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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a nationwide issue. Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem. Rooms will still be without teachers. I say, bring the warm bodies and then train them. At this point, we just need bodies. Let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to teach. You are given a curriculum which is a guide book. Plus, everything is available to you online. [/quote]

Hahaha - you go in and do it.  Won't last the 1st quarter.

"Paying the current teachers more will NOT solve the problem."  - hmm, let's try that out and see how it goes.  Who knows, it could maybe work?![/quote]

If I decide to go teach tech in a classroom, your kid will be learning practical life skills. They will be learning about how to manage their future lives in an online world by creating scenario where they are married with a couple kids, with end goal being learning how to completely manage balancing their budgets, buying/renting housing, etc. In a more proficient classroom, they will be learning how to design a website and how to use free tools out there to code it, because those tools are now pretty much drag and drop, and lots of fun. Kids can focus on ‘prettying’ up their site. Companies do not usually re-invent the wheel and use these tools, and they are often free to educators. My goal will be to give your kids practical skills that are useful in the real world, using technology as a resource to get there.

Too much teaching these days is of abstract concepts and do not prepare a kid for their future. That’s true of college as well. If you can’t manage your LIFE, you can’t succeed. [/quote]

My ES kids have learned how to design websites, do powerpoint presentations etc. in their 1x a week computer class.  There are tons of voc ed tech classes at MS and HS.  You just don't know what is actually going on in schools.[/quote]

Then why don't these kids succeed at life? Instead, they are chasing 'the best colleges' and taking classes in gender studies.  My kids were in the publics and there were no classes that taught them anything practical. I pulled them to privates.[/quote]

What life skills did they get in the privates?[/quote]

They learned the importance of choosing the correct parents, as well as the much-needed skill of learning how to punch down and always play the victim.[/quote]

Well you've certainly demonstrated the latter two. Which private school did you attend?[/quote]

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