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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it doesn’t work but for very different reasons than what you’re stating. I think far too much time is lost to transitions and having every kid in the class wait for the very slowest or worst behaved kid. My DD could accomplish everything she does at school with two mornings of 3 hours’ of work. We send her to socialize and have fun opportunities, like learning new sports in PE and doing art projects that we wouldn’t be able to help with.

And she’s at a fancy private school.

My public elementary in the 80s worked far better than anything I’ve seen lately. Unfortunately I think it’s because it had standalone ESL classes, standalone special education classrooms, and leveled classes for reading and math plus entire semesters of pull-out work for gifted kids. Modern schools cannot do all of that without pushback from parents and legal issues. Nevermind that the 80s were probably the last years of truly professional, trained teachers. Many people who would have gone into education when I was growing up have been exposed to far more opportunity than there was back then, and they’re making other career choices. With occasional exceptions, my DD’s teachers have been not-bright and not talented at the art of teaching children or classroom management. [/quote]

I agree with a lot of this-- widespread failures around classroom management make me so angry.

But I gotta push back against "the 80s were probably the last years of truly professional, trained teachers."

In the 80s, my teachers were the people who engendered the phrase "those who can't do, teach." The old fat guys teaching health and science between football practices. The mean old spinsters. The airheads whose MRS degrees didn't work out. They might have seemed respect-worthy to me at the time, but I was a kid, and wtf did I know? My parents gritted their teeth to present a respectful front to those idiots. My kid has way better teachers-- people with passion, who like kids, who pursue more information about their profession, etc. Sure, they're not all great. A couple have been actively terrible. But overall, as a profession, the quality has definitely increased between then and now. (And my kid goes to a DCPS!) [/quote]

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