I saw a post today on FOX news about teachers in Virgina who would have a “Blue Day” to support Obama.
Teacher unions are the problem in this country. Bad teachers keep their jobs if they survive the first few years. There is no accountability in most of the education system. If I do not do my job to the standards i get fired. Not true in education system.
Charter and Christian schools are seeing a huge increase in enrollment because they are not apart of the teachers union. Parents are seeing that they can get better education for their children by sending their kids to other schools. Another problem is these parents have to pay double for their education, the charter school and the public school they are not attending. These schools also have in the most cases the best test scores in their community. Know i am not going to assume that all those teachers wearing blue are bad teachers, there could be mostly good teachers. But for this country to be at the level it needs to be to support the jobs of the future which need huge reform in the education system. This problem in my opinion is worse than the economy.
Right now there is a divide happening with US citizens. Those who complete college and those with just a high school diploma. The low level jobs are going oversees and they are not coming back. Its cheaper and there are tons of high degree jobs that over the next twenty years will not have enough manpower to support the demand.
In this economic crisis my employer is looking for around 13 workers right now. 13 in this economic crisis, Yes high degree jobs are out there waiting for the future of this country. The baby boomers had those jobs and they will be the last to have those jobs. Americas future need to know Math and Science and finish college and we need a much better and accountable education system.
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