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How federal interference hampers education

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years ago to Education
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This was a good article, and it addresses exactly what teachers that I know, have stated to be major issues with federal involvement at a local level. This is yet another area into which the fed has encroached where it has no business.
In order for this to cease, parents and teachers have to work together to turn this back. Encroachment into the private information about our children, being mined by who knows how many government agencies, is unacceptable. There is no valid reason to do so, except to steer the direction of our children's lives without their knowledge or consent.

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  • Posted by richrobinson 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I wonder what a poll of teachers would show about Common Core and the tests and assessments. The teachers union always sides with Democrats giving the impression they would agree with all of this. The customers I have that are teachers say the same things you are hearing. Be a major improvement if the teachers had a voice without the union getting in the way.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    That's a fact. Yet the teachers with whom I'm friends, all say it needs to be abolished. They have their hands tied in the classroom, and are constantly thwarted in their attempts at TRULY TEACHING, without all the constant assessments, teaching to the tests, and by the way, coaching the "correct" answers on subjective questions... Don't get me started in that one...
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you, K! It has been a while. :-)

    Regarding IQ's, I completely agree with you. I know plenty of people with high IQ's who are low achieves, and the idea you put forth about the teacher's IQ is sound. It certainly has pertinence if the tests are supposed to be valid indicators.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years ago
    Welcome back non mooch. Glad to see your post. I completely agree regarding privacy issues. As well, the school records thing always bugged me. I understand certain information about the student is helpful to teachers and administrators but the amount of information kept and accessed and assessed is ridiculus. Further, I disagreed with the

    author on the importance of knowing the students ' IQ. 1st IQ assessments are not that accurate and 2 nd, performance and intellectual success is based on many factors. To take the authors argument further, we would then need to know the teacher's IQ. But does this give an indication to how well she teaches? So many other factors are critical.
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  • Posted by richrobinson 10 years ago
    Easier said than done. One thing that is obvious is that the Feds almost never give up control once they obtain it. The Department of Education was established in the 70's under Jimmy Carter. The educational system has steadily declined ever since but if you suggest abolishing The Dept of Education you are labeled as being against education.
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