They want you just smart enough to run the machines, but not smart enough to question the system.

@wraith313

11 ай бұрын

I actually think it's more likely that the people running education are just incompetent more than malicious intent. Bunch of unqualified people trying to tell qualified people how to do their jobs incorrectly and the qualified people have no recourse

@user-hliudpn

10 ай бұрын

The Fourth Industrial Revolution You will own nothing and be happy. WEF

@dpmalfatti

9 ай бұрын

That’s from a George Carlin routine.

@abigailh7715

9 ай бұрын

1000%

@richardalvarado-ik9br

9 ай бұрын

That's OK they can all just work for Amazon and Walmart for $17 a hr.

As a college teacher, I feel sooooo frustrated because no one will listen to me-- I have been SCREAMING that our k-12 teachers need massive support and a total revolution from parents, because WE are getting these students in as freshman that can't even read, but somehow I am supposed to teach this kid how to write a 25 page research essay on intercultural theories??!!!! Like What?!!!

@kevindoinghisthing

Ай бұрын

Love your handle btw

@elainebarbeau1315

10 күн бұрын

The administrators are being paid by the oligarchs - to create illiterate youth, who will not have the skills to do well in life, and therefore will turn to drugs, violence, or suicide. The oligarchs are luciferin. They have been planning to reduce population anyway they can for the last 50 years. There is strength in numbers. Parents, teachers, and students need to unite against administrators, school boards, and state officials.

@elainebarbeau1315

10 күн бұрын

The administrators are being paid by the oligarchs - to create illiterate youth, who will not have the skills to do well in life, and therefore will turn to drugs, violence, or suicide. The oligarchs are luciferin. They have been planning to reduce population anyway they can for the last 50 years. There is strength in numbers. Parents, teachers, and students need to unite lawfully against administrators, school boards, and state officials - they are our employees. If you become American State Nationals you will have the power to effectuate change.

Failing is a part of life and kids need to learn to fail. It’s a skill and a life lesson

@sabrenak9063

9 ай бұрын

I recently quit after 16 years of teaching low-income elementary age students. It feels like teaching sucks out creativity and problem solving from the classrooms. Administrators and superintendents are adopting policies and programs that are not beneficial to teachers and students. My former district adopted a new grading policy where tests are the only thing that counts towards students' grades. So older students don't care and don't put in effort when it comes to classwork, quizzes, and projects. If it starts as early as elementary school, then how many students will actually be able to survive the workload in colleges? How many will put in the effort? I think admin cares about making themselves look good. It's not about the kids anymore.

@Gee-xb7rt

8 ай бұрын

@@sabrenak9063 Floriduh has been like that for a long time, I think got a front row seat to the destruction of education working at UCF. The president was the first to give himself CEO pay, the rest of the country followed. He named the library after himself. There is a far right contingency that thinks Prager U is the future of education.

@khem127

8 ай бұрын

They should be given a chance by having the best educational curriculum available. You don't want to set them up for failure,

@sarahkercheval8964

7 ай бұрын

Damn. Good point!! We all know this but applying this fact to kids in school and the crappy grading system is genius

@nathantaylor-gk5qm

7 ай бұрын

I'm a 50 year old husband and father from Georgia who is raising a 7th grade daughter who attends a county public school district in a well funded and growing suburban community. I have seen the defiant older generation and wealthy residents pushing against the sprawl of the city of Columbus,GA metro area, and the increase of minorities. The black families are the main target of the pushback. I am not going to be a part of this situation. I am writing to the school boar, but they are not willing to respond. I recently found a district policy that puts a limit on the number of black kids who are disciplined and a teacher in the county told me that there's an obvious difference between the discipline of the white kids and their black kids who have been caught for cheating. They suspended the black ki, and the white kid was written up. That's racism. I have a sister who lives and teaches 5th grade in our distric, and I asked her about some incite and the quality of the middle school education and advice. I am not going to lie about my own sisters response. She began with there are a couple activist teachers who were acquainted with the Gay Straight Alliance club. I asked her to clarify. She said that teacher is letting the group use her classroom for the club. - she did not know I was a member of this outreach program that is a weekly delivery of a bag of food and snacks for the kids in need during the weekend. It was a project that a former student from our church had created for a scholarship or aid. When she graduated and went to college We made the program as an extension for our Episcopal Church in the county that has been growing faced with challenges from our other churches in the county because we are welcome to all people with no exceptions. We have grown the outreach program and I appealed to the high school clubs and the athletes to volunteer. The only group that was willing was that Gay Straight Alliance and I am so proud of them. I was so proud to have the group that is so stigmatized by my own sister helping those in need. BackSnacks Harris County- so I chuckled at her response and said 'oh those kids. I know them and they are good kids. I am not worried about that. If allowing a club use of a classroom is indoctrination you are confused ' I have to say to make a clear and poignant statement for you Bible thumping Evangelical Christians including my own sisters, who are a big burden to the children of the country. Especially the way you are able confident in your group of hate for someone who is not on your side or follows the rules of the 2000 year old book of hypocrisy and contradiction and interpretation to make yall affirm hateful rhetoric and exclusionary practice in the name of God. You are wrong and I ain't got any respect for you. I don't want it in our public schools. Finally. I was raised on traditional mathematics and I am a land surveyor here locally. I have been taught the math and geometry of my profession and I still use it for my own desire to double check my work. I'm part of the growing use of GPS technology and it is advanced productivity and I am not against progess in engineering but it is certainly not a perfect fit in a the way to make decisions on the ground facing a problem quickly and effectively. I have seen younger employees who are useless if their GPS is not giving them the answer. They are mathematics illiterate and if you have a problem with the pipe line not being designed right. The contractor is not getting paid for delays and he expects the engineering to fix it quickly. The problem is a easy solution for the thinkers and the one who is able to mathematically adjust on the job. I'm the son of educators who are life long professionals in this field who are retired. They were not in the same school environment as today. They were old school and I was raised on traditional school values that are unacceptable to the behaviors of students administrators and parents of those I have been following in the comments. The truth is that life is about failure and success. A second chance is not guaranteed. I am raising my daughter in the old way. Missing assignments are unacceptable for her. I told her if you missed your assignment at work you lose the job. Simple. You are a kid your teacher is the adult and she is the boss and you treat her with respect. I have been following my daughter throughout her schooling and I am proud. She is growing up and I have to be honest with her about everything. I would be an idiot for the things heard at school to shape her understanding. I am grateful that I am able to take a school lesson and make it applicable for the time. I am not going to pretend to know something if I don't. I encourage her to ask questions if she needs to. I placed her schooling on her. I told her that was her job. She knows that I expect her to do the best she can and I have never expected her to be perfect. I am not afraid to let her make mistakes but she is shown to not repeat the same mistakes. I am the one who is setting the standards for what behaviors are acceptable. I lead by example and it's working fine now. I am expressing that the value of a good education is important to the extent of rebranding woke. I am not raising a daughter to be a follower and that is an important thing to me. I am not going to pretend that life isn't hard and that people are not perfect. It is absurd that folks are so scared to engage with people who are different. I want her to be able to manage herself with uncomfortable feelings. I am talking about open-minded people. It makes sense to have a discussion about what is the fact that she is going to find herself in a situation where she just doesn't feel right. I am saying that is a feeling to be trusted.

Kids are not stupid. My middle schoolers admitted that they would only do their work if they were held back. I left because they literally did nothing all day in school.

@animusadvertere3371

3 ай бұрын

I would’ve done the same, and my subsequent life would have sucked.

@laglendareed8086

Ай бұрын

I have the same problem at my school and as soon as I get my masters in teaching I am leaving the profession.

@NaturalBrownCupcake

15 күн бұрын

​@laglendareed8086 I'm curious; why are you getting a masters in teaching, then leave? Drop the masters in teaching and pursue masters in something else.

I was the kid with the disorganized backpack filled with loose papers. sometimes even forgot to bring a pencil. What teachers didnt know was that I had a lot going on at home and was going through puberty (like everyone else) poverty, growing attachment issues etc. My parents also were hardly involved in my schooling and didnt check my grades or ask to see my report card very often. Basically I operated below my potential as a default setting. When I got to high school I accidentally got put in an AP (European History) class and out of pure laziness I stayed. But my teacher had this teaching style, where he wouldnt demand respect but if you didnt want to give it- you couldnt stay and disrupt him. His lectures were so realistic to college professors and quite immersive. He had high expectations for us which made me have high expectations too. He did not even slightly entertain late work (even tho im sure we could have got around it, we all respected him too much to even do that) and id say majority of us passed the exam. I ended up passing 2 AP classes after that before doing dual enrollment at a nearby college. My point is, his class gave me the confidence to aim high. He would always say the key is repetition + emotion. Many other teachers in my life would essentially not expect more out of me, and I had no incentive to rise to their standards. Just thought id share my personal experience. I am 20 years old at university still rockin!

@marystreet6564

7 ай бұрын

Good for you

@nunyabizness573

7 ай бұрын

European history is definitely an interesting topic, that usually broadens into other history like Aztec, Incan, Mayan history, etc. But modern education's point in doing that is to give you a perspective on the history of conquerors upon the conquered, which sometimes boils down to majority opinion versus minorities (the minorities some politicians try to protect). So keep the political agenda in mind, because if you are smart you will not be overly influenced by either political party if that makes sense. Good luck with your studies. History is definitely a fascinating topic, but go back further that European history to ancient Greek and Roman history too.

@tanzzyi6198

5 ай бұрын

❤❤

@jimmyjackson2361

5 ай бұрын

So, he did demand respect or you would leave his class.

@sidanx7887

3 ай бұрын

I was that kid as well and retired at 40 using nothing taught at school besides learning to read

I feel like we are sounding multiple alarms, and no one is listening.

@clinetalbo

Жыл бұрын

Like canaries in a coal mine. People just want to deny it.

@smalls9852

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, unfortunately it does seem that way. But I hope things change soon.

@munimathbypeterfelton6251

Жыл бұрын

Because school, learning, teaching, and education are all becoming more and more undervalued with every passing year.

@reneedennis2011

Жыл бұрын

​@@munimathbypeterfelton6251Yup.

@paulw5039

Жыл бұрын

What's driving it is a replacement of objectivity with subjectivity. What we feel should be true is vastly more important than demonstrable, evidence-based outcomes. Objective truth and reality are now 'offensive'.

That lingering immorality he talked about is the worst part. You either start doing extremely unethical things like putting in these fake grades, or you’re bullied and harassed until you resign.

@munimathbypeterfelton6251

Жыл бұрын

Yep! It's lose-lose for teachers!

@reneedennis2011

Жыл бұрын

​@@munimathbypeterfelton6251Yup.

@thothheartmaat2833

Жыл бұрын

oh so thats how the payola in schools works..

@ek5384

Жыл бұрын

@@thothheartmaat2833 Allow me to explain. I came home last week in tears from a meeting with a parent who chewed me out because her child was failing my class and it was “my fault”. When I reminded her of the countless notifications I sent and the referrals I wrote about her son being on his phone every single day, she told me my class rules against cell phones were unreasonable and I just needed to teach better. When I tried to explain politely that a child cannot learn if he is watching TikTok videos during a lesson, she became enraged. Admin got involved and I was reprimanded for not finding a way to compromise with the parent. What was I supposed to do in this situation I honestly don’t know. If I had just put in a fake passing grade, my boss wouldn’t be mad at me, the parent would have left me alone and I wouldn’t spend all evening crying. Imagine going through this for years.. people quickly learn that doing the right thing comes at an impossible cost. I’m not condoning the lingering immorality, but I most certainly understand it.

@laiyalaiya6088

Жыл бұрын

@@ek5384 as a student, I saw how mistreated y’all are ! And it’s sad cause in situations like that you can tell the parents don’t even care to parent their own kids and expect you to do “better” as if you didn’t go to school for this ! Not parenting

My wife's a teacher. It amazes me how she is expected to bend over backwards to give kids an opportunity to turn in work, they just chose not to do the first, second or third time. It needs to stop.

@kcc879

Жыл бұрын

I agree. It increases teacher workload hugely by means of hours and hours and hours. To the point of it being detrimental and burn out. In QLD education system we have to do drafting, provide extensive feedback (as I rewrite the assignments) and then the students hand in a good copy. But they can not hand it in and I was told give them a pass. So I did. I had terrible migraines. I put in notice and got so my flack from that. The school won’t even be a referee for me. I’m glad I’m not working at school full time. I’m still doing supply but been applying for other work. I’ve also made an appointment to see a clinical psychologist to help me with stress and I really hope I can lose weight as well.

@paulbenjamin9480

Жыл бұрын

100% agree - I am a high school social studies teacher in rural PA and this is one of my biggest issues. What are we teaching our kids??

@paulbenjamin9480

Жыл бұрын

I should have mentioned that I have been teaching for 28 years.

@dre3425

2 ай бұрын

@@paulbenjamin9480I teach 6th grade social studies and I wonder the same thing. When I was 12, mom and dad were on my butt to complete work, stay out of trouble, and keep room clean. I was rambunctious but you best believe my grades were outstanding. It takes my students 4 days to turn in a paper with 4 questions on it……. Some of them have a 1st grade reading level and they aren’t held back. How are they gonna function as adults in 6 years……very scary to think about….

@laglendareed8086

Ай бұрын

Yes it does.

As an outsider non-parent: 1. What are these feckless administrators paid? 2. What are these fraudulent consulting firms paid? 3. How much of school budgets are generally wasted on other things (e.g. adding technology that doesn’t add value to learning in the classroom)? This is insane that teachers are being coerced into this corruption; those funds should go to them, not the corrupt bureaucratic power structures, pseudopedagogical paradigm peddlers, et al.

@luvkayakn

7 ай бұрын

The unions spend over 80% of the members’ dues on political activities. They’re essentially a lobbyist PAC for the democrats. Former education secretary, Roderick Paige wrote War Against Hope about the unions enjoying (creating) friction between parents and teachers to ensure the teachers’ continued perception of needing the union membership.

@user-sw5fi5dw8o

Ай бұрын

I know in my city, something like 30% goes to central administration costs, more % for principals' salaries. The "per pupil" cost you see quoted in the media does NOT all go to your local school.

I'm an erstwhile college professor. These new, low standards which highschools have set, have had marked effect on the quality of college students. I fear it will the demise of "American exceptionalism".

@scottdavis3571

7 ай бұрын

We're done as a country. We let Jesus and Pals take over our education system. Now, we are going down hill like Britain.

When the kids of today have children, they will expect that their kids have it even easier. It is a slippery slope. Our society is digressing.

@pointblanks

Жыл бұрын

Idiocracy, the documentary, not the movie.

So many good points. I taught a different demographic - high poverty, 85% students not reading on grade level, 30% IEPs, 40% chronic behavior problems, etc. At first I was all for equitable/mastery based grading because I thought it would help my students to catch up. But I quickly realized the real agenda behind these types of grading practices: saving money. When students don’t fail, there is no incentive for the district to pay for SPED teachers, paraprofessionals, and social workers. Much cheaper to funny with the grades than to really invest in student success.

@thothheartmaat2833

Жыл бұрын

they recently said not a single kid in chicago is proficient in math or reading..

@mzny4314

Жыл бұрын

That is such a theft and I don’t think that the students realize it.

@rhuttrho88

Жыл бұрын

Democrats!

@rosalinasantos3078

Жыл бұрын

Yup my sisters HIGHSCHOOL told her she has to go see a doctor to get tested for dyslexia cuz if they actually for real told us we can’t do it at the school because if it comes back saying she does have dyslexia that the school doesn’t have the resources to help her. She had an iep her entire educational history since elementary always behind reading levels but never failed always just passed given extra time for tests never did her homework. They never focused on how to help her learn just to make sure she wasn’t getting bad grades. Really weird but now she found a passion for interior design and wants to go to community college so she’s been able to find motivation. And I’m graduating college now so I tried to give her as much guidance as I could.

@T_is_for_T

7 ай бұрын

I’ve worked with teachers who basically “babysit” their learning disabled students, and others with high expectations, like me. 6 years after retirement, I still have former students, now adults, reaching out to me to thank me for being patient with their struggles while helping them learn how to overcome some of those challenges with technology and their cell phone. Today, students can have AI write their papers, but in the end, they’ve mastered technology, but not basic writing, reading comprehension, or critical thinking skills needed to navigate life as an adult.

Please interview more college professors, I wanna see the results of our school system

@cordbarnes

Жыл бұрын

It’d have to be done quickly before we run out of them since they are being phased out by woefully paid adjuncts.

@Zoe-ge3kx

Жыл бұрын

I am a college professor, and I can tell you that students don't turn in their work and then assume their are no consequences. I particularly like when they ask me if there is extra credit that they can do. Extra? They cannot do the bare minimum.

@erbiumfiber

Жыл бұрын

Well, seems like a lot of community colleges have huge numbers of remedial math and English classes.

@Zoe-ge3kx

Жыл бұрын

@@erbiumfiber They did, but the movement is now to eliminate developmental courses to eliminate "exit" points. These students will have to step up.

@katemorro4828

8 ай бұрын

I was a faculty adjunct at an elite 4-year university after teaching high school for 14 years. Many of the college freshmen I taught could not read and understand academic papers, could not do basic research or put together a cogent persuasive argument on a current issue of social concern. In fact most students couldn’t come up with an issue of social concern that wasn’t about pop culture or some inane issue like the dangers of drinking cow’s milk. They had no idea what citations were or how to do them. They had trouble writing at even a 10th grade level and were completely at a loss When I required that they wear professional attire and comportment when presenting in my public speaking class. I had students who became incensed to get a B on a homework assignment stating they had never in their life gotten less than and A. I had students who failed to hand in anything by halfway through a 10-week term and then were shocked to discover that they were failing the class and by that time could not do anything to make up for it since they had missed too much of the required work to pass. One student blamed his failure to do the work on the fact that his mother (who lived out of state) had not ordered printer ink for him. She also called me to complain about his grade. The problem at the university level for adjuncts at least is that often the future of your contract is based on student reviews. And these GenZ students do not like to work. They complain about too much homework and resent being held to high standards. So the can be brutal in their assessments. They think they’re paying your salary and so you should work for them. (This was said to me by more than one student.) Every class ends with student reviews and if you don’t have a department that values your work, you can be hung out to dry, just like in the secondary system. Young males are especially terrible to older women professors which reflects the going trends in the culture (that Tate jerk) and other issues.

Funny thing is most administrators wouldn’t last in the classroom themselves….completely disconnected

This made me think instantly of the many parents who have challenged my grading with the statement, "What is going on here with this (B, C, F, etc.)? My child has ALWAYS been a straight A student." Meanwhile... their high school student can't write a coherent paragraph. As a teacher, I know exactly why that child was always a straight A student and it is also the reason why I won't return to teaching, and why I have zero faith in the educational system in (and future of) America.

@bazhumke4040

8 ай бұрын

well this bummed me out

@NeveauRock

5 ай бұрын

So your solution to a student who cannot write is to give them failing grades?!!? 😮

@HabAnagarek

5 ай бұрын

​@@NeveauRock...Yes?

I really am happy I found your channel. I am a parent here and have been caught on the other side of this. Due to the school enabling these terrible behaviors, my child stopped taking school work seriously. I was specifically told one year that she would not pass and the report cards come along and she's promoted!! When I called the school for an explanation, I was told well if she doesn't do well in the next grade - we will put her back. This created animosity in the home because I was handing out consequences for late work and the teachers making me look like the crazy one for enforcing the due dates. These students will not survive in the real world with this kind of work ethic.

@ALee-xf2vm

Жыл бұрын

It's not the teachers, though. We HATE what is going on, but we are forced to do whatever we're told or lose our jobs. It's a nightmare for us ... Can you imagine what it's like in the classroom?

@therealtoni

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't it infuriate you???!! Well=== they said PASS but they will be PROMOTED!!!! Yep

@WendyTalkRadio

Жыл бұрын

Teachers generally do not make these overarching decisions.

@reddirtwalker8041

Жыл бұрын

Same as a parent, which is part of the reason I send my kids to private school. I also wonder as an engineer....what is this philosophy of teaching teaching our kids about responsibility in general. I mean, if I do something wrong in my job it could literally hurt and possibly kill someone. I don't get do overs or make up work.

@SaraHinata

Жыл бұрын

​@@reddirtwalker8041 I don't know in the US, but in my country teachers also have due dates to submit the grades and we don't have make ups or do overs either. We're having the same situation of having to pass students that aren't turning in work and have significant absences

my husband was a school administrator and i was a substitute teacher. i’m so glad for our experiences working in the school system. what we witnessed has made us FIRM believers in homeschooling.

@sharinaross1865

Жыл бұрын

I believe in home school too.

@miketeacher9016

11 ай бұрын

I'm a high school teacher and I agree with you.

@annabrahamson4320

8 ай бұрын

Already has.

@annabrahamson4320

8 ай бұрын

Right don't need to pay teachers anymore, just have uneducated patents working two jobs educate their own kids that's good

@breevestal

7 ай бұрын

My mom was a special Ed teacher and principal for 30 yrs and from what she saw she begged us to homeschool. Covid came and we pulled the kids and have homeschooled since. It’s been a blessing to correct the deficiency the public schools started. They were passing my son with As and I realized he could barely write!

Administration is out of control!

The cortisol reaction to being in constant state of stress is no joke. All the retired teachers I know look calmer , are thinner and certainly are more relaxed. If you are a teacher who actually cares about real student outcomes, for THEIR sake, expect to spend 10 months in a pressure chamber.

@sda2093707

Жыл бұрын

This is so true and so painful for teachers who really care.

@95RangerGirl

Жыл бұрын

Yes omg

@NaturalBrownCupcake

15 күн бұрын

That's me! My blood tests show that my cortisol levels are out of range.

As a parent of 4 and a stepparent of 3, thank you for these conversations. I’ve noticed many of these things as my kids have progressed through the school system, and it’s worrisome, to say the least. We employ many people between 18-25 in my workplace, and I’ve noticed even college graduates are missing basic skills you’d have expected them to learn in elementary school. For instance, as their supervisor, I’ve had to work with employees on things like basic addition and subtraction. Not having the potential to fail leads to a lack of motivation to learn the material, and I’m, personally, seeing huge gaps in knowledge. Also, learning how to prioritize and keep up with your load is an important skill that was always inherently learned throughout schooling as a side effect of having due dates and deadlines. It’s important for kids to be able to fail. And it’s even more important for them to experience it as a minor under the financial support and protection of their parents. It’s not a part of childhood that can just be skipped over if we want to raise healthy, productive adults.

@michaelsix9684

6 ай бұрын

in 1974 after HS I had to take a math test as part of the hiring process to be a nurse's aide for 2.65/hr. I didn't use math often in the job, but they had to find out who could handle numbers -- I had math all the way to calculus, still had to take the test -- this was in Akron, Ohio not a big town - today I don't how bad it is

My heart goes out to this teacher. The more passionate, the better a teacher wants to do at elevating the education of students, the more the system is going to squash them and leave them hanging out to dry. Zombie teachers that admin likes seem to be the only ones that will be able to stay.

@choicelyon2131

Жыл бұрын

Nailed it, you're exactly right. The teachers in my building who really care about delivering the highest quality of education they're capable of are all a mess right now emotionally/physically. Yet there are others who are mediocre in the classroom, but they coach or do some other flashy extracurricular, so admin adore them and shout them out more the the teachers that do an excellent job at their main job: teaching. It's disheartening.

@munimathbypeterfelton6251

Жыл бұрын

@@choicelyon2131 It's because the admin. are always scared to death that the good, truly capable teachers are going to somehow "upstage them", "steal their jobs", "make them look bad", etc. It's all about EGO! Deep down, most admin. know that they themselves are pretty useless, so they have to find evil ways to assert their power over teachers--stopping at nothing to do so in the process, with teachers and students following suit in even uglier ways often times.

@reneedennis2011

Жыл бұрын

​@@choicelyon2131Yup. Exactly

@spinkid2000

Жыл бұрын

I believe that is why i was targeted. I would speak up and question things. I rarely planned more than 3 days ahead because if a lesson bombs I want to reteach the concept, but we were pushed to "Stay on Pace". The new hires just did as they were told and made their classrooms look pretty and stayed on Pace. just moving on to the next lesson regardless of how the day before was.

@choicelyon2131

Жыл бұрын

@@spinkid2000 omg THANK YOU for saying that. When I have a new course to prep (which I have almost every year for the last 9 years...) I always teach day-to-day because, as you said, we teach real people with unique learning styles, so we can't just slap a general template on them. I also make my assessments at the end of the unit based on how things went throughout. It's all against what's recommended, so I don't tell anyone this because it's usually perceived as lazy, but I bust my ass making sure my lessons are customized to my specific students. I don't see any carelessness in that. Also, I should allowed to teach in the style that makes sense to my brain. Mapping things out 2 months ahead makes no sense to me because I end up changing it all anyway to fit the kids. It's inefficient.

I've had multiple school admins change my grades because the student's parent was rich or in power. Even for speach contests! So the student awarded first place got a forever title but completely didn't deserve it. And the hard working student that deserved it gets pushed out of third place. It's absolutely disgusting and unethical out here.

@TB-nn6wb

6 ай бұрын

Speech

@NeveauRock

5 ай бұрын

You were likely using grades as a punishment. That does not fly. You were properly corrected. Sound like these two. Hrades, grades, grades.... silly.

@NaturalBrownCupcake

15 күн бұрын

​@@NeveauRockYou sound ridiculous. Grades are earned not given. If a student earned a grade according to their performance and a rubric, it is what it is. There are bad eggs on all professions, but most teachers aren't using grades as punishment. There are grading rubrics and criteria.

This is such a necessary conversation. Teachers with integrity are finding our educational system increasingly untenable because it requires us to compromise our morals in order to "fit in" and not have parents and administrators on our backs. This is the biggest reason why I left the classroom. It was turning into customer service and just doing whatever it took to keep parents/students happy, while making the admin's job easier. I can appreciate that some teachers are able to suck it up and turn a blind eye in order to make it through the day (or to make it until retirement). But I couldn't keep lowering the bar in my classroom and inflating grades just to keep my sanity at work. I knew, deep down, that it was HARMING students. I didn't become a teacher to hurt students. It does not prepare them for life to keep dropping standards and never letting them experience a consequence. How could I, in good conscience, pass a student when they didn't submit a single assignment and could barely string a paragraph together in my English class? But that's what my department chair wanted. He wanted me to have "grace and flexibility" with kids, which was really code for "push them through no matter what." What a disservice to our young people. Doing this for long enough can cause moral injury, which is what I'm working with my therapist to overcome. Moral injury is when one feels they have violated their moral compass when they take part in, witness or fail to prevent an act that disobeys their own personal principles. Many teachers experiencing burnout can relate. It's not just the workload and dealing with difficult students/parents/administrators. Sometimes, it's not even the low pay or long hours. It's the burnout from having to do things against your moral compass in order to keep your job and feed your family. Like Christopher, I was also having physical symptoms because of this. I would get severe headaches and nausea every Sunday night because I dreaded the upcoming week. It was not uncommon for me to have heart palpitations on my drive to work. After I parked, I would often weep uncontrollably in my car before going into the building. I had high blood pressure and was barely 30 years old. This was no way to live. I loved the art of teaching and helping students, but it just became impossible to work within such a broken system. As always, thanks so much for these videos that so perfectly articulate all the issues within Education today. People need to take note. Our society is in serious trouble if something doesn't change…

@TeacherTherapy

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing! You described the plight of a teacher perfectly! ❤ I'm glad to hear that you were able to transition out of the classroom for the sake of your health and well-being. So many of us know exactly how you feel. 💕

@SoulXpression

Жыл бұрын

It is so sad to hear that so many dedicated teachers are leaving the classrooms, usually for the same reasons. But like you said, we just can't take part in turning a blind eye and also having it negatively affect our health. Maybe one day we'll build a new system, to replace this old one that's so broken.

@Bookworm51485

Жыл бұрын

I work in a system right now where they've mandated a minimum grade, meaning teachers can't give a student a grade below that. So if a student literally never shows up for a single day of class, they lowest they can leave with is this number instead of the 0 they deserve. I've never, in my life, seen something so insane...

@Holdonc

Жыл бұрын

Worded perfectly!! The moral compass explanation is it. I’ve been hearing a lot from teachers leaving. Most have been teaching 10yrs or less. I need to hear from those that are 20+ years in teaching and are staying due to retirement. Teachers retirement, in CA, is a formula that takes in age and years of service. Plus after age 60 teaching those last few years makes a major difference in amount at retirement. What are they doing to stay? Some that feel they have to stay for their retirement to be able to survive their elder years. What are the strategies for those staying??

@thothheartmaat2833

Жыл бұрын

because certain peoples kids are going to go on to become whoever their parents reputation affords them to become and it has nothing to do with the kids grades or abilities as a person or student.. see hunter biden..

This is WHY teachers are "quiet quitting" Seriously there is no incentive to even be honest with grades because the whole system punishes you for being honest. This whole give them as many chances is beyond crazy. Beyond.

25 years of teaching? My gosh, and he still looks so young! I would have never guessed.

@CS-wb6pv

Ай бұрын

Wow! Thanks!

Our school system implemented Standards Based Grading this year. It is a complete and total disaster!

@CS-wb6pv

Ай бұрын

Just a guess but did they consult with Solution Tree? Or someone from Stevenson?

It's gross that we're pushing theoretical grading practices across the country with little to no actual real world results and we're not learning from poor results. These young people are the victims in all this along with the teachers who are square pegs being forced into round holes by disingenuous administrators who are looking for opportunities to make money by selling books. The public hates that teachers are paid poorly but look at the exploding number of administrators who are paid ridiculous amounts of money to make teachers' and students' lives miserable for bragging rights to other administrators. Just axe the administrators, return to work based grading and use that money to pay the teachers better and pay for materials needed for the school.

@nappyqueen86

9 ай бұрын

Yes!

@kingscairn

8 ай бұрын

How anyone can go through life without a thirst for knowledge, a curiosity of past and the evolution of things is astounding

@AshleyWilliams-xq7lj

6 ай бұрын

​​​​​​​​@@kingscairn most people have no curiosity and it's mind-blowing to me. People think I'm incredibly intelligent, and ask why I know so many things. I tell them that I get curious about random things I see or hear about, so I do some research. They look at me like I grew a second head, and continue to assume that I was just born with the knowledge because I'm incredibly bright (and let me tell you, I'm definitely not! 😂)

I'm scared that in the future my heart doctor will be the kid who was socially promoted, did it all online, and had modifications and accommodations in college..

@reneedennis2011

Жыл бұрын

😬

@CS-wb6pv

Жыл бұрын

I think they won’t be because med schools won’t put up with that, however we might want to worry that there won’t be any doctors! 😮

I’m not in the teaching field or anything but I have nothing but respect for current teachers and those who left the profession, it’s tough out here now for them

I taught as an adjunct lecturer for 4 years before transitioning to HS for a more stable position. I saw the kids I was getting at all levels (community college, 4-year, and med-school), and the quality of students was decreasing each year. They were less able to handle deadlines, more prone to emotional problems, and less able to see past their phones in class. I was seriously wondering what was happening in HSs. Now I see what’s happening- the kids are so disincentivized to do work that they never build up resilience and work ethic. I make it a point in my class to reject late work when needed, and fail students who deserve to fail. I give them the support they need, but they need to ask for it. For me to give, they must give as well. I teach at a super low performing school, but my approach has allowed me to prepare my 9th grade biology students to talk to scientists and doctors with some amount of knowledge. It’s about standards and rigor- my college years taught me something very valuable, and it’s my advice for any new teacher: do not worry about how hard you make your course (within reason). You will always have the students who exceed your expectations, those that meet them, and those who don’t care. Your class should be a literal walk in the park or the most difficult course on the planet; you will still see this happen. Do what you can in your classroom to make it clear that you expectations are high and that you will help the students reach them, if the student tries.

@choicelyon2131

Жыл бұрын

Great advice, and I'm sorry (though not surprised) to hear that there's been a notable shift in the quality of student performance at the college level. *sigh*

@bigghouse101

Жыл бұрын

We have highly qualified teachers, they should make more money, but mainly we need to get the system out of the way. The rot is in the bureaucracy and the problem is the Prussian education.

@la6136

Жыл бұрын

I graduated high school 10 years ago. The best teachers I had in high school and college pushed me and challenged me. It benefited me tremendously and I am grateful for them.

@paulw5039

Жыл бұрын

@@cbbcbb6803 I take it you're one of the students who has failed due to lack of effort and it's always everyone else's fault. No one owes you a passing grade. You have to earn it. Your entitlement and lack of accountability will serve you very poorly in life and until you take responsibility for your choices and effort, you will continue to fail, by your own hand.

Most of today's college student reads and comprehends on a 7th grade level. Yet they are all honor students with a high GPA.

@HorizonMediaGaming

Жыл бұрын

This

@nemostrangesonginthedirt8448

Жыл бұрын

Mind recommending me some books at the college level? I am a college student and I want to know how to improve my reading. I also want to improve my writing too. My teachers complained about some grammar in my writing.

@rhomboidq7001

Жыл бұрын

@@nemostrangesonginthedirt8448 depends on what you study. Wealth of nations by Adam Smith, The Republic by Plato, On the Origin of Species are all a great start.

@KAgill123

Жыл бұрын

​​​​@@nemostrangesonginthedirt8448 You may have a writing center at your college where people can review papers/writing assignments and offer feedback, help with grammar, etc. They may have many wonderful books and resources to improve reading and writing. You can ask if your school has a resource like this at a library or resource center. My college had one and it was very helpful while writing papers.

@Creepystalker102

Жыл бұрын

@@rhomboidq7001 the republic?? I would not agree to that, I think that’s a terrible example. Pointless self-stroking by Plato mixed in with abundant, overt sexism. I’ll pass

Watching all these teachers retire is very sad. Am sad for the students who will never meet them

This interview is the teacher’s equivalent of “The Emperor has no Clothes”: we all see it/feel it, but no one dares to talk about it. Feeling so validated right now! This was an amazing interview, specially that closing remarks. Thanks for all the work involved in this ❤ 🙏🏾

@CS-wb6pv

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Thanks. Yes - teachers are extremely afraid to speak up because the school does not want their opinion and will punish them for speaking up. It is even written in the teacher contract and/or the media agreement that “teachers will not say anything to damage the schools reputation”!!

We're starting to see this in the workplace as well. Until recently, I had been a corporate trainer for the last 10 years. New hires started coming in with demands above their status. This computer is too old, I need a new one. This task is boring, I need something else to do to break up my time. I know I don't have PTO yet, but I have to have 1 day a month off for my mental health. They want to come and go whenever ever they want. The concept of an 8-5 schedule is foreign. I had to enlist HR on several occasions to help me fight dress code violations. We started getting threatened with discrimination suits because I had to create and enforce a "no leggings or crop tops" policy. Not to mention, trying to train them was a disaster. Super needy, everyone has their own super special way of learning that you have to accommodate, they want to argue with you over methods they don't yet know the full concept of, they wouldn't let me know when they finished a task (i caught one girl planning her friends wedding on the company computer, and she blamed me for not reminding her that she had to tell me when she was out of work), the list goes on. I fired one in the middle of a training session because she told me to "hold on" why she answered her phone during one on one training. ZEEERRROO respect for authority. I'm so glad to be out of that environment.

@reneedennis2011

Жыл бұрын

😬

@kerryswier4173

Жыл бұрын

Exact same behaviors I see in the middle schoolers I teach.

@las8883

Жыл бұрын

These kids will not be able to hold a stable job at all

@xXjustimagineXx

5 ай бұрын

I am seeing this in the service industry from both a workers point of view and a customer point of view. From a workers point of view I currently work as a barista and I declined moving up to supervisor. Some of my coworkers are beyond lazy, refuse to do cleaning tasks because they aren’t “getting paid enough”, they stand around on their phones. Complain that they have to have nonslip shoes and dress codes, Some didn’t know that you need to wash dishes with hot water and sanitizer with cold… this was because they were taught by other people with these mindsets that didn’t let them know because the person that trained them didn’t care to train them properly. Now from a customer perspective I am seeing people ignore customers. the other day I went to an ice cream shop the girl working greeted me and asked if I was ready to order I said yes, I proceeded to stand at the register for 5 minutes while the girl working played on her phone ignoring me I could see she was scrolling through tiktok. The girl then walked over to register and opened the register and opened the change she had in drawer already and fill up the quarters, I was going to pay with card. I walked to the door before she said anything else to me “I was about to take your order though”.

@blueeyesandmudpies

Ай бұрын

both extremes. TBH it's also become very apparent in a day and age where i can do more in 20 minutes on a computer than my grandma could do at the same job in 1980 over two days, that some jobs need to get over hiring 8-5 daily seat warmers and start hiring people to complete the work as needed. we can be monitored on our computers more than they ever were able to by standing and breathing down our necks.

Omg, I am a therapist and I see a lot of this inappropriate behaviors from the school staff and students. Ridiculous! SMH. The education system will continue to be broken due the poor leadership of the school districts, parents who coddle their children who will grow up to have difficulty in life as adults. When children are not completing school work on purpose and the school staff and parents co-sign immoral and unethical behaviors. We as a country are in trouble. These kids are not prepared for the real work. There will be a rude awakening. We cannot keep giving awards to kids who did not earn it or padding them through with no effort. What are we teaching these children who will soon become adults. This is insane.

As a former classroom teacher and media specialist, I experienced some version of everything he said down to these million dollar curriculums purchased by school districts facilitated by people who never put them into practice in the classroom. Every few years, they throw away the last new thing for something else, and teachers are the ones penalized for it not working. I've also been in a district where students are allowed to make up assignments from August in May of the following year. I could go on, but it's pointless. Public education is a mess right now, and it started long before COVID.

Anyone that's never heard of "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" by Charlotte Iserbyte really needs to look into it. She worked as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Dept of Education. There are no accidents here.

@LilyGazou

Жыл бұрын

This needs to be a pinned comment. Thank you for suggesting the book. I just ordered it.

kids are leaving school with no idea how to deal with the world outside and its very sad.

Sal was my teacher back in 2007! One of the teachers that made me want to teach. I also just quit teaching special Ed after 10 years. I couldn’t do it anymore.

@CS-wb6pv

Жыл бұрын

So sorry - at the time I thought it would be a great profession. Had I known then what I know now, I would’ve given you a heads up!

@annabrahamson4320

8 ай бұрын

Special Ed is hard anyway, had for students and teacher. Many won't go to college anyway.

@mpag119

8 ай бұрын

@@annabrahamson4320 Many students who received special education services will go on to college, many won't. What does that have to do with anything? Does how successful you will be in life solely depend on if you go to college? I think not.

@scottdavis3571

7 ай бұрын

There's no way of getting 10 year. It pays too low and you're treated poorly.

@k.stacey7389

6 ай бұрын

@@annabrahamson4320and? What does going to college have to do with getting an adequate education? If you think the whole point of learning is simply to get to the next level on the education ladder, you probably shouldn’t have been a teacher in the first place.

"It's being done by administrators that haven't taught in ten years who are trying to sell an idea or brand the next big thing to make a name for themselves"👏👏 If you push back as a teacher you're just replaced by someone that's cheaper to hire out.

@luvkayakn

7 ай бұрын

That happens in every industry. I was a Human Resource manager in the ambulance/fire services industry. I was always amazed by the stupidity coming from the out-of-state corporate office by people who had once been paramedics, and should know better. There’s a term for the collective stupidity that occurs in the C suite, but I can’t remember it. Everyone so concerned with just keeping their own job they go along to get along.

I was taught that the bottom 10% of my class will fail even if I was the best teacher in the entire world, and the top 10% of my class will succeed even if I was the worst teacher in the entire world. The 80% in the middle are the ones I can help and that’s where I should put my attention.

In my district we aren’t allowed to give students anything below a 55 on assignments. Did they turn in the assignment but didn’t do well and earned a 55% although they tried? Yes. Is there a student who didn’t try, didn’t turn the work in, barely came to school, a continuous behavior problem…? Yes. Does that student get the same 55% as the other student who tried? Yes. We aren’t allowed to take off points for days they don’t turn it in. We have to give students TWO weeks to turn in an assignment (if a student has an IEP with certain accommodations it turns into 4 weeks, which I’m fine with). Our kids are tested way more frequently than I ever was and I’m not ridiculously older than my middle school students. Benchmarks, state tests, homework, class tests, quizzes, scope and sequence, observations, evaluations…if I’m burnt out, I know my kids are. It’s a shame.

@manuelvalencia9407

8 ай бұрын

That's an embarrassment on many levels.

Like everything else in education, the name is an oxymoron. "Standards based" grading means NO standards. What are we teaching high schoolers? That deadlines and excellence don't matter!!

Ugh. As a parent I’ve seen this and I hate it so much. My son is in 5th grade and he has ZERO motivation to put any effort into his work because there are no consequences. He can put in minimal effort and still pass, so why on earth would he put in more effort? There’s no reward to putting in more effort. I’m taking my son out of his public school and we’re trying Waldorf for middle school. Even though they don’t focus on traditional grades they do focus on being hands-on and finding intrinsic motivation by sparking interest. I’m praying it helps him find his confidence and inner motivation so he won’t fail in high school.

During Covid, I got gaurdianship of my nephew who was 16 at the time... all of his schoolwork was done online because of Covid and I was determined to help him with his grades and whatnot... not only was I HORRIFIED that he could barely do basic math... but every time the teacher would assign something for him to do, we would make sure it got done on time and make sure he studied or practiced whatever it was... ONLY to find out that the teacher never graded the work, never gave a quiz, or held them accountable for a single thing they said they were going to. It pissed me off to no end that they would have him doing assignments that were never graded, therefore, he would just argue with me about doing them saying he didn't have to do them.

Because some kids have derelict parents, all children must be dumbed down. Insane😢

Thank you for the elucidating talk! I quit teaching secondary school for the same general reasons and teach at a university where I'm seeing the same results: second year students are working at what would have been a grade 10 level in my day, they don't attend or hand work in, are too depressed and anxious to do anything but scroll on their phones. And I teach an engaging class in a creative subject! The students have been disempowered: by not holding them to standards and a work ethic, you send the message that they are so hopelessly incapable that you can't expect better from them, and they internalize this.

@LadyCoyKoi

Жыл бұрын

It is discouraging as a teacher how hopeless these kids are. They aren't even 15 and already have a defeatist mentality. Good grief!!! I grew up in the 1980s years before IDEA 1991 and way before 2001 NCLB, and if you didn't do the work or tried you were sent to special school. You earned your keep during that time, so the kids who tired the most were those of us with disabilities. In the 1994 writing exams, those of us in the ESE classes scored the highest in creative writing and grammar exams compared to our general ed and honor student counterparts. I still remembered the principal praising The Vultures (the ESE mascot and team dept name) for saving the schools' face from national low point. Having disabilities doesn't excuse laziness, if anything your disabilities forced you to do more than the average person. You had to always provide justification for being in school. Those were hard times, but they certainly made me be an advocate that I am now. Now there is only advocacy for stupidity and shady behavior. It is really embarrassing how low the education system has fallen. We had a three strikes you are out method, but now it is like a Mad Max meets Walking Dead and the teachers aren't allowed to fight back. It needs to dye off at this point.

@rubberbiscuit99

Жыл бұрын

Agree. Public education amounts to abuse.

@choicelyon2131

Жыл бұрын

@@LadyCoyKoi Super interesting perspectives and experiences; thanks for sharing. The "teachers aren't allowed to fight back" is so accurate. I like that you're advocating for students with special learning needs to have high standards for themselves; I once brought up a concern to admin about cheating amongst the special education students; several students had willingly admitted to me that they just used their extended time to look through the test during my class, look up the answers during lunch, and then resume the test later and change their answers. They'd have completely different answers before and after lunch. The admin just shrugged it off and said "we can only do so much to prevent cheating", which to me came off as "we're fine with having lower expectations for our special education students." It made me so angry because I had full faith that these kids could complete their assessments with the same academic integrity as their classmates (and even perform above and beyond, as your Vultures examples demonstrate), but I guess that wasn't important to admin...they just want everyone to get the highest grade possible regardless of the means. You can't blame the kids either, in this case; if the adults in their life are going to systematically lower the bar, of course they're not going to try as hard as they "should".

@therealtoni

Жыл бұрын

Or is it possible that they are too good to bother with this busy work because they can just GOOGLE everything?? The low level among young people is apparent when you TRY to have a conversation with them. THey don't have the skills or knowledge to talk about much. Just hope you are not made to pass them in university, too!!

@choicelyon2131

Жыл бұрын

@@therealtoni You're so right; my students (10th grade) have no personalities this year (at least that they show to the teachers); it's the most boring and unfulfilling group I've ever taught. The teachers across 10th grade have all said so. You say "good morning" directly to one of them and they ignore you completely. It's shameful. They seem unable to express any complex ideas or synthesize information.

They don't want them doing well because the eventual goal is for universal income.

Students and teachers are suffering under this whole situation. I don't get it. How can a grown adult tell a teacher to just let students retake tests or redo assignments as many times as they want. Or turn in assignments as late as they want. How does that apply to the real world? Back in my school years, it was supposed to be prepping students for the real world. What if these students go on to jobs where they have deadlines and are dealing with clients? What are they going to say and do then? Smh. This is really heartbreaking. Extraordinary teachers are being pushed out for no good reason.

@jennifersnelling1265

Жыл бұрын

I agree apparently and wholeheartedly. From experience and observation, student accountability is at an all-time low. The events that back up are a constant reminder of such.

@smalls9852

Жыл бұрын

Yeah and it really doesn't seem to be getting any better.

@redflamearrow7113

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! This is what is ruining the future of our country. How will these kids ever function in the workplace?

THANK YOU FOR ADDRESSING COLLEGE AGE STUDENTS! This channel is therapy for me. I’ve been teaching college full time since 2005 and it has become so so bad especially over the last year. Same sense of entitlement as what you experience in high school. I have 3 1/2 more years to retirement. Hope I can make it! We are even seeing it on the graduate level. It’s terrible

Who would have guessed that consulting was behind that collapse of an institution.

My husband is a teacher. At his previous high school, students are allowed to turn in missing work from the very first day of school, all the way at the end of school, and still receive a grade. There is no penalty for late or missed work. They can just turn it in whenever.

Never, ever capitulate on grades. They earn what they earn.

@stephsteph4503

9 ай бұрын

I would have been fired had I stood my ground.

Gen Z doesn’t want to learn. They just want to sit on their phones and do absolutely nothing.

@fayelis

2 ай бұрын

Parents are to blame

My god, 15 min in and I am shaking my head wondering, what future career or basic job are these kids being prepared to do, these kids are not just not being prepared for college, they aren't being prepared for life in general

One word covers this DISCIPLINE

These children are being so harmed by this educational system. They are not being prepared properly

🤦🏾‍♀️ oh my goodness. This is why I'll probably homeschool my own kids. What a hot mess.

Just had a student tell me she did not do her homework because she has a life. Why??????

SPEAKING THE TRUTH AND I LOVE IT! I TRULY APPLAUD YOU FOR FOLLOWING YOUR SELF-RESPECT AND INTEGRITY AND PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT!

I retired after thirty years with a few more years (I thought) of teaching in me. I got to the top of the salary scale and suddenly school administration started harassing me on a daily basis, along with all of the other "senior" teachers, until we retired en masse (25% of the faculty resigned in one year). After I retired, I got my first sound night's sleep in many years. I didn't realize how exhausted and stressed I was--not from the students, but from the constant bungling and bullying by the administration. To my sorrow, the younger teachers who are now running my former school don't have a clue: they're terrified of the parents and kids and do whatever's required for them not to get targeted for elimination. The younger generation of teachers have no idea what school used to be like, when we teachers had authority in our classroom. Those days are gone forever.

Admins don’t want kids to know how to read or write, and it’s embarrassing to see workers not able to add 1/2 and 1/2 when working a recipe as a fast food worker.

Exactly, I tried teaching for a year. It turns out it's all a lie. At every level, people say what they have to say to keep their job. Standing up for the truth is just impossible. It all starts with the parents.

One of the things that I was finding a problem in returning to teach at the college level was that students were dictating what the course was to be and got upset when they failed to grasp the subject matter. Instead of discussing issues with me, they went to another Instructor or the Liberal Arts Chair because they didn't like the grade I gave them. Aside from bad, confused writing and basic grammatical errors, some were failing to absorb what I was presenting. Some wanted the facts to be their own without supporting them by research taken from credible sources. And being a published author on the subject, I was more than qualified in my position. There seemed to be an amount of "Woke" influence in the thinking of some students, and complaints came back to me several months later about my use of "inappropriate language" without reference to context. There was no specification of what was "inappropriate" about language pertaining to a time period was used. Again, there was a disconnect to context, or a serious perception problem, being offended by references to a social condition and acceptance that is no longer acceptable. They did not want to hear these things and found them "inappropriate" in spite of my qualifying the statements. In another case, a student went off on a tangent and turned in a paper unrelated to the subject matter discussed in class. As it was, this was a subject I knew a great deal about and recognized that this student had not researched the subject from qualified sources. I had to give him a D and told him not to do this, and asked hims to try again and stick to the course material covered the previous week. He didn't do it. Something that Mr. Salituro mentioned about inconsistent grading standards was present at the college I taught at. There was a percentage system based on submissions of assignments. My best A students turned in the work on time. A few were late, one missed several classes with eight papers left undone. While she got caught up near the end of the term, her final grade was not determined by an equitable process since she received a B+ according to the automatic calculations. This was an unfair standard compared to those who attended each class and submitted their work on time. I reported this problem to the college and never got a response. I had issues with this college which did not set me up properly back in January and I went well out of my way to assemble the course without having the course content provided. I was left to create that content in the full knowledge of the Lead Instructor. Then I heard as recently as three weeks ago that there were complaints about some content I did not present, in spite of the fact that the first sentence in the syllabus states, "content subject to change." As we were about to enter the Winter 2024 Term, I was open to revamping my course material to include that material and after three weeks it was not made available. I had issues with the Department Head based on my not having had a Evaluation seven months ago. When I was asking about it, he insinuated that he was considering other candidates. Then I was asked in November if I would be available. When I answered in the affirmative, I never received a confirmation with a statement of what I was to be paid. In the mean time, I was asked to post the course syllabus, and I concluded this should be done by December 1st. After waiting three weeks for a response from the Senior Instructor of the course, I attempted a rough draft of the syllabus, which was a re-posting of the original from January and submitted it to the Department Head for approval. This also included posting assignment dates working closely with the college calendar. While in the draft stage, I noticed errors on my template. There was an error in the course number and catalogue description, which was contrary to the description in the original syllabus. I brought this up and asked how I could correct this. Following that, a fire storm was stirred up saying I was changing the content of the course. This was not so. Instead of discussing our preparation for the term starting next month I was receiving a continuation of negative reports about things I had allegedly said 11 months ago that were approaching what could be a violation of Freedom of Speech. The fact that I was asked to return indicates that my work was acceptable, Instead, I kept getting more and more reports about comments I made in class that were found unacceptable, the last email with links to college policy and a link to sexual harassment. For the record, I never had an orientation. But having taught at the college level for five years at another college, I was certainly experienced in this. I was offended by links in the fourth email since I never sexually harassed any student and most of all never had the courtesy of a personal meeting with this Department Head who after four days was still not addressing the issues that mattered at this point. As a result, I responded by saying that my time was becoming precious and I needed to know if they were serious about my returning. After not receiving an answer, I responded saying I have another offer that will conflict with the class schedule, thanking them for the considering me and that I would look forward to future opportunities at the college. As much as I was looking forward to returning to teach this course, I simply could not tolerate this treatment. There was no feedback on my course and what the students learned. THAT is what should matter.

He just caught up with where I am. Why even mandate school anymore, because we have no authority over the scholars and we are just babysitters.

Mr. Salituro was my sociology teacher junior year at Stevenson. Sal is a great teacher who has a unique ability to connect with his students the likes of which I’ve never seen again. When the good ones go, that’s when you know… system is broken!

It sounds like a nightmare if you care about students...

What’s sad is that these students are our future teachers, physicians, nurses, counselors…this leads to unsafe practices

Thank you for letting your guests speak. It's truly a tragedy what is happening in modern day schools

Students arent taught to be independent. They are literally being taught to be dependent in and on society. I'm class of 96. So much has changed. What students do now we wouldnt dream of it. Thank you guys for caring. You know what they say about crappy managers. They make unhappy employees. It all rolls downhill. Schools have gotten ridiculous with student behavior. You guys are still the best. Thank you.❤

So happy but heartbroken to find this channel. I teach at the graduate school level and we are seeing the consequences of these failed educational policies. It's terrifying to encounter graduate students with limited reading comprehension and other basic skills they should have mastered at the K-12 level who have been promoted through to attainment of a bachelor's degree.

I'm working in a high school and I can tell you, never before has an entire generation made me feel so Iittle hope for the future. There are little glimmers of hope here and there, but there's so much crap covering those little glimmers that it's hard to see them overcoming it in the end

I could never stomach the patronizing from admin…

I’m convinced the district doesn’t care about retaining great teachers like this. It’s so disheartening to watch former teachers (now supervisors & admin) sellout to ludicrous policies. This generation will never know or care about how harmful some of these policies really are. Love your channel❤

@reneedennis2011

Жыл бұрын

​@dieseltruck3695Exactly.

Wow. This is eye-opening. This guy is describing the atmosphere I came into as a new teacher. I really felt like a failure when I was noticing that nothing made sense, but I see the corruption was so deep that I was never going to develop into a great teacher under these conditions. 😕

@munimathbypeterfelton6251

Жыл бұрын

That is sadly because the average administration and school district of today don't want truly good teachers. They just want a bunch of airhead "yes" men and women who will bow down to the rigged system and sacrifice their dignity and self-respect in the process. It's downright awful.

@TommyStrategic

Жыл бұрын

@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 I agree. I have a theory that teaching is being diminished as a profession so they can hire short-term, low-wage temps as teachers or do something like Teach For America, but permanently.

@aquamarine0023

Жыл бұрын

TommyStrategic - totally agreed! I also think one of the other reasons this is happening is there is no money in the pension funds, they want to make sure that teachers avoid staying long enough to get paid a good salary and so they never get their pension!

@reneedennis2011

Жыл бұрын

​@@aquamarine0023Good point.

@thehomeeclady

Жыл бұрын

@TommyStrategic I thought I was the only one! When I entered the classroom as an educator (at age 40) after a master's program in education, the first thing I noticed was the dissonance between what I learned about education and what was being practiced. I never fit in because I didn't just buy into the latest hype in education, or bow down to emotions over learning. After my time as a teacher, I am genuinely concerned about the future of America.

The Director did the children an injustice by forcing the teacher to change the grades.

As a former student I will say I do agree that if you can pass the text and know the knowledge, homework was busy work and time-consuming, but that being said - if you don't know the material - homework is vital for application of the theory and reinforcement of the material. The public school system is broken on so many levels. On the other hand - developing discipline and handling deadlines is essential for life.

Our schools have swallowed the same Kool aid that our government did. It's all about numbers, money and political correctness, and fame, I'm a retired sped teacher, and our kids are literally being edcationally deprived. Who decided our kids don't need cursive writing, telling time with analog clocks or phonics? Our educational system is already rated at the bottom of the developed countries, are we trying for the bottom of the third world countries?

This is utterly shocking and heartbreaking You two would have been dream teachers in my school. How awful that kids are missing out so much.

I love that Chris talked about how his students feel about it all. Kids aren't stupid, and many of them are fully aware of how broken the system is but are powerless to stop it. We need to do so much better for them!

How can the administration demand that a teacher comply with their requirements, that students don’t have to comply with requirements? 🙄

i wanted to teach my fifth graders to memorize their multiplication tables. Admin did not support me in that. She told me to let them play a coumputer game to learn it. There was another teacher who taught them to write the tables on the scrap paper of the test. That way on the standardized test it would look like they have their facts memorized. If sending off fifth graders to junior high with out knowing their multiplication tables is not immoral. Than I don't know what is. Shame on my ex principal and this other teacher, for caring more about the test results than the success of the students in their future careers.

Now I understand what is happening as this theory is creeping into college level education. Students are starting to expect multiple chances to redo assignments and to have flexible deadlines. We are getting more complaints that grading is unfair. The "student success" people are all over this as the newest way to be inclusive. I'm glad that I am close to retirement because it's all too depressing to think about our students' futures in the workplace.

@truthisland56

Жыл бұрын

I really think when these kids hit the workplace, reality will set in. In one corner, employers today are brutally demanding and in the other corner are a group of students that have never been held to any type of standard. You can rely on increased immigration for some jobs, but a society cannot sustain itself, if you don't have a middle class of tax paying workers. Times are about to get interesting....

@nursejoed

8 ай бұрын

@@truthisland56 How do you figure that employers are "brutally demanding"? Most of them just want their employees to do their damned jobs...

@bobfearnley5724

7 ай бұрын

We also have to tolerate plagiarism

Unfortunately this stuff does bleed into the workplace. At least where I worked at a startup where young workers would cry and their parents would come visit the office and talk to the boss and the admins. Their sense of entitlement was also shocking. We had fully stocked fridges, catered lunches, a game room, Friday night parties, a fully stocked bar with every imaginable liquor and beer, and yet this was never enough. They wanted more and would often complain or get very specific with their food requests (“Can you please order honey roasted sliced Turkey next time you put in a food order?”) Zero sense of gratitude or appreciation for having a fully stocked kitchen full of free food at all hours. Just more demands. I blamed society at large that had made these kids the center of the universe and never taught them any resilience or skills on how to exist outside of a structured environment.

@MegaMagicdog

Жыл бұрын

It's the parents' fault completely! THEY never taught their children gratitude or appreciation or the value of hard work or that they can't come in to fix their problems. Seriously, who would call mom and dad to deal with management because of an issue at work?

@LilyGazou

Жыл бұрын

The young people won’t do well in the coming depression. They will have to struggle for any kind of work.

@stephsteph4503

9 ай бұрын

If you are working management in an at-will state, I'd definitely fire an employee whose mommy or daddy comes in and complains. ....That's insane.

@TheGraduate702

3 ай бұрын

Yes, I’m noticing this too in the workplace. Even remote workers are making demands such as coming and going as they please and wanting time off though they don’t have PTO. 😭. Parents need to do better!

@goodgrief888

3 ай бұрын

@FlyingMonkies325 I hear what you’re saying, in a lot of ways I feel sorry for these young people. I was able to get a decent paying job and pay for my own studio apartment with it when I was 19. I see that that’s not a thing anymore unless the parents are wealthy and paying for it. I do think young people are being screwed, and these companies, instead of paying a living wage and benefits, they install a game room and an all you can eat buffet because it’s cheaper than paying people decently. I just hope that things change because I am 55 and the last office job I got they paid me less than I’ve ever been paid in my life. But hey, they did give me catered meals and an open bar, which I did not want. Luckily I didn’t need the job that badly as my husband makes decent money. But I don’t know how people can live on this low pay. Fully stocked kitchen doesn’t pay rent. Still, I was confused by the employees having their parents come into the office, and was not into that.

I had 7 kids one semester fail my final. So admin made me give the final again and “coach them” (give them the answers) during the final. In other words -pass them no matter what. I was so frustrated after that because classroom behavior gets worse when they know nothing you’re teaching matters anymore. I got out of brick and mortar education and I teach online now.

I work with a lot of young people -High School and College. I try to teach them to be independent and organize their work day. It's an uphill battle. They act like small children and want me to do everything for them. They can't do basic math or follow directions. Our school systems are failing them. They are not being prepared for the workforce or for adulthood.

I lied when I quit. The lingering immorality and failing my profession and my kids is real. I feel like I was a coward and took the easy way out BUT my administrators would not have cared and would have been glad to see me go if I had told the truth because it would have been confirmed that I was not a team player. And I’m in OKLAHOMA!

As a former student I hate group work because of these very types of non-cholent students. Don't show up to group meetings, don't even email you for an intro to make sure everybody is onboard and avoid doing work. Out of the 10 or so major group assignments I've had at a College level only 2 of my groups were considered strong. Me and maybe 1 other student actually do the work. Then again, I had crack the whip type of teachers, we need them again these admins want us all soft and coming back through the College system so we become more indebted, thus making the Colleges richer.

@pistoffpussycat5778

Жыл бұрын

Nonchalant?

This is amazing! I live and teach High School in Victoria, Australia. In the last 15 years, we have done Mazarno (school brought his book for every teacher $$$), PLCs, School Wide Positive Behaviours, continuous reporting, and we have our version of evidence based reporting. It is scary how it spreads, not just across a state or country but the world. 😮

We are going to have fewer and fewer teachers who will love this so-called evolutionary education system and even fewer people going into education in years to come.

I feel for this teacher. It’s so frustrating teaching today. What we are actually teaching students is to lie and take no accountability for their actions.

Just to add to what he said about health....I am a sub. I took a long term position for three months and the school was a total shit show, no discipline, a lot of work, no accountability for students, lots of kids who needed more behavioral support than was available. The entire time I was there, I had been trying to lose weight. I was dieting and not losing anything. After I stopped working there, I dropped 3 pounds and kept it off instantly. Chronic stress causes water retention. So during my time working there, I had lost 3 pounds dieting that didn't show up on the scale because I was retaining water weight due to chronic stress. That's fucking crazy. I can't imagine what would have happened to my health if I had to be there longer.

I feel like my 6th graders are so entitled, babied and unprepared for the real world. And when you talk to the parents, IF you talk to the parents, they are so overwhelmed and oblivious of what to do when they are defiant or completely unmotivated. Like they are CLUELESS and just angry smh l, straight denial

Unsurprisingly, I guess, this horrible approach to "education" is taking over college campuses as well. Schools are so desperate for tuition dollars that "retention" and "recruitment" are the only things faculty are supposed to care about. Ever. This means that kids can't be allowed to fail, and teachers can't make demands that are even remotely challenging. It's tragic, really.

Been teaching 28 years at university level, 21 years in current position and I'm really concerned about the future of our coutry. Afraid AI will control everything.

I tried to explain this subjective grading to people and they didn’t believe me. This also causes teachers to grade based on favoritism. You could have a kid get 98% on a test and receive a C!

It sounds like teaching kids not to respect deadlines, when in the real work places, deadlines are priority... even as a fast food worker.

The private school I worked at in the US for 2 years was like, "you need to make sure every student gets at least a 70." So they could guarantee pass with at least a C-. The idea was just to pass students along because their parents were paying 10k a year for them to attend, so many parents saw it as they were paying 10k a year to auto-pass their kids. So, you might see A B C's only on their report cards, but in my mind the way their grades scaled is, what would traditionally be A and B students would get A's, C and D students would get Bs, and students that would normally be failing would get C's. The school had different categories for work-- classwork, homework, 1 project each semester (so 2 per year), 3 quizzes per marking period, and 2 tests per marking period. Classwork and homework were graded very leniently (any attempt where all questions were tried was a 100 in the gradebook even if everything was wrong), quizzes were graded leniently as well (in a 5-question quiz, writing their name and trying even if all of it was wrong, was at least a 50, 1 correct 60, 2 correct 70, and so on), projects were graded also where any attempt was at least a 50, tests were graded mostly normally but curved usually by 10-20% and worth only 20% of marking period grade.... so, turn in a bunch of half-ass anything and circle random answers and write bs on the tests and you will get at least a 70, easily. So many students rushed through classwork and sat on their school-issued Chromebooks and scrolled tiktok or played games (the security and blocking system in the IT department was a joke, students had workarounds, and we weren't allowed to take Chromebooks away because students needed them for their other classes.) And about not turning work in, in the policy book, the students could get a grade up to 10 days, but the admin would pressure teachers to let students turn in whole piles of work the LAST DAY of the marking period, and I would have to have it all graded by the next day, meaning staying up all night grading. We had midterm and final exams, but these were also graded curved, so if the highest grade was a 70, then everyone got 30% added to their final grade score. A student that only had 30% correct would get a 60 on their exam. Under this system, I did not fail a single student in 2 years in that scam school. The parents are mostly very rich people, with Teslas and Maseratis, doctors and business-owners, mostly immigrated here from the Gaza Strip and Saudi Arabia and used to buying their way through everything. Basically, because the parents were paying all of our salaries, it was more like a business than the school, and we had to bend over backwards for them. I'm now happily working weekends as an exam proctor on a college campus and am expecting my first child. I hear horror stories as well about public school, so I plan to homeschool and socialize my child as much as I can. American schools are a whole mess.

Christopher's story is the same as my own. I am now retired and so happy I left education before I lost my own sanity.

So this is all management consultant driven, and his school administrators have set themselves up as management consultants! Same thing is happening to hospitals.