Why Are Public Schools Failing

The United States is considered one of the most developed countries on this planet. In fact, it is considered a superpower, a country that many men, women, and children fight to live in. The United States of America is also a country that has produced a great amount of well-educated geniuses who were able to revolutionize technology. Unfortunately, within the last fifty years we have seen a great decline in the amount of well-educated citizens that were raised in and educated in the U.S. The United States educational system has deteriorated so much that many times U.S based companies must reach out the citizens of other countries in order to find workers who are qualified to work for their companies. Even as one of the most developed countries …show more content…
This truth is causing an uproar amongst, parents, teachers, students and school districts. It seems that even after years of acknowledging the problem no one has come up the a clear solution. Except for the director of the movie, “Waiting for Superman”, Davis Guggenheim. Guggenheim 's opinion of what is causing public schools in the U.S to fail is bad teachers and tenure. Although his points about bad teachers being able to continue doing poorly at their jobs is a major component as to why public schools are failing is true, Guggenheim 's misses one major detector of whether or not students will fail and that 's their parents. Guggenheim focused primarily on how teachers are failing their students but never shined a light on how parents fail their children as well. Having teachers who care about the wellbeing of their students and out great effort into making sure their students are well educated is very important, however without the help of caring parents the efforts of said teachers will be in …show more content…
The untalked about truth, that we are falling behind other developed countries academically. Davis Guggenheim, the director of “Waiting for Superman” was brave to bring up how tenure and unions can have negative impacts on children when it is impossible to fire even the worst of teachers. It was extremely disheartening to find out that even when students have video proof of a teacher not only doing their jobs it was still impossible to fire them. Tenure has proven itself to be useful in the past, however, laws that make it impossible to fire bad teachers should be removed. I do not know of any other field in the world, that a worker can constantly produce less that satisfactory results within their job and never be fired. I agree that teachers should not be able to be fired for their personal beliefs as long as their personal beliefs do not affect their students. However, if it can be proven that teachers are not doing their jobs with the care needed tenure should be removed and they should be fired without a second