Actually they are NOT being left behind like they used to be. This is what keeps many other kids from further advancing their education. You see when teachers have to deal with the slow book learners, instead of sending them out to other classes, they can not push the fast learners to their full potential. Same for the kids who act up. You can't just kick them out of school, or put them in special rooms, they are required to be included in the classrooms which not only makes the teacher's jobs harder but distracts and detracts from what the other kids can learn.

Teaching these days is to prepare kids to be able to solve problems with methods as opposed to training them certain skills. This is the type education kids in other countries are learning that you all claim are so much better because they rank above the US. BUT at the same time they only test their good students, the ones that struggle are sent to other schools or just out of school. It's another example of making the polls fit your agenda.

The below link does a short description of the very good book written by this author. She is not an educator so she brought no education system bias to this book.
I would encourage you to read the book and find out the basic differences and expectations, many of which are directed at selecting education major candidates and also revenues to compensate them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...m=.23e3d1e8316a

Many here talk about the illegal strike and lets say it is but in our modern polarized world little to no attention will be given unless more severe methods are taken.
Sure 6 K is a great offer and they wanted 10K. The real story maybe if they offered nothing for a decade and quickly tossed out 6K they are really saying we had the funds all along we just did not want to grant them to you. Now that is out in the open as well.
In WI we had nearly a billion pulled from Public k-12 about 6-7 years ago. About 300 million has been brought back into the system from the state. The amount of spending today is about the same as it would have been if the 900 million or so would have stayed but what is taking place is that referendums are being passed and local taxes raised along with cuts so the lower spending districts are actually taxing themselves more or twice to maintain their schools. Now that the more formal contractual pay scale is gone the lower income, mostly rural districts can not compete salary or compensation wise with the wealthy suburban districts and the teachers that are motivated to move and capture the larger compensation are doing so which lowers positions and quality in our less financially sound districts. The plight of our smaller rural districts is really only beginning here and staff transitions are really rapidly increasing and the numbers of those entering into the education career has dropped by 20-30% depending upon the university that one looks at.

Bryce

You anti-teachers can have this post now. I tried to teach, and just like most of you don't understand, some people are unteachable. lol

Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Same old story. A hundred reasons why schools don't have enough money. If they would say your kid can have his 8 grand sent to the school of his choice, private schools would open everywhere, it would be the end of public schools and the private schools would be showing a profit and actually educating children

School consolidation was the final nail in the coffin to kill small towns in my area. With some of the small town school rivalries dating way back it makes for some ugly adjustments for all involved.

Brother , not every little , bitty community needs a K-12 school . And a classroom of 25 kids won’t kill anyone.

Rural schools can have their K-8 , everyone attends the same high school .


I wish Oklahoma , and that’s who we’re discussing here , would follow Missouri’s example.

BTW, the competition argument was awful . Life is a competition , that lesson might as well be learned early , too.