It's disingenuous to say that the teachers are lazy, especially compared to their post-secondary counterparts. The problem is that teachers are generally handcuffed by common core bureaucracy. Administrations, in Canada at least, are filled with academics with no teaching background. Instead of teaching kids multiplication tables, they're taught to do it on a calculator, or some other wacky method that falls under change for the sake of change. Edu-theory is a good way to put it.
Another issue is the demanding parents who think that their kid couldn't possibly be failing and that it's the teacher's fault. In most school systems you can't fail students. I knew a kid in my 7th grade class who took a 7% in one of his classes and he was right back with us in 8th grade.
I've never been pleased with the quality of my education but in elementary and high school it wasn't the teachers so much as it was the principals or the administration.
Another issue is the demanding parents who think that their kid couldn't possibly be failing and that it's the teacher's fault. In most school systems you can't fail students. I knew a kid in my 7th grade class who took a 7% in one of his classes and he was right back with us in 8th grade.
I've never been pleased with the quality of my education but in elementary and high school it wasn't the teachers so much as it was the principals or the administration.