Educators as partners with Legislation for the future
It would be beneficial to the NCLB Act as well as to education in general, to have more educators, who are currently in the classroom, along with their administrators help you and your staff work together to redefine the criteria and testing methods as well as the education laws. We as educators have the students’ best interests at heart and know what works well. It is extremely important to have qualified and experienced people make the decisions for all the citizens of our country. You would not want a banker performing open-heart surgery on a patient. The same goes for our educational policy-making and laws that are being formed for students. Most of your legislators are not educators. Many of them are attorneys or have a law background, who has worked their way up the political field to where they are today. Even at the national level, shouldn’t we consult a professional? We do when we have a toothache or a broken arm. Our system needs for us to work for the betterment of the future of our society, the children. This means we all need to work together. We should not have some making laws and guidelines in Washington while leaving the teachers to follow these, then having the teachers and educators being held totally accountable for the success or failure of each student. As the old saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child.” I feel it takes a nation to educate a child appropriately. We are all responsible for working together, as a team to educate our students. Educators need to have a say in the laws that are made for education. We cannot just have legislators making the laws, who truly may not know the impact that their laws have on the students, teachers, and administrators. As a future educator, I feel that having educators on your legislative board would be significantly influential in improving America’s education system. By having educators, assist with the law-making process, I truly believe we will have great success in our American schools. It is important to use the knowledge of many, instead of just knowledge of the few legislators in Washington, D.C.
This post was submitted by Elizabeth Hummel.
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