Would you allow a person with no medical experience to run a hospital? Would you allow someone who has not attended law school to run your law firm? The mayor of a city would not have a person with no police experience to be the police commissioner yet someone with no education experience can be commissioner of schools. It is incredulous to me. Just because you taught your child to ride a bike does not make you an educator. As with the aforementioned fields, education is a profession. You need to have an advanced degree to teach in a public school. In Finland, educators are respected and paid as professionals with pay equal to an engineers. It is no wonder that it is ranked first in education.
Despite the rhetoric from the Republican party and the Tea Party, education cannot be run like a business. There is no bottom line. The mandate is that we educate every child. A child is not an expense that can be written off. Charter and private schools are not the answer. You cannot compare public and private education. Private and charter schools can select the academic achievers and eliminate the behavior problems. Public schools do not have that luxury. Charter and private school parents take a more active role in their child's education, which is not always the case in public schools. As one parent told at the beginning of the school year, "He is your problem now."
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