Reply to Lack of content in schools

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Lack of content in schools"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I agree with you, but how do the teachers keep the kids busy for 6.5 hours? Teacher here are masters of killing time, and don't tell me they are too busy teaching to the test. The 1st graders took a test the other day and I bet they all got 100%, because it was so pathetically easy and not because the teacher had prepared them.[/quote]

Killing time is the current flavor-of-the-month educational model.  Teachers organize both math and language arts to have stations, where every station except one is filled with independent work.  Most of the independent work is pure busywork, and no one is making sure that the kids are doing anything at all.  In my kids' classes, every station turned into the "read independently" or "talk to your friends" station.  They get 15 minutes every 2nd day actually learning from the teacher in math.  In language arts, the highest reading groups might only see the teacher for 15 minutes every week or even every month.  The teachers can use all of that extra time to focus on the struggling kids, since they are only rated based on the bottom kids passing the state tests.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics