The lessons of Idiocracy need to be the required thesis from all American Middle Schoolers.
1. Watch it.
2. Why it shouldn't happen.
FUCK.
Due process. And they want to ensure we're all painfully aware of how underqualified these cabinet postings are.What is the point of these hearings? No matter what they are all being confirmed...
It was written by a guy who works for a libertarian thinktank funded by the Koch brothers.
I agree with this. Sometimes, the only way to know for certain that you know something is to try and explain it to someone else. Setting the context, laying out the key information, providing examples, answering their questions, working through their difficulties, are all ways to learn while you teach.Nah, I enjoyrd explaining things to friends, talking it out. Hell, I learnt far better whenever I would explain things.
Man that was really uncomfortable. So are the new cabinet gonna get some kind of training in their new job? Cos by god they all need it. This is a cluster duck.
Due process. And they want to ensure we're all painfully aware of how underqualified these cabinet postings are.
It's actually kind of impressive how education in America seems to get more and more fucked as time goes on.
Sure. proficiency measures you against an absolute standard "if you can pass this test, you pass. otherwise you fail". growth measures against where you started from. "If you increase by X amount, you pass".
I think measuring growth is kind of stupid frankly, because if that's the case why even have grades (i.e. K-12) at all? The whole point of a grade is to define the absolute level of the material that is to be taught. What does 4th grade mean if anyone can be in 4th grade, and everyone is being taught something different because they're all at different levels?
Measure proficiency and then (GASP!) fail people if they don't pass. The problem with education today is that you can't fail people.
That's the thing, though. You ARE failing them by not giving them a kick in the ass when they're young and can still be salvaged with specialized teaching and assistance.Yeah, that's the problem. Not "we don't have enough funding to properly educate, feed, and engage with students," it's that we are afraid to fail people.
Well, that would be one way to keep US companies from outsourcing their manufacturing jobs to China.She also donated tons of money to a think tank that wants to bring back child labor.
How do you come to that conclusion/where can I find similar information so I can filter out special interest stuff that crosses my feeds in the future?
Beyond erasing concerns about her many possible financial conflicts, Ms. DeVos also faces a big challenge in explaining the damage she's done to public education in her home state, Michigan. She has poured money into charter schools advocacy, winning legislative changes that have reduced oversight and accountability. About 80 percent of the charter schools in Michigan are operated by for-profit companies, far higher than anywhere else. She has also argued for shutting down Detroit public schools, with the system turned over to charters or taxpayer money given out as vouchers for private schools. In that city, charter schools often perform no better than traditional schools, and sometimes worse.
The DeVos influence is one reason that Michigan's charter sector is among the least regulated in the country. Roughly 80 percent of charters in Michigan are run by private companies, far more than in any other state. And state authorities have done little up to now to ensure that charter schools are effectively serving students, eliciting concern from current federal authorities.
”There are a lot of schools that are doing poorly and charter authorizers do not seem to be taking the necessary actions to either improve performance or close those underperforming charters," current U.S. Secretary of Education John King told Chalkbeat about Michigan last month.
One recent vignette captures the DeVos working method: In an effort to shape up Detroit's scandalously under-regulated, poorly performing charter schools and rectify a shortage of school places in the city's neediest neighborhoods, a coalition including some charter school advocates, business and labor representatives, Republicans, and Democrats proposed a nonpartisan oversight body to be called the Detroit Education Commission (DEC). With Republican Governor Rick Snyder's endorsement, the Republican-controlled state senate approved the DEC in March 2016 as part of a Detroit emergency funding bill. When the Republican-controlled House took up the bill in May, the charter school lobby (generously funded by the DeVos family) launched a massive offensive to quash the DEC. Oversight, they argued, only adds another unnecessary level of bureaucracy. The House Republicans acquiesced on May 5. When the bill returned to the Senate for reconciliation, the question remained: would the Senate gut its own bill by killing the DEC? Under threats from major donors, the Republicans caved on June 8. While the senate was still considering the bill, DeVos money began pouring in. In the fifty-six days between June 2 and July 28, nine DeVos family members contributed a total of $1.45 million to Michigan Republican Party organizations and candidates.
”[A] filthy, moneyed kiss to the charter school industry at the expense of the kids who've been victimized by those schools' unaccountable inconsistency," concluded an editor at the Detroit Free Press in September.
Man that was really uncomfortable. So are the new cabinet gonna get some kind of training in their new job? Cos by god they all need it. This is a cluster duck.
That's the thing, though. You ARE failing them by not giving them a kick in the ass when they're young and can still be salvaged with specialized teaching and assistance.
Giving them the help they need when they're young instead of churning them out until they're an illiterate, entitled voter who expects to be gifted a job without skills or training is the ultimate failure of the education process. And, what's more, you're failing everyone else along with them.
Because guess who they're going to be voting for on Election Day... it isn't going to be the party that treats them with respect. Oh no... it's going to be the party that promises the shiny nothing.
Uhh, good? Send them back to 3rd grade if they're at a 3rd grade level. That's literally what "grade level" means.
Man that was really uncomfortable. So are the new cabinet gonna get some kind of training in their new job? Cos by god they all need it. This is a cluster duck.
The way cpp is posting in this thread is one of the biggest problems with education in the U.S. Someone with no experience or training in education who thinks they know how to solve the problem in this country. I mean, sending a student back to a younger grade level if they don't meet proficiency? Insane.
Look for them to be nominated for Secretary of Education by the next Republican president.
To add on to what the OP is saying, this is also one of the first things you learn as an educator (as in why we don't do this)The way cpp is posting in this thread is one of the biggest problems with education in the U.S. Someone with no experience or training in education who thinks they know how to solve the problem in this country. I mean, sending a student back to a younger grade level if they don't meet proficiency? Insane.
Look for them to be nominated for Secretary of Education by the next Republican president.
Yeah this is the problem. Dear God what have you done America.lol no.
this is the job you get when youve already been trained for it your whole career.
or if you have an orange billionaire friend
The way cpp is posting in this thread is one of the biggest problems with education in the U.S. Someone with no experience or training in education who thinks they know how to solve the problem in this country. I mean, sending a student back to a younger grade level if they don't meet proficiency? Insane.
Look for them to be nominated for Secretary of Education by the next Republican president.
They don't need training. They know exactly what their agenda is.Man that was really uncomfortable. So are the new cabinet gonna get some kind of training in their new job? Cos by god they all need it. This is a cluster duck.
FTFYWhen do we start watering Trump with Brawndo? I hear it has the electrolytes plants crave.
this is a real american issue i think. Parents fucking ADORE blaming teachers for their childs failures.
I worked with schools for awhile. Its amazing. Parents who have literally no idea if their child is even AT THE SCHOOL let alone knowing where they are at all, complaining about how their kids should be taught.
America demonizes teachers, for it can never be the fault of parents that your kid is shitty, it HAS to be the education they are getting.
Again, trying to be fair, that is so often not the case.
(And it's never true of charter schools, which are not religious schools.)
I'll ignore the theology part to talk practically. If you're a child whose father died of a heart attack, whose mother is in prison, whose grandmother is laid up but able to house you, and you're the "leader" of a household at 15 with 4 younger siblings, you know what's great? Transformative, even?
Hearing and believing that God created you for a special purpose, that you can let go of your anger at the lack of justice and instead live of a life of love, service, and perhaps greatness, that he who loves God has no need of tears, no need of admiration, in his love he forgets his suffering, yea, so completely has he forgotten it that afterwards there would not even be the least inkling of his pain if God Himself did not recall it, for God sees in secret and knows the distress and counts the tears and forgets nothing.
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The way cpp is posting in this thread is one of the biggest problems with education in the U.S. Someone with no experience or training in education who thinks they know how to solve the problem in this country. I mean, sending a student back to a younger grade level if they don't meet proficiency? Insane.
Look for them to be nominated for Secretary of Education by the next Republican president.
Having been a student, a good 30% of my teachers were terrible. One would have us walk into the classroom, in the dark, every single day, and we'd just copy down notes from an overhead projector and have a quiz on Friday while she read books at her desk. She couldn't be fired because she was so tenured. We basically taught ourselves.
There's also the awful way in which teachers utterly rely on workbooks and guides and can't teach outside of the lesson plan. This is one of the reasons Common Core fails, especially in math, because none of these teachers were ever taught the (completely correct) methodologies shown, and they help those same stupid parents you're demonizing by pushing garbage Facebook memes about how Common Core wants you to think 2+2=5.
So in reality, parents can be fucking idiots at the same time as our teaching industry can be rotten. There is no single string to pull to fix this problem.
Big deal. I don't either.
Again, trying to be fair, that is so often not the case.
(And it's never true of charter schools, which are not religious schools.)
I'll ignore the theology part to talk practically. If you're a child whose father died of a heart attack, whose mother is in prison, whose grandmother is laid up but able to house you, and you're the "leader" of a household at 15 with 4 younger siblings, you know what's great? Transformative, even?
Hearing and believing that God created you for a special purpose, that you can let go of your anger at the lack of justice and instead live of a life of love, service, and perhaps greatness, that he who loves God has no need of tears, no need of admiration, in his love he forgets his suffering, yea, so completely has he forgotten it that afterwards there would not even be the least inkling of his pain if God Himself did not recall it, for God sees in secret and knows the distress and counts the tears and forgets nothing.
Hearing THAT often creates a substantive change in children's lives, especially low-income ones.
Lutheran and Catholic schools here rock test scores, which is great (and the top schools for science are all Lutheran, ha ha ha), but the change often comes about through softening a heart.
They shouldn't need to be "sent back" because they should have failed the earlier grade the first time around instead of being passed so that the parents didn't come in screaming anout how damaged their child's self esteem would be
Guns should be allowed in all schools because of grizzly bears? Lol
Doubling down :lol
If you don't understand why we shouldn't hold students back then youre showing you haven't taken a basic education class and aren't involved with education on a daily basis
Do you also tell your doctor how to do their job? Or a lawyer? Or any other profession?
Doctors haven't been failing me for years.
By the way, Betsy DeVos is an educator, i guess everything she says is gospel to you since she apparently has the only qualification that matters to you?
If you don't understand why we shouldn't teach kids that it's ok to half-ass their way through life because they'll be successful regardless then you're showing that you haven't really been paying attention
Doctors haven't been failing me for years.
By the way, Betsy DeVos is an educator, i guess everything she says is gospel to you since she apparently has the only qualification that matters to you?
If you don't understand why we shouldn't teach kids that it's ok to half-ass their way through life because they'll be successful regardless then you're showing that you haven't really been paying attention
Doctors haven't been failing me for years.
By the way, Betsy DeVos is an educator, i guess everything she says is gospel to you since she apparently has the only qualification that matters to you?
If you don't understand why we shouldn't teach kids that it's ok to half-ass their way through life because they'll be successful regardless then you're showing that you haven't really been paying attention
Is the GOP deliberately trying to make the public dumber so that they're more likely to keep voting for them?
That's the fundamental flaw at the root of this issue. One of your two political parties has a fundamental interest in keeping your children stupid and ignorant.That's their plan and it's been working for decades.