You are correct in many of your observations. My wife taught in the public eduation system for 33 years in New York City. The world was transformed during that time. It is a miracle that any education gets done at all given the massive amount of Bureaucratic nonsense and politics that reign there. Even when teachers begin with a sense of dedication they just get ground down with an ever increasing load of bricks and less and less straw to do their jobs. To a large degree teachers are required to attempt staying abreast with no training, no time, no support and no money. Try to imagine doing your job with the same restraints. The system is badly broken and won't get fixed. At this stage there are too many vested interests in keeping it the way it is. Sad to say but true. The gap between what could be (given advances in technology) and what is (given the restraints) will get bigger and bigger and the frustration level will just increase. What you (and all of us)should do is acknowledge the entire reality (not just your piece), attempt to identify the causes for that reality and stop shooting the existing troops (e. g. the teachers). They are the only ones we have and by heaping yet more abuse on their heads the only thing that is accomplished is to continue driving out the few good ones left and thus increasing the proportions of dunder heads.
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You are correct in many of your observations. My wife taught in the public eduation system for 33 years in New York City. The world was transformed during that time. It is a miracle that any education gets done at all given the massive amount of Bureaucratic nonsense and politics that reign there. Even when teachers begin with a sense of dedication they just get ground down with an ever increasing load of bricks and less and less straw to do their jobs. To a large degree teachers are required to attempt staying abreast with no training, no time, no support and no money. Try to imagine doing your job with the same restraints. The system is badly broken and won't get fixed. At this stage there are too many vested interests in keeping it the way it is. Sad to say but true. The gap between what could be (given advances in technology) and what is (given the restraints) will get bigger and bigger and the frustration level will just increase. What you (and all of us)should do is acknowledge the entire reality (not just your piece), attempt to identify the causes for that reality and stop shooting the existing troops (e. g. the teachers). They are the only ones we have and by heaping yet more abuse on their heads the only thing that is accomplished is to continue driving out the few good ones left and thus increasing the proportions of dunder heads.