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I know some very smart, very hardworking, very dedicated teachers. I also know some that don't have the brains that the turnips in my garden have and do just as well educating kids.
On the other hand, I also know that the hardworking teachers, the truly gifted and talented, are doing good to get most of their kids 10-15% above the average. Since the average is often 10-15% below failing, the best they generally get is mediocrity. Woo-hoo! My students *average* 70%, the minimum cut-off for passing!
Meanwhile, the educator-slugs that have a different kind of students have 95% of their students pass.
People have been sold a bill of goods when it comes to assumptions implicit in the US educational system. Now it's downright dangerous to point out the bad assumptions. Too much power, too much money, too much ego is riding on proving the assumptions that failed in the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, and the '00s to be replaced.
The result is that many of the hardest working, most frustrated teachers dealing with the hardest-to-teach students are slammed the hardest with rules, requirements, paperwork, threats, calumnies, etc., etc.
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