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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s awful. Teachers in this country would quit instead and that’s what they are doing. [/quote]

Pretty soon we can turn this job over to ChatGPT and the problem will be solved.[/quote]

They practically have.  All this talk about lengthy lesson plans and such.  I don’t see this.  It’s mostly canned curriculums and “educational” computer games [/quote]

Blame the people in school headquarters who buy these apps and online platforms and then require teachers to use them. In my district, they rank schools based on usage of certain apps. Principals go to meetings where they show these rankings and then they come back to school to make sure we use them at least the minimum amount per week.[/quote]

Not blaming the teachers, just pointing out that not a lot of individual lesson planning and actual teaching is going on.  There is a teaching shortage, but not a teacher shortage [/quote]

Not true. 
“According to the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, research shows that American teachers usually have from three to five hours a week for lesson planning. In many other countries, teachers spend fifteen to twenty-five hours per week on lesson planning.”

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You see what they did there, don't you? They're comparing how much time US teachers are given during the school day for planning versus how much time teachers in other countries actually spend on lesson planning, regardless of whether or not it is time spent during their school day.[/quote]

Did you read the report?  Because that's not what they're comparing.

In the report it notes that American secondary teachers spend 63% more hours instructing students than their peers in other OECD countries.  That's an enormous difference.  [/quote]

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