Originally Posted by wadle5

While I do agree with most of your response I would actually disagree that a majority of teachers now at least around my area are in fact young adults not married or without children at all. And this is coming from several local schools, friends that are teachers etc etc as the older generation begins to exit that profession. They have no concept of child rearing and refer to school as just WORK. And can't wait for summer to get rid of the kids. And while I by no means mean to undermine the profession of teaching. I do think at times a majority of the new individuals going into this field truly aren't like those of past time when I went to school. Caring parents, that even though their job was teaching they also treated every child as their own and disciplined them as well when necessary.

In regards to common core.............that in itself is a whole other massacre of the education system and common sense.