Education / Teaching thread (3 Viewers)

[guidomerkinsrules]

Arizona Regulators Closed a Failing Charter School. It Reopened as a Private Religious School Funded by Taxpayers.

Arizona’s acclaimed voucher program provides zero transparency into private schools’ history, academic performance or financial sustainability to help parents make informed school choices.

www.propublica.org

 

[saintmdterps]

Landry benefits in no way from better educated Louisiana voters.

I don't so much think its about making schools private, it's about making schools bible schools instead of places to really be educated. If he has to make them private to do it he will, but the goal is more about a pacified electorate that won't question his, and his supporters, backward views than about taking things private.

Yup. Removing actual science, true history, and critical thinking from school curriculums paves the way for true stupidity. I hate to say it but I really hope to be living in a different country before this mushroom cloud and a crater really hits.

 

[Sailorsaint]

Arizona Regulators Closed a Failing Charter School. It Reopened as a Private Religious School Funded by Taxpayers.

Arizona’s acclaimed voucher program provides zero transparency into private schools’ history, academic performance or financial sustainability to help parents make informed school choices.

www.propublica.org

How do you justify a private religion based school being funded by tax dollars?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

How do you justify a private religion based school being funded by tax dollars?

*stares blankly in louisiana*

 

[DaveXA]

How do you justify a private religion based school being funded by tax dollars?

Separation of church and state only when it suits them, right?

 

[Sailorsaint]

We really are in a downward spiral, education wise. It’s no wonder most people get their facts from social media. We are living in a dumpster fire that is only just getting started.

 

[Sun Wukong]

I don't want to go into too much detail because nothing is set in stone yet, but there's a very good chance that this will be my final year and I'm getting out. It's a big move (not the kind I usually make) and not without risk, and is a pretty big life reset in my early 40's, but this year has just proven to me I can't keep doing it. This career has taken too much from me and I can't be miserable for scraps while catching sheet from all directions anymore.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I don't want to go into too much detail because nothing is set in stone yet, but there's a very good chance that this will be my final year and I'm getting out. It's a big move (not the kind I usually make) and not without risk, and is a pretty big life rest in my early 40's, but this year has just proven to me I can't keep doing it. This career has taken too much from me and I can't be miserable for scraps while catching sheet from all directions anymore.

I know you've been thinking about it - wish you all the best

 

[Sailorsaint]

I don't want to go into too much detail because nothing is set in stone yet, but there's a very good chance that this will be my final year and I'm getting out. It's a big move (not the kind I usually make) and not without risk, and is a pretty big life rest in my early 40's, but this year has just proven to me I can't keep doing it. This career has taken too much from me and I can't be miserable for scraps while catching sheet from all directions anymore.

I gotta tell you, I don’t see how teachers with a conscience do it. I’m sure it takes a lot out of you and the low pay certainly doesn’t help. Hats off to you and those like you for trying to make a difference.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I gotta tell you, I don’t see how teachers with a conscience do it. I’m sure it takes a lot out of you and the low pay certainly doesn’t help. Hats off to you and those like you for trying to make a difference.

I know i'm a unicorn in this dynamic but in my 23 years teaching (5 at university, 18 in high school), there have only been 2-3 years that I didn't feel fulfilled (not sure if that's the right word, but close enough)
and what problems there are always involves admin, it's never the kids (for me)

 

[saintmdterps]

I don't want to go into too much detail because nothing is set in stone yet, but there's a very good chance that this will be my final year and I'm getting out. It's a big move (not the kind I usually make) and not without risk, and is a pretty big life reset in my early 40's, but this year has just proven to me I can't keep doing it. This career has taken too much from me and I can't be miserable for scraps while catching sheet from all directions anymore.

You’ve alluded to some tough sledding. It’s so difficult when you start out in a career with lofty and hopeful aspirations, only to have the landscape change under your feet.

Please take care of yourself, we all wish you well.

 

[Brock Meaux]

I don't want to go into too much detail because nothing is set in stone yet, but there's a very good chance that this will be my final year and I'm getting out. It's a big move (not the kind I usually make) and not without risk, and is a pretty big life reset in my early 40's, but this year has just proven to me I can't keep doing it. This career has taken too much from me and I can't be miserable for scraps while catching sheet from all directions anymore.

I'm in the middle of year 17 and I don't know if I have another 13 in me to make it to 30. I don't know if my job will exist by the end of that time based on the scrutiny and pressure public schools are facing here, and I dread the idea of starting over. Charters are opening all over and draining what little money we do have. The public in my area won't vote for new taxes to pay us better or improve facilities. There are constant whispers about closing/combining schools.

I love my kids, and if all I had to do was show up, teach band, and go home when the bell rings it would be great, but stuff that happens outside of the classroom and outside of school hours are the things that would make it a fairly simple choice for me if someone offered me $70k a year to work a 9-5 office job when I don't clear $50k doing the job I'm degreed to do.