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Posted on 11/24/2025 7:53:25 AM PST by simpson96
I used to think that teachers were so much smarter than the rest of us. I used to think that principals were even smarter than teachers. But I was wrong. I just got a look at the testimony of an Oregon elementary school principal before a local school board meeting, and it occurred to me that she must have missed most of her history and civics classes during more than 12 years of state school indoctrination.
She lamented seeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers run operations and arrest people who are wanted on criminal warrants and illegally in the country, and she warned the board that it won't be long before it's rail spurs and ovens time.
"As a child, I was fascinated by World War II and read all of the stories about the holocaust, and we are entering similar territory," Principal Laura Mannon of Echo Shaw Elementary told the Forest Grove School Board, in hopes of passing herself off as an expert. “I felt like I was watching a George Floyd video — George Floyd is my friend."
"What ICE is doing," she passionately told the board, "is like the gestapo of Nazi, Germany." And then she had the temerity to say, "That is not an overstatement."
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If she's saying it out loud, we're sure Principal Mannon has conveyed this point of view to all of her staff and students and infused her schools' curricula with it.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
“ Retired urban high school teacher here. My degree is in chemistry.”
For high schools, I would abolish any Ed School requirement and hire people with degrees in that subject. I would particularly hire people with experience teaching community college classes, or other college teaching experience.
It’s really important that a prospective high school teacher first apprentice under a master teacher.
Here’s why. I taught for a time with another science teacher who had considerable industry experience. He became a teacher under an emergency program.
He was a nice guy, and very knowledgeable. He was also a terrible teacher. Just terrible. Every class was a lecture. Get it, or don’t. That can work in college, but not in high school. Because in high school much of your audience doesn’t want to be there.
So in high school you have to add motivation techniques. And add examples for the lower end of the class. Stuff like that.
If my colleague had watched a master teacher for six months first, he probably would have been a much better teacher.
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Try and keep up, here in Oregon you don't have to pass anything, in fact I don't think you even have to attend anymore.
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