Comments on: Confessions of a bad teacher https://www.isegoria.net/2013/12/confessions-of-a-bad-teacher/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:17:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bill https://www.isegoria.net/2013/12/confessions-of-a-bad-teacher/comment-page-1/#comment-1046960 Bill Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:44:53 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=33603#comment-1046960 I try to look at what a system is really good at doing to see what it is really for. For example, what is Congress for? It turns out that about 94% of incumbents are re-elected in spite of the fact that only 15% of the people have approved of what congress has been doing. Ergo, congress is set up to provide consistent jobs for congressmen.

So what are schools good for?

“According to the education documentary Waiting for Superman, every year nationwide one out of every 57 doctors and one out of every 97 lawyers loses his or her license for malpractice.

“Drawing from U.S. Department of Education statistics, the film notes that only one out of every 2,500 unionized public school teachers with tenure gets fired in any given year.”

Well, there you go.

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