For reasons I am not entirely sure of, I have gone back to school to get a masters in elementary education (I was a mergers and acquisitions attorney prior to raising my children). In my Literacy Teaching Methods class this past week, we were told that it is not important to teach grammar, but rather time should be spent teaching children how to write blogs.
There is so, so much wrong with public schools. (Disclaimer: I homeschooled my children)
The government quasi-monopoly education system is completely broken, has been for some time.
One of the silver linings from the Covid cloud is that more people are homeschooling for the first time and some/many will continue doing so when the government schools open back up.
My brother was a robotics engineer. At one point he got laid off for a few weeks and took a job substitute teaching. He loved it and went to school at night to get his “teaching” degree.
He said the classes were mostly a colossal waste of time as he often knew more than the instructors.
He teaches mostly CAD design and other engineering type electives so most of his students want to be in the class. He has nothing but disdain for the administrators. If you can’t do, you teach, if you can’t teach, you become an admin. He homeschools too, as did we.
Great. They can all pimp their blogs here.