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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I mean, the teachers already just teach from slides someone else made, with assignments and pacing someone else made. [/quote]

This is patently untrue.[/quote]

I've done LT subbing jobs in both EL and Resource/Sped, which are both push-in, and in my experience its mostly true. All the teachers in the same grade and school are teaching the same thing on the same day from the same slides. They all give the same assignemnts and assessments. Same with subject matter teachers in MS. I haven't subbed in HS yet. Also when my kids ask their teachers about assignments or questions on tests that don't make sense, the teachers will openly tell them, "I'm not sure, Mrs. So-and-so made that test." So they didn't even read the test they are giving??!? This is in LCPS by the way. Its pretty shocking and disappointing. I would move them in a heartbeat but they are socially ingrained and would be furious at me.

[/quote] It’s not like that in APS[/quote]

We do actually use a similar system at our APS school. PP/LCPS sub, have you considered why they use that system? The reasons are, IME: 
1. Admins want consistency (often due to parent whining about why Larlo’s class is doing something different than their cousin’s dentist’s nephew Larla down the hall).
2. It’s way too much work for one person otherwise. Good lessons — and we’re making whole-class and small-group ones — take hours to plan, especially when working with district resources that are either lacking or not well aligned to our state standards. So please accept my heartfelt apologies for not having an answer for every phrase when “Mrs. So-and-so made that test." 
I’m not sure how you get to label this “pretty shocking and disappointing.”[/quote]

PP is a parent who also subs. She's part of the entitled Nova parents crowd that makes teachers not want to teach here. Apparently in her world teachers should each spend every waking moment personally designing customized lesson plans for her little Larlo and Larla. Nothing off off the shelf for her snowflakes! [/quote]

Any literate warm body can read from slides someone else made and link to kahoots and google doc assingments someone else made. If that is all we are asking of teachers, we don't need them to have so much training, nor do we need to pay them so much. So yes, we'd like a little more than that and it doesn't make us entitled. [/quote]
And it’s super easy to control a classroom too right?[/quote]

As long as parents do their job too, no problem at all.

If they don't, that's a separate issue.[/quote]

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