What's new here? My experience as a parent confirms the truism that schools are run for the benefit of the adults: teachers, administrators, and parents. More

What's new here? My experience as a parent confirms the truism that schools are run for the benefit of the adults: teachers, administrators, and parents. More then half the parent teacher meetings I've been to (K through 12) where with teachers who I would fire if they worked for me. Having achieved six figure salaries by surviving school politics they contribute as little as possible to their students while punching their ticket each year until retirement. The good teachers are not rewarded but penalized for not going along with policies created to benefit administrators. Having excelled at politics as a teacher the administrators are interested in nothing more than having days without problems. A day where everyone behaves and follows the rules is the quest. Parents seeking accountibility from schools are a problem. I have never seen an administrator hold a teacher accountable for not doing their job of teaching the students. The adults who are not in the discussion yet for improving schools are the parents. Every slackard kid has a slackard or absent parent. Too many parents see school as a babysitting service allowing them to concentrate on more important things. My primary objection to the article is the statement that the main reason students don't succeed in college is that they are unprepared. The main reason kids don't succeed in college is because they don't belong there. Too many adults teach college as the 13th grade. Kids go there because it's the path of least resistance. Kids who were unmotivated in school are not going to be magically motivated just because they are now in a junior or four year college. Johnny can't do university because all through his life the adults didn't give a shit. They were only looking out for themselves.