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Blaming teachers is like throwing fire balls into Dante's Inferno. Over and over the scapegoat of this argument is that there are too many bad teachers. Sure it's easy to dime out the men and women of education as slothen, can't-doers (people that can't do teach) but let's look at a couple other issues that might effect failure.

The demands of a teachers grades K-12 not only reside with the interest of the student, but their parents, and for many therein lays the problem. Soccer moms and NASCAR dads who actively take an interest in little Dick and Jane's state-mandated indoctrination spell catastrophic distraction. This is not to say that attention is not garnered, rather, that the attention needs to be focused on the student. Ultimately, it is the student who is being affected by the knowledge they receive.

Many of us forget that parents/guardians are the first proponents of knowledge. Until children come of school age they are shaped and formed to interpret information by the minds they are constantly around, which is usually a parent or two. Distraction becomes a factor when those minds decide to blame teachers for Joe Student's shortcomings. In response, teachers and guardians who work together can alleviate failure, disappointment, distraction. Similarly, moms and dads open to the possibility of more than one way to learn is vital to success. Why can't failure be an option? If distraction can not be avoided, then perhaps boarding school, where parents aren't allowed intervention, could be a solution.

Next, we can explore the bane of bad teachers and smite them from existence. Bad teaching is like a bad internet connection. Mostly, the information being sent is not received or takes a long time to receive - I cite the days of yore when dial up was en vogue. Educators need an upgrade, in the sense that they must upgrade themselves with knowledge and naturally understanding of that knowledge.

After grade school knowledge becomes more specialized; therefore, teaching becomes more specialized. So how do we resolve ineptitude, on behalf of teenage America, in a certain subject? By now Joe Student has found things that interest him and is willing to go to earth's end to find out more, be it math, writing, music, art, computers, gaming and all other pursuits of knowledge. Again, distraction rears its ugly head. How can focus be reverted to get JS to show an interest in school and not fail?

Require teachers to become Doers, English/Language Arts must be taught by Writers,

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