Today I take issue with our public school systems nationwide. They keep responsibility on teachers to produce miracles with all social illnesses. If teachers could do this then they would be worth their weight in platinum. It takes no education, license, certification or permission to have children. Their is no required training for the most important job bequeathed to mankind. Now teachers are the scapegoat for all of societies political, educational, psychological, criminal and moral ills to mention a few.

Ignorant parents, overworked parents, mentally ill parents etc. are easy to point in the direction of teachers because after all they certainly won't take the responsibility themselves and must project their incompetence on someone else. Politicians, especially, have tapped into this as a way of focusing people away from their incompetent dealings. As I continue this discussion I will describe various ways that schools have handled this absurd situation, however unethical or fraudulent these policies and actions would be.

Politicians aren't revamping or improving education. They are destroying it. To them it is a baby sitting job, no more, no less. They don't have even a small clue as to what abilities are required to teach 200 children every two days. They are grossly uninformed about the job itself. Teachers take tons of work home to review and are thinking in their off time about Johnny or Jane and what to do with their emotional problem from parental abuse or alcoholism at home. Johnny or Jane may also not see their parent at all in the evenings and may be left to babysit for little brothers and sisters including cooking and cleaning for them. Homework? What is that? "We don't have time" say the children who rule the home.

Parents aren't doing their jobs, many are criminals, many are bipolar and many can't cope with the minimal things that they confront in their lives. A large percent resent the work that they need to do for their kids and are lazy. Kids, for some, are the waste product of adults' sexual escapades. Many of our students are just tolerated by parents and paid to keep their mouths shut. In other words kids are extorting their parents.

Teachers have a microcosm of society with all of its problems in each and every class. Psychosis, neurosis, anxiety disorders, panic attacks, ADD, ADHD, Learning disabilities, health problems, the regular colds, rampant pregnancy in the middle schools and high schools. Some of these kids are not fed and are hungry. Many students have to get free lunch and then develop a sense of entitlement. Remember, the best way to keep someone down is to bring everything to them so they don't have to get up.

I am just beginning with the problems faced by our teachers. I haven't even scratched the surface. Our politicians and many parents are ill informed and want their kid to be a mental giant and their kid has an IQ of 60. Now just wait until I address the injustice being done to our kids with IQs of 140+. It will amaze and astound you.

Also, business is competing for your children's minds. Trinkets, gadgets, hand held games, cell phones, ipods, Xbox, PS3, LCD flat screens and much more are all preoccupying children to a point of no return. We are just teachers. We compete with businesses who know that if a child demands something they will most likely get it. Thus, business target kids of all ages and have them believe that all of these things are more important than education. It is a huge market and I will argue that this section of our society is contributing to the delinquency of minors. Parents are overwhelmed with the distractions provided to their children but also appreciate that their children won't bother them while occupied with these items.

Teachers have a child at most 4.5 hours one week and 3 hours the next. This is at most. That is 7.5 hours every two weeks. How long are they with their caregivers? We spend lots of time teaching respect, manners, hygiene and doing behavior training. Students are not getting this at home. Remember I haven't even begun to talk about the students who come to us well trained and competent and how politicians and school districts interfere with their learning.
It is as if they are purposely trying to destroy the education system for the most important student, the one who wants to learn.

The disrespectful hate for teachers is born from jealousy of the imaginary idea that many have been given that this is a slacker job that doesn't take anything to do. How come the average lasting time for a new teacher is only 4 years? Why do we see teacher after teacher start the profession and in a few weeks leave destroyed by the students? These people receive little help to succeed.
This is a career that takes some of the most educated, psychologically stable, mature, patient, ingenious and courageous people in this country. It is required that we outsmart each and every child and beat them at any psych game that they come up with. In other countries they know this and teachers are held in the highest regard. They are #1. This hate for teachers in the United States is only a symptom of the ignorance that has erupted in our country. The ignorance comes partly from the large amount of interference with the educational process by politics. Over time the poorly educated have become parents, politicians, doctors, lawyers, lawmakers and business owners and we are in a second or third generation belittled education.

We suffer now as a nation from a preponderance of ignorance. We have the idea that a diploma is worth something when it is just a piece of paper. Everyone that needs a quality person has their own test to give for employment. They don't believe the high school diploma. The military has the ASVAB, colleges have the SAT and ACT. Employers have employment exams of all sorts. Promotions have exams. We tend to know that you have to check a person's knowledge independently of formal school education. In spite of this school teachers teach kids to read, write and do mathematics at some level but each kid is different and brings differing problems to the classroom table.

Standardized testing assumes that each kid is like a manufactured product that has to have small level of quality control tolerances. It ignores the information that every head is its own world. It frowns upon the notion that human diversity is monumental. Politicians have education believing that college is for everyone. What a ridiculous notion and think of the damage that this thinking does to our children. IQs that range from 60 to 150 added to the psychological differences alone deliver individual material to work with. You can't make beef out of chicken. But demagogues would have us believe that all can become this manufactured person that falls within some small tolerance. It is a putrid view of humanity. It is an ignorant view of the human race.

Teacher could be characterized as "Doctors Of Human Minds". Our society wants to throw them a few bones and then wonders why we are having problems competing in the world economy. Our leaders are seeing these issues with blinders on because they can. The majority of haters of teachers don't have an inkling of the demands put on a teacher every single hour, every single day.