VDOE board approves Spotsylvania supt candidate with no Edu experience
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Anonymous
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I’m interested in others thoughts on this if you have seen the news on this. Spotsy fired their superintendent and one of their candidates is a lawyer with exactly ZERO education experience. The state just approved him as a candidate. Apparently Youngkin won in a landslide there and their school board majority is very conservative now too.
News story https://www.wric.com/news/education/state-board-approves-spotsylvania-superintendent-candidate-with-no-background-in-education/ |
Anonymous
| Do you live there? |
Anonymous
| No I live in Richmond. And I also have an extremely contentious school board that I’m dealing with, so I think it’s very likely that the state school board might be weighing in shortly so that’s why I am keeping an eye on the rest of the state |
Anonymous
| Spotsylvania has been a mess for awhile. It’s sad to see them work to dumb down their schools. |
Anonymous
Their proficiency scores are significantly higher than ACPS. I know that's not saying much considering the state of ACPS. |
Anonymous
Richmond's school district is an absolute disaster and the current Superintendent loves to engage in virtue signaling and general politics, rather than focusing on the education of the kids. The least in person school in all of 20-21 school year, in one of the least in-person states in the US. Please VDOE put in a new Super |
Anonymous
| They couldn’t get any decent/qualified candidates because of their behavior and beliefs. It sucks for the kids but this is what the crazy right so gets there want—shitty schools. |
Anonymous
He came directly from DCPS. I hope they don’t expect much from him. |
Anonymous
| We had a Superintendent with “education experience” in ACPS, and he was a failure. The relationship with the SB Chair is more troubling. |
Anonymous
Sounds like you're describing Alexandria and ACPS. Except it was the superintendent, the school board and the PTAs. No one cares about actual education. |
Anonymous
| What exactly does edu degree do, they are liberal bs |
Anonymous
The GOP sure hates education. They like their base dumb AF. |
Anonymous
Ok, sure, but education degrees are famously worthless, and at this point only exist to give teachers & educrats a salary/career boost. Studies are pretty clear that there is no impact on students' performance from their teacher having had a master's or a PhD in education. |
Anonymous
They aren’t “worthless”. 
Like I said, the GOP likes the dumb ones. |
Anonymous
Sample here: https://www.mhec.org/sites/default/files/resources/teacherprep1_20170301_2.pdf "States and school districts frequently promote graduate education as a means of improving teacher effectiveness, though this approach is not uniformly efficacious. Overall, past research depicts a complex, poorly understood relationship between teacher educational attainment and student outcomes that may vary by such factors as level of schooling, academic subject, and major-course congruence. Studies reporting non- significant or negative effects were most common in the context of reading achievement in K-8 schools. The effects of a teacher having a master’s degree on math achievement were mixed at each school level. Two studies indicated that master’s degree attainment will only yield a positive effect on student math achievement if the teacher obtains a graduate major in a specific field (e.g., math). Master’s degree attainment was positively associated with student achievement in high school science, but only one study examined this relationship." It's worth pointing out that studies that show little to negative benefit from higher degrees is generally an admission against interest, and studies that admit this are predominant. Look, even if you hate the science, most teachers that you talk to will agree that there is precious little, if any, value coming out of their coursework for a master's degree in education, other than the salary bump. |