This constitutes a grievous insult to teachers and students alike. It is tantamount to saying that deadlines are so important to reporters, they are forced to plagiarize. Yet the Post, long a champion of the agenda of the national teachers union, goes unchallenged when it sullies the entire public school teaching community. I have taught college students since 1973. Increasingly my colleagues and I have found that very intelligent students are graduating from high school unprepared in the basic skills they need for success in college.
Remedial courses abound on every campus.
Everyone in this community wants the best schools for their children. Yet the supervisors and, sadly, the teachers, reject the cornerstone. Standards that objectively measure teacher performance and reward the best while helping the less effective improve appear to be too great a threat. Yet such standards would encourage teachers to spend more time teaching basic skills thoroughly, instead of being tempted to manipulate the students under their care to support the narrow political agenda of a teachers union. The supervisors will indeed raise taxes this month.