Lower Education

I'm sitting today wondering about our educational system and all the problems we seem to be having as a whole. what is it that's killing our education? I believe that one of the biggest problems is the lack of education for our teachers. do you know that anyone can be a teacher now without having an actual degree in education? If you hold a degree in ANYTHING then you can challenge the teacher certification exam and if you pass....YOU CAN TEACH. I think that all the shortcuts we see our kids trying to get by with are only a product of our society. Many, many teachers are doing the same thing. I spend a lot of hours educating myself to become a productive teacher so the students are getting a quality education as I did. Why is it that our society has fallen behind so much to other countries........WORK! we don't want to do it, but be want the benefits of it all.

What about our parents, i mean OUR parents! many of us have uneducated parents that were smart enough to make sure we had an education. Smart enough to bust our asses when we weren't at school for the education that was provided. Smart enough to trust the teachers, and administrators in the education of us. Now a days we have parents that are quick to gather a lynch mob to get rid of a teacher if their kid is not getting good grades. Never mind the fact that they cant read, cant spell, cant focus because they have some add, adhd, lmnop, or some other thing that has letter to ID it. Never mind the fact that the skills these kids need in order to "problem solve", the parents have taken that away from them because they FIX all their problems. In any type of network of people in command or control there is always a chain of command from Military to the wal-mart corporation. NOT in education, if there is a problem with their kids then they don't ask the kids, the teachers, the parents head straight to the principals or higher(if they know them). Why is it that in a society built on structure it is ok for us to disregard these steps. Why is it ok now for the parents to get everything they want regardless if the stress of job insecurities are causing teachers to quit, retire early, or to have nervous breakdowns. Whens the last time a teacher called their boss and said "your employee is harassing me at work, please proved them with extra work so they are too busy to make it home to their family"

We are falling behind as a society and our melting pot has quickly become a national dump site for all the other countries that don't want their trash!!