Originally Posted by Hotrod_Lincoln
How many of you Lazy-Boy quarterbacks ever tried to manage a classroom full of ghetto gangbangers and "special ed" students? I did it for 30-something years, and retired in 2011 after teachig vocational trade subjects in a school with 3K+ students and 10 acres under the roof. The campus was about 80 acres. We had two onsite cops to patrol all that area. Do the job yourself for a while, and then tell us who survived the incompetent administrators and dangerous gangbangers how to do our jobs. Otherwise, STFU. Talk is cheap!
You surely aren't saying our public education cannot be improved. What are your ideas? I'd also like to hear how you would propose evaluating teacher performance so the good ones could be justly compensated.