(September 9, 2014 at 1:42 am)psychoslice Wrote: You shouldn't need homework if there's a good teacher, that's why they go to school, to learn.That places all the burden on the teacher. Which would be somewhat fair IF teaching was an attractive profession that drew in our best and brightest. But it isn't. Quite the opposite, it often draws in those who cannot do anything else.
That is not to say there are not great teachers out there, of course there are! I honestly think teaching is one of the most noble professions in existence.
But they are underpaid, undertrained, unsupported by the public and the government, etc. They have become scapegoats for a problem they cannot solve alone.
This Article I think does a great job of really nailing some of the basic reasons our system is failing when other western countries are pulling ahead (not to mention the Asian countries!). And one piece of the equation is how we hire, train, pay, treat and view our teachers. America does NONE of these things well, yet places nearly the entire burden of student success on their shoulders. This is a recipe for failure.
Of course we are diverging a bit from the topic of homework, but it all ties together. We have a crappy system with a crappy foundation, and we keep piling more on from the top, instead of fixing the foundation.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
