My Assessment Of Public Education

With regard to public education, it all boils down to this. Teachers and/or administrators that maintain true discipline and maintain high expectations get fired, burnt out, and/or pushed away. And those who look the other way and blow sunshine up everyone's behind keep their jobs and get promoted whether or not they are truly effective. This is all a result of our placating this backward generation of complainers and whiners who refuse to discipline their children and allow them to mature and develop into well-adjusted adults. Most kids, as a result, have an unearned, excessive amount of self esteem combined with a huge sense of entitlement because of all the psychobabbling idiots changing all educational processes for the past 30 years based on completely unscientific research while ignoring the most obvious problems. All the focus has been put on dragging the horses to water while refusing to admit no one can make them drink. The kids that work hard and behave like they should are ignored and unchallenged while they should be the ones that are nurtured and challenged. And administrators should be focusing on those kids and their parents instead of the others. But a lot of the problem is that all the 'bleeding heart laws' mandate that schools focus on the lowest common denominator and enable them to continue as they are and assure them that the world will work around them as opposed to requiring them to learn or conform to meet higher expectations. Focus on the good kids, and they will be the model. Focus and put all your energy into the bad kids, and that will also be the model. Unfortunately, the latter is the model of today. And the stories we see in the news everyday are manifestations of that model.