Posted on 06/06/2021 4:29:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Included in the American Families Plan's $9 billion to address the teacher shortage is money to train, equip and diversify the nation’s teachers. (The overall price tag on Biden's plan is $1.8 trillion.)
The proposed money seeks to increase the number of people who study education and want to enter the field, keep existing teachers from leaving the field and allow existing teachers and professionals from other fields easier and less expensive opportunities to obtain certification for particularly in-demand specialties within teaching.
Nearly a third of the $9 billion would go toward creating and expanding “Grow Your Own” programs, which aim, particularly in areas with large populations of students of color, to recruit, develop and retain teachers who are already in the community, as well as other teacher residency programs.
The proposed money includes $1.6 billion to help increase the pipeline of particularly in-demand educators, like special education teachers and bilingual teachers, as well as $2 billion for support programs, like formal mentorship programs for new teachers and teachers of color, aimed at helping keep existing teachers in the field.
To further address the shortage of teachers of color, Biden is proposing another $400 million to fund teacher preparation programs at historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions.
Only about 20 percent of teachers are teachers of color, while students of color make up more than half of the overall population of all K-12 schools, according to government data.
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Jobs for illegal aliens, you know, jobs that Americans evidently don’t want.
Included in the American Families Plan’s $9 billion to address the teacher shortage is money to train, equip and diversify the nation’s teachers
Huh? I just watched a video last night about home schooling growing by leaps and bounds and public school enrollment is dropping. Last gasp of teacher’s unions?
If you really want to improve children’s education, you don’t hire teachers on the basis of color, sex or any other superficial thing, instead, you hire them strictly on merit. Clearly Biden and his buddies don’t give a crap about improving education.
My wife is a teacher in Northern Virginia and has been teaching for over thirty years. She can’t wait to retire after next year because of all the crap teachers are being asked to teach. Everything is about diversity, trans awareness, racism, etc. Reading, writing and arithmetic take a back seat to all the social engineering nonsense. She said she knows many teachers who are getting out for the same reason.
Democrats... still segregationists.
recruit veterans, those coming out of active duty with incentives for college with agreement to teach.
Low-Tuition Cost Private School Models
Many of our fellow Americans live in areas where leftists have poisoned the school systems.
TRADITIONAL TEACHER MODEL
My primary model would have about twenty kids in a class and a tuition of around $3,500/year/student.
Each teacher would set his/her tuition rate and maximum class size and handle student admission. Homeowner associations might host hook-up events for teachers, parents and prospective students. Tuition might be paid monthly for affordability and two months in advance (so it won’t be problem for the teacher if the parents have a major car repair bill one month).
Men and women who have good English and math skills but lack high-value technical skills might choose to become such teachers.
Teachers might provide their SAT scores and college transcript information to prospective parental customers. Independent certification authorities might thoroughly test the teachers and issue report cards.
Classrooms might be set up in commercial space no longer usable for retail stores because of excessive minimum wages or shrinkage.
A classroom might have four rows of five students each and might be around 1,000 square feet in size.
The curriculum might be based on a traditional state model, a current state model, a proprietary model or the teacher’s own handiwork.
PARENTAL ASSISTANCE MODEL
The Parental Assistance Model would have a parent of each child assist the teacher for a period of two weeks each school year.
The teacher would provide necessary training for the parents during several weekends prior to the school year.
Parents who don’t have the time or skill to fulfill their responsibilities would have to pay and arrange for substitutes. At 35 hours a week for two weeks at $30/hour with employer taxation, hiring a substitute might cost $1050. High-income parents would often seek low-income household parents to substitute, thereby helping the low-income household parents pay tuition.
PARENT TEACHER MODEL
The Parental Teacher Model would be the lowest cost form. It would have a parent of each child be a teacher for a period of two weeks each school year.
Parents looking to participate would obtain the necessary training and certification from a specialized training organization over about 100 classroom hours prior to the school year. This organization or another would obtain and maintain the physical classroom space.
Parents who don’t have the time or skill to fulfill their responsibilities would have to pay or arrange for substitutes.
PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION FUNDING by SCHOOL PROPERTY TAX REBATE
To assist parents in paying tuition and to be fair to the parents, the amount of school taxes they (and perhaps the parents’ parents) pay on their residence(s) might be rebated.
Eventually, rebates might be paid for past year tuition as well, so if parents pay $7,500/year tuition for two kids and $3,000/year in school taxes, the $4,500/year difference could be rebated to the parents in the years after their kids graduate.
It is no longer possible for Republicans to reform systems at the federal level, so Republicans must enact state-level reforms.
many leave because administrators cannot maintain discipline.
Unionized, public schools teachers are the red guard of the left. Brain washing kids into being submissive communists is the goal. All paid for by the tax payer. Stalin and Mao would be jealous to see how the left has gotten Americans to pay, generously, for their own indoctrination.
Must be due to all those racists that don’t like being attacked, robbed and abused by students in “underserved” communities.
Monthly routine criminal and mental background checks on all public school teachers. Plus ankle monitoring devices.
My ex, a teacher, used to come home crying from all the crap. She misses the little kids but that’s about it. We did not want our children to GP into that profession.
Let’s lower the standards even lower than those for “edikashun” degrees. That’ll increase the eddikator pool.
I think we should return to a 2-year training course on teaching of the primary grades - Kindergarten through 4th grade. A four year degree is not necessary.
Teaching is highly inflated as to the educational training needed for the first grades. Just my opinion.
Not really a big deal - birth rates are in freefall in Rat-heavy cities and that plus suburban flight by families means all these big city school districts will be a fraction of the size in 5-10 years. Then consider, this policy will only make the average public school teacher that much worse in terms of caliber of people coming into the profession - which means even more flight out of big city schools.
Teachers Unions and kickbacks are fertile ground for Joey Bribes Biden. It’s for the children doncha know.
No offense to good teachers, but most are lazy people who are not as bright as the kids, only there to indoctrinate children with Marxist and racist bullpoop.
What teacher “shortage” is Dementia Joe blabbering on about?
We need far fewer teachers of the far left, lazy, nasty kind that we have right now.
And thereby abandoning the field to the enemy.
I don't fault your wife's retirement. With over 30 years' service, she's served her time. But the authorities are gutting the profession. This is a death spiral -- either of educational excellence, or the public schools (in favor of a mass migration to private schooling or homeschools). I hope for the latter.
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