Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Atrios Nails It: Teachers Are Sick Of Being Dumped On [View all]Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)13. Because there's money in that, or because someone thought kids were learning the 'wrong' things
That or "I'm not in school anymore, so why should my tax dollars go to schools? Let's slash the budgets!"
Those are pretty much the main reasons governments tend to take a hatchet to education before they'll touch anything else.
Anyone who thinks that teachers have had a lot of autonomy in education anytime in the last several decades is completely delusional, anyway.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
53 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Because there's money in that, or because someone thought kids were learning the 'wrong' things
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#13
People (and corporations) saw the giant revenue stream and wanted to get in on it.
SharonAnn
Dec 2012
#22
Bullshit we were "leaving it up to teachers" for a long time. That's never
liberalhistorian
Dec 2012
#4
Some of the problem is that everything isn't as cut and dry as you'd like to make it
silhouete2
Dec 2012
#43
I might accept your explanation if I didn't see how well Asian immigrants do in Hawaii.
dkf
Dec 2012
#47
administration is the bane of teaching. I can't go to my favorite restaurant
roguevalley
Dec 2012
#41
What changed it was Republicans pushing to privatize Education and a lot of people jumped
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#52