What has become of teaching?

Its easy to blame the teachers for how bad many schools have become. But the truth is fault lies everywhere.

1. Its the government's fault for lack of funding towards schools and for pushing things such as standardized testing on schools...this alone makes it hard for teachers to teach properly cause now they have to teach more according to a worthless test rather than teach what really must be taught in their respective classes.

2. Its the school board's and principal's fault. They make the rules and decisions for the particular schools. They choose to glorify sports over education. They choose to add more buildings to schools before fixing what they already have.

3. The parent's fault. Lets face it, what happens in the home matters. If you don't do your job in raising your children properly, then they usually become the burden of teachers and other students. I hate hearing excuses such as "i work such and such hours or this many jobs". The job of a parent never ends. Its sad that these days parents use fast food and video games and the internet to babysit their kids. I understand that parents sometimes work intensely especially single moms, to provide a better life for their kids, but one has to remember that their child needs a home that is grounded and stable. Parents need to put their children before everything, even love. Parents need to try to be involved, strict parenting is sometimes needed, you need to safeguard them from gangs especially if you live in the Hood. Get them involved in boy scouts or girl scouts or something.

4. The students fault in this comes from the fact that they have no respect for authority let alone for education.

5. Another fault that correlates with the government is laws. Public schools need to bring in uniforms. This can stop the sagging. Also there need to be very strict dress codes. No more punk dressing or gangsta dressing...We also need to bring back spanking. Also labor as a punishment should be legal. Detentions don't really work. They only work on the good kids, not the bad.

Some say we should just kick out the hopeless students, but I agree with the critics of that ideology, you kick them out, then they become society's problem as a whole...would you rather them spend 7 hours in school under the eyes of police, principals, and teachers? Or would you rather them be on the streets doing God knows what to innocent people?

We live in a society that has no shame for wrongful acts. That is one problem major problem. We need to bring back morals.

Teachers have their faults, but it would wrong to blame them for the state of schooling. They can't help it that they are forced to be babysitters who are unable to punish disruptive students because irresponsible parents object to someone else punishing their kids even though they don't plan on punishing them themselves....