Middle school teacher of 15 years here. Absolutely felt two points... 1) teacher training programs DON'T prepare teachers for the actual classroom, and 2) teachers have no power to discipline.

@jennifersnelling1265

9 ай бұрын

It is due to realizing there are administrators who don't have that power and discourage, rather than empower teachers with the support they need.

@AJW3B4L

9 ай бұрын

Teacher trainings are usually contracted businesses networking with the school brand.

@startrekperson

9 ай бұрын

One of the truest things I ever learned in mentoring is that teacher training programs are often worse than nothing. Think about it: if someone throws you into something with no training, isn’t that better than someone who gives you bad information and then throws you in? 🤔

@LadyCoyKoi

9 ай бұрын

@@startrekperson Exactly! Totally agree there. All that they teach you, the strategies, techniques, and suggested ideas... all out the window when realities set in. Not to mention the gaslighting bs of being "flexible" yea we were definitely "flexible" and "prepared" when something major like c*vid hit. 🙄🤦It is insane to tell humans ad ask so much from humans. But whatever. I now do is online stuff. The pandemic has shown us we don't need the circus stress of inside classrooms face-to-face. No student can hit me while in the Zoom meeting, unlike the face-to-face nonsense of on campus learning. Only United States accepts this bs system of needing bodies in the campus using old outdated system of doing things. Other nations embrace and accept online learning like champs. And we wonder why the US is failing and falling behind. 🤷🤷🤔

@Absynthe12

9 ай бұрын

So, true. It is so hard to teach anything because of behavior. The kids at my school are over the top rude and disrespectful.

Dear God I hope I'm not being overly dramatic but I really REALLY REALLY fear for this country in 20 years time.

@sciencelabvideosl7558

9 ай бұрын

That’s funny, that’s what I said to myself 20 years ago When I started seeeing smartphones in kids’ possessions. The absolute stupidest thing a parent can do is buy a kid under 16 years old a smart device. Unlimited access to to porn, cussing, lewd music , examples of rude behavior, gender nonsense talk- adult material not to mention lack of sleep in the palms of their little hands. Please stop blaming teachers for access to dirty books. It is a rare occurrence and I for one would never have graphic novels depicting sex - I don’t need problems with the principal. Point the finger at yourselves ( parents) for buying your kid one of these things.

@Brownbear77777

8 ай бұрын

I am 70nyears old and I fear for our country NOW!

@joycefletcher839

8 ай бұрын

I concur. Glad I have more time behind me than ahead of me.

@unlistedandtwisted

7 ай бұрын

I fear for it NOW.

@YanDaOne_QC

7 ай бұрын

if you only knew what's coming.......you couldn't even imagine how bad it will be

In the Netherlands, it was just announced that Biology, History and Geography are no longer required for up to 12 year olds..... just optional. Even the subject "Learning our Language" has been renamed to "Handling our language". I welcome the job security for people like me, but our world is going full Idiocracy mode, really fast.

@strayCATchillspot

9 ай бұрын

😢 surveillance capitalism needs mindless drones.. to endlessly consume...expand ..rott and destroy.. we are now reaping our harvest😢

@therealtoni

9 ай бұрын

So sad to hear this poison has spread to Europe but it was inevitable. You will follow us down the road to self-destruction.

@MarkWendland

9 ай бұрын

Sad to hear these kinds of things are happening in education world-wide. I used to think it was just us here in America.

@munimathbypeterfelton6251

9 ай бұрын

@@MarkWendlandI think a lot of world countries are sadly following America’s examples.

@tamarataye356

9 ай бұрын

Wow! So this is a world wide epidemic in dumbing down our populations. Very sad to hear!

Here is an interesting fact for you: California is raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. The average wage for a substitute teacher in California is $21.50. As a substitute, I make a little less than the average, which means next year a high school dropout can make the same as me with a 4 year degree.

@alfredoh2009

8 ай бұрын

That's the communists mentality of the CA governor Newsom, legislators and politicians voted in, a doctor, teacher, police, plumber, custodian, accountant... all have the same salary... Best to leave Commufornia asap.

@Peter-bx7ip

8 ай бұрын

Your enemy is not the fast food worker.

@Wuffman

8 ай бұрын

@Peter-bx7ip I am not sure you understand my point. Generally, people should be paid commensurate with their education/ skill level. If the imbalance is too great, it removes much of the incentive to take the extra time, effort, and financial burden to obtain the degree.

@tessahall797

7 ай бұрын

@@Wuffmanfully agree with you.

@kiowah231

6 ай бұрын

@@Peter-bx7ip You lack comprehension skills.

I left teaching in 2020, and during my time in the classroom, I was never receptive to admin telling me that I had to be "friends" with the students. That is really misguided advice. It's as bad as parents trying to be friends with their children. It doesn't work.

@herbertharris7316

7 ай бұрын

Agreed! A parent's role is to be a parent. To instruct your child in how to behave. A teacher's role is to teach and to develop the intellectual ability to think and reason which will teach their children how to socially interact with their peers and other people.

@zephsmith3499

5 ай бұрын

People who can be parents (not friends) while they are raising their children are more likely to produce adults who can be their friends later in life.

@genzi78514

5 ай бұрын

It's even weird to request that between peers. You can't befriend people on purpose, is just something that happens. Is like asking them to fell in love with a particular person 😂

@TheKnallkorper

Ай бұрын

I tried the friend approach as a kindergarten teacher. Never again 😅

I would be honored to be a guest on your show. I retired after 34 years in 2019. But I was compelled to return to classroom in 2022…I retired again in February 2023…It was not a good experience at all…BUT I’ve definitely made lemons into lemonade🔆

@TeacherTherapy

8 ай бұрын

Hello! Feel free to email me at TeacherTherapyTrish@gmail.com ❤

Teacher trainings are usually contracted businesses networking with the school brand.

Trish, you are so bright and bubbly! I would have loved to have had you as a teacher back in the day. It sucks that the profession pushed out good teachers.

@TeacherTherapy

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤

@zephsmith3499

5 ай бұрын

Seconded!

When our kids were in public schools, I was terrified because my daughter kept leaving the classroom and they wouldn’t know for hours. Both of our are autistic and didn’t understand that they couldn’t just leave. We ended up pulling them to homeschool them and it was a great decision. They are thriving now and we can work a lot of social skills and life skills into their education. I feel bad for teachers today as they have so much on their plates and have little support. I have a couple friends who are teachers and they’re all about to quit because they can’t actually teach anymore. They spend most of their day dealing with behaviors.

@emilyann4549

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for bringing up the issue of family support. A lot of blame gets put on these families, and some parents are genuinely not caring for their kids, but it is so hard to be a parent now a days. The family unit isn't respected. So many get little to no help and are parenting in isolation. A lot of parents are burnt out and giving up on themselves and their kids. I'm a new mom and just realizing now how little support I have. I'm 27 and only have 1 friend with kids, so no one can relate. They don't want to spend time with me because of my baby. I also plan on homeschooling, and am hoping to find more mom friends somehow.

@dpofahl

2 ай бұрын

@@emilyann4549 congrats on the baby!! I’m sorry you don’t have much support. We’re in the same boat and it’s hard. We struggle with friends because of our children’s disabilities and my disability. So many people just don’t understand. We cut my toxic family out of our lives years ago and it was the best decision we’ve made for our family. I saw a quote that really resonated with me. “My side of the story doesn’t matter anymore. Life happened. It hurt. I healed. Most importantly I learned who deserves a seat at my table and who will never sit at it again.” You’re doing a great job, momma! If you need to talk, I’m happy to listen. I can give you my social media and can send you my number privately. Hang in there!!!! Big hugs!! 💜

Almost one month in of my first year and I'm already beat, overwhelmed, and exhausted. lol I'm also not traditionally trained so everything's been challenging. Listening to these interviews and insights have been nice. Helps me feel like I'm not alone. Haha

@sierrag4221

9 ай бұрын

I’m one month into my second year, and I feel the same.

@brookekennel2636

7 ай бұрын

Three months into my first year. I think I’ve already wrecked my health.

@whatchahowsya8688

7 ай бұрын

​​@@brookekennel2636I've just accepted that mental breakdowns are a weekly thing now. 😢 I've thought about quitting already but I feel bad walking away from my 30 kiddos. **sigh** Hang in there! We got this!

Thanks for these great interviews/perspectives!! ⚘

I'm a Mental Health Clinician who TREATS young people and the level of anxiety/depression/emotional dysregulation that I see is astounding. Ignorant, dysregulated people are easier to control.

@TherapyChairWoman

8 ай бұрын

🎉

@samanthak1449

7 ай бұрын

💯🎯🎯🎯

@unlistedandtwisted

7 ай бұрын

Wow. As a young woman with mental health issues, I do not want to be considered ignorant. I do not seek to be disruptive, either. What bothers me most is you want to control a student by way of their ignorance and inability to self-regulate rather than empower them to present self-control, resiliency, confidence, and promote their intellectual strengths. Glad I graduated in 2008. Glad you weren't involved with me!

@gauloise6442

7 ай бұрын

"troubled" kids are often thinking kids or kids who have been through things. They used to work this stuff out through art, music, rebellion. Now they are put on pills. It's those pills that make them easier to control.

@Teal_Seal

6 ай бұрын

⁠@@unlistedandtwisted ​​⁠ Interesting take. When the OP said certain people are easier to control, I took that to mean in general. Here’s how I heard it: “I care about mentally challenged people so much I pursued a career in psychology. Speaking as one with experience in this field, I can say the uptick in cases is dramatic in recent years. But then, if leaders in government and business prefer an easily manipulated, security-hungry, ignorant of history and civics, distracted, medicated, divided, uneducated, addicted, physically weak, disarmed, dependent populace, then maybe just maybe this isn’t an accident 🤔” The OP can correct me if I’m wrong 👍😉

I have so many things to say on this particular episode lolz. And none of this is directed at Christian or any other teachers, it’s just certain points he brought up. So first off, I need everyone to remember that the current state of American classrooms started way back in 2002 when the Bush administration launched No Child Left Behind. I was a student at the time, and our entire class would have to stop just because one student didn’t get what we were going over. And that got progressively worse when funding started being attached to how many students passed/failed, all because certain parents refused to accept that their kids needed extra tutoring. I was also a student when we went to the “10-point” grading system (A was 100-91, B was 90-81, etc). After that, you had students who would have been failing under any other circumstance just scraping by by the skin of their teeth, which again, goes back to funding. I’ve watched amazing teachers get fired over grades and funding, and that was pre-2011. And it’s ALWAYS been from decisions that come from politicians on one side of the aisle. So the current political shitshow is nothing new in any capacity. As for the “anti-American” books, it can’t be “anti-American” when those are firsthand accounts OF American citizens. While I do wish those could just be extra credit type books, if we did that, you’d only have certain kids reading them. Most likely the ones who should be in the non-existent AP classes. America has always been shit. I remember learning about “sharecroppers” instead of slaves. And being taught that the Mass Exodus was a mutually amicable decision. So I’m personally glad that students are being forced to learn about the hard truths of our country’s history. As for external sentiment of the US, the curriculum has nothing to do with it. Out of every international friend I’ve spoken to, it ranges between 3 things: indifference, dystopian horror, or laughing stock. That’s how most countries view us now. And that has nothing to do with our curriculum and everything to do with the current political shitshow happening right now and the fact that the loudest minority of our citizens don’t know the difference between patriotism and nationalism. Probably because they weren’t required to learn it in school after 2002 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@Preservestlandry

8 ай бұрын

NCLB was repealed and replaced almost 10 years ago. Now states choose their own testing and accountability goals.

@zephsmith3499

5 ай бұрын

@@Preservestlandry Shh. Some people need scapegoats as a coping mechanism, and they prefer to find their scapegoats on the other side of their own political aisle (whichever it is). The truth is, very similar things have been happening in both R and D dominated states as well as "purple" states, and during both D and R control of the federal governments. The common denominator behind this very widespread downfall of education is NOT which party is in power. Getting any grasp on it requires a much more subtle and nuance, and especially less confirmation bias tainted, analysis of the big picture. We need to step outside serving the need to make "our side" right and the other side wrong, to have any chance of seeing a fuller truth. One of the things which is seriously problematic is that teaching critical thinking and the value of relative objectivity (vs teaching polarized thinking and ideological conformity) has suffered greatly. Voters are losing any ability they once partially had, to dig themselves out of the intellectual morass of contemporary politics by doing independent non-tribal thinking, or challenging their own assumptions. Both sides are getting more dogmatic and allergic to apostates.

I appreciate that you’re showing various examples with diverse experience! It really makes me feel like you care more about the truth than most

He's right about these schools passing kids. Most of these schools are just listening to the district and most of these districts are just listening to the government and superintendents. All they want is good data and good numbers. These kids are not ready for the next grade and when they are pushed to higher grade levels that's where you really see the misbehavior. There was a fifth grader last year who didn't even recognize his own name 🫤. He came from a different state and his mom refused to have him tested so our hands were tied. Thank goodness he wasn't weirdo or bully, but his future isnt bright. Parents know when something is wrong with their kids and when they refuse to have them tested for a learning disability but their academics are clearly way below grade level I consider that child abuse. Because at that point they releasing a plague until society we already know low literacy rates contribute to prison time. I'm in a red state so our curriculum isn't left leaning but I'm interested in seeing the literature in what they're reading about in high schools from blue and purple states. We read The crucible, Romeo and Juliet, Oedipus Rex, and Great Gatsby. Ironically enough when debating WW2 and Hiroshima I was maybe 1 out or 3 students that said the US was trifling for blowing up shit and this was during the BLM, march for our lives and metoo era so most of us are the "woke, blue haired and pronoun" generation. These schools are about money and good numbers. They don't care about inspiring kids with a passion for learning, they just want to pacify their parents and fudge data for a check and if they've been doing this for decades now are we REALLY surprised at how these kids are now?

@zephsmith3499

5 ай бұрын

That you were debating about WWII and Hiroshima is a good sign, whether you were part of the larger or smaller contingent. In too many cases in the deep blue area where I live, there is only one correct answer on many subjects, and there is some move to prevent students from hearing about diverse perspectives, lest they be corrupted by wrongthink. That well may be the case in some deep red locations as well, I know less about them. I don't like indoctrination in any direction, even favoring "my side". Of course, I'd like it if most students agreed with my perspectives, but it's much more important to me that they learn critical thinking and research skills and how to think for themselves, than that they all have the same approved opinion (mine or another). Learning how any why to evaluate and continue re-evaluating evidence is a key skill for a democratic society. I've changed my own mind many times about many things as I gained more knowledge, and heard different sides make their cases to be weighed - so I don't give my current opinions any tremendous weight, my current view are open to reasoned challenge and are not sacred cows. (Incidentally, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is one of the things where, as over the decades since I learned a lot more than I initially knew in high school, my own view became a lot less smugly black and white).

Kids are AWWWFFFFFUUULLL at my school. This year we hired two more cops to help. And it’s still crappy.

We’re doomed as a society. It really is that movie ‘Idiocracy’.

To Kill a Mockingbird was taught in middle school when I was growing up. We read it in 8th grade. I can't believe it is now considered 10th grade reading material. It is kind of juvenile, to be honest.

@ScreamTatumRiley

6 ай бұрын

Yup I too watched/read that movie/book in school in 8th grade

The work-life balance can be an episode in itself. This is especially problematic working for charter schools. It is sad that teachers (unlike other government workers) do not get paid overtime. I am not talking about coaching after school, I am talking about grading and planning nearly every night or weekend. It can be minimized, but then something else needs to be worked on after hours. 😮😅

Can we talk about the decline of the degree? A college degree used to guarantee you a higher salary. Now a fast food worker will be making more than me, by several dollars actually. I have a degree. And of course paying off student loans is so much harder now that you don’t get much of a return on the investment of the degree. But yet the government will hound you to pay it, all the while lying and saying a degree will pay for itself. What happened to the power of a college degree, and why should anyone pursue it anymore if it will just put us into insurmountable debt?

Listening to this, I feel struck by how much coping is going on. I graduated high school in 1988. When I was in school, the teacher was mostly responsible for disciplining students, and most of what I saw of that was verbal. Only once did I see a teacher put his hands on a student, and that was just to grab a student's arm, who was getting physically out of control. Typically, you had to be repeatedly ignoring the teacher, being pretty disruptive, to be sent to the principal's office. The strongest punishment a teacher could mete out themselves was a sort of time out, where they had you step outside the classroom for a bit. Another thing I'm struck by is listening to this and other videos you've done, where teachers are so disrespected, both by other school staff, and by parents. I wasn't in on what went on between school staff when I was in school, but my impression was that teachers were respected by them, and by parents. They only got disrespect from some students, but that would be grounds for disciplining them. Looking at old high school videos some people in my generation preserved, and put online, I'm reminded that we weren't on a first-name basis with our teachers. It was always "Mr. so-and-so," or "Mrs. so-and-so" (or "Miss"). That was required. For one, most of us didn't know our teachers' first names, or if we did, we weren't allowed to use them in school. Again, doing that would've been grounds for disciplinary action. In short, the schools didn't put up with crap. A core problem that I saw as being the genesis for the discipline problems was the fact that in the early 1990s, parents gained the ability for the first time to sue schools and teachers. Prior to that, it had been held by the courts that public schools and teachers were immune from lawsuits. If parents had complaints, they had to take them to the teachers, principals, or maybe the school board, and/or vote board members out. Those were their remedies. The reason they were immune is the courts thought that lawsuits would be too disruptive for the educational environment. Well, duh! Obviously, they changed their mind about that later, but look where that's gotten the schools. I don't know if restoring immunity would put the genie back in the bottle, or if that would just make things worse. That could be done through legislation at the state level. I think it's something that deserves serious consideration. When I saw in the '90s the discipline problems in some classrooms, my chin dropped to the floor. I could not believe what I was seeing, because that would *never* have been tolerated in the public schools I attended, not for a moment. I knew then our schools had some serious problems, because teachers were no longer allowed to impose discipline in their own classrooms. They'd get themselves, and their schools in trouble. If they went ahead, and imposed it anyway, they'd be fired. It was literally crazy. It had me thinking, "You can't be serious!" The problem was it just kept going! It became normal. Lastly, even though I can see the use of computers in schools, it came out perfectly well in this interview that what's being used is too distracting, because these systems aren't really designed for school use. These are general consumer systems that have been adapted for school use. The problem is you can use them for so many things that have nothing to do with what's going on in class, and neither the school nor the teacher has enough control over them such that they can prevent that distraction. Computers can be appropriate, but to put it bluntly, they really need to be designed for school use, and I'm hard pressed to think of any right now that are. If our education system was serious, they'd make that a priority. People might say if you take away the computer as a distraction, kids will just whip out their phones. Again, we come back to the discipline issue. When I was in school, if there was a device kids were using that was distracting them, the teacher could require students to put them away, or leave them somewhere outside the classroom.

@feistyphoenix289

9 ай бұрын

Computers are necessary; whether we like it or not they are the future...more and more everyday. I graduated 1991 right before the crazy started, and this is my 8th year teaching. The thing about those computers, while they are a distraction, I have software that I manage and can shut down or block any website. Part of it is that we now need to manage an out of control room and the screens. Our country has been systematically taking down the education system for decades; I really saw the exceleration of this when I was in high school when all the cuts to education started happening...that is where it all started IMO...well at least in CA. Now this year as I work at a school that has to change systems on how we run, teachers do not want to collaborate at all...there are so many issues in education from the students, to the admin, districts, unions, and all the various political crazy, the lowering of standards, to even many of the teachers that act like they are still in high school; the list is unfortunately quite long.

@mmille10

9 ай бұрын

@@feistyphoenix289- I didn't say computers are unnecessary. I was saying that it's been sounding for a while like the computers being used are a net distraction. We had computers when I was in school (well, starting when I was in Jr. high), and even they could be a distraction at times, since kids were finding ways to pirate video games, and play them on school computers, but it was much easier for teachers to control. They didn't have to worry about malware circulating around on school computers, either, due to their design. So, there was no issue with students bringing software in from outside the school system, in that regard. An interesting thing to note is that it wasn't like the computers we had were designed to be more conducive to the school environment. It was really luck of the draw. The computer companies had their own reasons for designing them that way. I agree the bigger issues are the other things you talked about.

@feistyphoenix289

9 ай бұрын

@@mmille10 Ahhh I see, yeah I did not even have a gooey interface and learned on DOS so I 100% missed them being a distraction they were literally a tool since doing anything in DOS was cumbersome...I see the future being even worse especially with VR.

@mmille10

9 ай бұрын

@@feistyphoenix289- Well, you had to work at it. That was one thing. Though, you are right. It was cumbersome. The reason computer co's used the GUI as a feature for their systems was for ease of use, making the machines more relatable for ordinary people, in hopes of cracking the consumer market. That was one of their big challenges; making them attractive for more buyers. From my experience, it's not the GUI concept that's the problem. I've used GUIs where I can still think and learn. It's a matter of "what's in the environment." VR can also be educational, but like with GUIs, it's a matter of how it's applied.

@jellyprintpress

7 ай бұрын

I teach in a school where phones aren’t allowed to be on from 745-330 & no computers except for testing, & in the upper school library. It’s a charter school, but still a public school.

Things began changing in the early 90's. At that time, kids and their parents, began running the schools.

As we dumb down the academics and erode the discipline as well as watering down the grade system we are losing the generation. I saw the opposite in East Asia in Japan, China, and Taiwan where merit, hard work, and good behavior count. These Asians are not genetically superior but they work 5 times as hard. I will never forget walking into a bookstore in Shanghai and seeing a table of bilingual international classic stories for sale to kids. My students in Taiwan came from all economic levels to learn English in after school classes. All parents put education at the top of the list and good behavior goes without question. You compete after elementary school by testing into the school of your level and again at high school and university. We are falling behind as you see the scientists and doctors coming from Asia. Retired from 26 years in public school, MA East Asian Studies Chinese, Fulbright Scholar Japan, and Fulbright Scholar China.

@heatherbeck4186

9 ай бұрын

Yes. I teach public high school in the US and tutor a Chinese student learning English over Zoom, so I hear the same things from him. Huge difference in behavior and work ethic because the Chinese appreciate it.

@gemox3225

8 ай бұрын

Yes I taught in China too, in both high school and university, and I taught as a professor in American and Canadian universities. In China, they definitely take education much more seriously as a whole.

The no grade below 50 was actually implemented at my high school, and I graduated almost 10 years ago

As a SPED teacher I’m super confused that he says he just got to compile data and pass it on to “the case manager”. I am also the case manager as well as the teacher and have never worked in a school where that isn’t the case. I’m very desperate to know where I can go to *just* teach and attend the IEP meetings as a team member, and not also have to constantly compile what are essentially 30+ page legal contracts on a near daily basis on top of it.

You diminish your own power as the adult if you are trying to "be friends" with the kids. You are not their peer. If you try to be, they will not even begin to respect you.

Definitely agree that kids haven't really changed. It's the adults that have. I never got the memo that I wasn't the authority in my classroom and had to figure it out over time that there were many unspoken assumptions about expectations for work completion and behavior that didn't match my previous 15 years. BTW these two things are very much interrelated. I'm not even sure if the lax work requirements and easy grades aren't more important bc, if you still get can get a bad grade or even fail a grade level, there is a natural consequence for poor behavior for most. Although, as I am writing this, I can think of quite a few students who could perform academically and be a little s**t.

@stephsteph4503

9 ай бұрын

I agree. Any changes we see in students are a direct result in changes in society, parents, curriculum, administration, teachers, school policies, etc.

@zephsmith3499

5 ай бұрын

Why do you think that adults changing culturally would not lead to kids changing culturally as well? If by "kids not changing" you just mean their potential at birth, we would agree. But if you mean that even after different socialization by parents and other adults, kids remain the same as ever and there are no statistically valid changes in behavior, values, or ideology between geneations, then I don't think the evidence supports that. One problem with putting too much emphasis on this approach however, is that the adults were once kids being socialized and enculturated by THEIR parents and so are blameless as well, and their parents were raised by a yet earlier generation. At some point, if we want to have a better future, we need to focus more on how to change things for the better in the future, given as a starting point the current stock of living humans, rather than looking for who is innocent and who is guilty.

Students can copy AI generated text by hand onto paper with a pencil. He really should check those answers.

I am a special education teacher and I have stayed this long because I love working with them. This school year this is taken from me because I am constantly pulled to be a substitute for absent teachers. I am looking at early retirement.

Great questions!

The eventual goal is to replace human teachers with AI. They will teach just enough so the child is barely literate.

@malaika444

8 ай бұрын

At least AI can spell.

@RAJOHN-ke7mc

8 ай бұрын

@@malaika444 something is wrong with you

i graduated in 2009. history in school felt more like a book of half-truths and half-lies. this became more apparent when i started casually learning about things outside of school. i'll keep this answer a bit ambiguous as the picture that was painted for me may or may not align with what others grasped.

@YourEverydayGuy2

6 ай бұрын

What was the half lies?

@chrisjackson8151

6 ай бұрын

@@YourEverydayGuy2It’s self-explanatory. But if you really want an example, let’s start with Columbus supposedly _discovering_ America…

@YourEverydayGuy2

6 ай бұрын

@@chrisjackson8151 Yes technically the Vikings around the year 1,100 AD discovered North America but they were like “hey look land” “cool” “lets go back home”

When he talks about class sizes being 28-32 students and having issues, I can relate to this. Some 4th-8th grade classes in my urban school district can get up to 35-45 students in a classroom. At this point, you need a second co-teacher or a paraprofessional teaching assistant to work with you all day. Unfortunately, many of these classroom teachers have little or no assistance in the classroom, due to staffing shortages in many schools. Many upper elementary and middle school teachers can't wait to drop or dump students off in a teaching special (Art, Library, Music, Physical Education, Computer Lab) because this is their only outlet for prep relief from their own students. Teaching to the lowest achieving student or students, is also not uncommon, since remedial pull-outs are often rare or far-between student needs for daily academic assistance. But, my urban school district does try to network with as many community resources as possible to offset this pervasive issue of needed daily academic assistance in the classroom.

@azchanna

8 ай бұрын

I’m at a private school and I have 20 students in my class, school need to hire more teachers and have no more than 10 students in the classroom

@zephsmith3499

5 ай бұрын

@@azchanna No more than 5, please. We need to at least quadruple the money spend per pupil on education, perhaps closer to $50K per year. Why not?

@Ticklemypink

2 ай бұрын

@@azchannaone of my classes have 29 students in one

I felt that "Anti American Curriculum". I see it every day while sitting with my 4th, 9th, and 10th grade children doing their online classes. It makes me sick.

32 years of teaching and this young man is telling the truth. Our school district was getting rid of classic literature and replacing it by crappy First Nation stuff...awful. It is the dumbing down of education. Let us have a balance of the classics and the modern. Retired as of June. Insanity has entered the system.

@fremontpathfinder8463

9 ай бұрын

Today a teacher in Texas was fired for reading an illustrated version of the Diary of Anne Frank. We need to make sure teachers have academic freedom

@johnnyboyvan

9 ай бұрын

@@fremontpathfinder8463 See as I stated: insanity.

Male teacher, please call the non sped students general education students and not "normal" students. It's really demoralizing for sped students to be considered abnormal.

@ArtfulDodger566

5 ай бұрын

Stop trying to control others language. Your feelings are your own responsibilities. If you demoralized by a descriptive term, might i suggest you toughen up.

This channel needs more subscribers! I love the main lady Trish - she is easy to understand and connect with! ❤

@TeacherTherapy

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤️

You should interview a former 3rd grade now Correctional teacher. That would be me! Correctional education is almost like a secret society lol no one remembers us in the teacher conversations. But we get the students who were left behind in K-12 unfortunately. But yes interview a state or federal Correctional teacher!

@TeacherTherapy

8 ай бұрын

Hello! 🤗 Feel free to email me at TeacherTherapyTrish@gmail.com ! I'm waaaayyyyyy behind on emails & and interviews, though, so it could take a while. 😅🙏

The idea of you don’t hit your stride until year 5 is basically true. Though that year was 2019-2020 for me…aka when everyone went home for COVID. Many teachers don’t make it that far. And with this crunchy new-age nonsense I don’t blame em. Glad to be out of there hopefully for good!!!

My daughter shared this interview with me. She is 28 years old and holds a bachelors in Nursing. I recall her comments about the video: “I liked this interview…” “I like that it wasn’t all just negative…” The testimony of this teacher yields only one “positive” thing to realize. Our education system is important and because we didn’t treat it as such, we are reaping what we have sown. Willingly like this man or unwilling like SO many, we fail to provide and teach our children the truth, holding them to that standard. It has and will continue to destroy the foundation of this country that many claim to love. It’s “soul crushing “!

I really like the way people are openly sharing their experiences and dissatisfaction with the education system in many places around the world. I would like to see the conversations move forward. Let's start by accepting that education is a captured operation by powers-that-be who make decisions that are not in the best interests of communities. Let's also start looking at ways to rebuild education in new ways or providing more alternative paths. Both students and parents are not buying into the current model of education, so are there other ways for schools to operate?

I’m intrigued by your glasses Trish! 🙌🏼

@TeacherTherapy

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! ❤

I hope he didn't use the phrase "normal kids" in those meetings. 😬🤣

@azedel7151

9 ай бұрын

@JevonMusicGroup Yeah. No one wants to be called "normal" nowadays. It's offensive. 🙃😆

@startrekperson

9 ай бұрын

These are things you learn with more experience in special ed. Though he is right it’s very difficult and coteaching is a lifesaver. Anything that doesn’t increase your caseload in any way is a lifesaver.

@JevonMusicGroup

9 ай бұрын

@@azedel7151 True. However, it's the ones who aren't "normal" (and their parents) who will be offended. And don't get me wrong, I use the word "regular"... which isn't much better. 🤣

@Preservestlandry

8 ай бұрын

​@@startrekpersonyou don't need experience to learn the term "general ed." I'm not even a teacher.

@CC88811

Ай бұрын

@@JevonMusicGroupExactly. Yet another word that paints the same picture as the previous word, yet someone made the decision that it’s no longer a trigger because letters and sounds have changed 😂

Honestly when he mentioned all the books talk about just how bad America is......and he called it anti-American........is it possible now white people get why black people are mad? There's plenty of teaching how black people were slaves; which is important. But do we talk about and promote what black people have overcome and EXCELLED at? I think right after the slavery chapter we should talk about the 14 black billionaires and a black president.

Not the point of the video but Christian is soooo handsome!

what they need is for teachers to start an online school, certified teachers, students around the country could go to it.

Your KZread is so informative. Share, share, share this to everyone!

@TeacherTherapy

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!! 🤗 💙

As always, thank you for the great content Trish! I was listening and doing my usual cafe routine, but one thing I got out of the interview is as follows. It is that it is helpful to have more than one adult in the class. I am an engineer, but in my limited experience in the classroom, this is so helpful! In challenging or larger classes, there needs to be that second (or even third) adult. So, it comes down to staffing. Staffing at the proper level, however, is an issue across the US among many fields (healthcare, software, etc) Places are just not sufficiently staffed! 'Do more with less (staff)' is a policy that often leads to poor outcomes. What is wrong with hiring that extra person or two? Wages are not that high to make this impractical.

@zephsmith3499

5 ай бұрын

It would be interesting to see a quantitative analysis (of quality to impress an engineer like yourself and myself) to support the assertion that "wages are not that high to make this impractical". Where I live, there is a constant refrain that teachers don't make enough (tho they average over $75K), and that the schools can't afford to pay them more, much less double to triple the staffing. I hear that from every school district, small and large (we have a lot of independent school districts in our county, many with parents on the boards and just trying to make things work). None of the districts seem to find the extra money to dramatically increase teaching staff, despite different philosophies and experiences (or party affiliation). I have not served on a school board, but I did serve for a number of years on a community water board responsible for the water supply of 140 mountain homes, along with other volunteers. It's amazing how different things look when you go over your financial spreadsheets and try to keep the system running, versus the financial flexibility that people assume you must have. It's not that different than when people expect engineers to magically pull a rabbit out of a hat which cheaply solves everything at once, rather than offering real world tradeoffs. So I urge you to look a bit deeper before making any assumptions about practicality of doubling or tripling teaching staff. Maybe it's worth raising taxes, but a solid case needs to be made. One thing which surprised me when I looked at granual assessment data was how little correlation there was in my county, between class size and school performance. Of course there are reasons for that, and one needs to drill deeper to understand it quantitatively, but it challenges the idea that the ratio is hugely determinate in general.

The teacher wanted to emphasise the goodness of America while talking, in an interview, about the many problems of USA public education.

TKAMB is 10th grade? We read it in 7th and it felt like we could've read it sooner than that, even. I'm under 30 but from Canada for reference.

I'd love to listen to you as a podcast

@TeacherTherapy

8 ай бұрын

I have one, but it's only on Spotify. It's also called Teacher Therapy. ❤

@TeacherTherapy

8 ай бұрын

spotify.link/Auj0xmMK5Db

50 being the lowest grade is making kids think they can show up and get a trophy you have to put in work at one point we were giving a kid points because he wrote his name but he was fully Capable of hacking computers and sending derogatory emails to staff like what are we doing ?!? Who runs the schools the kids .. the kids need to fear somebody cause they fear nothing

I did the sped push in model for 3 years in high school science.We also had sped teachers in the other core subjects, social studies, math and ELA. It was wonderful. All the kids benefited , not just the sped kids. We planned together and split up the grading and worked together to set up labs. It definitely gave me more time to do my sped work, collecting data, writing IEP's and adjusting curriculum.

It isn't anti-American to literally just teach American history.

@kotk05

5 ай бұрын

Agreed, I'm not seeing hardly anyone mad that teachers talk about how blacks were slaves. But I am seeing people getting pissed off if you mention how African royalty sold their people in exchange for pigs and guns. Same if you mention how on the other side of the world the Arabs had their own slave trade. Last is if you mention the Confederacy was the Democrats, you get yelled at and then you hear random nonsense slogans "the parties switched".

I'm class of 2007. The books we read in 11th & 12th grade were: Catcher & The Rye The Great Gasby Romeo & Juliet To Kill A Mocking Bird The one English teacher I had for 11th grade at the time wanted us to read: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown it was NOT apart of the school curriculum or approved by the English board department. Our teacher told our class at the time to go & buy copies of the book & later we would read it in class. I casually mentioned it to my parents when we were at Walmart one day that I needed to buy the book for class & my parents discussing this book with several people from our church at the time & my parents told me there was alot of controversial content in the book & they didn't want me reading it. Keep in my this was a regular ed English class. Anyway's my parents called the head of the English board & they said they had no idea this teacher was trying to even have us read this book & admitted this was not approved book by the English department. The next day my teacher dropped my grade from a high B to a low C when I asked why the teacher said to me: You told your parents about the book. I told the teacher you told us to buy copies of the book for class. I told my parents I needed to buy a copy of the book & they said they didn't want me reading that. The teacher said well that's why I dropped your grade because you told your parents. Keep in mind I was warned about this teacher when I was in 10th grade. Me & a friend were talking & I told her how I was a straight A student & she said you won't get a A in her class next year for English class. This friend told me the highest grade she gave was a B & this teacher refused to give anyone an A whether they earned it or not... 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️✌️

@abigailh7715

9 ай бұрын

It's reprehensible the Marxists that are hired and allowed to damage young minds to suit their radical extremist anti American corruption

@munimathbypeterfelton6251

9 ай бұрын

That teacher was probably a tenured teacher with tremendous seniority in their school district. Teachers like that get to say, do, and (not) teach whatever they (don’t) want to whoever they want whenever they want for no reason whatsoever without any consequences from their administration. Teachers like that don’t represent all teachers though. In fact, many of those teachers don’t even get along with their colleagues because they think less of them and their own students to boot!

@shirleyanne6573

9 ай бұрын

1. The de Vinci Code is a terrible book. Written at a grade 4 level. 2k that guy should be fired.

@alicelaybourne1620

9 ай бұрын

LOL. First, go back to English class (The Catcher in the Rye), and I don't want to call you a liar, but... man. I am a teacher, and NO teacher would risk their license by saying, "I lowered your grade because you told your parents". They would know your parents could get them fired for that. Nah fam. Unlikely story.

@Sunny10tv

9 ай бұрын

​@alicelaybourne1620 I really could give two craps less whether you believe me or not. I was actually there. Both me as a student & this teacher are both female & this same teacher had several students in my English class that told there parents everything going on in that class to the point this teacher got calls from several parents not just mine. Also this teacher taught 2 English classes that year 1st period & 8th period students from both classes had the same 5th period lunch that year. This teacher was calling her 1st period students angels & referring to our 8th period class as demons from hell. She even told us to our faces that we were the worst class she had to teach & called us demons straight to our face. This teacher also claimed she taught in Japan for a year & bragged about her students in Japan saying how well they behaved. Several of us told her if she liked it so much over in Japan then syi-nara Japanese for goodbye & yes I know I misspelled that word. FYI she did tell me about lowering my grade because I told my parents I was standing by her desk when she said it to me & even laughed at me saying there was nothing I could do & if I still made more of a fuss about it she would lower my grade even more. I figured with a teacher as nasty as her attitude was it wasn't worth the aggravation. She also told me & another boy both of should have been in honors English class for 12th grade English but because I said something was why she purposely kept me in regular ed English the next year. Also there was an Asian girl in our class who had a lower grade than me in our English class who she did advance to honors & when I said something to the teacher because me & the other boy who I was friends with. The teacher said she's Asian. That's why she put her in honors. The next year 12th grade me & the same boy (my friend) were in the same English class same period for 12th grade as well but different teacher also female teacher. She noticed very quickly I turned I my work way ahead of everyone else pretty much all the time & so did my friend & made the remark to both of us that really should have been put in the honors English class instead of regular ed when I explained to her what happened the year previously she told me you should have said something at the beginning of the year & I would have gladly put you in honors English. To note how fast I was in her class the teacher assigned us a project to work on that was split into 4 parts to be done over 4 weeks time. I was already finished with the 3rd part by the 1st week my English teacher found me in one of my study hall periods later in the day & was super impressed. My senior year. I had 4 actual classes to go to in the morning & 4 study halls in the afternoon. I was so bored out of my mind I finished any homework first pulled out a coloring book out of my backpack or my red GBA SP to play during study hall. No one said anything half the students were busy either sleeping on the desks or playing hacky sack or talking about Halo on the Xbox at the time. In my aviation class 12th grade our teacher for aviation class told us to bring in our xboxes & Halo to play for end of year party. I was the only girl in an all boys class & didn't play Xbox only nintendo & Playstation. Luckily there were still nice enough to give me a game controller to play Halo at end of the year school party. I never played Halo before so was a little lost on the concept of the game but someone explained it was a shooter game. 🤷‍♀️

You will be learning the art of teaching through out your career. The new method of teaching without discipline is extremely difficult and beats u down

Totally agree with the curriculum choices. I’ve seen this with the focus on gods and goddesses in middle school and early elementary grades. (Greek and Hindi) I studied Greek mythology for a quarter in 10th grade English. It’s not necessarily “bad” to teach. The issue is the the amount of time spent of these topics in grade after grade for all year long with no or extremely limit studies in civics, American history, geography science etc.

@jimsmith8359

7 ай бұрын

Well, I disagree with you here. In order to read classic literature, you have to understand these Greek references, and that includes anything from Shakespeare to Dante (the peak of Christian classic literature). The main problem with the federal curriculums today is their excessive focus on race-based grievances, which paint a skewed picture of the entire American story, but I doubt that was touched on in any meaningful way in this podcast. It is the issue destroying this country.

@jimsmith8359

7 ай бұрын

And really, when you think about it, it is one of the most palpable connections to the novel 1984. In it, everyone who was over 30 feared kids. They were scared that they would be turned in for the thoughts crimes associated with the old, corrupt way of doing things. We are programming the kids to disrespect us because we teach that the system is intrinsically evil. They are listening. How often do we hear of teachers being fired after years of service? This is the climate we have created.

The education bubble is bursting. The system is just not relevant for many reasons including cultural changes and societal shifts. We are using an Industrial Age approach. The made up system no longer fits. I have worked in private and public school. In private school, I taught prek and Kinder the math my state says is for middle school. I am leaving because I work with administrators and only recently came to see how they hold back progress to maintain control. Listening to their approach to teachers and refusing to acknowledge the real issues really hit me the last month. That and parents with their poorly behaved and outrageous children. I am opening my own microschool. I can choose the families and students. I feel that public school is no longer for good kids and your good child will be be bullied or pushed into behavior problems. I have always said I would never send my children to public school despite my job. I don’t live in an anti-American state but a state that denies we are less then perfect. I think it has to be balanced, but America doesn’t do balance. Students aren’t taught at grade level, but I have come to care very little about grade level as it is not only made up but the minimum lowest standard and in fact is a ball and chain to most children leading to lack of interest that destroys love of learning and curiosity. You have people teaching to test and students gains are unimportant unless they do well on standardized test.

I haven't even watched this yet (I plan to on my drive into work) but I'm a new teacher (and wondering about commiting to a M.Ed....). I too have been told the lowest grade we can give is a 55! Like what?! So we were given a list of students who need "no credit" for the first quarter so they have a second chance for quarter two and I'm just flabbergasted. I'm a science teacher by the way, and I've had to keep things very easy. Not to mention, I've had to create ALL my stuff from scratch and I teach 5 different sciences! Including honors chem and honors astro. 😅 Astro aligns with my degree very well, but chem?! The room I'm in isn't even equipped for chemistry!

It's important, especially in the back half of high school, to deconstruct and analyze a lot of the myths students were spoon-fed when they were younger.

@remo27

9 ай бұрын

Such as the myth that Hiroshima was NOT a military target? No, it's not 'myths' or 'deconstruction' they need: it's how to think critically and actually analyze evidence.

@kaianthony8077

9 ай бұрын

@remo27 you can't argue that Hiroshima was a purely military target in good faith unless you buy into the propaganda of the time. There were a lot of factors that went into that selection and above all the military advisors wanted to quantify the effectiveness of the bomb visually on a previously undamaged city. Its true that Hiroshima was a major port but their were a few more potential targets with much lower civilian populations in the projected blast zone.

@remo27

9 ай бұрын

@@kaianthony8077 Here's a hint: Hata's Second Army HEADQUARTERS. Now what was the SECOND ARMY tasked with? Also, did you know Hiroshima had one of Japan's few remaining early warning radar networks? Once you find out what the Second Army was, and what it was tasked with , please get back to me.

Sounds like the remedial class not special ed. special ed used to be severely mentally disabled students that need a 1-1 para at all times, the only grading was an A because they’re not capable of doing real academic work. Are they just categorizing the remedial students that way for extra state funding?

@reneedennis2011

8 ай бұрын

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@Preservestlandry

8 ай бұрын

No. Students aren't special ed. Services are special ed services. A child-specific aid is a special ed service. So is a modified curriculum.

Welcome to the unholy alliance of No Child Left Behind + Admin that is afraid of Parents suing them + kids who know deep in their bones that there are NO consequences...and I work in an elementary school. None of these children will be prepared to keep even an entry level job and it is SAD.

I'm not a teacher, but my take on the lack of respect by students for teachers and adults in general goes back to parents. Not early on teaching their kids to respect authority. Authority such as teachers, law enforcement, other adults at large. Why would the schools teach anti american curriculum? That might be something for history at a college level.

@chrisjackson8151

6 ай бұрын

So what do you do when such authority figures abuse their authority? There’s got to be something more than just blind obedience.

@chrisjackson8151

6 ай бұрын

_Why would American schools teach anti-American curriculum? That might be something for history at the college level._ So, it’s okay to teach anti-American curriculum at the college level, but not at the school level? Colleges are schools too…

Special education teacher... here in MA we have to plan, teach, meet with parents, case manage, data collection/analysis, diagnostic testing, communicate with parents, and chair team meetings. We do everything! Are there really places the paperwork and teaching are separate?

Um. Did he say 28 to 32 students in one classroom ? ? ?

I teach American history, and I definitely take a more balanced approach. We learn the good and the difficult, but always look to the founding values of the country. I've spent ten years of my adult life living in two developing countries. Americans who take such a negative, anti-civic view of the US have no clue as to what goes on in the rest of the world.

@mlovmo

9 ай бұрын

100%. Americans need a little perspective. Perspective on WORLD history and HUMAN history, and just how bad life for all people was up until recently. Then have a realistic understanding of their own country's and region's history; a story NOT written by activists, like Nikole Hannah-Jones.

@Rockerlady

9 ай бұрын

​@@mlovmoThe problem with the current state of education, media and politics is that everything is extreme. You have far left, America has a racist history, and far right, America is perfect and denial of racism in history. Students need to know all of history. The good and the bad. The reality.

@fremontpathfinder8463

9 ай бұрын

Oh yes we do. 32 of the 33 developed countries have health care for their citizens. Guess which one doesn't? Guess which countries provide almost 90 percent pay and one year off to take care of a newborn? Not the US. Other countries have much lower college costs. The real home of the free is Canada.

@Laguero

9 ай бұрын

@@fremontpathfinder8463 You express the sentiment exactly that I had before going overseas circa 2010.

@fremontpathfinder8463

9 ай бұрын

@@Laguero Except that I have been overseas and Americans are leaving the US at a high rate to live in Spain, Uruguay, Canada and other much more functional nations

NC in my district, a kid does no work should get a 12, is forced the teacher to give a 50. When HS kids do "credit recovery" many cheat. No one fails. What is the point of school

My school does we have to give students an incomplete then give them 5 extra weeks to complete credit recovery to earn a 65 if not then student gets a 60

If special needs kids really hold back the class that much why can't there just be special accommodations for their own schooling, either online or in their own facility, their own classroom... At least then if you have to teach down the bar isn't so so low and the high-end kids will still manage to get something out of the year

@garblegarble8065

7 ай бұрын

Back in the day they used to have their own classroom. I think the term was called “tracking”?

@kiowah231

6 ай бұрын

“Inclusivity” and “No Child Left Behind” (AKA No Child Gets Ahead) got rid of those special accommodations.

@jarofawesome4621

6 ай бұрын

@@kiowah231 after all, no one child is left behind if all children are left behind.

"Push in" is bullshit. My old school did that. Doesn't work for kids or teachers.

If you’d like to know what’s happening look at ethnic studies. I’d be happy to speak with you about it. It’s absolutely about teaching kids to see themselves as oppressed and capitalism is bad..

@fremontpathfinder8463

9 ай бұрын

Not true. It's about educating them about all cultures and experiences in America. The victors should not be the only ones to tell history's stories. Take it from a history teacher. Teaching about other American's experiences is not teaching kids to feel oppressed.

@remo27

9 ай бұрын

@@fremontpathfinder8463 : LOL! Any teaching framework that uses 'intersectionality' is bound to teach oppressed and oppressor because it's all based on group identities. I've seen the 'teaching materials' for this bullcrap. It's harmful racism under the guise of teaching. I learned about how we screwed the 'sort of' native Americans (meaning we ran into the groups who displaced - some violently- the actual original settlers), about how they screwed each other, and yes, about the occasional massacre of European settlers. What I didn't "learn" was: 1) Native American tribes were all peaceful 2) Colonization was something only Europeans did 3) That Native Americans were all good people who never took slaves, conducted raids on other tribes, downright exterminated opposing tribes in some cases or raped 'enemy' women. 4) Cities were a 'white man' thing. All Native Americans lived in roaming camps with teepees! All of them! 5) Native Americans (for lack of a better term) are all of one mind and thought politically. In short, I learned compassion and complexity. And I was never made to feel responsible as a person or race for the sins of the past, but just told not to repeat them. The same with slavery and other sad and unjust examples from US history. And I learned some world history so I could put this in context. Fact is, humans have been enslaving and oppressing each other from the beginning, and sometimes there were more reasons than just simply one side being evil, because before the Industrial Revolution, life for just about everyone was hard except, generally, the upper class or upper classes of the various societies which usually made up five percent or less of the populations. Kids today do not learn this, indeed, in todays classrooms it's a minor miracle they learn anything at all, and they prefer to pay attention to the more titillating and sensationalistic content of the modern curriculum.

@CarobMarcelle

9 ай бұрын

@@fremontpathfinder8463 actually it’s not I recommend looking up Christine Sleeters KZread presentation she is who created ethnic studies you can watch her speak. She openly says “ethnic studies when guided by critical race theory is taking the right direction” she calls what you described as “culture of the month” she also says that ethnic studies is a double Helix of teaching “marginalized kids about their oppression and teaching them to see their roles in injustice through systemic systems of capitalism” I just covered this yesterday. By listening to her and responding. Perhaps you are misinformed but when it’s their direct statement that’s who I’m going to listen too. The price is called why ethnic studies matters. I’m not against teaching about cultures, I literally teach black history. And I’m a fan of learning about different cultures we are currently reading ‘The Boy who harnessed the wind’ I am against teaching that climate change and gender norms are “ethnic studies”

@mba321

9 ай бұрын

That's because capitalism IS bad

@TeacherTherapy

8 ай бұрын

Feel free to email me at TeacherTherapyTrish@gmail.com ❤

Integration is not the same as inclusive classrooms. In my state in Australia ALL students have to now be in ONE classroom. This means that teachers have to "differentiate" for all needs. For me, I was never able to work out how to help those students who are gifted and talented. My son is and he also lost out on resources and attention from teachers. I'm just a generalist classroom teacher. I didn't specialise in anything "significant" other than ESL, Mandarin and Asian Studies. All useless in teaching. I believe teachers need to have some sort of expertise outside of the the classroom such as a trade or managerial role in a company, anything really then come into teaching. Those teachers who did that had better work life balance, they could jump out of teaching when they were offered a contract and then come back in refreshed and balanced. I am a firm believer in getting the specialised help students need from experts. This integration is discrimination by another name and it only disadvantages those students while adding huge pressure on regular teachers.

Slavery is wrong. It is against God’s natural law. But not every slave was beaten, or separated from the family, or deprived of basic comforts and needs of life. Thank you for talking about this. Texas music teacher here. Spirituals & jazz are outcroppings of American black history, for which I’m eternally grateful.

@chrisjackson8151

6 ай бұрын

_Slavery is wrong. It is against God’s natural law._ Yet the Bible is full of references to slavery, particularly in the Old Testament. 😂 _But not every slave was beaten…_ And yet they were still enslaved. Are you implying that it’s okay to own other human beings and keeping them in your house *against their will* as long as you’re kind to them? That’s exactly what slavery is: subjecting a human being into *forced servitude.* So, which one is it? Your writing is full of contradictions. Please make it make sense. I guess logic isnt a strong-suit in American public education?

@razzledberries4953

5 ай бұрын

​@@chrisjackson8151 Exactly, a slave treated kindly is still a slave.

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Do people. really believe that getting a 50 is going to help kids later? Can you do 50% of your job. and stil lhave a job?

@andreamccall5375

20 күн бұрын

Say for the people in the back

I don’t think that history curriculum is anti American per se. We do tend to brag about how great/fantastic our country is. While in reality teachers can barely afford anything, people can’t afford their insulin, do not get me started on mentally disordered people not getting access to care or being able to afford their multiple medications that they need. And we have a largely ignorant population that does not really know its own history. That being said, we have done some pretty cool things that we have a right to be proud of. But people do need to learn the dark stuff and not have it downplayed or sugar coated.

With a group that big three teachers would have been the best fit.

@SoaresSteve

9 ай бұрын

How about 4?

No power in conjunction with high responsibility should really be a deal breaker. And then of course nobody in his right mind wants to be friends with kids. Even as a youth camp canoe tripping guide I found the kids mostly boring and obnoxious and found it necessary to paddle them for fighting. Because after all, they won’t behave unless they know they’ll get beaten. Once I started paddling them there were no more fights because of course they won’t obey you unless they fear you. And allowing them to injure themselves by fighting in the wilds of northern Ontario 100 kilometers from the nearest hospital was not an option. After that one season at the age of 27 I decided to not return again and went to graduate school the next summer. I admitted to the one kid who didn’t want to go on a canoe trip that I hated the place as well as I had just gotten out of the navy and was used to hanging out in topless joints drinking beer with my shipmates when off duty in Guam on the submarine. I also told him him that if he voluntarily went on the trip I wouldn’t make him paddle, work, or really do anything if he felt like loafing, allowing him to ride amidships in my canoe while reading, since he was a bookworm and preferred reading all day to doing anything else. He then cheerfully went along on the trip once he realized that I hated the place as well. I had orignally been at a different camp on the same lake which had been closed 8 years earlier.

C*vid has shown me everything can be done online! But our society, run by men, are obsessed with doing on campus, face-to-face careers and jobs, so we continue the same old outdated ways of doing things. Personally, online learning is superior... it forces parents to get involved with raising and educating their own kids. Parents who obsess with on campus, outdated practices don't really love nor care about their kids; unless it benefits them or is convenient. How depressing. I love how my cousin does things. She teaches her kids herself and through online programs which enhances the learning experience. Educating and assisting her with her kids has shown me there is another way to be a teacher/educator. The way I see it online learning shows you which kids truly want to learn and advance, while those from families with outdated views that schools are places to dumb your kids is just a waste of time. I rather be an online teacher/educator. I know I will get students who truly want to be there and learn. Plus I can silence the idiots and no one ever got shot online (no school shooting). 😎👍

@07Flash11MRC

8 ай бұрын

It also keeps teachers save from violent students.

They want to rewrite history, therefore, books that showed colonization inventors, historical figures that are white are all discouraged and ignored now. Just recently our board in Ontario Canada has been purging libraries out of literary classics such as To kill a mocking bird, Lord of the flies etc. Only Crt like books are encouraged now. The province told the board to stop throwing these books out, but the deed has been done

@kaianthony8077

9 ай бұрын

What is your definition of "Ctr like" books? Sounds like a nonsense term that right-wingers generously apply to almost anything.

@alpha7ization

9 ай бұрын

@@kaianthony8077 Critical race theroy that looks at everything through the lens of race is a terrible way to live your life...

@kaianthony8077

9 ай бұрын

​@alpha7ization not even remotely ehat the theory entails lol. You probably shouldn't comment on something you don't understand.

@Rockerlady

9 ай бұрын

​@@kaianthony8077Yes. What exactly qualifies? Any non White author? Weird

@dontarguewithidiots7459

9 ай бұрын

Actually, that's EXACTLY what it entails. I've read it all. Kendi, Crenshaw, many others.. . it started as a niche theory and has now morphed into something grotesque. But keep living in denial and blaming "right wingers". Oh and btw I'm an independent. An affluent independent living in a VERY BLUE state. Enjoy the mess you've helped to create. I'll go enjoy my life somewhere sane...

Are the books you’re teaching true? That’s all you should be worried about. It is unfair to paint a picture of your country that is untrue.

What is "Anti-American Curriculum"?

@07Flash11MRC

8 ай бұрын

Teaching the truth about sl@very and the massacre colonialists put Native Americans through.

@nickpavia9021

6 ай бұрын

History class having 12 units about slavery and nothing else.

@Peter-bx7ip

6 ай бұрын

@@nickpavia9021 yeah that doesn’t happen lol miss me with your made up scenario

@nickpavia9021

6 ай бұрын

@@Peter-bx7ip That is literally the AP History curriculum. So happy that conservatives are outbreeding morons like you.

@nickpavia9021

5 ай бұрын

@@Peter-bx7ip That is literally the curriculum for AP History in high schools across the United States.

You lost me when you made this political.

This guy taught in a rich , predominantly white school with plenty of money for decent administration and materials. Such is America's 2 tier education system.