7th Post- Poorly Funded Schools (Continued)

Why do bad teachers exist?

            Bad teachers only exist because they know that they can’t get fired easily so they don’t try to teach at all.  It’s hard to fire a teacher because of the teachers union and if they have tenure it’s even harder.  Tenure is a permanent job contract.  So the teacher is pretty much there for life unless he or she does something bad enough to have his or her contract terminated.  This is usually not the case, but not doing their job should be severe enough for their contract to be terminated.  Bad teachers exist because they know that they can abuse this power.

            There are schools districts out there that want to negotiate with the teachers union to revise the job contract but the teachers union is not willing.  The teachers union only wants to keep teachers from being wrongly fired.  Whenever a teacher is fired, the teachers union fights back but doesn't ask why they were fired in the first place.  The schools districts need to find a way to make the teachers union listen or find some middle ground or more students will suffer from a bad education.

            It really affects the students when teachers don’t do their job.  The students don’t get the full education when a teacher doesn't do their job correctly.  Teachers are supposed to be teaching over one-hundred and fifty percent of the information to students so they can keep up when they graduate.  If a teacher doesn't teach even close enough to one-hundred percent of the material, they should be fired in my opinion.  They aren't doing their job correctly if the students aren't getting all of the information that they should.

Are bad teachers just as bad as bad parents?

            Bad teachers are just as bad as bad parents.  Students spend most of their childhood and young adult lives with their teachers.  If the students aren't learning what they should be, it’s like you’re withholding their future from them.  It’s very difficult to succeed in life without a good education.  There is no such thing as the perfect parent, but they sure try to be most of the time, so teachers should to because teachers spend just as much time with the child as the parents do.

            In elementary school, a student spends about maybe eight hours a day, five days a week with their teacher. That should be more than enough time to teach one-hundred and fifty percent of the material to the students. But it doesn't seem like it for poor schools.  One elementary school shown in the documentary “Waiting for Superman” is doing a very poor job of teaching.  One of the students was having a hard time adding two and three together.  It wasn't the affect of bad parenting so we can’t blame the father because the father was trying to help his kid learn.

            If bad teachers are just as bad as bad parents, kids will not learn or grow up how we hope they will.  They won’t have a nice future with a great job.  When a child grows up with a bad education, the best they can do job wise is maybe become a truck driver or a factory worker.  Giving them a bad education is preparing them for unskilled labor or low level jobs.  Shouldn't we be preparing children for more than that?

What types of citizens are produced from a lack of good teachers in poorly funded schools?

            We produce citizens that only work in unskilled labor or don’t work at all.  They contribute the least to helping society evolve, that’s the same with bad teachers.  Some end up being unproductive citizens who live at home, homeless, or even in jail.  Education is the key to happiness isn't it? So why aren't we doing as much as we possibly can to help fund schools and get the best teachers to teach every student?

            Most criminals, unskilled workers, and one skill workers have a poor education.  They aren't able to get better jobs because they require higher levels of education.  Our society is becoming more advanced and more technical so we need citizens with high levels of knowledge to do the job.  Most low leveled jobs are already filled now so quite a few people end up not being able to work.  I remember watching a 30 Days episode in my high school sociology class about jail, 30 days is a documentary style television series.  Morgan Spurlock, the star of the show, spent thirty days in a jail with convicts.  He spoke with many of them and most of them blamed having a bad education for being in jail because they don’t know any better.

            If we don’t give students the education they need, we’ll be creating more criminals.  It is costly to house criminals as well so more money is taken out of our pockets to keep them in jails as well.  I bet that’s where most of our taxes are going instead of going to our schools.  So if we give students a good education, they will more often than not become productive skilled citizens of society that can help push humanity forward and keep less people in jail and also more money in our own pockets.