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[quote=Anonymous]If you’re very smart you probably have career options with much better pay, so that makes sense.

SAT scores are from HIGH SCHOOL. Even some very bright kids don’t try their best on that.

I think a lot of the flack against memorization and public speaking comes from parent complaints. Too many parents complain their kids’ teacher “tortured” their kid when they had to present a report to the class and now the teachers decide to move away from that because there’s parents wanting them to get fired over something that silly.

I agree that multiplication tables should be memorized and kids should do presentations/public speaking.

There’s also another factor though. Inclusion model in most schools. You now have kids who can’t read anywhere near grade level or who have crippling anxiety. As a sub in a very nice school district, I’ve seen experienced teachers handle this. The teachers do pull popsicle sticks to have kids read but they also give them the option to pass. Most kids do not pass, even the ones who struggle to read. I have seen a few kids who get pulled into reading groups who do sometimes choose to pass. I think this works well as we don’t need kids being so anxious about getting called on to read when they truly struggle to read on grade level, that they start faking sick and get anxious to go to school!!

There’s a lot of factors with this stuff. It’s not just “oh teachers have a low average SAT score.”

[quote=Anonymous]Ok.  Know I am going to get flamed here but there is one simple reason why public schools across this country are failing including FCPS.

The best and brightest no longer go into teaching.  Most of the good teachers left are near or at retirement age.  Those few good ones that enter the profession are driven out by the poor and mediocre.

The average SAT score for those pursuing education degrees is 1060.  They find out they can’t teach and move into administration and chase one fad after another.

They couldn’t memorize their times tables so that must have been a poor approach.  They hated public speaking so we shouldn’t make kids do it.   They felt bad because other kids had better grades, so now we have effort and mastery grading or no grades at all.

It is time for the US to adopt Finland’s model before it is to late - https://hechingerreport.org/teacher-voice-in-finland-its-easier-to-become-a-doctor-or-lawyer-than-a-teacher-heres-why/ [/quote][/quote]

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