O good friend of my father recently retired from teaching Science in public high school. He had his fill. He was called to the Principal and Superintendent’s office many times because he too many students were failing his class.
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Good for you! You and your friend were honest.
The other teachers who give inflated grades are liars.
The principals who demand it are liars.
The teachers who cooperate with this corrupt system are liars.
My Dad retired for teaching 10 years ago.
He became very tired of being a parent as he had already raised 3 children.
Kids were unprepared for his class from prior grades and he ended up re-teaching basic ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-level concepts in 7th and 8th grade.
Took his pension and blew out, he will never enter a classroom as a teacher as long as he lives.
The ag town he lived in rural Ohio, due to illegal immigration became a cesspool of gangs and garbage, the old stock of UK/Germanic/Scandanavian farm kids that used to go to good colleges (some even Ivy Leaguers and a lot of OSU) were now being passed without learning anything. Teachers were forced to pass unruly kids and deal with “urban” problems they, for 150 years, had never dealt with. He was used to helping someone win the State Science Fair, build a rocket, work with fish/plants/animals for ag research (we also had a working farm) and knew our neighbors and church goers.
He was very sad to leave the small, rural school where so many of his students re-visited him after HS and college graduation. He now looked at grafitti and test scores a full 25% lower than in the 1980’s...
My Dad retired for teaching 10 years ago.
He became very tired of being a parent as he had already raised 3 children.
Kids were unprepared for his class from prior grades and he ended up re-teaching basic ELEMENTARY SCHOOL-level concepts in 7th and 8th grade.
Took his pension and blew out, he will never enter a classroom as a teacher as long as he lives.
The ag town he lived in rural Ohio, due to illegal immigration became a cesspool of gangs and garbage, the old stock of UK/Germanic/Scandanavian farm kids that used to go to good colleges (some even Ivy Leaguers and a lot of OSU) were now being passed without learning anything. Teachers were forced to pass unruly kids and deal with “urban” problems they, for 150 years, had never dealt with. He was used to helping someone win the State Science Fair, build a rocket, work with fish/plants/animals for ag research (we also had a working farm) and knew our neighbors and church goers.
He was very sad to leave the small, rural school where so many of his students re-visited him after HS and college graduation. He now looked at grafitti and test scores a full 25% lower than in the 1980’s...
You may be right (if a bit harsh), but the reality is - in some schools, you either give the grades you are told to give, or you don’t have a job. If your desire is to teach, and you are pushed out the door because you were not a “team player”, it is quite difficult to find another teaching job.
That being said - the entire public schools system is so corrupt and broken that I believe there is no way to fix it in its current form. Yes, administrators lie, schools lie, and some teachers lie. But the majority of teachers I have known have been honest people who were placed in a very difficult position.
IT is called being “between a rock and a hard place’.
What else do you expect from something run by a leftist union?