Education

You have to love people and politicians that want to fire teachers because the schools are failing. I wonder if any of these people have any idea what goes on in some of these schools. Perhaps a little education would help. In New York, where I am basing my opinion on, there are many factors to consider before we decide to fire our teachers. I wonder if anyone bothered to go into some of these classrooms. What kind of distractions are there in the classes? How many teachers have been threatened? Has the City bothered to try to weed out the troublemakers. The City does have a school for the troublemakers, but it is full to capacity. So, some of these teachers that the City wants to rid themselves of, might have several troublemakers in their classroom. Granted, there are teachers out there that are no good. Instead of saying that they're going to get rid of teachers, base their tenure on class grades or whatever reason they're going to use, they should start evaluating the teachers before doing anything. See how the teachers are performing, and then decide what to do. But, that's not what we do. We make rash decisions and then we have to live with them. Did we decide what to do with the kids that simply will not learn. Maybe we can take these kids in and work with them 24/7. The problem is much more complicated than just firing teachers because of poor scores. That's the scary part. Are we willing to do what it takes to fix the problem?