Letter: Increase Accountability

I now believe that teachers carry the main responsibility to us for learning, in that they have to provide an environment in the classroom conducive to learning. I also assign this same responsibility to parents, administrators, non-teaching school employees, the Board of Education and us as taxpayers. And in the schools that I have been in as a substitute teacher, Moore County teachers are doing just that; they are providing the students with the tools and the classroom environment with which and in which they can be successful.

Now comes the hard part. I believe we need to assign accountability for learning to each student … no excuses, no exceptions. As taxpayers we are providing the gift of education to each and every student in the public schools, and I think too often we allow students to escape their accountability. How many times have I heard a student say “I don’t like this…this isn’t fun!” Well, I agree, sometimes learning is not all fun and games, but tough bananas, knuckle down and get to it. “Not fun” is not an excuse for not learning. Students, no excuses, you are accountable for learning. You owe it to yourself and to me.

Nick Weltmann

Pinehurst

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