If you have any idea what it takes to write, direct, and perform, you ll start seeing why teachers don t want parents interrupting their work. Talk to the administrators. They re busy people, but they aren t teaching a single child. They can even be gone whole days from the building and education goes on without them. If you are threatening teachers by putting them on notice that the public is tired of their excuses and want them to do a proper job, you are barking up the wrong tree.
Teachers are among the most sincere and hardest working people in society.
Reformers and critics have led you and others to believe that teachers are accountable for learning. But the truth is they are accountable for teaching. You don t blame the dentist for the bad teeth of a young person who refuses to brush or floss or take care of himself. You hold the dentist accountable for his activity as a dentist. But the real danger the fate that is far more serious to our nation is that a continuation of the last ten years of uncontrolled teacher bashing may finally drive away our best teachers.