America's Paper of Record sees the future
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Is it wrong to take to the teachers' inputs into consideration for public policies concerning the public schools?
Scientists and infectious disease experts have certain domain expertise and various public health data, sure, but teachers know how things actually work in the schools.
It's like the logisticians at the USPS or FedEx taking the inputs from the mail carriers and the mail/FedEx truck drivers into account, not sure of those logisticians take inputs from the mail carriers or the truck drivers, but it would be the right thing to do.
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Who runs the public schools, the teachers or the parents?
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@jolly said in America's Paper of Record sees the future:
Who runs the public schools, the teachers or the parents?
It's like asking who runs the US (or state) government, the elected officials, the government employees (political appointees and career civil servants), or the voters.
Much like the Constitution does not allow the voters to directly run the government, the school systems do not allows the parents (nor the teachers, for that matter) to directly run the public schools.
You take inputs from multiple parties and make compromises.
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In most cases, schools are ran by schoolboards, who are directly elected by the public. And since school board members tend to represent a smaller group of people, most are very in tune with what their constituents want. If not, people tend to become fairly agitated, fairly quickly and that leads to recall or defeat at the polls. Many schoolboard members are not paid or paid very little.
Teachers are hired by the board and sign yearly contracts. Curriculum is set by the board, usually to meet a certain state standard.
