Who's Teaching the Teachers
Millions of Canadian parents (1 in 3) are now hiring tutors for their children.
The lengthy explanations defy the obvious.
Teachers are not doing the best job.
Private schools, home teaching and tutoring...there must be some reason, you think?
Meanwhile, back in the political arena, the BCTF doesn't want children to experience the stress and trauma of tests.
Interesting.
4 comments:
personal experience in this field qualifies me to answer your question. a bunch of left-wing zealots are teaching the teachers, and the students are spending most of their time learning about social bloody justice. (what the hell does that mean anyway?) simon fraser, especially, is just used as a means for indoctrinating young would-be teachers into the dogmatic whacked-out world of the bctf.
"THE TEACHERS" are now under the direct control of their combined bureaucracy (Principals, VP's and associated non-teaching councelors, in the school and the massive provincial 'think tank' administration including school boards) and UNION LEADERSHIP.
They, "THE TEACHERS", have managed to negoitate themselves into a little box, where no actual teaching work happens.
On June 24, 1996, in Franklin County Ohio Common Pleas Court, the attorney for the American Federation of Teachers, speaking against Ohio’s proposed parent-choice initiative, called parents "inconsequential conduits." The Columbus Dispatch quoted Dennie Widener, parent of three, as saying, "I can’t believe we have to fight for an education. I’m a flunky and that’s what they are trying to make my kid." Although his income was well below the poverty line, Mr. Widener was armed with comparative school information that convinced him his own children were being deliberately dumbed down. In public kindergarten his youngest daughter had only learned the alphabet, but he was fully aware that "at private school they were reading in kindergarten."
Teachers in Canada are only a decade behind their American counterparts since we do more schooling OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM!
Take a read of:
The Logical Tragedy Of Benson, Vermont
Compare it to what is seen happening all over BC and especially rural schools today.
Coincidence?
I think not.
I agree that teachers, particularly in public school, are not doing the best job. However, I also know that students in private schools are being tutored and in not small numbers. Tutoring is ubiquitous, particularly in math, and in some circles it is a status symbol.
Mo.
Another forum for teacher bashing??? I hope not.
And no I'm not with the BCTF (or Union).
It is so trite to see the same BS trotted out so regularly on blogs ( with the worst being the lady from Cumberland).
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