Two of the most common reasons teachers quit are lack of administrative support, where the inmates are running the asylum, and the ongoing attempt by Education Agencies across the nation to erode the ability of teachers to teach in an effort to convert public schools into private voucher pipelines run by hedge funds and ex-Politicians and clever ex-school district administrators and superintendents.
Take a deep dive into your district’s programs and you will soon uncover some familiar names connected to Washington insiders and state politicians alike. Why is this? It has to do with the way the US Department of Education is run from top down. Here is the basic scheme:
- A large pool of money is supplied by the American taxpayer through Congress into the checking account of the Dept. of ED.
- The Dept. of Ed puts out a call for grants and programs to be designed by those in the know…your congressman’s wife, George W. Bush’s little brother, etc..,
- These yahoos send in their programs and collect the cash and are then allowed to intrude into the lives of local districts nationwide bombarding teachers with unwanted and unnecessary programs….the next best thing.
- Click here to learn more about the ridiculous programs the lefties running the US Education Department are pushing today that add absolutely no value to your child’s education. Their goal in many of these programs related to mental health is to have as many kids as possible declared mentally ill so that in the future they will not be able to buy a gun. I encourage every parent to file a legal letter with their child’s school from a local lawyer that makes it clear your child is to never be sent to a counselor without your permission. Rattle their damned cages.
In Texas, for each and every year for the past twenty years, the Texas TEA has cooked up programs that cut into teacher planning time in a concerted attempt to demoralize teachers and create an EXCUSE ENVIRONMENT. If I can take your planning time away and not allow you to actually teach but instead force you to jump through unnecessary hoops and hurdles on a daily basis, I can eventually make your life so miserable that before long your students are failing; which translates into not only your failure as a teacher but a system wide school failure where the desired “testing” results can never be reached. This is in fact the goal of the Texas politicians hell bent on a voucher system.
The latest thing coming out of TEA is a “required” Reading Academy that is being forced on elementary school teachers who are already certified. Why Texas Teachers did not collectively get together and throw their middle fingers up to the TEA is beyond me. But hey, that is where Teacher Unions should be doing their job. They should have taken on TEA on behalf of teachers, but they are simply ineffective. In fact, they have become nothing but lame impotent lefty lovers pushing the most bizarre agendas one can imagine.
The fact is, a school’s curriculum should never be changed.
It should be set in stone.
Districts should shut off the money flow to all educational consulting firms, and pushers of the next great thing for the “success” of your school’s kids, vis a vis My newly created flim-flam math program guaranteed to blow your mind.
Texas school districts have become bloated fiefdoms providing a few high paying salaries to those well connected in their respective communities, and many of those drawing those high paying salaries are dumber than a bag of hammers.