Kudos to Jobs! Kudos! The only thing I would add is that lazy, borderline-apathetic parents don't help, either.
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A contract, last time I checked, is created by two sides, but when it comes time to discuss working conditions,... [MORE]
Paul J. Diamond
Mar 6, 2007 12:28
I wish I could thank him personally, but I cannot find his e-mail address. My shortfall, obviously. So, he has... [MORE]
bryan gudmundson
Feb 24, 2007 04:03
Why do good teachers leave the profession? Low pay, large classes, poor working conditions and site administrators and school district... [MORE]
ken tray
Feb 23, 2007 19:46
Let's look at Steve Jobs' comments scientifically. If his reasoning is correct, then states where teachers' unions are NOT powerful... [MORE]
DFrazier
Feb 22, 2007 23:58
The psychologists have taken control of the cirriculum at all accredited teachers colleges. They have replaced the Judeo/Christian ethic with... [MORE]
Incredulous
Feb 22, 2007 23:02
is that Boards of Education and Superintendent's are political creatures, whose biggest priorities usually are getting re-elected or a new... [MORE]
Paul
Feb 22, 2007 17:02
Parents teach their kids values, morals and ethics then the kids go to school where the teachers teach them there... [MORE]
Annette Hughes
Feb 22, 2007 12:27
Steve Jobs has guts. He says what many observers of education know but will not admit. I was involved with... [MORE]
Maury Leon
Feb 22, 2007 12:17
My mom was a shop steward for the teachers union and she said there were two things ruining the schools:
... [MORE]
Pierce Wetter
Feb 22, 2007 11:41
Some years back I was living in California. The high-mucky-muck of the teachers union was asked how his efforts would... [MORE]
rotten rip
Feb 22, 2007 11:38
As a seventeen year teaching veteran and proud union member I would like to invite Mr. Jobs to shadow me... [MORE]
Steve
Feb 22, 2007 00:37
And some....just don't! They coexist, and often in the same environment. Dedicated teachers have no need to feel insulted by... [MORE]
TL
Feb 22, 2007 05:32
Steve, you sound like a remarkable teacher , the kind of teacher we want to stay in education. And, no... [MORE]
Julie
Feb 22, 2007 10:26
Mr. Jobs is NOT teacher bashing. He is saying the unions tend to protect the teachers who are not doing... [MORE]
Geno
Feb 22, 2007 10:32
I don't see any place in his comments where he bashes teachers... I'm sure you do a great job, and... [MORE]
Matt
Feb 22, 2007 12:42
Mark Twain stated: " God made idiots for practice, then he made School Boards." and there lies your answer.
Cheers to... [MORE]
Ray
Feb 28, 2007 15:43
Three cheers for Jobs!I've worked in the California Public Schools as a consultant and an artist. I also helped start... [MORE]
scott
Feb 21, 2007 22:43
Jobs is right on.....protecting the incompetent is ruining public education. I made the move to private education many years ago... [MORE]
Jim
Feb 21, 2007 19:23
State and federal governments have dumped ever increasing dollars into public education, proving the maxim that when you spend more... [MORE]
Steve
Feb 21, 2007 18:24
And I say it again: Amen!
The best and the brightest tend--with exceptions, naturally--NOT to choose education as a career. The... [MORE]
Perry Clark
Feb 22, 2007 00:48
Kudos to Jobs! Kudos! The only thing I would add is that lazy, borderline-apathetic parents don't help, either.
Without competition who strives to get better? Most Americans are starting to realize this now. Tax the rich to give... [MORE]
Ted Runnels
Feb 21, 2007 17:24
Thank you Steve Jobs! Now if we can just get some fellow industry leaders and others of influence to see... [MORE]
Wes Parry
Feb 21, 2007 15:04
When was the last time he stepped into a public school classroom in Florida or an urban school system. Teachers... [MORE]
Joanne Reid
Feb 21, 2007 13:32
With all due respect to Ms. Reid, to whom I wish no ill, I, a parent of two children in... [MORE]
Perry Clark
Feb 21, 2007 18:48
Ron, you sound somewhat mixed up. Teachers have to be protected if they don't do a good job and the... [MORE]
Alan
Feb 21, 2007 20:36
Blame the Union, Blame the Union, Blame the Union. Yes, Perry, I read carefully the comments. It was a combination... [MORE]
ex-teacher
Feb 22, 2007 06:51
In football cheap shots are penalized. In real life, super wealthy people, like Steve Jobs, get to dump their garbage... [MORE]
Mark
Feb 22, 2007 08:33
which have nothing to do with Jobs' comments. But you are wrong about administrations living in fear of unions. In... [MORE]
paul
Feb 22, 2007 17:23
Steve Jobs is courageous and astute for identifying one of the two largest institutional barriers to significantly improving public schools;... [MORE]
Dr. Anne Marie Vickers Quin
Feb 21, 2007 12:08
Blame the teacher, blame the teacher, blame the teacher. Teachers work under supervisors who DO have the authority to guide... [MORE]
ex-teacher
Feb 21, 2007 18:12
Thank you, Dr. Vickers Quin, for saying it so well. Would that the entire political and governmental establishments hear and... [MORE]
Perry Clark
Feb 22, 2007 00:19
Few if any of the many concerned individuals are "blaming the teacher". The entire point of Jobs' comments, and most... [MORE]
Perry Clark
Feb 22, 2007 00:35
I've heard the exact same comment made by Dr. Quin from numerous people within the education community, and the correctness... [MORE]
William Bowen
Feb 22, 2007 02:02
Has anyone mentioned that the building administrators are responsible for observing, evaluating, and retaining or removing teachers? The building principal... [MORE]
Sally
Feb 19, 2008 22:35
Jobs spoke the truth. Our nations' public schools are fraught with incompetent bums!
Truthfully, teachers do have a tough job. No... [MORE]
Scott
Feb 21, 2007 11:24
Michael Dell has a lot of gall to talk about employees being treated unfairly, considering how HIS company treats most... [MORE]
Gary Akins
Feb 21, 2007 10:23
Unions are the best thing to happen to teaching. The teachers who don't perform well have to be protected. If... [MORE]
ron
Feb 21, 2007 09:30
Teachers who don't perform well need to be fired, not protected. Public education exists for the benfit of the children... [MORE]
Matt
Feb 21, 2007 23:15
Wow - here's a perfect example of what's wrong with the "union attitude"...let's see...
"The teachers who don't perform well have... [MORE]
barry
Feb 22, 2007 14:20
Finally someone had the courage to say what we in education have known for years. Unions are killing public education.... [MORE]