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02-09-2020, 06:41 AM | #3 |
It was not a fair catch
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02-09-2020, 10:15 AM | #4 |
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02-09-2020, 12:20 PM | #5 |
It was not a fair catch
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02-09-2020, 10:18 AM | #6 | |
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02-09-2020, 11:41 AM | #7 |
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Public education sucks on so many levels.
Like I've said, I taught for 6 years and my wife taught for 3 years and we will never send our kids to public school. |
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02-09-2020, 01:23 PM | #8 | |
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So are you looking at homeschooling or private school or what? |
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02-09-2020, 01:31 PM | #9 |
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02-09-2020, 02:44 PM | #10 | |
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School is very much a social exercise as it is an academic one. There are some baseline skills that need to be picked up, as well as some capacity to learn. But just as much as the academic, kids need to learn how to deal with other kids and authority figures. This was harder for me. I grew up on the farm so I didn’t have daycare or play dates or anything like that. So I got all my socializing from school. And I was behind other kids. It was also evident in a couple kids in my class that were home schooled. They came in late elementary school and knew way more than the rest of the class but they were weird as all get out. By the time high school came around they were average or behind academically and didn’t have much for friends. The other thing I see is my kids getting a lot out of non-parent interaction. My daughter does far better at school than she does at home. Even with my wife being a teacher. There is something about the authority the teacher has that matters for her. Even before school, she got a long a lot better when she was with kids from her daycare than just at home. Same with my son who’s not in school yet. Non-family interaction matters for my kids anyway. Not that it matters for me, being self employed there is no way to live without the insurance from the school (and to a lesser extent her cash wages) so my wife can’t stay at home with them. But even then I don’t think we would. Just something to consider. Again, not criticizing, just an honest opinion of what I see. |
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09-06-2020, 10:47 AM | #11 | |
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When I was in school, we got 50 minutes for lunch in elementary. My youngest daughter, as a 3rd grader, got TEN. They weren't allowed to talk. The entire lunch room was silent, you could hear a pin drop. If they got caught talking, they docked recess time. And they went from 3 recesses, 15 minutes each, to two, each 7 minutes. There's very little real social interaction going on in school anymore until the kids get much older, which is incidentally when things like study hall and open campus gets introduced and kids get to actually make decisions for themselves. Until that point, they're pretty much herded like lab rats. |
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02-09-2020, 01:35 PM | #12 |
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How many of the teachers in your school would you say are actually good at their job?
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02-09-2020, 01:49 PM | #13 | |
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We have a list of teacher expectations. such as. one kid out of room at a time-with limited passes out no passes first and last 10 minutes no outs during instruction no phones for students etc. There are always the ones that think that does not apply to them. Makes it harder for us that follow the rules. |
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02-09-2020, 01:59 PM | #14 | |
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I'd say 75 to 80% followed the rules and did stuff but less than 50% of the teachers were actually good at their job. Most just taught stuff the way the book told them to teach stuff or focused solely on the tested materials with no regard to actual life use skills. |
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02-09-2020, 06:48 PM | #15 |
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Ugh, we are dealing with this right now. Kids are definitely trying to take over and they are emboldened by the "cool" teachers who let them get away with things (small petty things mind you) they shouldn't be.
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