Teachers help prepare our kids for the 'real world'. Yet how many teachers have been out in that world? Most have spent their entire lives in schools. Perhaps it should be a requirement that every teacher work out 'in the real world' for a minimum of 4 years before they are allowed a teaching certificate. Not only would it go a long way toward better preparing our kids for real life, it'd also help foster better communication between teachers and all the parents who are not teachers.
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We already have a shortage of teachers.
Most of the teachers I know have spent only a small amount of every day in the class room. The rest of the time was spent "in the real world" trying to support themselves while working to get a high enough GPA to get their degree.
The federal government has no constitutional role in education. It is a state and local function.
And so the poor in some states are illiterate and not in others. Talk about guaranteeing the peasants stay peasants. If you cant read can you even get in the military? The military was the one place where you could change your social class but you had to start with a decent lower education first. If you don't provide a decent education through twelfth grade people who have been born poor will most likely remain poor because the vast majority of jobs that pay higher require literacy and reading comprehension.
The federal government can provide funds elsewhere though. Say, by providing a state funds for transportation on a par with what the state pays for education.
The current slide into socialism will guarantee that almost everyone will be a peasant! That is your version of equality! It was possible to get a decent education decades ago, and many of us did!
I suppose you'd have to say that most people in North Korea are well educated, by your standards.
"Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
John Derbyshire