True enough, vouchers would help alleviate those costs. I taught 29 years. My first year teaching I was a “floater”. I moved from one classroom to the next, taking each teacher’s room during their conference period. Oh, and I taught physical science and biology and coached middle school kids for 2 class periods. I had to cart my lab equipment/demonstration items from one classroom to the next. I had no room for my conference period, just a computer in the science storage hallway. That’s because our school district was growing and they had to add a science/math wing onto the high school. Yeah, I know exactly what happens when a school district has a huge jump in enrollment.
Tech!! Loved using it; at the end of my career I was using the Notability app for getting my content across through my iPad and mirroring it to large HDTV mounted on the front wall. That was so awesome. I started out teaching with blackboards and chalk and overhead projectors. Our school still had a ditto machine when I first started. 🤣
Our school had projectors in every classroom and the teachers could cast their iMac or their iPad to the screen.
We ran a mixed Windows / Apple environment so getting all of the platforms to talk was a challenge at times.
They started moving into smart displays and replacing the projectors, which was a great move forward.
I remember using the mimiograph machine to help my dad make copies for his classroom.
You had to crank it at just the right speed or the copies would be too high or too low on the page.
I was talking about if parents had vouchers to spend at good schools, those schools would have the money to expand.
It all starts with vouchers.
My dad taught elementary for over 30 years, and I worked at a school for 10 years so I know about how schools operate.
True enough, vouchers would help alleviate those costs. I taught 29 years. My first year teaching I was a “floater”. I moved from one classroom to the next, taking each teacher’s room during their conference period. Oh, and I taught physical science and biology and coached middle school kids for 2 class periods. I had to cart my lab equipment/demonstration items from one classroom to the next. I had no room for my conference period, just a computer in the science storage hallway. That’s because our school district was growing and they had to add a science/math wing onto the high school. Yeah, I know exactly what happens when a school district has a huge jump in enrollment.
I was never in the classroom, I was an IT supervisor in a school before I retired.
But yeah, most school systems are horribly mismanaged and they spend money on the wrong things.
Tech!! Loved using it; at the end of my career I was using the Notability app for getting my content across through my iPad and mirroring it to large HDTV mounted on the front wall. That was so awesome. I started out teaching with blackboards and chalk and overhead projectors. Our school still had a ditto machine when I first started. 🤣
You went from the cave man days to modern tech.
Our school had projectors in every classroom and the teachers could cast their iMac or their iPad to the screen.
We ran a mixed Windows / Apple environment so getting all of the platforms to talk was a challenge at times.
They started moving into smart displays and replacing the projectors, which was a great move forward.
I remember using the mimiograph machine to help my dad make copies for his classroom. You had to crank it at just the right speed or the copies would be too high or too low on the page.
Good times.