It's bad out there for teachers and other school workers. Very bad.
Instead of making things better, the job itself looks like it's going to be stuffed with untrained scabs so number keeps going up.
Weaponizing a pandemic to destroy public education. Look to Chile's system if you want to see how it will look in 5 years.
Public education's already destroyed in ways that will make it nearly impossible to repair. Even here and now, look at how many leftist communities harbor contempt for teachers, blaming them for standardized mandates that are beyond their control and otherwise agreeing with right wing talking points about teachers being glorified babysitters and so on.
yeah those critiques have merit. american teachers are overwhelmingly white (72%) and serve as foot soldier level cops for the school to prison pipeline. teaching is a notoriously racist profession in the US partly responsible for some of the divergent outcomes between white and nonwhite students. almost no nonwhite kids respect their white teachers.
reforming public education in the US would mean hiring demographically relevant teachers for segregated schools, which would also vastly reduce the amount of white teachers in the country.
In most cases the teachers are hamstrung to teach an inherently liberal and white supremecist curriculum. If the curriculum were not just absolute corporate manifest destiny brainwashing it would not only be easier to fix the demographic representation of teachers, but also change the school to prison pipeline.
there's what teachers are required to do and what teachers choose to do. i am a product of US public schools and I can tell you that there's no mandate anywhere to ban students from researching the tulsa race riots or other racial massacres anywhere in the US. white teachers just don't want to hear about it, which is why it was banned at my school.
Yeah,banning stuff is a different story. I was talking specifically about teaching to the curriculum, which is itself white colonial focused
lol what makes you think if the guardrails were taken off that whites would not teach a glorified version of their own history? pointing to a white institution tying the hands of white people is fallacious because the institution also serves the people, not just the other way around.
What I'm saying is that forcing teachers to teach a white-focused curriculum leads primarily to only white teachers staying in the profession. Do you think it would be any better to have a bunch of PoC teachers teaching white history, or getting fired for teaching something anticolonial?
american teachers are overwhelmingly white (72%)
That's a nationwide stat, but no way that number is that high in urban schools. In the districts with majority non-white students, the demographics of teachers are much closer to the student population. Administrators on the other hand..
US partly responsible for some of the divergent outcomes between white and nonwhite students.
I'm sure there's no economic or structural factors that contribute to this.
This is wrong too. Chicago Public schools is 90% nonwhite. CPS is exactly 50% white teachers, 50% other. Even in extremely segregated urban districts white teachers predominate.
The white teachers in more diverse areas are more often than not still incredibly racist and leave a lasting impact.
Including when kids see them have much higher positions than the nonwhite teachers, like seniority and administration. Black teachers answering to white teachers with seniority and a white principal.
You are 100% correct. In chicago's fringest northwest and south neighborhoods, the stereotype household is white woman teacher married to white man cop.
That's a fair argument. I still think that it's work that deserves just compensation, benefits, and protection, especially because classrooms are hazard prone petri dishes WITHOUT covid.
It’s a right wing talking point in that it’s used to justify a lack of commensurate compensation and to delegitimize unions
But also :yea:
One of my first jobs was a long term sub position for a teacher who just handed out packets and played on Facebook all day. Apparently she used to be real involved and passionate with various committees in the district and burnt the fuck out after her divorce coupled with a bunch of initiatives losing funding at the same time.
Yeah I’ve heard a lot of stories like that, teachers who actually try their damndest to actually dedicate themselves to the kids but then after a could years of dealing with giant classrooms where a lot of the kids have mental health issues that are hard enough to deal with on a one on one setting, and just shitty funding and facilities. After a while they just go fuck it and have the kids watch some YouTube videos while they fuck off. It makes them feel like shit but honestly they just at the point they just can’t muster the will to care.
Look to Chile’s system if you want to see how it will look in 5 years.
what is it like in Chile?
the vast majority of the population are forced to attend charters paid for mostly (but not entirely, muh subsidy capture) by vouchers. the elite won't touch voucher schools with a dead dog's dick and send their children to actual private schools that don't take vouchers. a small minority of state bureaucrats in the military and civil service are allowed the luxury of real public education (mostly to keep them from couping the government)
In most places in the US, public school funding is local i.e. rich suburbs have good schools and poor neighborhoods have bad schools. I have no doubt the wealthier school districts will spend what they need to to maintain quality (if for no reason other than to keep up property values) but the groups who want to destroy public education will attack those poor districts hard. So we'll end up with a situation where rich kids get to learn in top notch environments while poor kids won't even be able to go to a public school, the only one that operates in their area is the Evangelical-run Ken Ham Elementary School, where the teachers don't need any degrees, certifications, or even a background in teaching and get paid $13/hr.
In NY the state comes in to “save” the district, which means replacing admins and bringing in a bunch of teachers who are really good at lecturing straight out of the Common Core books. I’m sure a lot of states’ privatization will look like that. They say the state’s coming in but everything’s so heavily contracted out that the state is more of a facilitator than anything. What’s that thing that involves a blending of corporate and government functions?
which means replacing admins and bringing in a bunch of teachers who are really good at lecturing straight out of the Common Core books
Is this a good thing or no? I guess it depends how good the common core books are.
:thinking-about-it:
It will tend to raise scores because they teach directly to the tests and at that point testing so abysmal anyways. But it is not good. It absolutely destroy’s kids’ relationships with schooling. The common core standards are good, but the modules they provide us to meet those standards are pretty shit. You have what are called Adopt and Adapt districts. Adapt districts are pretty much better across the board because teachers are given the modules but get to make their own lesson plans.
As far as the lecturing straight from the book, even if the book is good, let’s just say there’s a reason you don’t know what your teachers’ lesson plans used to look like. It’s pretty crude and has several well-studied pitfalls that further disadvantage a lot of the kids that most need intervention at the failing districts, particularly kids with high behaviors, authority problems, and learning disorders
So many of those bloodthirsty jerkoffs want to live out their apocalypse fantasies, be they Biblical or bazinga zombie scenarios where having a gun makes them a harem-building god.
The desire is obvious. Check out how many :frothingfash: show up eager to shoot "looters" after every major hurricane.
Or worse, how many of them desire to BE the looters, stealing from those they see as easy targets so they can feel like a badass.
It reminds me so much of those terrifying fundies that tell on themselves and declare if they didn't believe in God or punishment from God, that they would murder and rape without hesitation.
They DO attempt all that, but they stick to "undesirables" only.
Or they "spread the gospel" to impoverished parts of the world and violate the inhabitants.
Libertarians and fundies have allied for decades to destroy public schools through school vouchers or just direct funding of private religious and/or for-profit orgs.
Fuck it. Tap me in to teach history. I can't be any worse that the propaganda that's crammed in their heads daily.
Some teachers are chuds, yes, but just about none of them have a choice of what they teach anymore.
i think western countries are FUCKED. basically every western gov is going full conspiracy theory in regards to covid, basically pretending long covid and systemic dmg as a result of covid doesn't exist.
it's fascinating. what makes westerners like this?Deep down? The knowledge that their government is effectively helpless.
Consciously they are too patriotic to come to that conclusion. So the disease must not be real.
I'm guessing fully collapsed would be an end to public school in general and statewide or interstate fiefdoms of private schools.
It really is fascinating to see the United States turning into Central America. I've heard American tourists for years talk about how LATIN CULTURE is to blame for our issues. Meanwhile, they're country is slowly beginning to resemble ours with things like this.
What’s with this article? It’s written like a bunch of disjointed bullet points with little commentary. Is this normal for Axios?
yeah; that was the whole point. I think it was a bunch of HillDawg campaign officials who founded the outlet to make the news more like twitter.
