I was teased, bullied and literally beat up in school for being smart and trying to excel. I graduated in the top of my class in 1990 and I've seen the public school system deteriorate further ever since. Very sad. The schools have excelled at getting students to be disconnected from their families and being more self centered and overly sexualized, in my opinion.
Being smart isnt cool. It still isnt today. Today to be cool... you have to be diverse, bi-gender or non gender conformant. Oh and oppressed - you must be oppressed !!
I graduated high school in 1990 also. I think the problem is the culture. Modern American culture favors sports over academics. It has not always been this way. But, if the culture won't change, then the public schools won't change. My solution has been to seek out a private school with high standards.
I was a nerd in early/mid 80s. Bullying of smart people was so acceptable they made movies about it that were popular. Administrators and teachers were hands off, as if it was the survival of the fittest.
i have found when a teacher or administrator says "it's for the children" really mean "it's for me." like not assigning/checking homework, starting later, etc.
@@ikematthews6866 I think the two go hand in hand. The unions wouldn't be able to survive without collusion with the government, and the government wouldn't be able to control what goes on in the schools as easily without the unions. Both need to go to solve the problem. Private schools with union teachers are still going to bad (although slightly better than public ones) and non-unionized government schools are still going to be bad (although slightly better than unionized ones). Private schools without unions are where the real progress will be made.
I'm 64 years old. In all these years I remember only 4 teachers that cared enough to give extra help to us that didn't fully understand the subject the teacher was teaching. Thank you; Mrs Kray, Mrs Washer, Mrs Gilman, and my favorite Mr Sims who finally got me to pass algebra a second time around. These were true caring teachers that took the time for each and every one of their students. May they all rest in peace!
Unions have created a ' system ' that benefits themselves. Not the Children. Most civic, state and federal employees are unionized.....for the same reasons and with the same outcomes.
Anyone with a brain can tell after witnessing enough yearly teacher's strikes that public education in the United States is more about helping the teachers remain financially secure than actually educating pupils.
Is it wrong to ask for both? Of teachers are doing a shit job, their pay goes to zero, meanwhile teachers that are doing a good job should get bonuses.
@@Tank50us this. The biggest problem is the same with any large organization. People in charge making policy decisions based off arbitrary metrics with little to no science behind them. For instance, my school district growing up had an extremely strict dress code policy, because they based that decision on a study that found schools with uniforms and dress codes generally did better than their peers. This caused them to falsely conclude that dress code = high test scores, when in reality those other schools had plenty of other factors that contributed to their success. They actually relaxed the dress code a ton after I graduated because they weren't seeing the performance increase they wanted. Now, imagine that same decision making process for literally everything. Like stated in the video, one guy could handle a large class because of his stellar ability to teach, which led the administrators to falsely conclude that all teachers can handle large classes, when they should've just recognized and rewarded his performance.
@@Tank50us Why shouldn't we cull, say, the bottom 10% of teachers every year or two? Same with cops and firefighters, while we're at it. Then we get, if not the best, a higher average result.
@@UncleKennysPlace I like the idea, but at the same time there is other problems that are created by it: Those 10% of teachers that you are culling are drowning in debt from student loans. They need to work, or they go under, and end up on welfare. This is different from people who waste their money on a questionable degree. Teaching is an important and required profession and considered a reasonable choice. What do you do for those people who get culled? Cancel their student loans? Retrain them? Reorganize the entire teacher training/student loan apparatus? There is also the issue that many smaller and rural schools have trouble finding teachers at all. Are they expected to cull a portion of their staff every year? They might only have a handful of teachers teaching multiple grades and subjects to begin with. And what about new teachers? their lack of experience would certainly mean they make up the majority of the culling group. The culling idea is a start, but needs further consideration.
@@Devastish - then those 10% will have to improve themselves or find another career. In industry, those who are not competent after being given opportunity are let go. And those who get let go face that same issue. Why should the education system be treated differently from industry?
In public school mediocrity reigns. On the other hand private college prep schools teach subjects that challenge students. One of my grandson's told his first grade teacher if she couldn't challenge him then he'd asked to be transferred to second grade. Smart kid being held back by a mediocre system.
I might have been like that, but I was so shocked and overwhelmed. I went from a brilliant private 'hippie' school to public school. Their suggestion to my problems of overwhelm and distractability? 'Take lots and lots of pills' and 'sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up' and 'how DARE you do something I haven't taught you???????????????????' The last was screamed at the top of her lungs in front of the class. I thought she was going to scratch my face off. Things went downhill from there. Later, I was diagnosed as autistic but I was still too numb, shocked, overwhelmed and trying to duck life bslapping me to pay much attention for years.
It's simple, free market competition. The great teachers can handle more students and more students will want to learn from those great teachers, so let them make a lot of money to incentivize others to step up their game
Absolutely, and you won’t have a bunch of people drawn to teaching just for the money and job security. There’s no incentive to unionize, especially when grades are the measure of success. Upward mobility, with better teachers making more but also merit-based bonuses for all, is significant. Teachers should be a high income profession, reflecting a higher priority on education. There’s a number of jobs that I think should probably pay more.
I was a public high school teacher once. While there I tried having high expectations. I ran into the problem of having too many things to do to be able to be well enough prepared to maintain high expectations. I also had real problems with poor behavior and insufficient support to deal with it.
My first semester of middle school, I worked my butt off and got straight A's. It took a toll on my social life, and the collective reaction I got from teachers was a smile and a shrug. Something like "Good job! Anyways..." I spent the rest of my K-12 years figuring out how little work I had to do to get B's and above. It turned out to be way less than I thought since the teachers were mostly concerned with getting the worst students up to a passing grade. It wasn't until I was done with school altogether that I realized learning could actually be an interesting, even exciting experience.
Same experience I had, we had gotten a new exercise book in math class that was really fun, so I went home and did the entire thing. I proudly showed it to my teacher the next morning, and she just replied "you shouldn't have done that". In hindsight I think she was annoyed that she would now have to find something else for me to do in class, but man it had a profound effect on my participation in class after that, I just did enough to get by.
Reminds me of a college history course where I realized that I got a better grade regurgitating the lecture than actually reading the assigned books and giving my own original thoughts on them. I skipped all the remaining books and got a B.
@Charles Larkin I'm sorry to say it was pretty typical. The professors think they know everything, so agreeing with them is the most correct answer. I decided early on to get the best grades possible however I could and get out of there.
Privatize all schooling and allow parents the choice of sending their kids to any school they please and you will see rapid advancements in learning. Government control slows all innovation.
No you need to have options. Public and private both with education vouchers. Going 100% private is just krony capitalism and will incentivizes oligopolies (like today's media giant censorships) and is just as bad as a government monopoly such as public schooling. The only problem right now is that only public is free while private costs 5-20k
@@jason200912 Any government involvement will lead to forced agendas and In turn educating our children suffers. If it is private parents have the right to choose how and where their child is educated. This is the only way parents can have a voice. Right now if you can not afford a private education you are forced by the government to place you kids in a particular school. This leads to zero innovation in teaching.
Schools have become a memorization factory versus a critical thinking system. A friend of mine is always telling me how much more his kids learn than we did. I often tell him, all the knowledge in the world doesn't mean anything if you don't know how to use it. What a lot of people miss about the math part of Stand By Me is math was the tool. What he has really teaching was problem solving. You can find almost anything with a little bit of searching on Google. But you will learn a lot more on a subject if you actually have to use deductive thinking and reasoning to actually figure an answer versus just looking it up. Not to mention the level of respect you gain after you realize just how much thought or work went into something.
I taught in Ontario for 30 years and it has become a bureaucratic nightmare that has little to do with education and everything to do with indocrinating children.
As in, scrap the lot and start over. Return school taxes to those forced to pay them, and let parents choose and pay for such schooling as they prefer. That would stimulate competition and teachers like Mr Escalante would flourish.
I don't have kids yet but I will definitely be homeschooling. I'm hyper conscientious and often pull 80 hour weeks already. I can drop to 40 hours and work with my hypothetical kids on their educations. Plus, I'll be moving to a farm soon where I will be able to put them to work beside me and teach them real world applications and train a high work ethic while producing money for my family at the same time. I know everyone can't do this but once I settle in my new community I'll probably stay in contact with other parents and maybe develop some homeschooling groups too.
Unions are so entrenched in politics we will never see a major overhaul. Democrats should be at the front of changes like this but they are the ones holding us all back. And, these morons who benefit from great teachers like Escalante stupidly go on to vote democrat.
Love ya John❤ I took my kids out of public indoctrination 3yrs ago best thing ever. They are becoming their own person with learning reading writing math etc.
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It's the same way at the VA and all union/government jobs. It's much easier to bring a high-performer down than to personally rise to the higher standards.
Great video. Calculus is the key to getting through a STEM major in college. That first integral / differential calculus class weeds out the kids that never learned to think of math abstractly in high school.
I'm not surprised at all. The worst places I've worked have never appreciated excellence. One of two things happen: 1) Others get jealous and hate you like what happened to him or, 2) The company just heap more work on you for or efforts for the same pay.
I didn’t know Jaime Eacalante had to leave Garfield HS in LA just because his coworkers were jealous of him, unbelievable! Such a rarity of instructor, by the way, he was Bolivian where I am from.
sadly bad teachers are a thing that will always happen. The most imporant skill today is to be able to teach yourself. The internet does make it possible
There is however a limit to that: I'm certain you would rather have someone looking over your shoulder when you're trying to do even a simple oil change for your car the first time.
There are bad people in every profession. Remember public education is just that, it public! Everyone is given the chance at an education. That is not true in most of the world or in private/charter schools.
Clearly you haven't been to any school since you don't even use capital letters, or know how to spell *important. Instead of lecturing others on teaching themselves perhaps you need to take your own advice and do some learning yourself.
I remember Hieme Escalante, heard about all his students that got straight A's on all their assignments ! I had wished that there was a teacher like him at my high school 🏫!!
How do you propose that a teacher's performance be measured? Are teachers suddenly performing better when they have classes with a higher percentage of children that work hard to do their best and parents and/or others who are part of their lives supporting them to help them succeed? Are they performing worse when they have a lower percentage of these children?
@@scottv8410 or we could do it on the basis of improvement of scores among the students. Possibly a comprehensive measure that factors improvement and passing rates along with gpa's. It doesn't have to be the false dichotomy you suggest.
@@joelellis7035 in grammar school the classroom teachers have a different group of students each year. I dont see how you could measure a teacher's performance based on the students' performance since there are different students every year. Maybe you could try to try to evaluate whether students are meeting their potential but that would be difficult and probably very imprecise.
Thank you Mr. Stossel for shining a light on this type of stupidity over the decades!! I don’t agree with everything you put out, but this is yet ANOTHER one of your many winners. Thank you for your lifetime of service to the profession!!!
Wouldn't that be amazing, teachers pay and perks are based on how well they perform. Can you imagine the outcry of the socialist teachers unions that some teachers may get paid more than others. The unions would demand if one teacher gets a raise they should all share in that raise.
Excellent point. A merit based pay scale. The ones that complain, rather than finding ways to be a better teacher for better pay, just complain. Imagine a company that pays all the workers the same. The company would die off because because that would remove any incentives for ideas and innovations.
This is really interesting, looking forward to part two. Clearly there's something we could be doing better, if lazy spiteful teachers have the power to control their betters' careers. I imagine it's similar to how the people with bad ideas control which ideas get to be heard...
I spent more time avoiding hazing at my school than learning. In spite of this, got "A"s in most of my classes. When the ACTs were given, I got the highest score in my school. Who got to be valedictorian and salutatorian at graduation time? The teacher's kids. Our education system is corrupt.
Bureaucracy is corrupt---at all levels. That's why I advocate for less government for more personal freedom. The Neo marxist in office want More and More government and we are starting to see less free choice.
Separation of church and state! Let parents, churches and charities educate children, not the state! The reason why the State wants to monopolize education is because it wants to indoctrinate children into accepting it as lord and savior.
School choice is how we end this cycle. My wife and I just had to pull our daughter from the middle school in our town because they aren't meeting her needs to address her learning disability. Now we will have to pay out of pocket to send her to private school for at least the next two years with no compensation from the district. If the success of public schools was based on customer satisfaction, they would have gone out of business years ago.
if the teachers all started teaching really good and raising testing scores, there would be nothing the admin could do about it. they cant fire all the teachers. the teachers union in the USA is evil.
@@davidanalyst671 it's the criteria they make them teach and the amount of students. My dad taught for 28years and made all the computers for his classroom because the school wouldn't help provide them, he raised the money for school trips because the school administration didn't see it as important, and they gave my dad new students that were kicked out of the other school because they stole from the past teachers, this was 90 days before the end of that school year. They worked towards removing my dad's retirement because they didn't like him, the union was useless an my dad had to hire a lawyer to make sure he didn't lose his retirement. Want to fix the school system, get rid of the unions and fire 70% of the school administration.
@@davidanalyst671 an to go further on the teachers union, they told my dad who to vote for, they made him believe he wouldn't lose his job as long as they were around and then they were toothless at the end because he wanted to retire an wouldn't be paying them anymore. He didn't realize he needed a lawyer until I sat in and listened when I was 18 an they said this "well I have news, it's not bad news, but you will need to go through another ethics review for another year and submit to the administration a report on what you taught each day. You did it last year already, but the results couldn't be concluded as you doing your job properly". Told my dad they sounded like liars. When my dad hired a lawyer and went through the documents, the principal behind the entire harassment announced retirement a month later after my dad got his retirement confirmed with no more harassment. The teachers unions are 90% political and 10% useless.
true. it's the system, not the individual teachers. there are some bad teachers, then others become bad as they rack up the years when they realize they are just a cog in a machine that doesn't care. the other part often overlooked is bad parents sending broken kids to school. my wife says, if about 15 kids were to get kicked out 99% of the problems with all students would end, because it's the shitty kids that bring down the whole classroom. i think most teachers want to do so much more than they are allowed to because of administration. it all starts at the top
the most important thing an American can know (our rights and laws) are NOT taught in publicly funded schools, which tells me they don't want us to know.
I'm glad I graduated in 1980, before the US Dept of Education took over. I saw the difference between mine, my oldest son and my youngest(12 years apart). It was pathetic. I paid for private tutoring for the younger boy and it showed.
Same shit happened in my country, some professor started to do tutorial videos on youtube and the other professors were getting jealous because a lot of the students preffered watching his videos than sitting on some of the professors lectures. They tried to kick him out of the university (public btw)
Education is something that I think often and what the best solution is. I had the opportunity to go to school in Japan for a little while. Here in America I've gone to both public schools and private schools. So I've seen many different schools and situations. I'm very much anticipating the subsequent videos!
Imagine doing so well at your job, you get booted out because you made the other teachers feel bad about their performance. Perfect example of how these unions destroy our education system. Imagine tossing away the future of children because someone is successful at what they do.
True statement that applies not just to education. Tesla, Honda, and Toyota build the highest quality vehicles, all built in the U.S., all nonunion. I would also point out that monopolies also stifle innovation; no incentive to improve if nearly everyone is already your customer. If AT&T had not been broken up, we probably would still be decades away from having smart phones.
My darter started at a very small private/ homeschool combination school. We had to switch her to public school in second grade. She had learned to write in cursive in private school in the 1st grade. When she went to public school, her teacher made her stop writing in cursive because the other students couldn’t and it might hurt their feelings. Sums up our public school system pretty well. Squash achievers.
Highlighting a single teacher is beside the point, unless you mention that the results were based in large part on high standards, rather than personality. Government schools are terrible, and have been terrible since the "Great Society" "Reforms" because they expected low results. You get what you pay for. And we have paid for psychobabble and subversive techniques for decades. Don't be surprised by how bad schools are now. It was deliberate. Thank the lefty appeasers who celebrate mediocrity and call it equity, and ignorance and call it excellence.
@@walterwhittington576 Not all comply, of course, but those that do are just as complicit as the system. Typically they call themselves 'educators' rather than teachers. They are the front line of the subversion.
As a dropout teacher the primary reason for me leaving was the fact what I was being taught strange hyper academic bs and not practical ways to teach kids, I already had a broad understanding of most subjects and the creativity to implement it in the classroom so why was all my time spent doing academic writing for topics that I wouldn't use on the job?
If you want to fix poor teacher performance, we can start by putting a camera and microphones in every classroom so parents can look in and watch what is being taught, and how their children behave. Its not the total answer, but its a start... Parental involvement is critical!
Yeah, put a camera in schools in Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and South Carolina while the teacher is trying to teach Calculus I, you think those sheep screwers are going to understand what the hell going on?
"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children." Al Shanker, President, American Federation of Teachers
Bro in all my years of school I’d only had two good teachers and only a further handful of teachers who’ve taught me anything, we seriously need to improve teacher standards in this country
I taught junior high for 30 years. My first year of teaching was at a private Catholic elementary school. The principal told me that "we don't give out F grades". And when you see kids climb out of Rolls Royces and Bentleys, you get the reason why. I left and went to a public junior high and where F grades were common. I was never told NOT to give a kid an F if it was warranted, but I tried to mitigate those F's by calling the parents of those kids who were failing my class (social studies and English) every weekend and giving the kids printouts of their missing work (most kids who failed did not do the daily work - big surprise!). At the beginning of every year I would ask the kids "Who wants to fail my class?." No one raised their hand. I then told them that some of them are lying, because if you don't do the work, you will fail. In 30 years I had less than 30 F's for all my students (approx. 4500). I made them accountable for their work, pushed them to get it done, and let the parents know constantly. Communication between parent and teacher is the KEY to a student's education. Never had a bad phone call or parent conference.
So PBS pretty much demonstrates that The Teacher's Union, full of emotionally disturbed and angry, worthless teachers who consistently fail, can destroy good teachers who consistently succeed. Got it.
Are these ex-students saying that students will rise to meet the challenges placed on them ? But we just keep dumbing down the expectations placed on students. Hell it isn't even students, look at how hard it is for people to just show up on time to work....let alone actually GO TO WORK.
Imagine that - paying a teacher, who can shape and form a child for the rest of their lives, the same amount as someone who just throws and hits baseballs for entertainment... Now, there's a novel idea: pay the productive, useful people high salaries, and those who want to dick about playing sports - arguably one of the most useless pursuits next to lint-collecting - what teachers are currently paid. That'd change the world for the better overnight, guaranteed.
i mean those athletes earn that money... they can draw millions of people to watch them in some cases. but the public school system is definitely fucked up
As a parent I send two kids to public and one to private school. At the public school I am completely disempowered as a parent. There is nothing I can possibly do to make them work any better or worse, except move to a better school district (which we did). Overall, I'm pretty satisfied. I give them a B-.
Mediocrity is the top rung on all government ladders. Students aren't tought how to think, they're taught what to think. They learn lots of beliefs and short list of what can be known for sure.
I went to private school until college. It cost my parents everything to send all four of us from kindergarten through 12th grade. I am eternally grateful; and always will be.
I was a preschool teacher (now stay at home mom). I have worked at two preschools. Both private. Both with different teaching methods. One with creative lesson plans and the other Montessori. At both schools the children did well. Teachers were very happy expect the pay is horrid. I loved the freedom to use art and different activities to teach children. I didn't have a desk. I sat on the carpet, on the floor, next to the children at the tables. The children have different centers, they have choices and are engaged. I learned when children are fully engaged they learn. There are less behavior problems. I also have ADD. I understand what it is like to stuggle and forget everything after a long lesson. Most lessons are 5-10 minutes. They then do hand on activities for that lesson. At both schools we used the ECERS grading scale to see if the children are on track. I know districts are rich and pay better, but the policies and politics put in place do not help the students. This past year showed us that.
Nowadays in public schools, kids have to hide their success. Nobody wanted to be teachers pet in the 80s, and there was violence against "nerds," but it has continued to escalate.
Far too much education money goes to administration. I laughed when the video started with a little red school house because that is pretty much what we have only larger. Unions have their uses but also deter innovation and progress. During covid with all the closed schools I was hopeful that a new delivery system could emerge and replace the little red school house. I know there are many fine teachers but sadly there are too many that are not.
My local districts budget is 3 million. 2 million goes to administration and the rest is the actual school budget and the quality of education is terrible. We pulled our kids but they still get our money to squander for now.
@@jimlovesgina Perhaps I am quite a bit older, but I know unions have done a lot. I have been active with my union, but we always were also advocates for the population served. When unions are only about the union members, they have lost their way. IMO
i do believe teachers should be paid well, if they perform well. there should be an actual support system for the students and the teachers. not a teachers union that allows bad teachers to remain
The husband of one of my wife’s friends is a teacher, he hates the students, he hates teaching, he’s a mean person. It’s teachers like him that are screwing up the system.
My daughter learned all 800+ Poke'mon, their abilities, weaknesses, strengths in middle school. That amount of information is likely more than the Periotic Table of Elements yes she had no interest in how elements interacted to form compounds because it was "too much information". I have yet to hear a good reason not to "gameify" the education system. Have you seen what Speed Runners are capable of in video games? If they put their community to curing cancer or perfecting nuclear fusion we'd be on Mars already. You have the least talented professionals, Teachers, in charge of our nations future. There's a reason we don't pay them more.
Ludification is an interesting approach that may work really well. Hopefully, we'll eventually get it implemented by young innovators that phase the dinosaurs dragging the system down and leeching it. Hopefully, the anti-game crowd that demonizes "dopamine rushes" (bad science, by the way) will be small enough not to get in the way.
But the work place is nothing like video games, are we not then setting children up for failure if all they do is play video games for education but then have to engage in real work? How exactly are they going to be prepared? Not to mention video game addiction is a thing.
I knew all the Power Ranger details and all the Elfquest chieftains but my GODS my head hurt when people started teaching me math. All it was was one floundering loss after another. It was NEVER interesting and even asking it to be would get you a look of disgust because you were an ungrateful unmentionable.
Teachers have no objective incentive to care about childrents future, promise them % of the revenue that their pupils will bring in the future, then teachers will get more , if they will teach their students better; otherwise people will do the bare minimum, like in any other regular job.
The schooling model isn't about making kids inventive or ready for life or successful. It has always been meant to prepare kids for their future industrial slave job. For example why are there periods with bells? Why is there only one lunch break for 30minutes? Why are there no opportunities to ask questions, learn about life, challenge teachers, among so many other things. When you are finished with highschool you are in the perfect state to show up on time, read instructions, and fit into their perfect model.
To be fair in Korea (Asia) education is highly valued by the culture. Teachers are respected figures in their societies which is why they can attract the best people to do the job. In America it's just not that way. American students and parents don't respect their teachers that much, the media constantly dumps on them, and don't even get me started on dealing with school administrators. That's why despite teachers' salaries being really good in California and New York, including life long pensions after retirement, they are experiencing severe teacher shortages. California has been using underqualified substitute teachers to fill the gap for years now which is horrible for the students.
I was teased, bullied and literally beat up in school for being smart and trying to excel. I graduated in the top of my class in 1990 and I've seen the public school system deteriorate further ever since. Very sad. The schools have excelled at getting students to be disconnected from their families and being more self centered and overly sexualized, in my opinion.
Being smart isnt cool. It still isnt today. Today to be cool... you have to be diverse, bi-gender or non gender conformant. Oh and oppressed - you must be oppressed !!
I graduated high school in 1990 also. I think the problem is the culture. Modern American culture favors sports over academics. It has not always been this way. But, if the culture won't change, then the public schools won't change. My solution has been to seek out a private school with high standards.
I was a nerd in early/mid 80s. Bullying of smart people was so acceptable they made movies about it that were popular. Administrators and teachers were hands off, as if it was the survival of the fittest.
@@jabberwolf7348 yuuuup
@@JoeTheDIY so this has been the norm for far too long
When the teacher's union keeps spouting "it's for the children," just remember that it never is.
i have found when a teacher or administrator says "it's for the children" really mean "it's for me." like not assigning/checking homework, starting later, etc.
And thats a complete falsehood.
@@thomaswrzalinski7454 how many years have you been a public school teacher? just to learn your credential when you make an empty statement like that.
@@RangerCaptain11A Ah, another weak argument.
@@thomaswrzalinski7454 I didn't argue, dummy. but you avoided revealing you aren't qualified to discuss this, or any adult topic. go away.
The problem is teacher's unions. When you protect someone that does a mediocre/terrible job. They have no reason to ever do better.
Well yes and no, teachers unions are a problem but the main issue that these are schools run by the government and have be private.
@@ikematthews6866 I think the two go hand in hand. The unions wouldn't be able to survive without collusion with the government, and the government wouldn't be able to control what goes on in the schools as easily without the unions. Both need to go to solve the problem. Private schools with union teachers are still going to bad (although slightly better than public ones) and non-unionized government schools are still going to be bad (although slightly better than unionized ones). Private schools without unions are where the real progress will be made.
The problem with unions in general.
@@Dartht33bagger American Labor Unions are Karl Marx's last laugh.
@@Zundfolge Trump will disband the DOE and break the teachers unions at the same time in his next term....it must be done to save our nation!
I'm 64 years old. In all these years I remember only 4 teachers that cared enough to give extra help to us that didn't fully understand the subject the teacher was teaching. Thank you; Mrs Kray, Mrs Washer, Mrs Gilman, and my favorite Mr Sims who finally got me to pass algebra a second time around. These were true caring teachers that took the time for each and every one of their students. May they all rest in peace!
Unions have created a ' system ' that benefits themselves. Not the Children. Most civic, state and federal employees are unionized.....for the same reasons and with the same outcomes.
Anyone with a brain can tell after witnessing enough yearly teacher's strikes that public education in the United States is more about helping the teachers remain financially secure than actually educating pupils.
Is it wrong to ask for both? Of teachers are doing a shit job, their pay goes to zero, meanwhile teachers that are doing a good job should get bonuses.
@@Tank50us this. The biggest problem is the same with any large organization. People in charge making policy decisions based off arbitrary metrics with little to no science behind them. For instance, my school district growing up had an extremely strict dress code policy, because they based that decision on a study that found schools with uniforms and dress codes generally did better than their peers. This caused them to falsely conclude that dress code = high test scores, when in reality those other schools had plenty of other factors that contributed to their success. They actually relaxed the dress code a ton after I graduated because they weren't seeing the performance increase they wanted.
Now, imagine that same decision making process for literally everything. Like stated in the video, one guy could handle a large class because of his stellar ability to teach, which led the administrators to falsely conclude that all teachers can handle large classes, when they should've just recognized and rewarded his performance.
@@Tank50us Why shouldn't we cull, say, the bottom 10% of teachers every year or two? Same with cops and firefighters, while we're at it. Then we get, if not the best, a higher average result.
@@UncleKennysPlace I like the idea, but at the same time there is other problems that are created by it:
Those 10% of teachers that you are culling are drowning in debt from student loans. They need to work, or they go under, and end up on welfare. This is different from people who waste their money on a questionable degree. Teaching is an important and required profession and considered a reasonable choice.
What do you do for those people who get culled? Cancel their student loans? Retrain them? Reorganize the entire teacher training/student loan apparatus?
There is also the issue that many smaller and rural schools have trouble finding teachers at all. Are they expected to cull a portion of their staff every year? They might only have a handful of teachers teaching multiple grades and subjects to begin with.
And what about new teachers? their lack of experience would certainly mean they make up the majority of the culling group.
The culling idea is a start, but needs further consideration.
@@Devastish - then those 10% will have to improve themselves or find another career.
In industry, those who are not competent after being given opportunity are let go. And those who get let go face that same issue. Why should the education system be treated differently from industry?
In public school mediocrity reigns. On the other hand private college prep schools teach subjects that challenge students. One of my grandson's told his first grade teacher if she couldn't challenge him then he'd asked to be transferred to second grade. Smart kid being held back by a mediocre system.
I distinctly remember getting in trouble for asking for more homework in 3rd grade
Both my daughter and my son were encouraged to drop down from AP Honors math to relieve their stress. Go figure.
I might have been like that, but I was so shocked and overwhelmed. I went from a brilliant private 'hippie' school to public school. Their suggestion to my problems of overwhelm and distractability? 'Take lots and lots of pills' and 'sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up' and 'how DARE you do something I haven't taught you???????????????????' The last was screamed at the top of her lungs in front of the class. I thought she was going to scratch my face off. Things went downhill from there. Later, I was diagnosed as autistic but I was still too numb, shocked, overwhelmed and trying to duck life bslapping me to pay much attention for years.
That poor teacher! Cancel by jealousy. I hope those teachers feel some shame for ousting him. They could certainly learn something from him.
A big argument for ending the teacher's unions.
It's simple, free market competition. The great teachers can handle more students and more students will want to learn from those great teachers, so let them make a lot of money to incentivize others to step up their game
Absolutely, and you won’t have a bunch of people drawn to teaching just for the money and job security. There’s no incentive to unionize, especially when grades are the measure of success. Upward mobility, with better teachers making more but also merit-based bonuses for all, is significant. Teachers should be a high income profession, reflecting a higher priority on education.
There’s a number of jobs that I think should probably pay more.
So rich people get better parents
Ohp you said the bad words: "let them". The govt doesn't like that.
The free market is amazing.
The union environment disallows this. There is no incentive to do anything other than the bare minimum
I was a public high school teacher once. While there I tried having high expectations. I ran into the problem of having too many things to do to be able to be well enough prepared to maintain high expectations. I also had real problems with poor behavior and insufficient support to deal with it.
My first semester of middle school, I worked my butt off and got straight A's. It took a toll on my social life, and the collective reaction I got from teachers was a smile and a shrug. Something like "Good job! Anyways..."
I spent the rest of my K-12 years figuring out how little work I had to do to get B's and above. It turned out to be way less than I thought since the teachers were mostly concerned with getting the worst students up to a passing grade. It wasn't until I was done with school altogether that I realized learning could actually be an interesting, even exciting experience.
Same experience I had, we had gotten a new exercise book in math class that was really fun, so I went home and did the entire thing. I proudly showed it to my teacher the next morning, and she just replied "you shouldn't have done that". In hindsight I think she was annoyed that she would now have to find something else for me to do in class, but man it had a profound effect on my participation in class after that, I just did enough to get by.
You had a social life in middle school?
Reminds me of a college history course where I realized that I got a better grade regurgitating the lecture than actually reading the assigned books and giving my own original thoughts on them. I skipped all the remaining books and got a B.
@Charles Larkin I'm sorry to say it was pretty typical. The professors think they know everything, so agreeing with them is the most correct answer. I decided early on to get the best grades possible however I could and get out of there.
Privatize all schooling and allow parents the choice of sending their kids to any school they please and you will see rapid advancements in learning. Government control slows all innovation.
No you need to have options. Public and private both with education vouchers. Going 100% private is just krony capitalism and will incentivizes oligopolies (like today's media giant censorships) and is just as bad as a government monopoly such as public schooling. The only problem right now is that only public is free while private costs 5-20k
Take the majority of schools out of the hands of government and the free market will vastly improve our education system.
@@jason200912 Any government involvement will lead to forced agendas and In turn educating our children suffers. If it is private parents have the right to choose how and where their child is educated. This is the only way parents can have a voice. Right now if you can not afford a private education you are forced by the government to place you kids in a particular school. This leads to zero innovation in teaching.
@@cypresscustoms How does the government force parents to send their kids to a specific school?
@@theanimehub2180 Zones, counties, boroughs, the name varies but they limit you to enrol only where you are assigned.
Schools have become a memorization factory versus a critical thinking system. A friend of mine is always telling me how much more his kids learn than we did. I often tell him, all the knowledge in the world doesn't mean anything if you don't know how to use it. What a lot of people miss about the math part of Stand By Me is math was the tool. What he has really teaching was problem solving. You can find almost anything with a little bit of searching on Google. But you will learn a lot more on a subject if you actually have to use deductive thinking and reasoning to actually figure an answer versus just looking it up. Not to mention the level of respect you gain after you realize just how much thought or work went into something.
Imagine taking your jealousy of a colleague seriously and not caring about what will happen to your students.🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Thats the union mentality. “Dont work too hard because you make those of us who do the bare minimum look bad”
I taught in Ontario for 30 years and it has become a bureaucratic nightmare that has little to do with education and everything to do with indocrinating children.
This is a series that has been long awaited! Our education system NEEDS a complete overhaul!
Doubt it’s gonna happen. Lots at the top benefit from our current system
As in, scrap the lot and start over. Return school taxes to those forced to pay them, and let parents choose and pay for such schooling as they prefer. That would stimulate competition and teachers like Mr Escalante would flourish.
I don't have kids yet but I will definitely be homeschooling. I'm hyper conscientious and often pull 80 hour weeks already. I can drop to 40 hours and work with my hypothetical kids on their educations.
Plus, I'll be moving to a farm soon where I will be able to put them to work beside me and teach them real world applications and train a high work ethic while producing money for my family at the same time.
I know everyone can't do this but once I settle in my new community I'll probably stay in contact with other parents and maybe develop some homeschooling groups too.
I'd argue the Public Education System (better labeled as Indoctrination Camps) needs to be completely ABOLISHED in its entirety.
Unions are so entrenched in politics we will never see a major overhaul. Democrats should be at the front of changes like this but they are the ones holding us all back. And, these morons who benefit from great teachers like Escalante stupidly go on to vote democrat.
When the PBS school video started I thought it was an unskippable ad. I was like what the heck is going on?
Love ya John❤ I took my kids out of public indoctrination 3yrs ago best thing ever. They are becoming their own person with learning reading writing math etc.
Government run (insert anything here) crush innovation.
I went through the NYC public school system, and every single stereotype you can think of is totally true. Lol
Well not ALL of the stereotypes since you do seem to be able to write. :)
@@robjohnson8522 amen brother
lol some loser who bought an account with the verified checkmark copied your comment and has the same amount of likes as you now
EDIT: now he has more than you 😔
You also had access to some of the best public high schools in the world. Sounds like you didn't attend Bronx Science or Stuyvesant.
@@p4trickb4tem4n do yourself a favor, lay off twitter, it's a fantasy world- nothing good comes from it
It's the same way at the VA and all union/government jobs. It's much easier to bring a high-performer down than to personally rise to the higher standards.
Imagine if we took our education more seriously than sports and celebrities.
Great video. Calculus is the key to getting through a STEM major in college. That first integral / differential calculus class weeds out the kids that never learned to think of math abstractly in high school.
I'm not surprised at all. The worst places I've worked have never appreciated excellence. One of two things happen: 1) Others get jealous and hate you like what happened to him or, 2) The company just heap more work on you for or efforts for the same pay.
Thanks John, great job as usual
“School system is not an employment program for adults, it’s an education system for children.” - Scott Ott 2021
I didn’t know Jaime Eacalante had to leave Garfield HS in LA just because his coworkers were jealous of him, unbelievable! Such a rarity of instructor, by the way, he was Bolivian where I am from.
Yeah the school administrators were mad at him for doing such a good job. Inspirational teacher
sadly bad teachers are a thing that will always happen. The most imporant skill today is to be able to teach yourself. The internet does make it possible
There is however a limit to that: I'm certain you would rather have someone looking over your shoulder when you're trying to do even a simple oil change for your car the first time.
There are bad people in every profession. Remember public education is just that, it public! Everyone is given the chance at an education. That is not true in most of the world or in private/charter schools.
Clearly you haven't been to any school since you don't even use capital letters, or know how to spell *important. Instead of lecturing others on teaching themselves perhaps you need to take your own advice and do some learning yourself.
@@theanimehub2180 wanna have this discussion with me in german or in russian? if i try hard enough i might even fit a little french into it.
I remember Hieme Escalante, heard about all his students that got straight A's on all their assignments ! I had wished that there was a teacher like him at my high school 🏫!!
I don't think you've ever made me so upset. Love you stossel I need the rest of the story!
Imagine! Paying teachers based on performance!
Brilliant! Lol ... we'll have to can the current system to get there
How do you propose that a teacher's performance be measured? Are teachers suddenly performing better when they have classes with a higher percentage of children that work hard to do their best and parents and/or others who are part of their lives supporting them to help them succeed? Are they performing worse when they have a lower percentage of these children?
@@scottv8410 or we could do it on the basis of improvement of scores among the students. Possibly a comprehensive measure that factors improvement and passing rates along with gpa's. It doesn't have to be the false dichotomy you suggest.
@@joelellis7035 in grammar school the classroom teachers have a different group of students each year. I dont see how you could measure a teacher's performance based on the students' performance since there are different students every year. Maybe you could try to try to evaluate whether students are meeting their potential but that would be difficult and probably very imprecise.
Thank you Mr. Stossel for shining a light on this type of stupidity over the decades!! I don’t agree with everything you put out, but this is yet ANOTHER one of your many winners. Thank you for your lifetime of service to the profession!!!
Wouldn't that be amazing, teachers pay and perks are based on how well they perform. Can you imagine the outcry of the socialist teachers unions that some teachers may get paid more than others. The unions would demand if one teacher gets a raise they should all share in that raise.
Excellent point. A merit based pay scale. The ones that complain, rather than finding ways to be a better teacher for better pay, just complain. Imagine a company that pays all the workers the same. The company would die off because because that would remove any incentives for ideas and innovations.
Wow! Jaime Escalante! I’m proud that he is Bolivian just like me! 🇧🇴
This is really interesting, looking forward to part two. Clearly there's something we could be doing better, if lazy spiteful teachers have the power to control their betters' careers. I imagine it's similar to how the people with bad ideas control which ideas get to be heard...
Mr. Dodgion. A retired marine made algebra 1&2 easy for me. Sadly he had an oversized heart and died during a marathon. Best teacher ever for me!
I spent more time avoiding hazing at my school than learning. In spite of this, got "A"s in most of my classes. When the ACTs were given, I got the highest score in my school. Who got to be valedictorian and salutatorian at graduation time? The teacher's kids. Our education system is corrupt.
Bureaucracy is corrupt---at all levels. That's why I advocate for less government for more personal freedom. The Neo marxist in office want More and More government and we are starting to see less free choice.
I went to public school . Last math book was lying with statistics.
Evil hates being exposed
Souls,, soulless
Souless
Separation of church and state! Let parents, churches and charities educate children, not the state! The reason why the State wants to monopolize education is because it wants to indoctrinate children into accepting it as lord and savior.
What we really need is school choice and vouchers which will spur competition and raise salaries for teachers
School choice is how we end this cycle. My wife and I just had to pull our daughter from the middle school in our town because they aren't meeting her needs to address her learning disability. Now we will have to pay out of pocket to send her to private school for at least the next two years with no compensation from the district. If the success of public schools was based on customer satisfaction, they would have gone out of business years ago.
I blame common core and teachers that just give out worksheets and don't teach. Great education is only for the rich, but knowledge is for everyone.
The teachers unions were resentful, don't blame teachers as a whole. The school administrations and teachers union is why we never improve
if the teachers all started teaching really good and raising testing scores, there would be nothing the admin could do about it. they cant fire all the teachers. the teachers union in the USA is evil.
Privatization
@@davidanalyst671 it's the criteria they make them teach and the amount of students. My dad taught for 28years and made all the computers for his classroom because the school wouldn't help provide them, he raised the money for school trips because the school administration didn't see it as important, and they gave my dad new students that were kicked out of the other school because they stole from the past teachers, this was 90 days before the end of that school year. They worked towards removing my dad's retirement because they didn't like him, the union was useless an my dad had to hire a lawyer to make sure he didn't lose his retirement. Want to fix the school system, get rid of the unions and fire 70% of the school administration.
@@davidanalyst671 an to go further on the teachers union, they told my dad who to vote for, they made him believe he wouldn't lose his job as long as they were around and then they were toothless at the end because he wanted to retire an wouldn't be paying them anymore. He didn't realize he needed a lawyer until I sat in and listened when I was 18 an they said this "well I have news, it's not bad news, but you will need to go through another ethics review for another year and submit to the administration a report on what you taught each day. You did it last year already, but the results couldn't be concluded as you doing your job properly". Told my dad they sounded like liars. When my dad hired a lawyer and went through the documents, the principal behind the entire harassment announced retirement a month later after my dad got his retirement confirmed with no more harassment. The teachers unions are 90% political and 10% useless.
true. it's the system, not the individual teachers. there are some bad teachers, then others become bad as they rack up the years when they realize they are just a cog in a machine that doesn't care. the other part often overlooked is bad parents sending broken kids to school. my wife says, if about 15 kids were to get kicked out 99% of the problems with all students would end, because it's the shitty kids that bring down the whole classroom. i think most teachers want to do so much more than they are allowed to because of administration. it all starts at the top
the most important thing an American can know (our rights and laws) are NOT taught in publicly funded schools, which tells me they don't want us to know.
I am, honestly, excited to find out what happened next. Great series
I'm glad I graduated in 1980, before the US Dept of Education took over. I saw the difference between mine, my oldest son and my youngest(12 years apart). It was pathetic. I paid for private tutoring for the younger boy and it showed.
Same shit happened in my country, some professor started to do tutorial videos on youtube and the other professors were getting jealous because a lot of the students preffered watching his videos than sitting on some of the professors lectures. They tried to kick him out of the university (public btw)
man that hurt to hear what happen to Escalante. he sounds amazing. sad to know u can be punished for doing to well
Education is something that I think often and what the best solution is. I had the opportunity to go to school in Japan for a little while. Here in America I've gone to both public schools and private schools. So I've seen many different schools and situations. I'm very much anticipating the subsequent videos!
What were the main differences and which was best?
Imagine doing so well at your job, you get booted out because you made the other teachers feel bad about their performance. Perfect example of how these unions destroy our education system. Imagine tossing away the future of children because someone is successful at what they do.
Damn man, Korea out here putting in work.
"Public schools are literal prisons for children and the only place many people will experience violence in their lives." Michael Malice
I learned this about 40 years ago when I was in a union....Unions promote mediocrity....nothing more, nothing less.
True statement that applies not just to education. Tesla, Honda, and Toyota build the highest quality vehicles, all built in the U.S., all nonunion. I would also point out that monopolies also stifle innovation; no incentive to improve if nearly everyone is already your customer. If AT&T had not been broken up, we probably would still be decades away from having smart phones.
What a great man and teacher. If all public schools were filled with teachers like him this country would be full of well educated and great people..
I can't stand people almost anymore. This person is way better then us, let's get him fired.
My darter started at a very small private/ homeschool combination school. We had to switch her to public school in second grade. She had learned to write in cursive in private school in the 1st grade. When she went to public school, her teacher made her stop writing in cursive because the other students couldn’t and it might hurt their feelings. Sums up our public school system pretty well. Squash achievers.
Highlighting a single teacher is beside the point, unless you mention that the results were based in large part on high standards, rather than personality. Government schools are terrible, and have been terrible since the "Great Society" "Reforms" because they expected low results. You get what you pay for. And we have paid for psychobabble and subversive techniques for decades. Don't be surprised by how bad schools are now. It was deliberate. Thank the lefty appeasers who celebrate mediocrity and call it equity, and ignorance and call it excellence.
They teach to the lowest common denominator. Equity indeed...
That is the system, not the Teacher.
@@walterwhittington576 Not all comply, of course, but those that do are just as complicit as the system. Typically they call themselves 'educators' rather than teachers. They are the front line of the subversion.
As a dropout teacher the primary reason for me leaving was the fact what I was being taught strange hyper academic bs and not practical ways to teach kids, I already had a broad understanding of most subjects and the creativity to implement it in the classroom so why was all my time spent doing academic writing for topics that I wouldn't use on the job?
If you want to fix poor teacher performance, we can start by putting a camera and microphones in every classroom so parents can look in and watch what is being taught, and how their children behave. Its not the total answer, but its a start... Parental involvement is critical!
Yeah, put a camera in schools in Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and South Carolina while the teacher is trying to teach Calculus I, you think those sheep screwers are going to understand what the hell going on?
Thanks John. I'm new to politics and I'm glad I found your channel. I agree with what you're saying .
"When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children."
Al Shanker, President, American Federation of Teachers
Bro in all my years of school I’d only had two good teachers and only a further handful of teachers who’ve taught me anything, we seriously need to improve teacher standards in this country
Teachers unions, John. We have to make a case against them.
Maybe against those in the public sector, not private.
@@MrAlepedroza what makes you think that private sector unions are any better? It's the same cancer on both sides.
Homeschool. You are not the father
Informed choice
I taught junior high for 30 years. My first year of teaching was at a private Catholic elementary school. The principal told me that "we don't give out F grades". And when you see kids climb out of Rolls Royces and Bentleys, you get the reason why. I left and went to a public junior high and where F grades were common. I was never told NOT to give a kid an F if it was warranted, but I tried to mitigate those F's by calling the parents of those kids who were failing my class (social studies and English) every weekend and giving the kids printouts of their missing work (most kids who failed did not do the daily work - big surprise!). At the beginning of every year I would ask the kids "Who wants to fail my class?." No one raised their hand. I then told them that some of them are lying, because if you don't do the work, you will fail. In 30 years I had less than 30 F's for all my students (approx. 4500). I made them accountable for their work, pushed them to get it done, and let the parents know constantly. Communication between parent and teacher is the KEY to a student's education. Never had a bad phone call or parent conference.
So PBS pretty much demonstrates that The Teacher's Union, full of emotionally disturbed and angry, worthless teachers who consistently fail, can destroy good teachers who consistently succeed. Got it.
John Stossel you are timeless. I love watching you on RUclips. I hope you live forever so we can keep getting honest news 📰
Yes. Michelle Obama innovated the lunchroom menu... Out with the pizza and in with the kale!
You're leaving out one MAJOR factor...
The ambition of the students
Are these ex-students saying that students will rise to meet the challenges placed on them ? But we just keep dumbing down the expectations placed on students. Hell it isn't even students, look at how hard it is for people to just show up on time to work....let alone actually GO TO WORK.
When he said, "That just isn't what happened", I was waiting to hear the word "union".
Imagine that - paying a teacher, who can shape and form a child for the rest of their lives, the same amount as someone who just throws and hits baseballs for entertainment... Now, there's a novel idea: pay the productive, useful people high salaries, and those who want to dick about playing sports - arguably one of the most useless pursuits next to lint-collecting - what teachers are currently paid. That'd change the world for the better overnight, guaranteed.
How would private schools prevent indoctrination?
i mean those athletes earn that money... they can draw millions of people to watch them in some cases. but the public school system is definitely fucked up
@@runswithraptors i can agree that taxpayer funds shouldn't be used for stadiums and what not
The best reporter, no wonder he is not from the mainstream media
Good afternoon John
As a parent I send two kids to public and one to private school. At the public school I am completely disempowered as a parent. There is nothing I can possibly do to make them work any better or worse, except move to a better school district (which we did). Overall, I'm pretty satisfied. I give them a B-.
Mediocrity is the top rung on all government ladders. Students aren't tought how to think, they're taught what to think. They learn lots of beliefs and short list of what can be known for sure.
I went to private school until college. It cost my parents everything to send all four of us from kindergarten through 12th grade. I am eternally grateful; and always will be.
I was a preschool teacher (now stay at home mom). I have worked at two preschools. Both private. Both with different teaching methods. One with creative lesson plans and the other Montessori. At both schools the children did well. Teachers were very happy expect the pay is horrid. I loved the freedom to use art and different activities to teach children. I didn't have a desk. I sat on the carpet, on the floor, next to the children at the tables. The children have different centers, they have choices and are engaged. I learned when children are fully engaged they learn. There are less behavior problems. I also have ADD. I understand what it is like to stuggle and forget everything after a long lesson. Most lessons are 5-10 minutes. They then do hand on activities for that lesson. At both schools we used the ECERS grading scale to see if the children are on track. I know districts are rich and pay better, but the policies and politics put in place do not help the students. This past year showed us that.
Nowadays in public schools, kids have to hide their success. Nobody wanted to be teachers pet in the 80s, and there was violence against "nerds," but it has continued to escalate.
Far too much education money goes to administration. I laughed when the video started with a little red school house because that is pretty much what we have only larger. Unions have their uses but also deter innovation and progress. During covid with all the closed schools I was hopeful that a new delivery system could emerge and replace the little red school house. I know there are many fine teachers but sadly there are too many that are not.
My local districts budget is 3 million. 2 million goes to administration and the rest is the actual school budget and the quality of education is terrible. We pulled our kids but they still get our money to squander for now.
I can't think of a single use for unions. Unions have done nothing.
@@jimlovesgina Perhaps I am quite a bit older, but I know unions have done a lot. I have been active with my union, but we always were also advocates for the population served. When unions are only about the union members, they have lost their way. IMO
Age isn't slowing our man Stossel down! Love the growth of your channel
i do believe teachers should be paid well, if they perform well. there should be an actual support system for the students and the teachers. not a teachers union that allows bad teachers to remain
Why can’t we have our own Jaime Escalante today teach students all across the nation through the internet?
just proves that Teachers Unions are NOT interested in educational success at all.
Stand and Deliver is a great movie.
The husband of one of my wife’s friends is a teacher, he hates the students, he hates teaching, he’s a mean person. It’s teachers like him that are screwing up the system.
Reading suggestion: "Education: Free & Compulsory", by Murray Rothbard.
A lot of people thought Trump sucked as a president. Different people think Obama sucked and Biden is currently sucking. Government just sucks.
Abolish government schools. Return taxes to the people. Utilize homeschooling, private schools, and non profit schools.
LMFAO blaming unions in America but low-key praising them in other countries for giving teachers higher pay 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Amazing content. Just another video to show you the government should keep their fingers out of education
My daughter learned all 800+ Poke'mon, their abilities, weaknesses, strengths in middle school. That amount of information is likely more than the Periotic Table of Elements yes she had no interest in how elements interacted to form compounds because it was "too much information". I have yet to hear a good reason not to "gameify" the education system. Have you seen what Speed Runners are capable of in video games? If they put their community to curing cancer or perfecting nuclear fusion we'd be on Mars already. You have the least talented professionals, Teachers, in charge of our nations future. There's a reason we don't pay them more.
Ludification is an interesting approach that may work really well. Hopefully, we'll eventually get it implemented by young innovators that phase the dinosaurs dragging the system down and leeching it.
Hopefully, the anti-game crowd that demonizes "dopamine rushes" (bad science, by the way) will be small enough not to get in the way.
But the work place is nothing like video games, are we not then setting children up for failure if all they do is play video games for education but then have to engage in real work? How exactly are they going to be prepared? Not to mention video game addiction is a thing.
I knew all the Power Ranger details and all the Elfquest chieftains but my GODS my head hurt when people started teaching me math. All it was was one floundering loss after another. It was NEVER interesting and even asking it to be would get you a look of disgust because you were an ungrateful unmentionable.
Dear John,
You make me feel like there's hope for the humans.
Thank you.
Teachers have no objective incentive to care about childrents future, promise them % of the revenue that their pupils will bring in the future, then teachers will get more , if they will teach their students better; otherwise people will do the bare minimum, like in any other regular job.
Google says John Stossel is 74! Jesus, this is one of the best looking 74s I've ever seen. John must have great DNA.
Is the left calling John a right wing nut bag yet?
The schooling model isn't about making kids inventive or ready for life or successful. It has always been meant to prepare kids for their future industrial slave job. For example why are there periods with bells? Why is there only one lunch break for 30minutes? Why are there no opportunities to ask questions, learn about life, challenge teachers, among so many other things. When you are finished with highschool you are in the perfect state to show up on time, read instructions, and fit into their perfect model.
To be fair in Korea (Asia) education is highly valued by the culture. Teachers are respected figures in their societies which is why they can attract the best people to do the job. In America it's just not that way. American students and parents don't respect their teachers that much, the media constantly dumps on them, and don't even get me started on dealing with school administrators. That's why despite teachers' salaries being really good in California and New York, including life long pensions after retirement, they are experiencing severe teacher shortages. California has been using underqualified substitute teachers to fill the gap for years now which is horrible for the students.
You can predict the objections. Innovation in teaching will create inequities, and some teachers will earn more than others "WAAAAAA! 😫😭"
Thank you John so much ! Videos like this have changed my mind and changed my life
San Francisco's Lowell High just abandoned merit for lottery based admissions.
You couldn't have made this video at a perfect time John.
Thank you for these videos. I find myself wondering where the next Stossel video is! Merry Christmas!