Classroom Chaos

Although teachers, unions, and improper funding are the main damage to the educational system the students are to be blamed as well. The control over students has declined over the past forty years. I'm not saying laws that protect children from being hit by teachers are good but when it wasn't illegal there were a lot more well behaved children.

The solution is probably not to encourage teachers to bean kids with erasers. But something is needed. Jennifer Scoggins, 32, a New York teacher currently working on her Ph.D., said she had no chance to succeed when she began her first teaching job in 2001. She was asked to take over a second-grade class in Harlem midyear—after several other teachers had given up. The kids were out of control when she arrived, and things never improved. "Chairs were being thrown, kids were stabbing each other with pencils," she said. "I felt absolutely like a total failure. The only thing I was proud of was that I never cried in front of the kids. But I cried everywhere else: in supply closets, on the subway, at home." Even though Scoggins had earned a master's in education, she said, "very practical things were never taught."

The more I look into the educational system and its problems, the more unfixable they appear. I feel like we need to change the people in education not the laws, we need society desperated for education because its what we need for the future.