incentives for single mothers for one…need to get fathers back in the lives of kids, especially boys. Other than that it’s about being able to discipline/accountability. A student can’t be held back more than once at any level (elementary, middle, high). They get pushed through whether they can read and write or not. I say if you get held back/kicked out more than once, you get sent to military school for the remainder of your education, and then auto-enlisted into the service.
I’m a teacher and the administrators are afraid of the parents and transparency. Unfortunately education is all about spending money. The school I teach at has about 1150 students. There are about 30 or 40 that cause 90% of the issues and Noone is willing to get tough and remove them.
Discipline.
The middle school closest to me I know of teachers that have been assaulted and the kid wasn’t even suspended 1 day.
If the kids misbehave, there should stronger consequences. School admin has failed the teachers for years by not backing them up when a kid is sent out of class. A slap on the wrist means nothing to these kids today. Kids that continue to misbehave or show disrespect should be expelled. Constant disruption in the classroom is not fair to the teacher or to the student who wants to learn.
8:07 – What magic wand would you like administrators to use to correct unruly students? Yes, they should back up their teachers, but the reality is that the only thing a Principal can do (that a teacher can’t) is suspend a student. That’s it. The problem is the parents. Until parents are forced to do something nothing will change.
Then send them home. In school suspension is a joke.
Admin can use the magic wand they are sitting on and start cracking down on these unruly brats.
Send the rugrats home for good. If they want an education, they can get their GED at night or from jail where they are gonna end up anyway.
Our highly-educated superiors have enjoyed increasing their rewards while diminishing their returns. The NEA is led by “a fierce social justice warrior” and the AFT tyrant has been described by a former CIA Director as the most dangerous person in the world. American taxpayers are considered as enemies by the public education cabal. After they bankrupt the Country and the “money” stops flowing they will cease and desist.
If you think that school behavior does not begin at home than you are just a typical welfare crack head ho who clearly has never raised your kid….blame starts AT HOME…PERIOD.
Ill agree thats where the blame should start……but if you think asking/expecting the moral-less parents to FIX the problem then your the crackhead now. Those bureaucrats in charge need to be held accountable for it to stop. But guess what….they want ignorant citizens, they want subjects that cant think for themselves….thats why everyone is being replaced with third world illegal’s asap. Your only a page away from having the cartel run the education system now….you think those running the ed depts arent getting paid extra to purposely destroy those yng minds?
Your children do not belong to you. They (like you) belong to God. You WILL have to stand before the LORD on Judgement Day and account for how your raised your children, how you instilled religion and morality (or didn’t) into their lives, etc.
Schools are galling apart because society is falling apart because personal responsibility and morality are falling apart because no one fears God anymore. Asking the schools to “fix” things while at the same time not demanding excellence from your society (and, more importantly, yourself) is a recipe for disaster. That being said- the ONLY HOPE you have now is to pull your sons and daughters out of the public schools.
8:48 – While I do agree with you about being responsible for the children graced to us by God (and our eventual judgement), please don’t lay the blame of society’s ills on the public schools. The issue with the public schools is that over time, they have been charged with responsibilities that have no place in a public school. Schools have transformed over the last 50 years from education institutions to what we have now – and the vast majority of teachers doing everything in their power to raise the next generation with no help from their parents. The reality is that far too many parents are failing their children. Place the blame where it really belongs.
1. Eliminate teacher tenure
2. Mandate behavior. If kids don’t behave, deliver them back to their parents and charge the parents for each day this occurs (200$ a day should do it)
3. Strictly teach basic subject matter, and fire any teacher who deviates from it.
4. Eliminate all central office administration / eliminate all assistant principals
5. Eliminate the BOE
Now, none of the above will ever happen, but just think if it did.
I don’t have any real answers. The whole system is so screwed up it’s pretty much unfixable. I’m glad I’m retired so I can sit on my butt and complain about everything 🤪
The problem is a top-heavy administration that has put the burden for everything on the teachers. Kids misbehaving? Call home. Kid not passing? Call home. What do all those people do who receive those extremely large (over $100K) paychecks? They certainly are not in the trenches.
The only way to save the system is to have two separate systems… one for learners,,, one for reformers.
Amen!!!
It doesn’t ,atter WHO is responsible for the decline of education. What you need to know is that it CANNOT be fixed. You country has been taken over by communists. They WILL teach your kids about DEI and sexual degeneracy. You will pull your children out. If you work there, you must quit and help collapse the public school system. And yes, the schools are partially responsible. The American public school system was created to create stupid docile factory workers and NOTHING ELSE. Thoughtful philosophical children are a burden to the school system, not an asset.
1:36 – you need to beat a different drum. If you know so much, why don’t you jump into a teaching job and save us all?
DEMOCRAT PARTY is the problem !!!! BAN IT !!!!
The government will cut funding if you suspend or remove a sociopath student to they stay and torment everyone else. You can’t fix parenting but you can elect politicians that won’t cut funding for removing dangerous students who don’t want to be there and are destined for prison anyway
Instead of sending the child home, bring the parent in and have them sit in every one of the troubled student’s classes, then both have an appointment with the school psychologist and maybe a social worker*. Develop a strategy for success; make the parents and child part of the team, with expectations put right out in front of everyone.
(* – of course there may be times when only an exorcist will do.)
(*- of course there may be times when said appointment coincides with getting her “hair and nails did”.)
And if they don’t want to show up, send the sheriff out to persuade them. If they don’t want to be involved or take responsibility, it’s child neglect.
Parents sit in the back of the room, without a cellphone, while troubled child sits up front, also without a cellphone.
7:38 and 9:11 are right on!