Posted on 07/15/2015 4:11:04 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
One thing about teaching that is easy for parents, policy-makers and others to forget is that working with students for hours every weekday to help them learn is very, very hard work. Even in the best of schools and even with supportive administrators, teachers have unrelenting jobs. In recent years, a growing number of teachers have found that reforms which force them to test students more than ever, collect more data than ever and attend more meetings than ever, are making the job literally impossible.
That’s what happened to Scott Ervin, who has worked as a teacher, principal and discipline specialist over the last 15 years. Ervin loved working with at-risk students, and for years requested that the most difficult be placed in his class. But in this post, Ervin explains why he is quitting his job as a third-grade teacher at Fairborn Primary School in Ohio.
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Kasich
Another “Get along to go along” Republican.
Another “Get along to go along” Republican.
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Kasich won’t make it to the debates thankfully.
Back when schools seemed to function, many decades ago, I get the impression that the way things worked was:
1) The principal had hire/fire authority on the teachers.
2) The principal could be fired by the school board, the mayor, or whoever else was in charge.
Nothing will really change as long as the teachers have union protection, and are subject to affirmative-action quotas.
Nothing will really change as long as the teachers have union protection, and are subject to affirmative-action quotas.
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Unions are a bad deal for teachers. In Wisconsin, after it became a right to work state, many dropped the union.
In the eighties Kentucky reformed their schools changing from the pursuit of excellence to the pursuit of mediocrity. They started taking anything of a competitive nature out, even such things as academic competitions. The Spelling Bees were on the chopping block but they are sponsored by an outside organization, I think it was the national organization of Mechanical Engineers, who had enough clout to keep it going. Some say a future goal was to close down sports, but that would take a lot of years, a lot of conditioning of minds to do. Many old teachers couldn’t change and retired, many early retirements. Maybe that was one of the goals - to be rid of the traditional teachers and stock up with new, liberal trained teachers.
I agree with everything you said up to the last sentence. The central planning purposes of government schooling appear to be greasing the skids to hell more effectively than the planners’ wildest dreams could have imagined.
I thought you said the schools weren't teaching them anything and that all learning takes place in the home.
You can't have it both ways.
Teachers are just foot soldiers in the leftist army and all soldiers complain.
They are the ultimate whiners.
So.. sparing them the company of lunatics punishes them somehow?
I'd think that most folks would prefer not having to associate with lunatics.
Your history is a bit off. Compulsory government schooling was the brainchild of Protestant central planners who wanted to indoctrinate Low Country Catholics into the Protestant work ethic and values. It worked, but was hijacked by Progs because they took control of urban areas. Keep in mind that it was designed to indoctrinate from the beginning. That’s the Devil’s work to force a man’s mind instead of letting consequences lead the man.
Central planning is the Devil’s work so I’m not surprised.
Re: Doctors
Relatively few doctors work directly for the government, unlike teachers. Although the **private** insurance that pays ( except for medicaid and medicare) them is highly regulated by the government, most doctors work in private settings and organize themselves into private practices.
Last time I checked when doctors commit malpractice they are sued **big time**! When this happens it is reported to the medical licensing board and they seriously risk losing their license to practice and/or their hospital privileges. They also risk losing the ability to buy malpractice insurance. Few doctors want to do go through that, and also they are under the scrutiny of other doctors and the hospital that grants them privileges.
It is this system of multiple check guards that makes our system of mostly privately delivered medical care among the safest and most advanced in the world.
So?....How does this apply to teaching?
Imagine if teachers organized themselves into private practices in a manner similar to attorneys, CPA’s, dentists, physical therapists, optometrists, and physicians.
Experienced teachers would be the owner/partners and would make the big bucks. They would hire newly graduated associates. They would supervise the work of the associates and the best would later buy the practice or become partners.
Teachers are not very bright. If they **really** wanted to make money in the 6 figures, they would **act** like professionals and organize themselves like other real professionals do.
Yes, you are correct.
Public schooling had anti-Catholic roots.
That's the schedule kept by the **real** professionals I know.
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