Education / Teaching thread

Sun Wukong said
This is flawed thinking. The issue isn't time in the classroom. It's socio-economic, full stop. You could add two months to the school year with the kids I'm dealing with right now and it would improve nothing and in fact would probably make things worse. For them, me, and the school at large. Their academic issues are part of a larger, deeper problem that no one in a classroom setting has the resources or abilities to fix on a meaningful scale.

Yes, yes, yes. It's just easier to blame teachers when the almighty state test scores are not good. We have exactly ZERO control over what happens when the students leave our classroom. We can't go home and help them study. We can't go home and make them get enough sleep. We can't go home and make sure they have food to eat.