Brave New World of Education

I posted this on another ed board in a discussion about parochial school salaries and jobs:

Don't laugh at the parochial school salaries. This is where public education is headed, if people here would actually read the newspapers all around the United States. "Tenure" is under assault; teachers are being laid off, seniority rules are being undermined, veteran teachers are being harassed out of jobs or fired outright for petty reasons, TFAs are being put into jobs when they are not qualified to do any kind of teaching whatsoever so districts can save on pensions and health insurance benefits, online schools and charters are being allowed to flourish, and so forth. The public education system in the United States is being destroyed for ideological reasons; this is not paranoia but fact a simple Google search will indicate.

I really feel this site is in a time warp. A lot of the advice here would have been good ten or fifteen years ago, but it's largely irrelevant today.

I always tell would-be teachers to go into something else, for they will NEVER be able to make a career out of public education with the trends going on...this is NOT--repeat NOT--a case of the pendulum swinging one way in hopes it will go the opposite way or that things will turn around "when" the economy turns around. This is a permanent, fundamental shift, and it is terrifying because a public service, education, is being perverted by the elites and their political hacks in both parties to be used as a for-profit enterprise.

Education is no longer seen as a public good. Run as far away from it as you can if you are not close to retirement age.

Ten bucks an hour, no benefits. THAT is what a "teacher" likely will be making in the brave new world of education if the jobs aren't actually outsourced to China or India with distance "learning." Sure, some people are waking up, but they are up against very powerful interests.

Why do you think Bill Gates is up to his eyeballs in education "reform," an area which he has utterly NO expertise? The answer is obvious: HOW did he get his billions in the first place?