Posted on 01/04/2018 7:56:56 AM PST by impetrio1
Educators, kindergarten through college, are in a unique position of enormous power responsibility.
Because they are "teachers", it's assumed they are knowledgeable of the topics of which they speak and issue factually correct information of that which they speak because they grade students on the information taught thus are in the position of being able to alter the forward trajectory of any student's academic record.
One would think a competent educator would present all sides of an issue and allow the critical thinking process to develop in the young minds of their students. However, that is NOT what occurs in the classrooms across the United States of America.
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It is necessary to eliminate taxpayer subsidized tenure.
Considering the depth of infiltration, find a way to fire them all and start over.
Somebody has got to post the article in yesterday’s WSJ about the death of reason in the university system. The person who wrote it is a professor who probably has something to do with debate teams, because the article focused on debates.
Now, everything has to “be about race.” And it has to be entirely about the kids’ “feelings.” No rational support is required, no study, no citations - nothing but a kind of tantrum, where they get to ignore all the rules of debating and scream out their hatred and, in fact, seize all the time so that none of the other students even gets to speak.
First and foremost they are majors in Education.
One of the least academic rigorous programs in college.
Many but not all education majors are in the botton 1/4
of SAT or ACT exams.
One solution-at least for high school teachers. Require
all high school teachers to have at least a BA or BS degree in the subject they teach or at least a minor. Then go on to earn an MAT, Masters Degree in teaching, including student teaching. Provide higher pay if they earn a MA or MS in their fields of teaching. Also, hire people with BAs
or BS’s degrees at a minimum who have had professional experience in those subjects and provide teacher training
over several years. There are several excellent on-line teacher training programs.
The other useless degrees designed to sell to students who have no business in higher education include anything with “studies” in the degree program. Fill in the blank
______________ Studies” Black, Queer, LGBTQP, Hispanic, Social-work, Stupid. Take your pick an drop it in the blank and there is a degree for it costing the same as a STEM field degree that is actually marketable, AND rigorous.
You’re already starting to see foreign universities starting to market to American students.
Should only those who have passed a curriculum of approved nonsense be allowed to teach in the field of climate science? That is the direction those in the upper management positions in our universities would like to see things go. I do not believe that requiring people to jump through more hoops and have more accreditation from our corrupt educational system is the solution.
“First and foremost they are majors in Education.
One of the least academic rigorous programs in college.
Many but not all education majors are in the botton 1/4
of SAT or ACT exams.
One solution-at least for high school teachers. Require
all high school teachers to have at least a BA or BS degree in the subject they teach or at least a minor. Then go on to earn an MAT, Masters Degree in teaching, including student teaching. Provide higher pay if they earn a MA or MS in their fields of teaching. Also, hire people with BAs
or BS’s degrees at a minimum who have had professional experience in those subjects and provide teacher training
over several years. There are several excellent on-line teacher training programs.”
My parents were teachers, and the requirements at their university were as follows: A major in the field of study in which they plan to teach with a minor in education. Now, many universities have reversed the requirements to where a person merely needs a minor in the field that they plan to teach.
It has been like this for DECADES
I used to date high school math teacher who had a degree in Math Ed. She would constantly but honestly (In her mind it was true!) tell people she had a math degree. It was a math degree with NO analysis (calculus) and no higher form (abstract) algebra.
The totality of public and private investment and expenditure in the education system is staggering. Consider, for instance, the endowments of some of our leading leftists elite institutions. Public investment and spending on leading public universities is of a similar ilk (e.g. Berkeley, UCLA, UWisc Madison,UMich Ann Arbor, UT Austin - all fine left-leaning institutions). Unless this money gets focused on providing folks with the skills, knowledge and abilities to be productive citizens it will be an enormous malinvestment, e.g we are squandering our seed corn. Right political thinking [by which I mean leftist political indoctrination] contributes nothing to a productive society.
I disagree. The greatest threat to America is partisan information distributors. The people who give us information on the broadcasting networks and on the internet are biased, and they have continuously used this power to convince Americans to make very bad mistakes. (Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and almost Hillary Clinton.)
The information controllers are our greatest threat.
Those who control the minds of kids from before kindergarten (think Sesame St) through high school have a profound effect on the future.
Think what Apple did with their computers. Apple practically gave them away to elementary schools. Every child was exposed to MACs, not PCs. What do the Millenials use now? MACs.
Youtube can teach most people : )
Remember what the SJW’s said about rigorous.
It is a white male construct!
I do not dispute that academia is a serious threat. I only dispute the claim that it is the worst threat. I think it is second worst, after the people who control the information fed to the American people.
The issue is labs.
How do you do science labs on-line?
It’s a hands on element of education you can only learn by doing. Of the STEM curriculum Math & CS are about the only BS programs where this could work.
People’s anger is actually focused on the wrong things, it’s the gender/ethnic studies and the other pseudo- disciplines that pollute modem academia where the ire should be aimed. These things were created to quickly boost up the numbers of women & minorities in the faculty lounges and on campus. Letting them increase through the normal order of things wasn’t quick enough for politicians. Eager to exploit the non-problem for personal benefit. Who everyone should be angry at (other then themselves for tolerating this growth!) are the cowardly state legislators for funding it, the college governing boards for allowing it, again themselves for allowing their kids to major in nonsense just so it can be said that Johnny/Jilly are in college.
I put up with years of being the “bad guy” for saying I will not pay for “hobby” majors. If you do a hobby major you must do dual major with a degree where there’s return on investment (job!). Also (at least the undergraduate) school they went allowed me to see their grades if given permission. Again something I required!
Huge economic impact in killing public schools, though. Maybe turn all public schools teachers into test monitors for on-line education. Parents choose what online curriculum their kids get, teachers just keep kids on task.
However, I don't trust current educators to not try to skew things. It's been in their training and blood since John Dewey.
Time to reset taxes and incentives to bring back church and other private schools.
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