Doc Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 13 minutes ago, B-Man said: Can't you see that this doesn't work. Lebron James' school failing proved definitively that it's not a money issue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando Buffalo Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 I was speaking with two other teachers this week who also have successful children and we all see something similar, we have an inverse bell curve of intelligence. Kids who are smart are pushed to be smarter and kids who are not as smart are told by parents not to worry about it, hollowing out the middle portion. My average test scores generally are about 70% but half the scores with be 90%+ and half below 50% with little in between. None of it is along racial or gender lines, simply some parents don't care. Separately My first period is 24 kids and 3 will not stand for the pledge, all three are not immigrants, all three complain I don't help them enough, and all three have parents who give no repercussion for not doing homework. I will add that they are only three that complain I don't help. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JFKjr Posted Tuesday at 01:07 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 01:07 PM Glad the Dept of Indoctrination is leaving! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All_Pro_Bills Posted Tuesday at 01:13 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 01:13 PM 3 minutes ago, JFKjr said: Glad the Dept of Indoctrination is leaving! Another important situation to address is the control of public school teachers unions over the education system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando Buffalo Posted yesterday at 01:30 AM Share Posted yesterday at 01:30 AM 12 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said: Another important situation to address is the control of public school teachers unions over the education system. This is a state issue, not federal, so unless he wants to make teacher unions illegal, he can't do much. The ending of the dept and making the only federal function to be a Clearinghouse of information of which states are doing better will do wonders 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgrochester55 Posted yesterday at 02:17 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:17 AM (edited) I do not know if what Trump has in mind will work, but I do know that what we have in place now is not working. We all know that the US is less competitive than ever academically, but it is even more than that. I have heard countless horror stories from various people both personally and online on how ineffective schools are including teachers and admins in school districts. If you have one or two disruptive kids, everything slows down at the others kids expense to coddle them. Entitled and bratty kids rule the roost and teachers cannot do a thing. Much higher ratios of functionally illiterate kids in middle school and high school. Teacher are taking retirement as soon as they are able and school have made teaching less enticed by changing pension qualifications from 20 to 40 years and replacing previously good health benefits with the same high deductible junk that most of us are stuck with. If I was a college student, why would I want to be a teacher now? Edited yesterday at 02:18 AM by dgrochester55 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Big Blitz Posted yesterday at 04:07 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 04:07 AM The integration of common core math has set back a generation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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