I don't think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.
There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.
Instead of unfairly demonizing teachers, we should be working with them to find solutions to the problems in our schools and make sure every child gets an outstanding public education.
We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need.
We need to increase education budgets.
If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
If we could reach the point where many of our nation's future leaders know what teachers know after teaching successfully in our highest-need schools, we would have a very different situation.
Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.
Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.