Bad Teaching – Six More Signs and What to do About It - Part 2

As a parent, it is your duty to save your child from bad teaching and bad teachers.

If you live in a large city, teachers are invariably protected by both unions and a dysfunctional and lumbering bureaucracy.

Always keep in mind that the unions are there to protect the interest of the teachers – not your child. The unions are interested in salary increases and retirement benefits for the teachers and protecting them from getting fired. They are not interested in assuring a quality education for your child. You, and you only, as the parent must make sure that your child gets a quality education.

If by examining these next six signs of bad teaching, you determine that your child is being shortchanged and having his or her achievement dampened, you need to take action, perhaps even to the point of getting your child out of that particular school. In a future post, I would tell you what to do get your child out of a bad teacher’s classroom if your child is remaining in the school.

Now, here are the six more signs of bad teaching that I referred to in my previous post:
1. The teacher shows little knowledge of the subject matter that she is supposed to be teaching.
2. The teacher lacks basic academic skills – – that is, she sends home notes with spelling and grammatical errors.
3. The teacher makes little effort to maintain discipline.
4. The teacher doesn't focus on academic goals.
5. The teacher shows no interest in communicating with parents.
6. And, the teacher exhibits unsound character or unprofessional behavior.

Refer to these six signs of bad teaching as well as the seven previous bad teaching signs if you if you intuitively believe that your child is a victim of bad teaching. Keep in mind that both the union and the bureaucracy defends bad teachers and only you as the parent must make sure that your child gets a quality education.


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