![]() ![]() I’ve had students climb out windows, steal things, hit and grab me, insult me, be sexually inappropriate towards me and others…with no consequences. It’s become a cultural thing within many educational spaces. Since they know they aren’t going to fail, many of my students don’t try and instead spend their time hitting each other, scrolling on TikTok, roaming the halls, etc. How on earth are we supposed to teach complex and nuanced subject matter in these conditions? There are no consequences for zero academic effort, which also opens up students’ time to mischief and disrespect. At the same time, administrators demand rigor from instructors and blame us for students’ low performance. I teach secondary education and most of my students are at a second grade reading level! NCLB is 100% contributing to the school to prison pipeline as it is encouraging the promotion of kids who do not know how to read, don’t know what a sentence or punctuation are, don’t take notes, throw their classwork on the floor as soon as the bell rings, brazenly copy-paste their classwork from the first Google search results, and have little motivation to be harder working or more well rounded because the school will promote them anyway! The school that I work at is producing unskilled young people with sparse critical thinking skills. The school fought back and did win, but that was the point when everyone (who had not realized before) that NCLB was a really stupid plan. They did fail, and the school, with over 95% of the kids at or above grade level.was taken over by the state and put on an "improvement plan" with state monitored curriculum and mandates. Which became impossible because one family moving in could make them fail. NCLB said they had to keep moving up by 2% each year. They had 96% of the kids performing at or above grade level. They would NOT let kids transfer into the school from outside the boundaries, and actively moved kids who had IEPs out. A neighboring school the one my daughter was at was affluent, had involved parents, had high test scores. The reason it was a bad program was that schools that were doing well on the tests, had to continue to up the percentage passing the tests each year until it became unattainable. It was NEVER meant to pass kids along.that is the opposite of the intent. ![]() What? The purpose of the program was to ensure that students scored at a proficient level on state tests, at an ever higher rate. Its way too complicated to explain simplistically in a single Reddit post If you want more evidence and proof behind these attacks on public education, you need to engage with new articles, documentaries, academic studies, books, journals, etc. Instead, it is a broad pattern of repeated behaviors manifested by the political right as well as their philosophical and ideological underpinnings behind their actions which when pieced together paint a whole and complete picture of their end goal: destroy and privatize the multi-billion dollar market for education for oligarchic privatized gain. There isn't a smoking gun piece of evidence that somehow divulges and reveals the conservative conspiracy to destroy public institutions for privatized gain as if it were characterized by a stupid petty villain at the end of a Scooby Doo episode. r/ECEProfessionals: early childhood educationĮvery single thing conservatives do to our government and, by extension, our public school system is done in order to undermine and subvert public institutions and the rule of law, because conservatives fundamentally are anti-democratic elitists who believe in the rule of aristocracy. ![]() Share and discuss educational techologies that can support and improve teaching and learning. Share and discover teaching resources, including lessons, demos, blogs, simulations, and visual aids. Learn about and discuss the practice of teaching and receive support from fellow teachers. Learn about and discuss the news and politics of education. Guide: How to set up your User Flair The Reddit Education Network Students and non-teachers must remain positive and respectful. These posts will be manually approved as soon as possible. Note: We welcome new accounts, but posts from accounts with low ages or karma levels will be automatically removed by the filter. The goal of r/Teachers is to provide a supportive community for teachers and to inform and engage in discourse with educational stakeholders about the teaching profession. ![]()
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