US SCHOOLS FACE PERFECT STORM

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE TEACHERS PT2 Karen Lewis talks to Paul Jay

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• us president
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• Paul Jay
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• student drop out

[mikepalomino]

@independentview1 It goes to show you don't know anything about teaching. Salaries are very dependent on experience and most teachers - depending on districts - are lucky to make 20k a year. 6 hour work day? Are you retarded? That's just school hours. Try 12-14 hours. You think it's easy to read/grade 30-40 papers? Winter/Spring breaks are usually are usually used for curriculum/test prep. If you're lower rung, summers are unemployment hell and most teachers I know have to find alternate income.

[magiorey]

I get the feeling most of the W@nkers that have commented on this video have no experience teaching.. it would be real fun to watch them try it out for 10 min. and run out crying for their mom like the spoiled brats they come across as. I bet they're the kind of parents that shove off their kids to school, do nothing to educate them and then blame the teacher for their own failure as parents.

[lordblazer]

@misslisaof3

very few. I know a really wonderufl teacher is is now becoming very depressed that his students don't want to strive for something. Dude always uses me as an example to his classroom, but no one believes it mostly because I don't hang around my old highschool I'm in Japan for christ sake. this summer I had a research trip in China, and I'm getting ready for graduate school. Soo I haven't been state-side for quite some years now.

[lordblazer]

@dershope

but I take that back. its good to question schooling. and the uses they have. it only takes 100 hours to teach reading, writing, and math.  Waaay less than 12 years.. So what are kids doing? wasting a lot of time doing nothing. Anyway man goodluck

[lordblazer]

@dershope

it works. US just failed at it. But I think its due to people like you.

[kinglewisjtl24]

@USASecretHistory

sorry it took me so long to cb.

principals should be blamed... in fact more so than the educators because the school boards are dumb and get bad superintendents bad principals and bad teachers. who decides on the school boards?

[USASecretHistory]

@magiorey The article's title is Tony Danza Goes Back to School.

[magiorey]

@USASecretHistory That's brilliant! Thanks for the story, if I can find the interview then I'll print it and post it on the School Billboard!

[USASecretHistory]

@independentview1 We have to fire the doctors too. We're obese because of them. They're not helping us. Fire them. Besides they work in a sector dominated traditionally by males. Come on that hurts my pride as a man. They need to show more positive results.

[USASecretHistory]

@magiorey An L.A. Times article came out in March 31 of this year on Tony Danza the former actor. Google Tony Danza teacher. He basically admitted that he was struggling in his new job. The L.A. Times reports "[H]e cried three times, he said. Explaining [a] concept...Danza didn't get his facts quite right, and one of his students straightened him out... He...felt like calling every teacher he'd ever had and apologizing because he just didn't get how difficult their jobs were.

[USASecretHistory]

@407buddy US hospitals, health care, in one word: OBESE.

[dershope]

Compulsory education by the state doesn't work. Need proof? Look at the US since The Man started forcing his brand of education. None of it matters anyway. Soon the dollars these leaches are being paid won't buy them food and shelter. Maybe then they'll begin to understand the problems and how they were part of the problem vice the cure. I acknowledge there are good teachers. These few are participating in a broken system. Very few though.