Back-to-school season begins with an unprecedented 'catastrophic' teacher shortage (2 Viewers)

The People's Republic of Indianastan cuts the budget of the top 20% performing school districts, and gives the money to the bottom 20%.

Stay mediocre!
Instead of cutting funding for the top 20%, why not simply increase funding for the bottom 20%? That's not gonna bankrupt the state.
 
Instead of cutting funding for the top 20%, why not simply increase funding for the bottom 20%? That's not gonna bankrupt the state.
I think that they want to bankrupt the top performing school districts. I live in a top ten district. The cuts nearly bankrupt us. The town voted to increase property taxes to cover it. Three years later we had to do it again. I imagine that it'll continue on a semi-annual basis.
 
Wow. I mean I am all for investing in the bottom school districts....but why take away from schools who are successful???
bc they want this narrative
They want to couch it as the poor stealing from the rich

also I’d caution against ‘successful vs not’ - it’s not hard to assume that the top 20% had a huge head start to be in that position
 
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I don't know about other schools, but I know Mississippi State has a program with schools in its area where students get time teaching. My nephew is currently in that program.

We have em here.

SELU ( where my child is ) has SELU Lab School
LSU has U High
Southern U has Southern Lab
La Tech
Northwestern

all have own school.

Then they also have "teaching agreements" with other local schools for Junior/Seniors to get real classroom training within the grade level they are looking to teach.

UL does not, but i remember when we toured UL there was talk of it being brought back ( so i assume they had one but closed it )


Went to "Meet the Teacher" night last night for our 8th grader and her Math Teacher is fresh out of SELU ( did his senior year at Lee Rd Junior High ) and now with Hannan. Was glad to hear he was out of SELU ;)
 
You couldn't make this up. This is the panel of a graphic novel (about cooking) that was in a couple of the middle and high schools and triggered the latest moral panic, shutting down the school libraries across the district until all content can be vetted. This is "pornography" infecting our school children. I'll bet every one you in 6th grade could, and did, draw a far more anatomically correct nude chick.

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:smilielol:

The idiots are winning.
 
You couldn't make this up. This is the panel of a graphic novel (about cooking) that was in a couple of the middle and high schools and triggered the latest moral panic, shutting down the school libraries across the district until all content can be vetted. This is "pornography" infecting our school children. I'll bet every one you in 6th grade could, and did, draw a far more anatomically correct nude chick.

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:smilielol:

The idiots are winning.
I’m going to restage The Crucible but instead of the Devil I’m going to make it CRT
 
seems significant

 
Anybody who has been following the issues around education are probably not surprised by this. Perhaps, the degree of it, but not the phenomenon in general. I know that, on these boards alone, I’ve talked about how states typically do nothing or very little to incentivize the profession.

We wonder why we can’t get A certain quality of teacher in the classroom. We wonder why kids are disengaged from school. We wonder why performances are so low. We wonder why there are such gaps across various demographics.

And, even with the answer (or at least part of it) right under our nose. The pay is absolutely abysmal. The treatment, or should I say miss treatment, at the hands of parents and administration is a complete drag on the psyche. Increased class sizes, less autonomy and creativity in the classroom. Increasingly Homogenic instruction. Long hours. The list goes on and on

But, we did not stop at leaving it at that. We decided a change was an order. But, not a change for the better. A change for the worse.

The attack on public education continues and districts are scrambling to find people just to be in a classroom with children, much less teach them. People are attacking school board members and seeking to undermine curriculum through ignorant and deliberately deceptive, malicious agendas. We are no different up here, either. We have racists, bigots, homophobic, trans phobic, and more running for local school boards. They are also sending death threats to school board members who they think disagree with them.

It would be very very difficult to come up with the perfect public education system. But to improve ours, marketly, wouldn’t be that complicated nor that expensive. It would just be a matter of public will, but we don’t have that. People have shown that advocacy can create change, but rather than use that capacity to make things better and more equitable. People with too much time on their hands and hate in their hearts have decided to make it much worse
 
Yeah, I've talked with a few teachers who are friends and it's a recurring theme. Unless they're married to money, for the most part, teaching is a tough, tough career choice. Work long hours, deal with thankless parents who are often butt crevasses, crappy pay and social warriors trying to tell teachers their idiotic takes on how to teach in the classroom. I don't envy teachers, and I don't know how you break this cycle of poor pay making it hard to recruit good teachers and retain experienced ones. For what they get paid, I would never teach unless it was something at the collegiate level.
You aren’t wrong, but this is definitely not what I needed to read on a Monday, with a parent meeting to run tomorrow, haha.
 
They have a PAC here and basically own our school boards. The money discrepancy in campaign money between them and other candidates will leave your mouth agape.

We tried to run a college professor with a PhD in education against one last election cycle, and are running a guy that teaches high school during the day and is a college professor in the evening against one this cycle.


And they do this all in the name of Jesus.

And people vote for them in droves.


Religion is getting scary in this country!
You couldn't make this up. This is the panel of a graphic novel (about cooking) that was in a couple of the middle and high schools and triggered the latest moral panic, shutting down the school libraries across the district until all content can be vetted. This is "pornography" infecting our school children. I'll bet every one you in 6th grade could, and did, draw a far more anatomically correct nude chick.

1660686331270.png

:smilielol:

The idiots are winning.


I remember when I grew up in Sweden, it was normal to have Sex Ed in 3rd and 4th grade. Thats just part of life and there is nothing strange about, people seemed to have turned out just fine!

Here in America, we try to ban it and replace it with visits to strip clubs instead!
 
Religion is getting scary in this country!



I remember when I grew up in Sweden, it was normal to have Sex Ed in 3rd and 4th grade. Thats just part of life and there is nothing strange about, people seemed to have turned out just fine!

Here in America, we try to ban it and replace it with visits to strip clubs instead!
Trade sex Ed for strip clubs seems like a good deal to me. :hihi:


I keed, I keed. :9:

Preemptive...


 
While I miss living in New Orleans, I am glad to be in Texas when it comes to my kids schools. We don’t have to pay to send them to a Catholic school, or pray that they pass a test to get into Ben Franklin, Lusher, or Haynes.

It sucks that you all in Louisiana have to go through this.
 

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