[quote=CA renter][quote=livinincali][quote=CA renter]
Because the PRIVATE publishing and education companies make billions of dollars every year from changes to the curriculum. You didn’t actually think the almost yearly curriculum/textbook changes were “for the children,” did you?
Those “education experts” you’re talking about? They work for PRIVATE CORPORATIONS. It’s a very lucrative business.
Of course, the uninformed yokels will try to blame these changes and the agenda-driven curriculum on the teachers and those “evil unions,” as they always do whenever something goes wrong in the public sector (and they are wrong almost 100% of the time).
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Who makes the decision to contract/hire said private corporations? Somebody within public sector does make that decision. Whether private companies lobbied them or not the blame lies on the decision making individuals within the public sector.[/quote]
The people making those decisions are almost always elected or appointed politicians and their chosen administrators. In case you haven’t noticed, most of them are bought/owned by corporations. Unions/teachers have far less to do with this than corporations, special interest groups, think tanks, etc. — people who work outside of government. I just want to make that very clear.
People like to demonize “the government” and rank-and-file union workers as though they are one and the same. They are not. Most union members totally disagree with the way the government spends/wastes money.[/quote]
We can seperate the words Unions from Teachers in this arguement.
The district are in full control of thier circulms and rule them with an iron fist.
So I am calling shenigans on this arguement of special interest. In fact most districts are not changing thier books year to year.
They simple can’t afford to. Hell they are having trouble keeping teachers on thier pay roles so this arguement of spending money on books is not valid.
The fact of the matter is with this country’s education system being one of the worst of the first world countries “what are we doing?” spend time with this subject, any subject, outside of the three Rs?
Simply the teachers have other things they should be focused on.
And before we get of on a tangent I belive the primary reasons for failing schools starts at home.
But damnit stop with the proganda machine. The OP above said private sector… Not Unions.
