Quote:And you'll have almost nobody wanting to go into the teaching profession.  The pay is poor as is.  When the safety of your job is on the line based on if the parents like what you're doing or not, it handcuffs teachers to the parents.  Why on earth would ANYONE want to be a teacher when job security is tied to the whims of parents?  The benefits are only to parents who want to control the education system so that their kids learn only what they want them to learn.



This is not a good thing at all.  Content should NOT be determined by the marketplace.  Otherwise you'd still have schools that don't teach evolution.  We'd be even further behind the rest of the world by politicizing the educational system.  The marketplace shouldn't determine content of teaching.  Ever.  



So you want Robots to take the jobs of teachers?  That sounds great for you to save money, not so much for the teachers who are working, and even less so for your children.  Teachers aren't babysitters, and if you think they are then I think you're sending your kids to the wrong school.  Robots can't do the same things that teachers can.  They can't analyze how a student learns, or what motivates them.  All a robot can do is spout information.  A teacher doesn't simply regurgitate information.  


And quality of teachers will go down, because nobody is going to want to be a teacher.  I guess since you'll all have robots, that's all fine and good.  The robots will be even worse, as explained above.  A robot can't adapt to your child.  Teaching isn't simply the regurgitation of information. 


It all comes at the cost of the students.  Cutting costs sound great for parents, but only for those parents who don't really care about the quality of education their kids get.  Because they care more about costs than quality, and that's exactly why for-profit schools will continue to be profitable.  Because parents would choose schools based on political beliefs and cost savings.  All at the expense of their child.


 

 

Of course people would still want to get into education, has privatizing college made professors harder to find? 

 

You cite evolution as an example so I'll explore this specific topic more. There's plenty of other theory's and variations of evolution what's wrong with creating a system where parents can choose? For example creationist would seek out creation schools, evolutionist would seek out evolutionary schools, why is that bad, neither of them are settled sciences. Let's say down the road to stay consistent the theory of creationism becomes so discredited the schools that continue to teach it would close because few if any parents are going to support sending their child to an institution teaching discredited curriculum. Just like if a school was teach faulty mathematics or using frustrating techniques like common core parents would chose schools teaching solid fundamentals and using better techniques. You seem to place more trust in government to dictate what should be taught and how it should be taught. I'd argue teacher AND parents would be better off in a system designed to give both parties more power, instead the alternative is state ran schools that are failing at historic levels, the system is broken.

 

Where's the robots coming from? Innovation can mean using technology like tablets or better computers. Imagine publishing industry competing to make the best presented and understandable curriculum for students to use. No one is talking about replacing teachers with robots, that's a straw man argument. 

 

It all comes down to shifting from an enviroment built on state funding which provides no incentive to improve the methods used, to a system that demands improvement.

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