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[RazorOye]

We are teaching "In the Blink of an Eye" (by Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf). Was able to meet him and talk to him about the book and lots of other things. It has been... controversial.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

We are teaching "In the Blink of an Eye" (by Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf). Was able to meet him and talk to him about the book and lots of other things. It has been... controversial.

I watched the recent documentary
Hadn’t heard of the book- might check it out

 

[bonnjer]

So we've heard the state's plan on teacher raises and why they aren't included in the budget. Here's the other side of the story:

Tell the Senate to Support Teachers & School Employees

The Louisiana House of Representatives has passed a budget that does not include any funding for teacher and school employee raises. Despite outcry from our state’s educators, the Louisiana House of Representatives chose to prioritize pet project and a marginal increase in debt repayment...

actionnetwork.org

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

This could go many places- and it’s ‘mostly’ about higher ed - but it’s also the direction of many charter schools

 

[bonnjer]

I missed this the other day. Anything to not have to raise pay to attract more teachers, right?

Louisiana lawmakers consider softer qualifications to attract more uncertified teachers • Louisiana Illuminator

Lawmakers are considering lowering teacher qualifications in Louisiana to bring more applicants into the system without raising salaries.

lailluminator.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I missed this the other day. Anything to not have to raise pay to attract more teachers, right?

Louisiana lawmakers consider softer qualifications to attract more uncertified teachers • Louisiana Illuminator

Lawmakers are considering lowering teacher qualifications in Louisiana to bring more applicants into the system without raising salaries.

lailluminator.com

You sell them short a bit- this is also an excellent opportunity to backdoor culture warriors to battle pronouns are whatever enemy they’re making up atm

 

[Sun Wukong]

You sell them short a bit- this is also an excellent opportunity to backdoor culture warriors to battle pronouns are whatever enemy they’re making up atm

They won't be around long enough for that to matter. There's a reason most people that set foot onto this career path run screaming from it in less than three years.

As long as we refuse to address the underlying maladies with public education, you're not going to find people who want to do this. Certified. Uncertified. It won't matter.

 

[Eeyore]

It's Missouri so...

Springfield Student Who Recorded Teacher Using Racial Slur Suspended

Mary Walton says her teacher used the slur multiple times before she started recording

www.riverfronttimes.com

 

[Sun Wukong]

It's Missouri so...

Springfield Student Who Recorded Teacher Using Racial Slur Suspended

Mary Walton says her teacher used the slur multiple times before she started recording

www.riverfronttimes.com

Another example of public education being dumbarses about their rules. Kid should be celebrated for exposing trash.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

It's Missouri so...

Springfield Student Who Recorded Teacher Using Racial Slur Suspended

Mary Walton says her teacher used the slur multiple times before she started recording

www.riverfronttimes.com

In the video, a teacher whose identity has not been revealed is heard asking why Black people can use the n-word but it is offensive if other people do it.

geometry teacher - trying to figure out how we get from the pythagorean theorem to the n-word - new math?

anyway, the school seems to be exposing itself to a world of hurt - indicating that students are not allowed to protect themselves
my guess is that an already cash-strapped system (assuming because obviously) is about to be made to pay

 

[brandon8283]

You sell them short a bit- this is also an excellent opportunity to backdoor culture warriors to battle pronouns are whatever enemy they’re making up atm

With a dab of "see, you don't need college to be successful! Go to trade school! Plumbers make $150k 2 years out of high school!", thus ensuring the next generation is less educated than the one before it, and votes accordingly.

 

[Sun Wukong]

In the video, a teacher whose identity has not been revealed is heard asking why Black people can use the n-word but it is offensive if other people do it.

geometry teacher - trying to figure out how we get from the pythagorean theorem to the n-word - new math?

anyway, the school seems to be exposing itself to a world of hurt - indicating that students are not allowed to protect themselves
my guess is that an already cash-strapped system (assuming because obviously) is about to be made to pay

I was talking to a colleague the other day about how school systems take massive L's in lawsuits on the regular. It's actually kind of amazing how many of their beloved policies and regulations have no leg to stand on at all or are just so egregiously stupid that the second someone in the real world looks at them the reaction is basically "lol this is forkin idiotic."

 

[Sun Wukong]

With a dab of "see, you don't need college to be successful! Go to trade school! Plumbers make $150k 2 years out of high school!", thus ensuring the next generation is less educated than the one before it, and votes accordingly.

Telling every kid to go to college was one of the worst things public education ever did. It created life crippling debt for people who never needed to have it to begin with.

 

[DavidM]

They won't be around long enough for that to matter. There's a reason most people that set foot onto this career path run screaming from it in less than three years.

As long as we refuse to address the underlying maladies with public education, you're not going to find people who want to do this. Certified. Uncertified. It won't matter.

I am certain that the profession played a big part in my Mom's death.

She spent many years teaching high school English, and in some especially challenging settings. She eventually left the classroom to become a school librarian at a middle school. Different title, younger students, many of the same challenges. Over the years, she was honest about how much worse behavioral issues had become and how little she felt supported by parents, administrators, and the local and state educational boards. She had friends leave the profession, to do absolutely anything else, out of utter burnout.

About four months before she made it to retirement, she suffered a stroke, followed by a series of smaller strokes and heart attacks while on life support. Against very long odds, she survived but spent the remaining four years of her life bedridden in a nursing facility.

When I hear people talk about how easy teachers have it and how much how free time they have, I think about my worn-out Mom talking to parents, making lesson plans, and grading papers and exams well into the night. Summers involved workshops, seminars, and various school obligations, but I wouldn't have blamed her if she just slept through June and July. Many of her colleagues worked second jobs to supplement their incomes so they could make ends meet.

The teachers who somehow still pour themselves into a profession that grinds people down, in a society that mostly couldn't care less, are actual everyday heroes. Given how important and defining education is, it shouldn't be a system that has to depend on the heroic efforts of unheralded and unsupported professionals.