> 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.
I have an idea.
Instead of pointing to things that are NOT causing the problems, as I mentioned, how about the teachers calling out the Administration’s downright tyrannical approach and unhelpful choices of discipline for the students.
What is exactly, not vague innuendoes, but exactly WHAT the REAL problems are.
If it is student behavior, tell us. For some reason they seem to avoid the truth.