Unqualified HS teacher

[Anonymous]

So, are you a student? How does a parent know that a teacher's desk is "messy."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This HS new teacher is unqualified for the job he took this year. All he does is assigning heavy homework and sitting at his messy desk. He’s the only teacher who hasn’t taught anything since the beginning of the school year. During the 10 minute presentation at BTSN, he just talked about himself, made jokes, and barely explained the grading.
Any ideas on how to proceed?

Give him a chance op. You sound like a pita.

He’s not giving 20 kids the chance to learn and ask questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, are you a student? How does a parent know that a teacher's desk is "messy."

Students tell parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This HS new teacher is unqualified for the job he took this year. All he does is assigning heavy homework and sitting at his messy desk. He’s the only teacher who hasn’t taught anything since the beginning of the school year. During the 10 minute presentation at BTSN, he just talked about himself, made jokes, and barely explained the grading.
Any ideas on how to proceed?

Give him a chance op. You sound like a pita.

He’s not giving 20 kids the chance to learn and ask questions.

Most schools have a system where students have an advisor to help them advocate.....can the 20 students not go to their respective advisors and ask if it is ok for a teacher to not allow questions to understand the material?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This HS new teacher is unqualified for the job he took this year. All he does is assigning heavy homework and sitting at his messy desk. He’s the only teacher who hasn’t taught anything since the beginning of the school year. During the 10 minute presentation at BTSN, he just talked about himself, made jokes, and barely explained the grading.
Any ideas on how to proceed?

Send your kid to public school where at least the teachers are qualified and licensed?

This is the thing about private schools. There are no standards for the teachers.

DP.

I had some really awful teachers in public schools. All had the license but the several bad ones did not know the material or how to teach it or how to control a HS classroom or much else.

Having the teacher license and paperwork does not protect from bad teachers, not one iota.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, are you a student? How does a parent know that a teacher's desk is "messy."

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This HS new teacher is unqualified for the job he took this year. All he does is assigning heavy homework and sitting at his messy desk. He’s the only teacher who hasn’t taught anything since the beginning of the school year. During the 10 minute presentation at BTSN, he just talked about himself, made jokes, and barely explained the grading.
Any ideas on how to proceed?

Send your kid to public school where at least the teachers are qualified and licensed?

This is the thing about private schools. There are no standards for the teachers.

Hilarious!

Kids in public schools can’t read at grade level, nor can they do math at grade level.

And these kids are being taught by “qualified” and “licensed” teachers.

Doesn’t seem like these qualifications are having much effect, does it?

I doubt if things could be any worse with more “unqualified” ones.

Not sure where you’re getting this bit of misinformation from. It’s true that public schools teach all kids, unlike private, so there is a range of achievement. But many public school kids are way above grade level and definitely above private school kids for math.

It’s a fact that private schools have no qualifications for teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This HS new teacher is unqualified for the job he took this year. All he does is assigning heavy homework and sitting at his messy desk. He’s the only teacher who hasn’t taught anything since the beginning of the school year. During the 10 minute presentation at BTSN, he just talked about himself, made jokes, and barely explained the grading.
Any ideas on how to proceed?

Send your kid to public school where at least the teachers are qualified and licensed?

This is the thing about private schools. There are no standards for the teachers.

Hilarious!

Kids in public schools can’t read at grade level, nor can they do math at grade level.

And these kids are being taught by “qualified” and “licensed” teachers.

Doesn’t seem like these qualifications are having much effect, does it?

I doubt if things could be any worse with more “unqualified” ones.

Not sure where you’re getting this bit of misinformation from. It’s true that public schools teach all kids, unlike private, so there is a range of achievement. But many public school kids are way above grade level and definitely above private school kids for math.

It’s a fact that private schools have no qualifications for teachers.

No it’s not. They aren’t just grabbing the first person they see on the street and putting them in the classroom. They just have no mandated qualifications. They can and do set their own requirements. Ask schools you are considering to explain what their hiring qualifications are and what skills and traits they look for in teachers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, are you a student? How does a parent know that a teacher's desk is "messy."

Students tell parents.

OK. But how do parents actually know if the teachers' desk is "messy."

[Anonymous]

DP. I don’t care if a teacher’s desk is messy. I do care if the teacher is engaging and actually teaching the students, which it sounds like this one isn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This HS new teacher is unqualified for the job he took this year. All he does is assigning heavy homework and sitting at his messy desk. He’s the only teacher who hasn’t taught anything since the beginning of the school year. During the 10 minute presentation at BTSN, he just talked about himself, made jokes, and barely explained the grading.
Any ideas on how to proceed?

Send your kid to public school where at least the teachers are qualified and licensed?

This is the thing about private schools. There are no standards for the teachers.

Hate to break it to you:

I am a former public teacher who transitioned to private because I was sick of the low standards accepted by my former district.

I’m held to a FAR, FAR higher standard by my private school. I’m observed more often, and actually by people qualified to observe me. My plans are approved by other teachers and by administrators. My professional development opportunities are more useful and actually make me a better teacher.

And certification? It’s very easy to get certified as a teacher. I should know. Please don’t use that to determine teacher quality.

There are phenomenal public school teachers, but there are also phenomenal private school teachers. I work with them. My children are educated by them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This HS new teacher is unqualified for the job he took this year. All he does is assigning heavy homework and sitting at his messy desk. He’s the only teacher who hasn’t taught anything since the beginning of the school year. During the 10 minute presentation at BTSN, he just talked about himself, made jokes, and barely explained the grading.
Any ideas on how to proceed?

Send your kid to public school where at least the teachers are qualified and licensed?

This is the thing about private schools. There are no standards for the teachers.

Hate to break it to you:

I am a former public teacher who transitioned to private because I was sick of the low standards accepted by my former district.

I’m held to a FAR, FAR higher standard by my private school. I’m observed more often, and actually by people qualified to observe me. My plans are approved by other teachers and by administrators. My professional development opportunities are more useful and actually make me a better teacher.

And certification? It’s very easy to get certified as a teacher. I should know. Please don’t use that to determine teacher quality.

There are phenomenal public school teachers, but there are also phenomenal private school teachers. I work with them. My children are educated by them.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP. I don’t care if a teacher’s desk is messy. I do care if the teacher is engaging and actually teaching the students, which it sounds like this one isn’t.

The point is, you are hearing this from an unreliable narrator. What your child is actually telling you is that she is struggling in the class. Start there. She's blaming the teacher, but try starting with helping the student with the material.

I've had friends tell me how horrible this or that teacher is when my kids had no problem with them and vice versa. The worst was a parent who tried to rally to get a teacher fired believing everything her kid said about why he was failing. The other kids in the class, and my kid (who was getting an A and had not problem understanding the teacher), knew that kid sat in the back of the room goofing off and causing trouble every day. That parent caused such a stink that the teacher quit and the class had unqualified subs for the rest of the year.

Just saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This HS new teacher is unqualified for the job he took this year. All he does is assigning heavy homework and sitting at his messy desk. He’s the only teacher who hasn’t taught anything since the beginning of the school year. During the 10 minute presentation at BTSN, he just talked about himself, made jokes, and barely explained the grading.
Any ideas on how to proceed?

Send your kid to public school where at least the teachers are qualified and licensed?

This is the thing about private schools. There are no standards for the teachers.

Hilarious!

Kids in public schools can’t read at grade level, nor can they do math at grade level.

And these kids are being taught by “qualified” and “licensed” teachers.

Doesn’t seem like these qualifications are having much effect, does it?

I doubt if things could be any worse with more “unqualified” ones.

Not sure where you’re getting this bit of misinformation from. It’s true that public schools teach all kids, unlike private, so there is a range of achievement. But many public school kids are way above grade level and definitely above private school kids for math.

It’s a fact that private schools have no qualifications for teachers.

DP, but the info literally comes from the US government:

https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/mathematics/nation/scores/?grade=8