PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE TEACHERS

I have no idea why someone would voted your comment down. Public schools failed many children and interestingly most are very intelligent boys. In my personal experience dealing with all women teachers and all women faculty I find they have no training teaching boys. My son has above average IQ and learns quickly and fails to do boring homework and repetitive school work assignments. He has never has behavioral issues at school but acts uninterested and withdrawn. How do we address the needs of smart kids who are not motivated and have hard time relating school curriculum to real life?

I agree with many points but disagree with the excuses for bad or burned out teachers. I do not hear anything about who will protect and help children who are the direct result of bad teaching?

The number of children who are not interested in schooling is growing and teachers are focusing only on self-motivated and focused children who will sit still in the classroom, learn everything, and ask for extra help when they need it. The rest are ignored and punished by burned out, inexperienced and non-motivated teachers.

That may be an unfair assessment of teachers and schools. While I agree that many kids are falling through the cracks opened by budget cuts and a general lack of positive input, I still believe most teachers have their hearts in the game. Sure there are bad schools and crappy teachers but what is the real percentage across this country?

Voted up. You are already educating my daughter with your video shorts. She thinks your cool.

Thank you and her.

As an adjunct college teacher who is increasingly being pushed into online teaching, I guarantee that this is not an improvement. Quite the contrary. Online teaching is a cost-cutting measure, and I guarantee you that my online students learn less and are less interested than my on-ground ones. As for the public schools, you're right. They are indeed shoddy, a national disgrace. Sorry to the public school teachers. I know it's not all your fault, and some of you make an enormous effort. But some of you are just going through the motions till you get your pensions. And education departments are a joke. Again, sorry to say, but most people go into education because it's the easiest major.

Homeschooling isn't just for fundamentalist Christians, and if you're considering online charter schools, you must be considering keeping your child at home. Some people are developing consortiums where parents with certain levels of expertise teach the subjects they know.

Thanks for the response and spelling shoddy right. Due to education cuts, the elementary and middle schools were combined in my school district. The teachers are not bad, just over stretched. If I did not have to work I would home-school, but I really don't feel qualified.

Learning should be a joy and online school could be the right fit for my daughter. I'm not comfortable with five year old children being schooled with thirteen year old children. Lack of money makes supervision questionable.