Speaking of teachers

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Long article. Still reading. Waiting for it.

Feb 22, 2018, 1:23 PM

BINGO! They finally got to it. I know more than a few teachers, longtime teachers and some fresh out of college, who enter the profession only to leave because they are not teaching children, but preparing them for standardized tests. I see this in my own son's school. He is in third grade right now, and the WHOLE goal of the school, from the principal to the teachers, is to have third graders prepared to pass the state's reading exam. If a student fails that exam, they are not allowed to progress to fourth grade. So math takes a back seat. ALSO, students who are already well above third grade in their reading skills are basically hung out to dry while teachers spend their time trying to help those students with problems. My son is bored in class all the time in some subjects. He certainly is not being pushed. Few elementary school students are being pushed. The only push is for those who have problems to meet the standards. That's all that matters. And it totally derails the teaching process and screws many kids out of being able to reach their full potential. It also angers teachers when they have to teach for tests, and not to learn. My son will not receive a letter grade until 6th grade. His freaking report card has about 60 different categories of assessment and he gets a 1,2,or 3 in each of the 60 categories. 1 means he does not "meet the requirements", 2 means he meets the requirements, and 3 means he has mastered the requirement. And then to sit and hear the teachers explain that a 2 is fine and that's what they really want. For the kid with all 3's, well, they're bored I promise. And when the standards change, the whole curriculum changes. There is no continuity.

Here....from the article:

The Education Department committee solicited feedback from educators about why teachers leave the profession. Among the 197 responses, the most common complaint, after teacher pay and a lack of classroom support, regarded the demands of assessments and accountability.

"What we know from having taught is not valued, and they’re constantly changing what they think should be taught in the classroom," said former first-grade teacher MaryEllen Woodside, who ended her 40-year teaching career at the Charleston County School District in June. "There's less and less time to do the things that we know matters most at that age."

For Cantrill, teaching was never about the money. He started working for the Berkeley County School District in August 2013, his first teaching gig after earning his master's in secondary social studies education from the University of South Carolina.

A Goose Creek native who attended Berkeley County schools, Cantrill never wavered in his commitment to become a teacher — until he actually started the job. Teaching, Cantrill had long assumed, was a creative profession where instructors had autonomy within their classrooms in what and how they taught their subject areas.

Instead, Cantrill felt increasingly bogged down by competing state and district standards. He found himself spending a lot of time preparing students for an array of standardized tests when he would have rather been teaching material that interested them.

He said he had assumed "the role of robot." By his third year at Cane Bay, Cantrill was weighing different options for his future and perusing job boards online.

"That was really disheartening to me," Cantrill said recently, "and I definitely could not do that for another 30 years."

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with unskilled monitors that supervise kids while they are taught by a remote expert. This insures all kids learn (are indoctrinated) the same across the state. That one master teacher gets paid the big bucks, there are some mid-level lackeys that grade papers and tutor but the majority of the school employees are minimum wage supervisors - they know how to turn on the lights and keep the kids from fornicating and that's about it.

There are already pilot programs across the state under the guise of being able to provide advanced education but you wait - it's coming for the masses.

It will be great though, coaches won't have to go to the trouble of becoming certified teachers.

https://www.scgssm.org/academics/virtual-accelerate

Speaking of teachers

sounds good except for the

Long article. Still reading. Waiting for it.

Which then leads to the high schoolers I have

Lol. That's easy. Try repeal an environmental law

Just use the word explain

Getting us ready for remote instruction

Re: Getting us ready for remote instruction

AKA, AAU right?***

Just the whole travel ball mentality

It's killing rec ball.

Had a kid getting recruited hard

Yep***

Same goes for college majors that are basically vocational

Heck, in that case just Youtube it.

Kids should be able to pass the standardized tests...

But they are not. And that impacts funding.

Re: Speaking of teachers

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