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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This post is ridiculous. The problems are not the teachers and their training. It is the gov’t forcing a gazillion standards every year and teaching to a test. The difference between the US and other countries is they focus on fewer standards per year. They spend a lot of time on the 3R’s in ES but the kids have the time to master it. If teachers had more autonomy in how and what they taught, you would see grammar and spelling coming back. You would def see more writing. You would actually see health being taught. Are there bad teachers? Yes! But their are bad people in even highly competitive fields. [/quote]

How can we expect our children to be educated at a higher level than the teachers themselves? College students entering schools of education have SAT scores in the lower half of percentiles. They accept almost anyone. Why are we surprised at our outcomes?[/quote]

This is completely false. Many teachers did not originally major in education. I did not get my bachelors in education. Many are career changers who had other jobs. I would say at my school the majority of teachers did not originally plan to go into teaching originally and majored in other things. For god sakes Columbia is the highest rated education program in the country. Highly selective schools have education programs. I went into teaching because I wanted to make a difference. I consider myself a highly educated individual. Do I wish I could change how education is done in our country? Absolutely. But it isn’t cause of the teachers. It is the government and the red tape that makes it difficult to teach the way we want.  [/quote]

Yes.  I have a BA in Comparative Literature from Harvard, and I am a teacher because that was my dream career (if I could go back and tell my 20 year old self what I know now about the job and how teachers are regarded, I might have made a different choice).  [b]I am tired of reading about how teachers are unintelligent and poorly educated.[/b]
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And called that by people who don’t even have jobs, to boot. [/quote]

Yeah, I imagine being stuck with my own kids, and my spouse being able to see exactly how little I do around the house for the past 8 months would make me want to really stick it to teachers, too 🙄

OP, how was your second day of elementary school? Our did you skip again like a naughty child?[/quote]

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