Bagster
Posted on 05/03/2018 3:25:54 AM PDT by ImaGraftedBranch
Terrible article
Ping!
Bagster
Salaries are less of a problem than pensions and health bennies.
Teachers, no matter how good, have become unaffordable.
For later.
I remember sitting in a 9th-grade math class in 1974, and the idiot teacher could not get formula-type algebra (basic stuff) across to the group. We were supposed to spend no more than three weeks on this chapter, and move on, with a big test. At the end four weeks, less than sixty percent of the group were grasping this. We wasted another two entire weeks on the subject, with only three-quarters of the group understanding this. The teacher just gave up, and skipped a chapter or two for something else.
The next year...different school....different book...different type teacher. We were simply handed the book, and advanced on our own speed. The book was well-designed and made sense. At the end of each chapter, we tested, and proceed on. The teacher was just there to answer one-on-one questions.
I put a great deal of the fault in the marginal skills upon poor math books and individuals who should never have been math teachers.
I watched a German documentary ten years ago...a baker trying to hire 15-year old apprentice kids. Like this guy mentioned....the baker had gone to two tests. One was about proportions and adding/subtracting. The other was a 10-question current events test. Out of fifteen kids who applied, and he could have hired five....he had only one kid with appropriate math skills (something you need as a baker), and that one kid marginally passed the current events test.
The whole system has turned into a failure...it’s just a baby-sitter service that hands out certificates.
Chicago, Chicago, that ‘codding’ town.
The author’s two tests reminds me of requiring a standard company job application had to be completed by the applicant on site, no take homes IOW. The jobs were definitely blue-collar but still needed some level of literacy to understand work instructions and blueprints.
FACTS...can be such a horrible truth.
Why is it a terrible article? Does the truth hurt?
My son is a High School History teacher. He admitted to me that while his Major in History served him well, a degree in education is worthless.
>>The other was a 10-question current events test. Out of fifteen kids who applied, and he could have hired five....he had only one kid with appropriate math skills (something you need as a baker), and that one kid marginally passed the current events test.
I don’t know that anyone could pass a current events test these days.
I don’t watch the tv news (haven’t in over 10 years) and haven’t even watched anything on the national or local networks in that time either.
I don’t read any daily print edition newspaper. I may thumb through 2 copies of them in a year tops (waiting at someone’s home while visiting or at a doctor’s office).
I skim and read and reply on FR most days.
But the articles that make it to FR are not the headlines that I see pimped by MSN.com (default page on browsers at work so I see it “land” there numerous times on dozens of systems in a day) or by Facebook (what latest DNC spawned “outrage” headline they are pimping as trending).
Mix in a rejection of the myths and money of the man-made global warming scam, the rejection of the bad science of “we are all poly now”, and the rejection of the “Trump and his supporters are literally Hitler and man-in-the-clouds believing Pence is even worse!” news, I would probably fail most any “current events” test an employer would make me submit to.
I teach and my insurance costs $250 a month, just for me. If I were to include my family in my insurance plan it would be a little over $950 per month. I’ve never heard of teachers getting 100% free insurance. Would I like to be paid more? Of course. Who wouldn’t? I’m not protesting at the state capital though. We don’t unionize in my state either. so the notion that all teachers are beholden to the NEA is also false. For a site that is about individual liberty and responsibility a lot of people sure love to lump all teachers into on big group to be hated.
Who’s hating? Public unions are a menace. Either teachers are ignorant of this, in which case they’re too stupid to be teaching, or they’re on board with extorting taxpayers, in which case they deserve what they get.
Actually ... no. They are paid for the months they work but that pay is distributed over 12 months. In Texas, they have the option to be paid only during the school year, but I don’t know any who choose that option.
I agree in that the unionized, do nothing, know nothing teachers with bennies out the wazoo are mostly in BLUE states; namely public schools.
My son has a math degree and teachers certification for the People’s Republic of NY. All the old teachers won’t leave as it is similar to congress critters. They can take unlimited sabbaticals and still expect their job to be there when the return.
My daughter in law teaches at a PRIVATE school and there is a world of difference!!
That’s assuming they work only an 8 hour day and no more. This doesn’t take into account the teacher work days (required) during many of the days through the year when students don’t go to school, evenings and weekends spent grading papers, summer workshops, after school tutoring (required), etc.
ROFLOL!!! Benefits for Texas teachers are so horrible that my wife always denies it and we cover her under my employer’s plan.
In the teacher’s defense, I’m sure they would start teaching the kids with all the vigor and enthusiasm you would expect of teachers if we just paid them another $5,000 per year.
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