We don’t like to say it aloud. It feels harsh, unfair. We speak of teacher shortages, burnout, and systemic pressures—all true, all critical. But in the quiet between the lines of those conversations lies a harder truth we must finally confront: An unskilled teacher is not a neutral placeholder. They are an active, compounding liability.

The education sector has operated on a broken promise. It's a promise whispered in glossy brochures and shouted in conference halls: Attend this workshop. Implement this method. Follow these ten steps. And you will transform your classroom. So educators—already stretched thin—invest their precious time. They learn new frameworks for behavior, new scripts for engagement, new systems for routines. They return to their classrooms armed with techniques, determined to turn the tid

Traditional schools often address these social challenges with a top-down model: the adult as enforcer, dispensing punishments and rewards. This imposed justice, however well-intentioned, teaches submission to authority, not the exercise of personal responsibility. It prepares children for obedience, not for life. There is another way.