Posted on 08/12/2023 7:10:07 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
To the editor: A letter to the editor written by an educator of more than 30 years suggested three strategies to attract young people to the teaching profession. As a fellow educator of more than 30 years, I was horrified.
The writer's first suggestion was to remove the one year of graduate education required to obtain a teaching credential by folding it into a bachelor’s degree. Finland, Germany and other European countries require a master's to teach. Educators need more, not less, training.
The second suggestion was to restore authority and order to classrooms. Studies show that authority and order tend to fall heaviest on students of color and low-income and disabled students. Again: Teachers require more training, not ratcheting up punishment.
I do agree with the writer's third point: Pay teachers more.
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1. Get rid of teacher's unions
2. Get back to basics of reading, writing and arithmetic. Get rid of DEI, and other indoctrination.
3. Cut back on the overhead.
4. Enforce testing standards, have a graduation exam.
5. Allow tax dollars to used for school choice.
Plank #10 of the Communist Manifesto: Free education for all children in government schools.
http://laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html
And therein is the elephant in the room.
“Studies show that authority and order tend to fall heaviest on students of color and low-income and disabled students.”
Those are the ones who often need “discipline” the most. Not corporal discipline, but self discipline...learned.
Sister Mary Elephant?
Yes.
He who says "A", says "B".
Add #6. Permanently expel disruptive students from public education.
Is that an African elephant or an Asian elephant? Perhaps there are two elephants in the room.
I went to a Catholic grade school & a Jesuit run high school. Both all white and middle class. I can assure you Sister Mary Ruler and Father Take No Crap didn't care one bit what your socioeconomic background was when you messed up and got called to the mast. If your parents found out it got worse.
Nonsense! The original bachelor's degree was a license to be an apprentice teacher. The master's degree was not granted after more course work but after successfully completing a number of years of teaching (see the present Oxford and Cambridge MA degrees). The present education degrees developed out of the normal schools which granted a teaching degree after two years of eduction. This was as an alternative to the four years needed for a BA. If someone cannot teach after four years of college, either they should not be in the classroom or the college does not know how to teach its students.
Perhaps Cheech and Chong had similar memories.
Add:
Allow kids to be paddled.
And:
Throw repeat offenders out for 2 weeks, then 2 months, then permanently.
Your list with my minor mods would solve 90% of our education problems and greatly improve teacher morale.
6. Only hire 300 pound assistant principles named Mr. Bubba.
Close the schools. If parents and kids do not value education then do not force taxpayers to pay for it. Let the idiots of the world be the servants of the educated. Let them be punished when they become disobedient.
I’ve been listening to teachers complain about their salary for 30 years and it’s tiresome. The national median teacher’s pay in the US is $66,397, compared with a national median income of $54,132. And that’s with a 3 month vacation.
Better yet do away with public education completely. Each person pays for their own kid’s education, then everyone will have their own skin in the game, and if they don’t care it is on them.
None of this is new. Hall monitors at my high school were the city PD
” If your parents found out it got worse.”
The source of the ‘elephant in the room’ - when the angry parents show up, as though their spawn is part of their gang instead of their child.
Class?
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