I’ve been a student, a parent of a student, a teacher and a school administrator. And at every level I was either being asked, “What do you want to learn” or I was asking, “What do we need to teach our students?”
We teach Core Content. We teach soft skills. We teach STEM. We teach Related Arts. We teach College and Career Readiness. All the “stake holders” (parents, local business, politicians, community members) spoke up and told us what they wanted. And we have done our best to give it to them.
Don’t ask me what we DON’T teach. We’re not allowed to teach a student how to protect her or himself from an unwanted pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease. We’re not allowed to tell them that they are over weight and out of shape and in danger of diabetes. We’re not allowed to teach them that our Founding Fathers we’re not always men of good character. We’re not allowed to teach them about historical perspective and that perhaps we CAN avoid the problems those Founding Fathers made.
Y’all keep it up and you’re going to end up with kids spending 8 hours a day in front of a computer monitor while some proctor monitors their progress through the computer guided instruction.
Students won’t have an education, there won’t be any learning done. But at least it’ll be CHEAP because you’ll get out of paying teachers.
feethearts about 2 years ago
Really
Durak Premium Member about 2 years ago
I’ve been a student, a parent of a student, a teacher and a school administrator. And at every level I was either being asked, “What do you want to learn” or I was asking, “What do we need to teach our students?”
We teach Core Content. We teach soft skills. We teach STEM. We teach Related Arts. We teach College and Career Readiness. All the “stake holders” (parents, local business, politicians, community members) spoke up and told us what they wanted. And we have done our best to give it to them.
Don’t ask me what we DON’T teach. We’re not allowed to teach a student how to protect her or himself from an unwanted pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease. We’re not allowed to tell them that they are over weight and out of shape and in danger of diabetes. We’re not allowed to teach them that our Founding Fathers we’re not always men of good character. We’re not allowed to teach them about historical perspective and that perhaps we CAN avoid the problems those Founding Fathers made.
Y’all keep it up and you’re going to end up with kids spending 8 hours a day in front of a computer monitor while some proctor monitors their progress through the computer guided instruction.
Students won’t have an education, there won’t be any learning done. But at least it’ll be CHEAP because you’ll get out of paying teachers.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 2 years ago
How lovely. We’re celebrating ignorance now.
smartgrr about 2 years ago
If I lived in Texas, I wouldn’t want my kid learning anything in school either. (yes I know I’m exaggerating)
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Deaths of 2 Russian oligarchs within 48 hours add to wave of executives found dead in ‘suspicious’ circumstances
https://fortune.com/2022/04/25/deaths-russian-oligarchs-wave-executives-found-dead-gazprom-novatek/
FrankErnesto about 2 years ago
Republicans are mostly against critical thinking, and anything that may lead to critical thinking.
RAGs about 2 years ago
I learned a lot in high school, a lot of it on my own.
More Coffee Please! Premium Member about 2 years ago
What the “right” is doing to our education system is truly frightening.