Open Letter To The Public Education Budget Cutters
Dear Politician or Policy-Maker:
OK, I get it. You read stories about incompetent teachers being paid to do nothing and teachers unions preventing any improvement. You are embarrassed because students in Slovenia scored higher than U.S. students on an international multiple choice math exam. Even though you have probably never been a teacher and it has been years since you have spent any meaningful time in a classroom, you believe that teaching really can’t be that challenging. And, since everyone is saying that our public education system is “broken,” it must be.
On the other hand, however, because most of you don’t send your own children to a failing school, any personal experiences you have had with public education have been largely positive. Sure, there were times when you thought your child’s project deserved an A instead of the B. There was also the season when the coach who you thought clearly didn’t know what he was doing started someone’s else’s son at shortstop. But, all in all, the teachers were more than competent and your child knew much more at the end of the school year than at the
