Bad Schools: Is it mostly the teachers fault?

Question

It is generally felt that the schools in America are terrible. I do not know if this is the case everywhere but the fact that there are so many uneducated and functionally illiterate people out there, someone has to take the blame.

Who should get most of the blame? The Teachers, the Principal or the School Board?

Answer 1

That's a hard one.  For some schools, it is the city because they are putting budget restrictions on schools that keeps them incapable of supplying needed items to educate / or to have activities.  For others it is the parents--for not sendingkids to school as if it is daycare and not for education (basically not becomming proactive in the education)   I wouldn't fully put the blame soley on teachers although some can add to the down fall of the education structure within the class room. For a larger scale it can be our government (the people) that doesn't fully voice their concerns and the community that doesn't push harder to motivate parents and children to raise the bar and exceed.

Answer 2

how about the students

teachers can not focre the kids to do their homework and they cant force th students to make the right choices on tests (a lot of my friends just write any old answer down) so i put the blame on the kid

Answer 3

parents. the parents have to be involved.  

Answer 4

Truthfully, it is the parents fault.  Our educators get a bad rap, but are there everyday and are in it for a career.  They wouldn't do it if they didn't care.  Their salaries are horrible and have to deal with kids that really don't care.  Usually the schools that do the best are the ones that have good parent participation and local support.

Answer 5

The people that fund the school should be to blame because bad schools can only get better if they have the money to make everything better

Answer 6

The School Board's fault they hire the teachers.

Answer 7

The people to blame is the society as a whole. There is not enough pressure on kids to do well in school. Americans feel that childhood should be carefree and fun, but other nations stress education above fun. In Japan there are high school entrance exams to study for, not to mention the exam for every university you apply to. They basically spend their whole life up to that point preparing for these test, because without doing well on the exams there is literally no chance for them to succeed if they are to fail. Americans don't have these stresses which is why the school systems are failing. A kid needs to want to learn the material and they see no reason to.

Answer 8

School board - they are the top and they should deal with everything going down it

Answer 9

No not at all. They should all take a third each.