Something fishy is definitely going on when the state can afford to shell out around $400,000 annually for each classroom but the quality of students in terms of learning is at an all-time low. What manner of outrageous mockery is this? Could it be the fault of some type of educational cartel? The following details may serve to validate it indeed.
Statistical data shows a very disturbing scenario. Most of the high school kids who manage to enter college require remedial courses simply to cope with the educational gaps. If that is not worrisome enough, the situation is even aggravated by news of how the current system is even responsible for this lapse.
There is a saying that a nation's hope lies in the youth. That will be all for naught if the people in charge care little for ensuring that the youth in this generation are schooled properly. There will simply be no hope left.
A case in point is The New Jersey Education Association. Its role is that of providing the students of New Jersey with a good standard of proper education. It is also a teachers' union that wields massive influence and political clout. Contrary to what it should be doing, the union has a nasty reputation for padding the bank accounts of its members instead. What is even more appalling is that there have been allegations of using state funds for this purpose. Does it begin to sound like a profit-hungry cartel than a body of mentors?
There has been news of how one of its members has been grossly paid beyond acceptable means. A job as a school district secretary is by all means a reasonable position but there's something wrong if the pay received amounts to approximately $180,000 yearly. The amount is enough to raise eyebrows but the reason is even more shocking because it was done due to the influence of the educational cartel.
When the children's minds and opportunity for learning are sacrificed for the benefit of the ones wielding power, it truly bodes ill for the educational system indeed. This is coupled with the fact that even incompetent teachers cannot be removed or replaced simply because they are close to the said group. Parenthetically, untainted and/or qualified educators who have had the courage to go against the status quo found themselves being harassed or even dismissed from the job.
This does not bode well for the public school system at all. The union acts like a money-hungry cartel intent only with siphoning state funds to the detriment of quality education. It is a wonder that this type of corruption has not been exposed and the perpetrators sanctioned already.
As it is, the only hope seems to lie with the charter schools and school vouchers. These schools have a knack for performing much better than the district schools yet state bureaucrats have not been very supportive of these schools. They would rather maintain the existing situation because it would be to their own interest if the system remains the same. Until the public is made fully aware of this unbalanced cartel trend, there will continue to be more problems that the students will have to suffer.
Statistical data shows a very disturbing scenario. Most of the high school kids who manage to enter college require remedial courses simply to cope with the educational gaps. If that is not worrisome enough, the situation is even aggravated by news of how the current system is even responsible for this lapse.
There is a saying that a nation's hope lies in the youth. That will be all for naught if the people in charge care little for ensuring that the youth in this generation are schooled properly. There will simply be no hope left.
A case in point is The New Jersey Education Association. Its role is that of providing the students of New Jersey with a good standard of proper education. It is also a teachers' union that wields massive influence and political clout. Contrary to what it should be doing, the union has a nasty reputation for padding the bank accounts of its members instead. What is even more appalling is that there have been allegations of using state funds for this purpose. Does it begin to sound like a profit-hungry cartel than a body of mentors?
There has been news of how one of its members has been grossly paid beyond acceptable means. A job as a school district secretary is by all means a reasonable position but there's something wrong if the pay received amounts to approximately $180,000 yearly. The amount is enough to raise eyebrows but the reason is even more shocking because it was done due to the influence of the educational cartel.
When the children's minds and opportunity for learning are sacrificed for the benefit of the ones wielding power, it truly bodes ill for the educational system indeed. This is coupled with the fact that even incompetent teachers cannot be removed or replaced simply because they are close to the said group. Parenthetically, untainted and/or qualified educators who have had the courage to go against the status quo found themselves being harassed or even dismissed from the job.
This does not bode well for the public school system at all. The union acts like a money-hungry cartel intent only with siphoning state funds to the detriment of quality education. It is a wonder that this type of corruption has not been exposed and the perpetrators sanctioned already.
As it is, the only hope seems to lie with the charter schools and school vouchers. These schools have a knack for performing much better than the district schools yet state bureaucrats have not been very supportive of these schools. They would rather maintain the existing situation because it would be to their own interest if the system remains the same. Until the public is made fully aware of this unbalanced cartel trend, there will continue to be more problems that the students will have to suffer.
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Green Talk: The Cartel Movie, Education and Politics Equal Money. A film by Bob Bowdon.
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