Thirty years ago teachers were given the benefit of the doubt and got a lot of sympathy from the people.
Things have CHANGED.
The product they produce was/is terrible and it’s not because of overcrowding. I am far from the only one who experienced 59 little fellow classmates when we were in school.
Numbers are irrelevant. Try getting teachers who know the subject matter and can TEACH.
No support from me.
If they can teach, it will be the sanitized, PC-approved mush dictated by the scrooll boards with no deviation.
And with requested pronouns. That’s the only thing that’ll get ‘em fired.
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> Numbers are irrelevant. Try getting teachers who know the subject matter and can TEACH. <
You are correct in that numbers are irrelevant. But what’s missing from your comment is “orderly classrooms”. It’s very difficult to remove a disruptive student from a classroom these days. And it’s tough to teach when you have one kid running around the room, and two more yelling and pushing each other.
Twenty years ago most teachers had the support of the administration in such cases. And their were real consequences for student misbehavior. But now teachers are constantly second-guessed. “What are you doing to make your lessons more appealing?” “Why can’t you control your classroom?” Etc.
All that second-guessing is done to keep the suspension rates down. That’s how school administrators get evaluated. these days.