A Letter to Americans: Shareholders Share the Blame for Public Education's Failures

From what I've seen, this hits pretty close to correct. I've never taught at the secondary level, but I was there, and it was not the hot mess that it is today. There is no way in the world that some of what is accepted as normal today would have been tolerated. Parents did come to the school to trash teachers for doing their job. I would suggest that while it may be an outlier of an example, the recent drama at Oklahoma University is a great example of why some of our secondary education is a mess. Had I ever received a piece of trash like that one student wrote, she would have received an F. I would not have considered an opportunity for the paper to be redone. Had that student complained to a third party group such as TP, and had I been removed for giving a failing grade to a failing paper, I would have been sitting down with a lawyer to have that resolved. The fact that a university allowed themselves to be pushed about by a spoiled student (who clearly pulled this stunt for her own, and her mother's, agenda), is tragic. And Oklahoma is number 50 in education. Anybody shocked?