BTTT
ALL of this is another facet of “PARTICIPATION TROPHIES”
YOUR LITTLE DARLINGS ARE RAISED TO BELIEVE THAT “THEIR FEELINGS & SELF ESTEEM” COUNT OVER ANYTHING & EVERYTHING ELSE.
I GUARANTEE YOU EMPLOYER IS NOT HANDING OUT PAYCHECKS AS A “PARTICIPATION TROPHY”.
Standardized tests keep teachers honest. Their passing virtually every student, even those who rarely if ever attended class, is shown up by standardized tests. And teachers are highly pressured by administrators to do just that. Standardized tests are a pain in the behind, but they are necessary. The disparity in standardized test results between white students and minority students I feel is at least partly a factor of parenting. White parents, in my teaching experience, were more likely to make sure their kids were doing their homework and to know, at least roughly, what that homework is about, maybe even help them with it. A lot of minority parents never bothered to meet with me during Open School Night or Open School Day. Sometimes they’d send a grandmother or even a sibling, if anyone at all showed up. They didn’t even know if their student was IN school, let alone how they were doing.
American public education has been a joke since integration... Sorry, its not PC but its true.
Black students came to integrated schools so far behind that rather than fail them they dumbed down everyone to move them along.
NO, it wasn’t he black children’s fault, they were given a lousy education up to that point... they had no chance to be on par with their peers when they integrated, but rather than working to lift those students up, they lowered expectations and have been doing so every since.
More and more minority kids are getting diplomas they can’t even read.
The kids coming out of HS and college are the dumbest I’ve ever seen.
The phrase “the blind leading the blind” comes to mind.
A teacher CANNOT effectively teach what she does not know herself.
We need a requirement that prospective teachers score proficient or above on the 12th grade test before ADMISSION to being an education major.
And score to a more rigorous standard by graduating in order to get a certificate.
And when they get out are covered with DEI.
Or has this already happened and I'm just not aware?
I guess flying lessons are a barrier to entry for those who want to be commercial pilots and medical schools are a “barrier to entry” to those who want to become surgeons. This is pure madness, but further proves the point that teacher’s unions are more concerned with expanding their membership (power base) than educating students, hence they want to make it as easy as possible for anyone to become a teacher and join the union as a dues-paying members and to exert political influence.