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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So, if you realize the education your 4 children received was crap, why, with all of your intelligence (not spelling ability) did you continue to send them to such substandard schools? I am an elementary teacher who went to a good university and received top grades and went on to an equally good school to get my Master's degree. We are quite limited by the curriculum and the pace of it. I'd love to delve deeper into many different topics that my students are interested in but cannot in most cases due to time. The pacing guides are quite ridiculous and leave me little time for much else. I also happen to teach the lowest ability learners so they need more repetition to learn most concepts. The higher ability classes are the ones with more time. Yes, there are problems in education but talk to most teachers and you will realize that they are all highly educated. I am a few classes away from my second Master's degree and many of my colleagues already have their second. In many cases, it isn't the teachers that are the problem. YOU are your child's first and most important teacher. Remember that and instead of complaining about how crappy their teachers are, work with them yourself. I taught my DS to read before he started school. he wouldn't learned to read in school but I knew I could help him. [/quote]

With all due respect.  Let's call a spade a spade with regards the general quality and depth of education of our public school teachers compared to other professions?  What planet dost thou reside?  We do respect teachers and what they are trying to do and it's quite alright to humor yourself. [b] If many of you do not know basic and fundamental math and science, let alone adequately teach these subjects to primary aged students, how on earth can you claim being highly educated?[/b][/quote]

Again, WHERE is your source?  If one of my HS students made such a statement, I'd ask him/her to cite a source - a credible one at that.

I love these sweeping generalizations that you enjoy making.  I hope you realize that many teachers have degrees higher than a BS/BA.  I work with several colleagues who have PhDs in their subject areas - English, science, and history.

However, a PhD does not a successful teacher make!

I don't care how many facts you know about the world from BC to AD.  If you don't have the methods/strategies to impart that wisdom to a class of students, you are not fit to teach.  I'd take a BS candidate with good rapport and a plethora of strategies to a PhD who can only share facts.

Go crawl back into your hole, PP.  Your "advice" is worthless.  [/quote]

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