LEVY: Don’t support failure

Teachers and school systems are necessary to run a modern society. With Idaho School systems having a grade of 67.6% or a D+ and our Charter Schools now adopting the same failed system. What happened to the teachers that want to teach our children? Is there any administration or teacher unions willing to fight for student learning, instead of more pay and time off, with their D+.

I know that the downturn in teachers being able to teach started way back in the ’70s, having a big boost when the Clintons brought in (NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND) meaning that no child should advance because someone might have their feelings hurt.

There are students that want to learn, because I have three in the Idaho school system that wanted to, with the oldest saying that students can fail and still be promoted to the next year, of baby-sitting, smart youth figured out your system, why should they work for schooling that does not challenge them to learn?

Should the residents of Idaho vote more money for a failed school system that won’t change for the better? When they compare students of other states that are failing to our 49 lowest testing of Idaho students and win some times that does not make Idaho education a winner.

Until you bring our system up to a B, you have no right to ask us to pay more for our failed system. Vote no in Post Falls May 18. It takes more than money to improve a school system, it takes a change of attitude.

CHARLES RENZ

Post Falls

Editor’s note: No Child Left Behind was signed into law in 2002 by President George W. Bush.