Posted on 11/24/2014 1:14:45 PM PST by MichCapCon
You can't improve the prospects of young people when they, and you, work in a place where you're afraid for your life.
Let’s try “State Superintendent Claims Detroit Public Schools HAVE A Dramatic Teacher Shortage”
The author of that article has a dramatic grammar check shortage...
Detroit Public Schools has 2,836 classroom teachers and 47,238 students, or one teacher for every 16.65 students,
A good teacher could teach in a barn with shared books. Most of our great grandparents didn’t get much more than that and they generally got better educations than we did.
I remember well the days in Catholic grade school we would have one teacher, all day, for 35-38 kids....no hot lunch, no permanent librarian, no counselors, no cops, and the mothers took turns watching the school yard at recess....you could BUY milk though...with chocolate milk a few cents more expensive so of course, our mother wouldn’t let us get it...
nope....you need some "Kotter's".....people willingly going back to the old neighborhoods and really taking an interest in the kids...
a teacher to be qualified needs to consider it a vocation, just like the old days, when nursing and teaching were called vocations...every good Catholic school girl was encouraged to go into these vocations, if not into the nunnery .
You are so right-my grandmother had the 6th grade level schoolbooks her mother learned from in the late 19th century, and she gave them to me-they are a treasured possession. Many of the English grammar lessons and the math problems were not covered in my classes until 8-9th grade-and I went to private school...
You could get rid of 90% of all School Administrative personnel and not miss a beat. It’s one of the last bastions of featherbedding.
Well back “in the old days” even in the rougher neighborhoods generally a teacher didn’t have to worry about getting shot.
We had smaller classes-maybe 23-25 kids, but it was a rural area Catholic school, so not many kids around anyway. No cafeteria, just the milk for about 15 cents a carton, and a lunchroom to eat the homemade lunch we brought, and the nuns took turns doing recess duty. And we turned out okay...
Not enough drama teachers in Detroit? Things must be getting pretty bad I guess.
They wouldn’t have to worry about it now if teachers were still allowed to keep order in classrooms and on all school property without parents and liberal administrators howling about it...
How many Detroit public school students who are not in charter schools are not special needs kids? Massively more staffing resources go into teaching them than “nonspecial” children.
We usually had around 30-33 in a classroom...and even though I was a young tyke, I remember the teachers complaining about large classroom sizes.
Now its nearly been cut in half, education isn’t any better, and teachers are still complaining about class sizes.
And then the libs got really involved.
Detroit Public Schools has one classroom teacher for every 16.65 students,
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50 years ago my one classroom teacher had 3X that of us students...we fluctuated 50-55 over the years..
and we all learnt to read...and write...and cipher..
Golly gosh how can that be ???
It is obvious that every school system has a shortage of good teachers.
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