See, if we just removed students, the school would function perfectly!
I think the millwrights in our plant went to this school.
This gets pointed out everytime a variation on this graphic gets posted, but it can work if the gears are on different planes, like they’re not all grinding up with one another. So maybe two gears are actually touching, but you’ve got a shaft going from the center of one of those connecting to another gear that’s actually touching the conflicting gear. Or it could be one of the gears is actually wide enough that it’s spinning two of the other ones, but those two aren’t touching.
I would argue that we have to be constrained by what is actually shown by the illustration and what is implied by it. It is implied that they all work together at the same time and if we’re just making up things that aren’t shown like an extra plane, we can make up anything.
You’re missing that metal jam rod labeled “republicans” who have blatantly claimed to do exactly that.
That’s the gear labeled “parents.”
It should absolutely be the role of public education to give kids a fighting chance at escaping crazy at home. Some kids will have parents who are more qualified on certain topics than teachers, but an effective education system should not assume that all or even most parents are competent. That should be a bonus, not a requirement to educate children.
It’s a perfect illustration, really.
Remove the Students and parents and teachers can have their authoritarian circlejerk without hurting anyone.
Remove the Parents and maybe Students can actually have a direct voice in things that affect them without the meddling of people not involved in the system.
Remove the Teachers and… well, the same really. Facilitated self-directed learning without stifling bureaucracy and exposure to bullying is the best of all worlds.
Sorry, but are you claiming that the best-case scenario is an education system without…teachers ‽
Good rule of thumb for watching education political discussion is that a large portion of the population will blame the teachers.
It’s always the teachers fault for them. Full stop.
Not the parents, not the incredibly apathetic or combative kids, not the administration running the school, not the politicians making up random standards, nope, none of those guys. Just the person trying to figure everything out with your kids a few hours a day. They’re the ones causing all the issues.
Let’s fire them all, pay them less, make them work overtime, and then the problem will be fixed!
There’s a reason over half of teachers leave the profession before year 5 and are high on rates of anxiety, depression, and risk for substance abuse.
