Paul,
No accountibility for tenured teachers is a union problem, 10 month salaries
is an administrative problem and splintered methodologies is a University
issue. Teachers work as hard as anyone in any profession but they are only
as good as the support they get from the groups which are supposed to provide
support. Unions refuse to budge on their systemic chant of 'we need more
money'. Administrators refuse to admit that some students need 12 month
service. Universities don't cooperate and teach a unified curriculum.
Therefore, a student teacher may not be successful because the methods they
were taught for classroom management or curriculum developement won't be
supported by the cooperating teacher that they are assigned to. There are
numerous suggestions I have for improving public education, however, before I
get to any of them the only one I see needing to be addressed is that social
scientists decide what methodology they will adopt as to explain human
behavior.
Good day,
Eric Ramberg
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