Americans used to be smart and logical and tough. The teachers did this ultimately. The unions are refusing to follow the law or the Constitution. I think the entirety of teacher's unions should be deemed enemy combatants. Teachers should quit now, en masse, or be deemed enemies of the state. That is all.
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IMO - It starts with openness... If your district doesn't have an open door policy, be more afraid. As a teacher, I have had other teachers close their classroom door to me. Those who are more seem to have less to hide.
CRT? Blessedly I have not had to fight this fight.
Teachers have less and less control over what is taught. Here is a scenario I had my first few years: 1) Students are having a hard time reading. District requires I teach their F&P teaching program. ( F&P summary - teach context clues to decode unknown words ). Student is then taken out of the class for reading recovery. Student misses part of another class (often science, which is fun). Student is able to make measurable gains with a lot of effort. 2) Student can not read well enough to do math word problems. I then have to find ways to help the student understand what we are doing at a lower reading level. 3) Student starts to learn they have problems with reading and math, they miss science, and start hating school. 4) Student acts out frustration and gets into trouble. I then: have a meetings with the principal, dean of students, reading specialists, math specialists and parents to uodate our progress
...(post locked on my phone)... Long story short: I spend hours outside of class supporting a reading program that does not help. Finally I figured out how to use the F&P program in a way that allowed me time to reach students with different programs, that I learned on my own time, and bought with my own dime.
IMO - the whole "American students are falling behind" is engineered to happen. "Best practices" in teaching support either a book printer, or learning system. The "teaching field" had been corrupted from the top down.
I know this is a Q board, but I believe the Cabal knows they can make it hard to teach by putting enough hurdles in place. In my experience: the best teachers "add onto" the approved curriculum to teach their students. Another tangent "No child left behind" takes students who could benefit in special education and places them in the classroom. Imagine doing a great job with 25 3rd graders, and having reading abilities from 1st - 5th grade in the same class. One group is reading "Where the Red Fern Grows" and the lowest group is looking for Waldo...
Vicious unproductive cycle with measurements that do not address the main issues. Yep. Big schools, like big government, are wasteful and completely corrupt systems. Please start a home school and get 5 or 6 students. We pay 7500 per kid for 3 of them already 8n private. You can make a living outside the system. If we abandon the control system, control loosens. At least that seems logical.
I am waiting until my kids are both 18. I have a fee years left. I might give it a go then. 7500 and state subsidies might work out. One of my goals would be small class sizes to ensure teachers have more time per child.