It’s unreasonable to expect people to do multiple things at the same time. In other words, either you’re a juvenile detention school youth leader who’s responsible for crowd control of the surly and uncooperative or else you’re an academic tutor. You can’t really do both jobs at the same time especially if you’re not allowed to physically restrain belligerent kids not to mention even qualified to do that assuming you’ve got no police training in the first place. I can get onboard with mass education. What I can’t get onboard with is one size fits all schooling of the massively oppositional and defiant. The schools are now at least five or six steps away from what formerly did actually work prior to the 1970s so you have multiple layers of screw-ups which need to be rectified prior to making the job of teaching school even doable, let alone palatable for anyone other than an imbecile who’s just looking for a pension thirty years hence. A pension which incidentally they will in all probability never collect since the job is not longer doable by normal people.
I think the real tragedy about this recent exodus of veteran teachers is that the new ones coming in are being indoctrinated with ridiculous ideas at the post-secondary level, and they, in turn, will bring those to the kids. I have witnessed it myself. Kids come to me and tell me the stories from other Social Studies or English classes where they feel as though they are not allowed to speak their minds with those teachers. If they do, the teacher very politely reject their thoughts because they "don't fit with today's societal norms". (Yes, that's a direct quote.) I am very glad that my son is out of school, and that we could always talk about what was going on at school, so he doesn't get swayed by the mob. He considers what is said before he accepts or rejects the premise. Unfortunately, we see that post-secondary does not want that sort of critical thinking any longer. What a sad state of affairs we find ourselves witnessing these days.
28 years and counting…I’ve never thought of my position as a teacher a “job.” It’s a career, a commitment and a meaningful way to give back to society. Good luck!
I quit not too long ago. 10 years. My biggest regret is spending too much time in the job. I try now to keep people out of it now.
It’s unreasonable to expect people to do multiple things at the same time. In other words, either you’re a juvenile detention school youth leader who’s responsible for crowd control of the surly and uncooperative or else you’re an academic tutor. You can’t really do both jobs at the same time especially if you’re not allowed to physically restrain belligerent kids not to mention even qualified to do that assuming you’ve got no police training in the first place. I can get onboard with mass education. What I can’t get onboard with is one size fits all schooling of the massively oppositional and defiant. The schools are now at least five or six steps away from what formerly did actually work prior to the 1970s so you have multiple layers of screw-ups which need to be rectified prior to making the job of teaching school even doable, let alone palatable for anyone other than an imbecile who’s just looking for a pension thirty years hence. A pension which incidentally they will in all probability never collect since the job is not longer doable by normal people.
Thank you so much for this video
I think the real tragedy about this recent exodus of veteran teachers is that the new ones coming in are being indoctrinated with ridiculous ideas at the post-secondary level, and they, in turn, will bring those to the kids.
I have witnessed it myself. Kids come to me and tell me the stories from other Social Studies or English classes where they feel as though they are not allowed to speak their minds with those teachers. If they do, the teacher very politely reject their thoughts because they "don't fit with today's societal norms". (Yes, that's a direct quote.)
I am very glad that my son is out of school, and that we could always talk about what was going on at school, so he doesn't get swayed by the mob. He considers what is said before he accepts or rejects the premise.
Unfortunately, we see that post-secondary does not want that sort of critical thinking any longer.
What a sad state of affairs we find ourselves witnessing these days.
Planning is important. What courses did you take?
I left the classroom after 23 years in ed. Totally agree, the system is broken. What are you doing now? Remote work?
In her video, she said that she is working remotely at an educator professional development company
What’s Ed-tech?
28 years and counting…I’ve never thought of my position as a teacher a “job.” It’s a career, a commitment and a meaningful way to give back to society. Good luck!