Teacher playing a Taylor Swift video

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Anonymous wrote:HI Karen!

So edgy.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

NP: It's very different to engage your own 1-3 kids that you have known their whole lives vs. teach 30 kids coming from different places, with different backgrounds, abilities and interests-in a classroom or on a screen. Surely you must understand that.

You must not be a parent. It is hard as hell to keep my kids engaged. I know I was resistant to following rules set by my own parents, yet followed rules set by others (aunts/uncles/teachers) without hesitation. It’s even harder after a 6 hour school day, but we do what we have to do.

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Anonymous wrote:HI Karen!

So overused and not even a little bit clever. Are we still using “on fleek” too?

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

Oh. So “mom school” isn’t a thing then. That’s called parenting.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

Oh. So “mom school” isn’t a thing then. That’s called parenting.

Really? Hours of tutoring every week throughout the year? Not just helping with homework. Additional teaching of different subjects so my kids don’t fall behind. It’s a public school/homeschool combo. You really aren’t very smart, are you?

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Anonymous wrote:Um I have done this. In a mini lesson it can be helpful to show how a reading or literary technique is used in something familiar, like a song. I have used lyrics to practice as a group identifying imagery and all kinds of things with kids before having them do it in a text. It activates background knowledge and engages them before you apply it independently in a text. It’s a good instructional technique. Get a life and let her teach.

Do you mean to say you know more about instructional techniques than parents do? That would be quite the concept to some of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

Oh. So “mom school” isn’t a thing then. That’s called parenting.

Really? Hours of tutoring every week throughout the year? Not just helping with homework. Additional teaching of different subjects so my kids don’t fall behind. It’s a public school/homeschool combo. You really aren’t very smart, are you?

LOL that person is clearly a 20-something teacher with no kids. Probably drank her way through college and is now in charge of molding young minds. Oy.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

Oh. So “mom school” isn’t a thing then. That’s called parenting.

Really? Hours of tutoring every week throughout the year? Not just helping with homework. Additional teaching of different subjects so my kids don’t fall behind. It’s a public school/homeschool combo. You really aren’t very smart, are you?

That’s parenting.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

Oh. So “mom school” isn’t a thing then. That’s called parenting.

Really? Hours of tutoring every week throughout the year? Not just helping with homework. Additional teaching of different subjects so my kids don’t fall behind. It’s a public school/homeschool combo. You really aren’t very smart, are you?

That’s parenting.

I don’t do this with my kids (nor anyone else that I know). Unless she is doing homework help, I don’t consider that parenting. I’m starting to wonder if I should homeschool my kids now. The responses from teachers on this thread (and others) make me realize that our standards for who can become an educator are really, really low.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

Oh. So “mom school” isn’t a thing then. That’s called parenting.

Really? Hours of tutoring every week throughout the year? Not just helping with homework. Additional teaching of different subjects so my kids don’t fall behind. It’s a public school/homeschool combo. You really aren’t very smart, are you?

That’s parenting.

I don’t do this with my kids (nor anyone else that I know). Unless she is doing homework help, I don’t consider that parenting. I’m starting to wonder if I should homeschool my kids now. The responses from teachers on this thread (and others) make me realize that our standards for who can become an educator are really, really low.

Go right ahead!

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

Oh. So “mom school” isn’t a thing then. That’s called parenting.

Really? Hours of tutoring every week throughout the year? Not just helping with homework. Additional teaching of different subjects so my kids don’t fall behind. It’s a public school/homeschool combo. You really aren’t very smart, are you?

That’s parenting.

I don’t do this with my kids (nor anyone else that I know). Unless she is doing homework help, I don’t consider that parenting. I’m starting to wonder if I should homeschool my kids now. The responses from teachers on this thread (and others) make me realize that our standards for who can become an educator are really, really low.

Go right ahead!

Clever response!

I’m not really concerned about my kids. We will figure it out one way or another. I’m concerned for the families that don’t have the time or money to supplement (heavily) at home. (You - childless teacher - may call that “parenting,” and you’re a fool.)

I can see a lot of people posting on these boards, and I truly think some change may come from this. Our teachers clearly need to be retrained - WHAT to teach and HOW to teach it. They simply aren’t bright enough to figure these things out on their own. (And yes, I understand that you are already told
WHAT to teach, but the fact that you go along with terrible curricula without question is disturbing.) Our kids deserve QUALITY educators, not just anyone that can graduate from an unknown university with a 2.5 GPA. While we are at it, let’s actually make the Praxis challenging. That test is a joke.

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OK PPs. Surely you know that a teaching career is not a desired profession, right? If you want the best and the brightest to pursue teaching, then we need to overhaul the salary/prestige/respect/etc. given to teachers these days. We equate teachers with lower tier professionals, certainly not doctors, lawyers, scientists. Our bright young minds are being encouraged to pursue careers other than teaching. Sure, sure, sure, of course there are exceptions to this rule, but on the whole...

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

Oh. So “mom school” isn’t a thing then. That’s called parenting.

Really? Hours of tutoring every week throughout the year? Not just helping with homework. Additional teaching of different subjects so my kids don’t fall behind. It’s a public school/homeschool combo. You really aren’t very smart, are you?

That’s parenting.

I don’t do this with my kids (nor anyone else that I know). Unless she is doing homework help, I don’t consider that parenting. I’m starting to wonder if I should homeschool my kids now. The responses from teachers on this thread (and others) make me realize that our standards for who can become an educator are really, really low.

Go right ahead!

Clever response!

I’m not really concerned about my kids. We will figure it out one way or another. I’m concerned for the families that don’t have the time or money to supplement (heavily) at home. (You - childless teacher - may call that “parenting,” and you’re a fool.)

I can see a lot of people posting on these boards, and I truly think some change may come from this. Our teachers clearly need to be retrained - WHAT to teach and HOW to teach it. They simply aren’t bright enough to figure these things out on their own. (And yes, I understand that you are already told
WHAT to teach, but the fact that you go along with terrible curricula without question is disturbing.) Our kids deserve QUALITY educators, not just anyone that can graduate from an unknown university with a 2.5 GPA. While we are at it, let’s actually make the Praxis challenging. That test is a joke.

Thank you for this suggestion. Please write to the school board with an outline of your suggested professional development. They will add it right away.

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Anonymous wrote:Not OP but because of this thread I found a relative current song and video to integrate into my lesson this week. Thanks for the idea. Students have not been engaged. I’ll try anything at this point!

Yay, more MTV in school.

If your students aren’t engaged, that is YOUR fault, and no music video will help that.

Dear lord, we need a complete overhaul of our system - starting with making schools of education more rigorous and difficult to get into. “The quality of an education system can only be as good as the quality of its educators.” How about we stop letting just anyone become a teacher. Yikes.

Feel free to become one. The kids would run you out within days but you seem to believe you have all the answers. Come on, join us and show us how you’ll get kids to learn by boring them to death.

We do “momschool” at home throughout the year. It’s amazing how engaged they are.

Uh they when are you trolling the public school board.

Because my kids are in public school?

Oh. So “mom school” isn’t a thing then. That’s called parenting.

Really? Hours of tutoring every week throughout the year? Not just helping with homework. Additional teaching of different subjects so my kids don’t fall behind. It’s a public school/homeschool combo. You really aren’t very smart, are you?

That’s parenting.

I don’t do this with my kids (nor anyone else that I know). Unless she is doing homework help, I don’t consider that parenting. I’m starting to wonder if I should homeschool my kids now. The responses from teachers on this thread (and others) make me realize that our standards for who can become an educator are really, really low.

Go right ahead!

Clever response!

I’m not really concerned about my kids. We will figure it out one way or another. I’m concerned for the families that don’t have the time or money to supplement (heavily) at home. (You - childless teacher - may call that “parenting,” and you’re a fool.)

I can see a lot of people posting on these boards, and I truly think some change may come from this. Our teachers clearly need to be retrained - WHAT to teach and HOW to teach it. They simply aren’t bright enough to figure these things out on their own. (And yes, I understand that you are already told
WHAT to teach, but the fact that you go along with terrible curricula without question is disturbing.) Our kids deserve QUALITY educators, not just anyone that can graduate from an unknown university with a 2.5 GPA. While we are at it, let’s actually make the Praxis challenging. That test is a joke.

I’m with you. It’s amusing, but sad, to see the lack of logic in teachers’ responses in this thread and many others. If we want our kids to get a quality education, how can we continue to send them to learn from these people? You can’t teach what you don’t know, and it appears that many of these teachers don’t know much. How many colleges and universities have teaching programs? A lot, and all of them have very low admission standards. If we want to know why our system is failing, we need to start there.

Would we be ok with med school teachers that were only able to get a
2.5 GPA at a mediocre school? I sure hope not.