Mass teacher layoffs are reshaping America’s education system

Citizen Watch Report ^ | Alex

[Redleg Duke]

”As Walter Williams liked to point out, Education majors are just about the the dumbest students on any college campus.”

Back in 1966, my first semester of electrical engineering school, all freshmen were required to receive counseling by grad students from the School of Social Work. Our counseling was a by-product of teaching interrogation techniques to the grad students. I was seated at an 8’ folding table sitting across from the interrogator. Next to me was a cute chick facing one of her own. My interrogator said, “We are just going through the motions. The fact that you are in engineering school tells me you don’t need any career advice.” Next to us, the other interrogator was telling the cute chick, “Your scores and results indicate that you are very weak in English, Math, Civics and Science. Frankly, the only viable career course would be Education.” I looked at my interrogator and we both just rolled our eyes!

[LouAvul]

I’m talking about the nuns who managed to get classrooms of average kids literate

Yeah, I've heard about that.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

I will never forget witnessing how some teachers significantly increased their retirement pensions. A few years before retirement, they applied to be a vice / assistant principal. Their monthly retirement increased, even though they were only in management for a short time.

[Zathras]

Gender studies, Critical Race Theory, Sociality all need to end.

[ConservativeMind]

What state has that level of taxation? California?

[LizzieD]

This will inevitably go hand-in-hand with deportations. Somewhere in the ‘90s, schools declared that “they weren’t immigration officers” and starting admitting all comers, with no evidence of citizenship.

This, I believe, was a deal struck with teachers unions to keep classrooms full, because school funding and teaching jobs are directly related to student numbers. I also believe that part of the deal were very low expectations...you can put them in my class, but don’t expect me to take a kid who doesn’t speak a word of English and turn him into a star student.

Then Bush came along with his “soft bigotry of low expectations”, essentially telling them that yes, they had to turn these kids into star students, they would be judged by the outcomes, they hated him for it.

The American birthrate is shrinking, and along with that will come the need for fewer schools and fewer teachers, and less money going to teacher unions (which is, of course, the real tragedy here, LOL)

[Glad2bnuts]

My Grandmother taught the generation that won WW2 and launched rockets. She graduated High School, and spent a year in a teaching College.

[Wonder Warthog]

Same for my great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother...little rural schools in south Louisiana. The feds have totally effed up public education.

[klgator]

How many coordinators, deputy administrators, assistant administrators, and deputy assistant administrators are being laid off?

Bingo! I read somewhere that for every dollar of new programs being foisted on schools, up to 90% goes to administration.

[Maine Mariner]

I believe that is true.

The growth of the public school bureaucracy has certainly gotten out of hand. The same for public colleges and universities.

[minnesota_bound]

Kids graduating without being able to read or write or spell or do simple math well and ignorant of our and the worlds history.
I say fire more “teachers”.