What are they thinking?

When mandated testing got started they said that it would only be a measure of student performance. The test would help us to know how our students are doing compared to other districts and states.
Now this "animal" is responsible for the firing of teachers, and people thinking that teachers are the problem.
Has anyone been in a school lately, start at the elementary and work your way up. Have you ever just walked in and looked around. Listen to the conversations that the students are having with each other, notice all the girls that are pregnant, all the students with no supplies, all the gang bangers, thugs, and listen to the language that comes out of kids mouths???? Are these the faults of the teachers???
Schools got started with the teacher, not the administration, policy makers, and people who supposedly know what is good for schools!
No one listens to us! No one really cares! Politicians only use education as a platform to get elected. They don't really care what happens. When something needs real attention, the politicians seem to fix it with a band-aide or a grenade!
No Child Left Behind is a joke!!! Special Education is a joke!! Why are kids dropping out of school???? BECAUSE THEY CAN'T READ!!! It is next to impossible to fail a student in Special Education. These kids have been put into "regular" classrooms so their Psyche won't be hurt, never mind they read on a 1st-5th grade level in an 8th grade class!! Why do we have so many problems in math, same reason! Kids don't have to memorize anything anymore.
Whatever happened to the basics??? Oh yeah, we want our kids to think on a higher level, yeah... tell me how that is supposed to happen when they can't even think on a basic level!!!!
Teachers today spend so much time doing paperwork to cover their asses, that they don't have time to do anything else! Why do we have to put up with kids assaulting us? Administrators threatening us, and Politicians telling us we all suck!!!
I challenge them to go to any inner city school and teach for a year and then tell me who's fault all this is! Maybe then, they will come up with some solutions to "fix" education! Or the parents! Or the numerous programs put into place!
What was so wrong with vocational training? Why can't we get some of these kids out of school and put them in job training. If a student hates school and does nothing but ruin it for everyone else, get them out and give them some practical training!!!
Why is the teacher always the blame for failing scores?? Why is it that teachers can get fired for something a student does wrong or for the failure of the system?
It's funny but when we are going through our "state mandated" training for testing, I always ask, after being told that I could lose my license for this and for that... what happens to the student if they do something wrong during testing... the answer is always, NOTHING!!!!
What would happen if all the teachers across the nation were to go on strike??? What would the parents do?? No babysitter?? How am I going to go to work?? What would the government do?? Finally listen to us???
Last question... why don't you ever hear of them cleaning house with the administration of a district??? Why isn't the entire school board, principals, vice-principals, secretaries, administrative secretaries, specialists for each area, assistance to the assistant, and everyone else who gets paid way more money than I do, fired??!!
Just had to ask...