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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the issues with all of this teacher blaming was that in many areas of the country, teachers were back teaching in person fall of 2020. Yet somehow they are still the target of crazy levels of parental angst.

DH was an experienced teacher who retired a few years earlier than originally intended due to how unpleasant everything outside the actual classroom was. And he was not the type of teacher anyone would have wanted to retire early—students from years past made a habit of visiting him as adults as they enjoyed his class so much.

I agree with others who suggest fomenting ongoing parental ire is part of a larger goal to destabilize public education. Add the book banning campaigns we are seeing in both school and public libraries to that larger goal as well.

If you are still so angry about what happened in the pandemic that you can’t see this, try taking a deep breath and a few steps back to see what is happening across the country, even in places where kids were in school almost the whole time.[/quote]

I’m a child of public school teachers. Historically I’ve been a strong supporter of public schools.

But then the schools closed. One of my kids lost out on a year and a half of speech therapy and other services. Another other couldn’t even get an IEP created because they shut down the office that did evaluations. Through this, I was told that it wasn’t reasonable to expect anything from the schools, which was consistent with the actions the school took. Private schools and services were available but obviously expensive.

I’d love to be a strong supporter of public schools again, particularly given that I have kids with special needs, making private schools particularly challenging/expensive. The problem is, what good are schools if you can’t count on them?

Historically I’ve been worried that private school vouchers would pull money, teachers, and higher-achieving students out of public schools, sending them into a death spiral. Unfortunately, public schools already seem to be in that death spiral even without vouchers. Based on the large influx of money we saw go to schools over the last couple of years, I have very little confidence that more money would allow schools to pull themselves out of their current mess.

I don’t think that providing private school vouchers is a good path to go down. But it’s really hard to look at where we are now and not think it is nonetheless the best path. The comments here from teachers simply emphasize that belief. I know we're reading the comments from the more extreme people, but those extreme people are often the ones willing to put the most time and energy into things like the union, giving them much more power and influence over what happens to our kids.

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