Why public education should be scrapped

[mbperrin]

25. Yes, the elementary kids are far more cooperative to begin with, think that having fun is

part of school, don't belong to gangs, can't leave campus during lunch in a car to buy/sell drugs, have sex, jump a new member in, or just leave without coming back for the rest of the day.

They're much smaller - 600 to 800 students per campus.

In addition, they have a teacher-student ratio that's enforced by law at 1-22, whereas the typical load for secondary teachers here is 180 students in 6 sections of students.

As a result, nearly every elementary school in our district is recognized or exemplary, while 1 high school is acceptable and the others are not.

Before the powers that be got stingier, we used to bus our sophomore students over to an elementary school to read books of their own design and authorship to the elementary kids. The books had to teach a story with a moral, an original story. And I would warn those 10th graders to check their spelling especially, because they would hate to get called down by a second grader. Inevitably, at least one would, and lesson learned. The little kids would also read to us their own books - I remember the year they wrote on tornadoes specifically; I learned more about tornadoes than I had ever known.

But then somebody downtown decided that spending money on gas and drivers for mere education was a bad idea.

So yeah, elementary is different - that's why they're a different credential. In our district, the average elementary teacher has 14 years of experience. At the high school level, it's approaching 8.