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Originally Posted by stickybuns
Well, I wouldn't trust Keith Olberman as far as I could throw him either.
At any rate, do you have evidence that Media Matters fabricates its research for its "fact checking" articles? That's a genuine question, by the way.
If you have a better sources for fact checking than Media Matters (left leaning bias) and Media Research Center (right leaning bias), I'd love to know about it.
Edited to Ask: I really would like to have evidence from an independent source that problematic/incompetent/abusive teachers are a significant and wide-spread (beyond a handful of "bad apples") problem. I find it difficult to justify the condemnation of the entire educational system over a horror story about ONE crappy teacher.
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Well I am not myself in the educational system, but isn't even one bad teacher one too many? The children of today are the leaders of tomorrow after all. And there are some problems (or have been in the past) with Schools. Not just in the quality of teaching (assuming the story I referenced is in any way accurate) but in discipline as well, which feeds back into problems with learning. After all if kids are being bullied they can't focus properly on what they are supposed to be focused on even if the teacher is good at his/her job. And I know (from personal experience) that schools tend to look the other way when the students doing the bullying have 'the right name.' So even if the teachers aren't bad at their jobs schools do have some work to do on themselves. The point is schools are supposed to be places of learning, nothing more or less. And problems (whether with bad teachers or bullying) don't just go away if you refuse to acknowledge them.