BALTIMORE, Md. – In case you missed it, retired Brigadier General and U.S. Senate Candidate, John Teichert, called out the crisis affecting Maryland children in a recent column, “Our Classrooms are in Crisis,” published in The Annapolis Capital Gazette.
Teichert’s column explains how teacher’s union control, political agendas, and lack of parental rights in schools has dissolved Maryland’s education system, leaving children in the dust and ill-prepared for the real world.
The piece included the story of a Hispanic mother who, after watching her children struggle with their public schooling, decided to homeschool her children. Teichert continues the story by writing, “Our educational system is consumed by a real crisis, depriving our youth of the opportunities they deserve. It is irreversibly harming our children and condemning them to a future separated from the American Dream while pumping extensive financial resources into a system that is failing to produce results. Our kids and our families deserve much better.”
“Our Classrooms are in Crisis” comes at a time when many of our public schools are testing exceedingly below proficiency in subjects like math and reading, and the teachers’ union are lining their pockets at the expense of students. “The school system in Maryland is trapped by a teacher’s union control that embraces the status quo and elevates mediocrity. It is the same group that recklessly locked our kids out of schools, leading to irreparable damage to students throughout the state,” Teichert wrote on the matter.
As a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Teichert is committed to instilling a parental bill of rights so Maryland parents have a say in their child’s education and is a supporter of implementing school choice policies to ensure every student has the opportunity to learn in an environment that meets their needs.
Read senate candidate John Teichert’s full opinion piece in The Annapolis Capital Gazette here.
Yes, classrooms are in crisis, however, there is more than enough blame to go around, teachers being forced to “teach to the test” instead of teaching, lack of supplies in the classroom, bathrooms that don’t work, heating and AC that doesn’t work. Ceiling falling down in the classroom, parents that can’t or won’t get involved, making sure homework is done, blaming the teacher when their child won’t do the class work or turn papers in. Cutting school budgets. Teachers are no longer allowed to teach critical thinking, groups who want to whitewash our history, Florida’s new standard that teaches “slave developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for personal benefit”. CRT is not taught in K-12, in Frederick I had a person running for the board of education tell me that talking about the interment of the Japanese Americans during WW2 shouldn’t be taught “it’s CTR”, why in God’s name would we want our kids to know about the 442nd Infantry Regiment? Are the bad teachers, without question, and they need to removed, I have 2 teachers in my family, 1 special ed, and 1 who teaches AP, teachers, like lawyers, doctors, policeman, chefs, know who should be removed.
Anyone up for a good old fashioned book burning? A major issue is also school funding, I had a teacher tell me that her students had to bring toilet paper to school because the school couldn’t afford to buy any, a lack of text books, while the school in the town (same state), she used to teach in gave notebook to every student. To lay the blame solely on the teachers, or the teachers union is “you not doing your homework”