Along with some fifth grade kids who chew their pop tarts into guns ...
My Infantry training company started with around 180 men. We barely graduated 120. I’m told that 20 to 30 percent “wash out” rate is not that uncommon.
And this author wants me to cry a river for what 10%? Please.
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
i aksed my ejumucator about this an she sed to be quite and sit dun. /s
Obviously we have to triple their salaries, right?
As a public teacher, some complains I’ve seen:
1. Common Core
2. The Yearly Push for each district’s stupid new educational theory.
3. $100,000 curriculum heads that sit in their offices vs. $40,000 classroom teachers.
4. No support on suspensions, expulsions, and general punishment.
5. Overall micromanagement.
6. No school community, a “keep off the radar” mentality
7. Too many teachers EXPECTED to do extra-curricular activities
8. Little support on student failures
9. Non-administration “observations”
10. Kids that generally are allowed to run rampant
11. Sports take precedence over academics.
I don’t see these at my school because we have a good district and a good school, but these are out there.
Now who's chewing up who and spitting out what?
Five years sounds about right to handle the kids and their parents of this generation...they’re lucky if they last that long IMO....no way would I teach in todays schools with your hands tied behind your back and kids showing no respect for authority.
The whole educational system needs to be scrapped and redone, but that will never ever happen thanks to liberals. Imagine this: Teachers and students can work from home and communicate by this thing called the internet, and that teacher can visit those kid at home, tutor personally if they are having a hard time or do it via skype. WHY do all these kids have to be brought together in a classroom? We are using ancient teaching methods for modern society. There is a website called Khanacademy.org that has every single subject you can imagine from elementary school to High school and beyond.
New elementary school teachers are hired right out of college and paid over $40,000 a year in small towns on the CO Rockies. Strange, that so many graduates believe that they must start in urban neighborhoods.
50 to 70 years ago, Fedgov had NOTHING at all to do with local education. Then they started to “fix” education and everything turned to $h!t, just like everything else Fedgov touches.
My sister is a career math teacher to middle school black kids in Baltimore. The stories she tells just make me boiling mad.
Like many of you, we stayed in line in elementary, junior high, and high school because we knew our teachers would bop us hard if we acted up then Dad would whack us when we got home.
There is zero discipline in today’s schools and the kids can say or do anything they want to the teachers without any prospect of discipline.
Why anybody would go into that profession today is beyond me.
And all that are left are the worthless teachers. The bureaucrats still get paid.
>> Teachers cite lack of planning time, workload, and lack of influence over school policy among other reasons for their decision to leave…
They work less than 10 months of the year and essentially teach the same plan every year thereafter... yeah, sounds awful...
**why don’t principals and administrators take better care of their teachers?**
If you are talking about schools in large urban areas....where most of the lowest performing districts are...the reason why admins don’t support their staff is that they are in their position through affirmative action....and they need to cover their own backs for their inherent inadequacies.
Case in point as we speak my daughter a 12 year veteran teacher in an inner city school is going through an ordeal,she is pregnant due on the 23rd of December,a scared student approached her saying he knew something but was afraid to tell her and would she not tell who told her,she took him aside and he told her another student in her class threatened to stab her and kill her baby,this is a 12 year old with a history of attacks against teachers.She went to the principal,school superintendent,they would not suspend the student,they put him in the classroom next door,her union and the lawyer for the union are trying to help so far to no avail,another teacher came forward to explain this same student had thrown scissors at her and she had put in a report on it when the records were looked for all records on this student were gone.
Her blood pressure is up and the doctor has told her to stay home.
The American people seem more often than not to side with all manner of troublemakers; they have collective “Stockholm syndrome”.