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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Today, teachers do the minimum in the classroom. They are silent when school systems implement nonsensical programs--Curriculum 2.0 and don't seem to care a bit that they are churning out barely able students. Let us see teachers and unions fight to teach our children well and I'll become a supporter. Until then, I feel more teacher accountability is needed. [/quote]

While I disagree that teachers do the bare minimum (our teacher was amazing for our child who has GT/LD issues), you bring up an interesting point. The teacher's union really seems to operate solely as an organized labor entity. Unions are in deep decline and public support is likely to keep decreasing, not increasing. If the union fought back on all the bad curricular reform ideas from an honest position of improving education rather than appearing to only fight teacher evaluation then they would receive much higher main stream political support. This translates into a better bargaining unti negotiation position.

I don't know any parents who support Curriculum 2.0. Its actually insulting that the county thinks this is an appropriate response to parental pressure to bring back more geography, social studies, science, art, and music. The sad reality is that most of the curricular reform is aimed at justifying spending less on students. Science, art, music, social studies and anything beyond teaching to the test through worksheets requires facilities, trained teachers and materials beyond a Xeroxed worksheet. [/quote]

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