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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They need better teachers, and better training for them once hired. THIS is what DEI should actually mean, for goodness' sakes!

Take my kids' math experience, for ex:

1. My son's 12th grade AP Calc BC teacher was awful last year. He didn't explain any of it clearly. The students who did well were very strong in math to begin with. We hired an expensive, and excellent math tutor, so DS could keep up. How on earth is this equitable?

2. My daughter's Algebra 2 teacher is similar. She doesn't explain anything on the tests unless kids show up to her office hours, which some kids can't do. Kids twiddled their thumbs for TWO days, and were told to do whatever they wanted during class, the week the notes were late. Apparently she doesn't write them herself, the math team does, and she just reads through them or something. Thankfully my daughter is naturally strong in math, and doesn't actually need much guidance. But if my son was in that class, he'd fail miserably. How is that equitable?!

I could cite you some other examples from my son's AP Computer Science Principles teacher, or his AP World History teacher. Or some of my kids' friends' experiences with abysmal world language teachers. One who long-termed subbed for a year and who didn't even speak the language! Talk about setting kids back...

This is the most basic requirement: that teachers actually know how to teach.

That requirement is not being met right now, and it should be met 100% of the time.

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And look at other thread about teacher cuts. We are in a do-it-yourself teaching (or be tutored) generation...[/quote]

Part of the issue here is the lack of textbooks.

My MS kid often comes home with random Science assignments where he is expected to just Google around for the answers.  It's a waste of time and so ineffective.

Or, for Spanish, there is a random mish mash of photocopied worksheets.  Useless.  A workbook would be a million times better and the kids could refer back to previous units.

MCPS is a mess.  [/quote]

Oh, but a textbook is so heavy. Chromebooks much lighter with all of the world's information. !!![/quote]

Yes, textbooks are obsolete. They have this thing called the internet which is like 1,000,000 textbooks but better.[/quote]

The internet does not present the information in a structured,  laddered way that enables someone to learn content.  That’s what a textbook can do.

Sending a child to the internet to learn is like throwing a thirsty person into the middle of the ocean.  What they need is there, but it can’t be accessed in a usable way.  [/quote]
+1 expecting kids to google stuff isn't the answer. There is lots of bad info on there, and some people just aren't good at googling stuff.

My kid is smart, but not the best at googling stuff because they have a short attention span. If they can't find the answer in the first few sentence, they give up. This is what the internet age has done to our kids.

And I worked for that big tech.  I have a love/hate relationship with the internet. It's great for a lot of things, but expecting kids to teach themselves the curriculum using the internet is not the right approach.   [/quote]

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