Posted on 11/30/2021 8:05:51 PM PST by blueplum
I live in a county with two high schools along with the feeder middle and elementary schools. They also have a large office building full of administrators. I feel anger as I pass it each day with its large parking lot full of shiny cars.
I too subscribe to the thought that the more non-teaching employees the poorer the education level. Let the teachers teach. Get out of their way!
Home schoolers ought to look at those if they haven’t. They’re a great resource.
BTW, that money likely wasn’t for students’ benefit. I’m thinking the teachers’ pension fund/s.
Nice post. Was the one room school house circa 1910 as I would guess from your post? I’ve heard from old timers that things in general started to go down hill after WW I.
Ivy League Intellectuals, while hard to impress, are not necessarily that impressive when it comes to intellectual breadth, and they are, so far as I can tell, getting worse in this way. (I speak as the product of a small rural Oregon grade school, and to a lesser but still important extent, Cornell University).
Teachers all across the country are hugely demoralized. These vast top heavy administrations all need something to do and frequently visit classrooms to make sure teachers are doing the latest fad.
Teachers are leaving the profession in droves. My sister tells me every week how many have quit at her school starting shortly after the new school year started. Contracts are usually late getting g sent to teachers and they get signed in August or September. Then a couple months later the teacher says “I can’t take this sh!t any longer…I QUIT!”
Normally you’d expect teachers to switch to another school, but many, if not most, are leaving teaching altogether. And it is frequently the new teachers who have been working less than five years who leave the profession. Imagine all the time and schooling you have invested only to flush that all career development away after being in the real world only a couple years! It is that bad.
The worst thing I’d the huge top heavy administrations blame all these problems on the teachers themselves.
The majority on a three-judge panel sided with a request by State Controller Linda Combs that it prevent Superior Court Judge David Lee’s order from being enforced... Appeals court Judges Chris Dillon and Jefferson Griffin declared Tuesday that Lee erred by stating a portion of the constitution addressing the right to education amounted to “an ongoing constitutional appropriation of funds.”...
Lee is unfit for the bench, so is the nimrod on the panel who agreed with Lee.
“... hugely demoralized....”
Many, many are demoralized and leaving because of undisciplined students, administrations failing to back up teachers, same thing for parents who put down a teacher rather than taking a switch to their kid.
Plus the huge increase of violence towards teachers by students. And you wouldn’t believe the foul language hurled at teachers every day. My sister actually has some of the good kids come to her defense and they tell off the miscreants.
The administrations totally fail to back up the teachers. The kids are always right and they know how to play that game with deadly ease and precision. The stories my sister tells about lying kids intentionally getting teachers they don’t like in trouble are unbelievably shocking. The administrations will side with the kids and get rid of the teacher and never discipline the kids.
Education is a major cesspool these days (and the past decades).
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