Every kid with an IEP requires a big chunk of your class time. Teachers are legally bound to spend a great deal of their student contact time with these kids. A lot of their planning time can be eaten up with paper work and meetings for these students. Get a few IEP students in your class and the rest of your students can be legally screwed out of having a reasonable amount of your time for them to be taught properly.
kinda proves the point doesn't it? maybe the kids requiring iep's should be in a different class. the teachers that teach these classes should then have either a smaller class size, more free periods to keep up with the crap, or some combination of both.
but vouchers allow the parents to opt out of the system that groups all the kids together it makes a point. and it talks in a language that administration understands, it talks in $$$.
the fact is that for the most part schools don't listen (some teachers do, some principles do, but as a whole they don't). parents are treated as the ignorant masses, who really need the guidence of college educated childless people to tell them how to raise there kids.
schools are taking too much time on things that have nothing to do with educating, and more to do with raising the kids (and frankly every person I ever met that had the gov't oversee their childhood was a fluff'n mess).
parents have been saying this for years and nobody hears, they can't hear us over the special interest groups, the racial groups, the pro-abortion groups, the anti-gun groups, gay rights groups, and on and on and on. most of the leaders of these groups that get the schools ear don't even have kids, they're mostly just board college kids or professional activists.
and the anti-voucher group wants all kids in the same system. how stupid is that? with vouchers we can have several types of schools and you could send your kid to whichever one either run the way you think it should be or teaches in a way that your child can learn. I think, if your honest, all of you who have ever done any teaching would admit that different personality types learn best under completely different environments.
but putting everyone in one system is a recipe for disaster. it guarentees mediocrity at best. since this bbs is based on a military sim, I'll put it in a way we can all understand. "your convoy can only move at the speed of the slowest ship".
if we put all kids in the same system and focus extra atention on the kids who won't(can't) learn, then the best and brightest the hope for our future, (or even just the average) can only be ignored. it won't work any other way. when you have limited resources and focus extra atention on problem, slow, or the kids who don't speak the language, these resources must come from somewhere and they come from the other kids.
but with vouchers it's completely fair. all kids will recieve an equal and fair share of resources. if you can't trust your local school to teach your kid, find someone else, and his share of the resources should go with. as it is you are almost rewarding them for failing. now if your kid is getting screwed and you take him to private school you pay double (taxes, plus tuition) and the local schools get to keep resources for a child they don't have to teach.
how is that fair?
