After working in a private school for just two weeks, it has become painfully obvious to me that we have a crisis in public education. It is something I wanted to deny while I was part of public education. That was before I had the first-hand opportunity to compare and contrast.
My personal observations, having been employed for six years in Georgia public schools, are as follows:
- Administrators are afraid of punishing students.
- Parents don’t generally care, until their child really screws up (by which time, it’s too late), and then they bully the schools.
- Teachers and students live in fear of violence in many schools.
- Students are not properly tracked.
- Not enough teaching and learning is taking place.