Usually, youngsters discover that some public educators hate them when they realize that they aren’t learning anything in school. They see that every school has a library, and that hardly any children are able to check out or read its books. The brighter ones understand that school libraries exist for two reasons, to provide jobs for librarians and funds to buy books to enrich authors and publishers who are politically correct.
Children can’t understand why they have to ride busses for an hour or so a day to get back and forth to school. They don’t know why they have to lug huge, new, bone-warping textbooks. They can’t understand why they aren’t learning as much as students in other countries.
They can’t understand why so many of them are put in “special” classes, unaware that the increased funding that accompanies “special” students is more important than what’s best for mere children.
Pay and benefits are so good that many “good” teachers become part of the mire.
There are two types of parents, independent thinkers and apple-polishers. Apple-polishers do whatever teacher says. That way, they can help their children get jobs as teachers.
They willingly join groups and committees to fight against any meaningful reform. They say they “understand” and are “sensitive to the needs of others”. Their children learn to be apple-polishers, too. It is rare, and maybe impossible, for such people to love their neighbors enough to Heaven.
To be sure, we have to love those in public education, even as they work to extort more money from us while turning our children into illiterates. Understanding how desperate and insecure they are makes it easier.
Many of them are beyond salvation. They are so mired in striving for shorter hours, money, benefits, and increased tenure protection that they can’t see the higher truth beyond.
Since we can’t reach them, all we can do is encourage people to understand them.
