Education / Teaching thread

bonnjer said

This week has been excruciatingly long. Kicked it off with the storm system from hell, benchmark testing (forking waste of time) all week, and right before Christmas / end of semester so they're extra wild. Two more days next week and I pray for high absentee rates both days.

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Teaching to the test is one of the true barriers to actually teaching. These testing companies bribe their way into school systems via state and federal legislators then the true educators are stuck with a curriculum that does not actually educate the children.

Same as healthcare, those at the top are not educators or clinicians, but rather bean counters and lobbyists who have no idea what is truly involved in education or health care. They sold their souls to the highest bidder.