EDUCATION: HOW WE GOT IT BACKWARDS

I am yet to see a politician that will not preach the importance of education; equally, I am yet to see a politician advocate for a proper living wage for teachers. That is not including their private tutors in their family mansion, but I digress… For decades the educational problem of our nation has been the butt of jokes around the globe. The general education levels of course are not a problem for a society that has no intention of advancing into the future, and the bill for this mistake does not come due much later until a crisis occurs.

Now, thanks to our nation abandoning education, we have people who can barely speak English as their first and only language, and my favorite, refusing to do things actual scientists tell them to do. Certainly, Science can be wrong (scientific method depends on that fact), but the chances of someone with proper data, and research on similar past circumstances, is much lower than Billy who believes birds are government drones because a funny man on YouTube told him so.

There have been some things that have been done to remedy these problems, charter schools, for example, have their self problems that can be a topic of another article.  Is it a surprise when you pay master’s to graduate teachers barely enough to survive that they are more likely to quit the profession altogether?

Looking at the teacher shortages around the country and the horror stories we hear from teachers, It is no wonder! Why would any sane person go to college for at least 6 years, incur tens of thousands in debt and then go to a profession where they are not valued in pay or treatment? That is just a recipe for societal decline and the biggest victims are the people who need education the most. As the same politicians who are pocketing trillions say: “The best way to get out of poverty is education.” What we are providing those people is a travesty. For next month, I will be interviewing a teacher that has had experience with teaching in the Bronx, and in New York State in teaching in general.