This is how backwards education in California is.

[Fisherking]

Nonsense.

Also, as ACIN noted, the teacher would agree.

You think so huh?

Ever taught in a US school?

Each state is different but additional work without compensation is a no-no.

Not only that but Education Departments are Bureaucracies and would much rather spend money on outside information than what they can get in-house. They place little value on what individual teachers may think.

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ACIN if you can figure out how to get rid of Bureaucracies in any or all levels of government, your my man.

Most of the time it is not a matter of fixing a known problem. It is about preserving the institution and justifying ones existence. There is also the matter of spending all the money in the budget so you get as much or more next year.

With Education in particular the politics are too much a part of what gets taught.

Teachers’ Unions depend on the state. Some are better than others but they turn into bureaucracies themselves.

Oddly enough, graduates of high schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries seemed to have had a deeper and richer education than those of today.

It would seem we are not doing something right.