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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two things IMO:

(1) Educational standards have changed, making teaching more difficult. Textbooks are not used, which force teachers to come up with curriculum every day and find resources on their own. There are expectations that teachers teach to every level of student, which is, of course, impossible. It's exhausting and you cannot be successful.

(2) Parenting has changed. We wanted to believe that our child's peers would have engaged parents who cared about them and truly wanted to be there for their kids. What we found at private school was that the parents were disengaged and the kids were brats. At public, it was split with the good kids in the advanced classes and the kids with totally checked out parents in the other classes. You cannot teach when the kids don't care to learn.

I wanted to be a teacher and thought I would move to it when my financial situation allowed, but now at age 52, I have no interest in returning. I don't think they want teachers like me who like to teach math by the book with plenty of practice and repetition, regular tests and quizzes with fair grades, and a strict classroom with no phones or devices period.[/quote]

It sounds like you are describing WES. Maybe apply there?[/quote]

Parenting hasn't changed that much.  And, many teachers buy a bad curriculum online, few do it themselves.[/quote]

Parenting has changed a ton. Many parents are overly permissive now and they are also quick to jump in, not allowing their own children to grow/learn from mistakes. I’ve been watching this transition for a couple of decades as a teacher.

As for curriculum, many of us actually do create our own. That’s why we work weekends and summers, giving our own time to improving the lessons we develop. We may purchase the occasional activity from a site like TeachersPayTeachers to supplement what we create, but that’s it. (And public school teachers create very little. Their districts drive the curricula.) [/quote]

That's nothing new. Yes, as a parent I'm going to support my kids.  I'm not going to wait for a teacher to step in as they never have and I'm not letting my kids fail.  We've had teachers pull full year curriculum from websites - its on the worksheets.  This was public.  There is no accountability. AI curriculum would have been better.[/quote]

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