01-02-2017, 02:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2017, 02:42 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-01-2017, 08:12 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-01-2017, 08:05 PM)Odin Wrote:(01-01-2017, 06:57 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Actually, what your sister apparently said supports my original point perfectly: public schools can't teach efficiently, because teachers in public schools have to keep the government happy. Switch to vouchers that parents can use for private schooling, and the time can be spent teaching instead of pleasing politicians.
You have fallen for the propaganda, here, Warren. A lot of us on the Left have been opposed to that sort of stuff for a long time and the Right likes to push that crap in order to intentionally sabotage public schools and so then gives the Right an excuse to privatize the school system.
The Left's position is "Let's teachers teach, not politicians".
The left says a lot of things that don't actually work. Unless you eliminate the politicians entirely, which the left doesn't propose to do, public school teachers will always need to please the politicians.
Yes, and it would be nice if the voters finally dump neo-liberalism, so that we can have politicians that care about the people again, instead of wealthy business interests. Then education would improve because teachers would have to please the representatives of the people.