Are we hiring the wrong teachers -or paying them too little?

I would highly advise looking over Chongo Chuck's website

Greatest teacher in the world is needed to overcome bad parenting

I spent all those years in public schools and they never even taught me how to pleasure a lady. Hella stupid, hella lame!

Erin McAuliffe, 25, was arrested Thursday and charged with three counts of sexual activity with a student and one count of indecent liberties with a minor, WNCN-TV reports.

McAuliffe is no longer working for Rocky Mount Prep, the school said Friday, which was the last class day of the year for the public charter school.

A 27-year-old Texas high school science teacher has been accused of being “engaged in sexual contact” with a 17-year-old student.

Sarah Madden Fowlkes has been suspended from her job at Lockhart High School after she was arrested Monday, the school district announced.

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Teacher in Louisiana get handcuffed and arrested for questioning

Seems his district is more concerned with parking, landscaping and maintaining 6-figure admin positions than with staffing and curriculum.

You can cite one example of some f*#ked up podunk high school district all you want. It does not mean for a second that you have a clue how the pre-eminent Public University system on Planet Earth, The University of California, is run or how critical thinking is taught.

ps and Yes, Reilly, you are trash, but you knew that.

I think there is too much emphasis on 'college or bust' public educational curriculum. And there is too much emphasis placed on superfluous course material (and I don't mean the humanities).

Me, I think we need to return to a more votec-oriented emphasis for the majority of public high school students and teach skills that translate into employment skills.

“Few things with law enforcement actually work to lower truancy rates,” said Alan Borsuk, a public policy fellow at Marquette Law School. “What does work is engaging the kids with what they’re learning.”

Dan Herro, a teacher at Washington High School of Information Technology, 2525 N. Sherman Blvd., agrees with Borsuk’s observation. He said that whenever field trips or guest speakers are scheduled, attendance numbers are much better.

“It’s a matter of having an engaging curriculum,” Herro said. “That’s what’s going to keep them in the classroom.”

Mentoring also keeps students in their seats.

Why is it that "snowflake" has been stolen by "conservative"/right-wing/etc. people and turned into a bad thing? I think the idea that each person is as beautiful and unique as a snowflake is wonderful. It is a poetic expression that gives dignity to humans, and gives a useful metaphor for a way to find personal value as an individual that harmoniously exists in society.

. . . using data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, a Fordham Institute study released in September demonstrates the full extent of the absentee problem. On average, teachers miss about eight school days a year due to sick and personal leave, while the average U.S. worker takes only about three and a half sick days per annum. Worse, the study shows that 28.3 percent of teachers in traditional public schools are chronically absent—defined as missing more than 10 days of school per year because of illness or personal reasons.

But so long as we keep making the 'cheaper is better' decision at every point along the way of school funding, we are always going to have the cheapest assed schools around. Duh.

I'm afraid to say that no amount of money or realignment of the education system is going to fix anything, as long as parents don't teach their kids good school habits and values at an early age. Most parents are not doing that anymore.

Young children are being left to lead independent lives without supervision, and they are not developing the life skills and discipline that are necessary to succeed in any learning environment, whether it be vocational or academic.

Do you mean that his post is deflecting responsibility from teachers to parents?

It reminded me of how BITD we were exposed to set theory in the 7th grade...I told myself at the time it was stupid and I was right.

Our society has devolved to where everything is
somebody else’s fault.

rgold, I understand that re set theory. My point is that for most students set theory is useless; basic math skills should be taught. It was understandable to me in the 7th grade, but stupid in the sense that I knew it was useless for most students.

Whoa dude you're sounding way Ayn Rand there.

I've worked hard. I have not scammed and cheated the system. Can't you say the same?

Build more prisons...Crowd control is cheaper than educating the masses...

Though Haab's heroism wasn't needed, assistant football coach Aaron Feis' was. Haab said he saw Feis running toward the gunman, and he later learned that Feis was among those killed as he tried to shield students from the shooter.
"That's Coach Feis. He wants to make sure everybody is safe before himself," Haab said.

I'm waiting for the day when some armed psycho walks into congress and unloads a few AR-15 clips into our upstanding republicans...

rottingjohnny: Me, too, brother. Me, too.
Party at my house when it does happen, y'all are invited.

1. Teachers are the most underpaid workforce in America! This is more a condition of American values than anything else.
2. A large percentage of American teachers are misplaced in the profession.
3. In order to be an effective teacher and transitional figure, you must possess the following:
 a belief that every human being has a human potential they have not yet reached.
 a belief in yourself that you you can make a difference in the lives of young persons.
 an unabiding distaste for simple answers to complex problems, and a commitment to Instilling in young persons a thirst gor knowledge and new experiences.

Walking to school in the 21st century:

uhhhh....that picture WAS "waking to school" for black people in the mid 20th century.

most of those guardsmen could have been better allocated by tasking them with shoving their rifle butts up the a*# of the parents of the white students who taunted those black kid mercilessly...

The problem is the folks in the universities are clueless. Why? The psych deparments. They think humans are like rats. Humans are not rats and never will be.

(I am presently teaching 4th grade with 34 students.....)

AntiChrist’s story shows why they love Bernie Sanders - everything will be free and they’ll be able to sit on their asses.

My basic argument here is that teaching is so very much more than simply communicating content.

The worst form of ignorance is when people don't even know the basics of the opponents they attack. Someone needs a lesson in socialism that isn't taught by Fux and Fiends.