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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in NOVA and the school situation is depressing. The biggest problem I see is that teachers can't control the behavioral problems of kids (not blaming teachers btw) so not a lot of learning is happening and the whole school environment is just really stressful for kids. I was honestly thinking about moving but I hear complaints about this from people in many different places. Are there any places in the US where this isn't the trend?[/quote]

US school ls sucked before pandemic.

I had a thread on here about how we have tried multiple public schools and now I have to spend thousands of $$ in a private school AND(!) tutors just for my kid to have an equivalent to an average education that I got for FREE in another country.

After years of US schooling I realized that it’s the teachers that suck and the curriculum. The teachers are not trained to teach properly. And they’re afraid to fail kids.[/quote]

I’ve been teaching for a very, very long time. It’s not the teachers. Failing is occurring at the district level. Teachers have to deliver curricula that is poorly designed and they have to do it without resources in overstuffed classrooms. Teachers can’t fail kids because their districts don’t allow it, as you can see in 50% minimum and excessive retake policies. Teachers then take the hit because parents, like the misled PP, blame them for the many variables outside of their control. It’s easy to blame teachers because the teachers are a visible representation of the system.

We have a system in which people who have barely taught or have never taught are in control. They make the decisions, which are often misguided. I have seen decades of initiatives come and go, each one designed by an “expert” and each one was going to save education. This is not the teachers’ fault; they suffer just as much as the students.

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Much of this rings true to me—my teaching has only 8mproved in the last 20 years, but I am so much more hamstrung by the requirement that I comply with various initiatives and curricula that go against what what I know is best practice. Add to that the insistence of admin that I not just tolerate but accommodate absolutely atrocious behavior in a few students that makes it almost impossible for the other students to learn, and it’s a disaster.

However, I worry that the newest teachers aren’t learning best practice and effective teaching skills, and then I see them burn out and take positions as facilitators, coaches, and admin—and that makes me worry for the future. [/quote]

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