Biden, Harris and Pelosi

Originally posted by: Jerry Ice 33

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Actually, to the contrary, I'm 100% for better education.  That is why I'd like the teacher pool evaluated, gutted  and compensated on their merits.  Not supported by some union-backed hack group that goes and fights for teacher pay based on seniority.  And for God's sake, get rid of the bad teachers.  Update the cirriculum to the 21st century.  Get rid of the garbage teachers in urban school districts that don't give a damn.  And saying that, I do know there are good teachers out there.  Just not enough of them.  Too many protected by the crap teachers' unions.    

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Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis

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You do realize that teachers' (and school districts') hands are tied by the angry mobs of parents who show up at school board meetings and scream that their kids must be taught to love Tucker Carlson? To those clowns, teaching reality is a strictly secondary consideration.

 

If you think that's a relatively rare phenemenon, consider that the governor of Virginia was elected solely by playing his one-note CRT song over and over to a mob of numbnuts parents. It was total bullshit, but it worked fantastically well, as a totally useless self-appointed conservative tool ascended to the highest office in the great state of Virginia (actually, due to this, it's been downgraded from "great" to "shitty").

 

So if you want better teachers (and better teaching), the first thing that has to happen is that education has to be de-politicized. And the initial step for that is for parents to stop thinking that they know better than professionals how to teach their children. And no, Jerry, they don't know, any more than they know more than pediatricians about their children's medical care.

 

I know you think teachers are human scum, the lowest form of life, irrelevant. I can't really reason you out of that stance, because reason isn't what got you there in the first place. I don't know what did--maybe some dark, traumatic event.

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Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis

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You do realize that teachers' (and school districts') hands are tied by the angry mobs of parents who show up at school board meetings and scream that their kids must be taught to love Tucker Carlson? To those clowns, teaching reality is a strictly secondary consideration.

 

If you think that's a relatively rare phenemenon, consider that the governor of Virginia was elected solely by playing his one-note CRT song over and over to a mob of numbnuts parents. It was total bullshit, but it worked fantastically well, as a totally useless self-appointed conservative tool ascended to the highest office in the great state of Virginia (actually, due to this, it's been downgraded from "great" to "shitty").

 

So if you want better teachers (and better teaching), the first thing that has to happen is that education has to be de-politicized. And the initial step for that is for parents to stop thinking that they know better than professionals how to teach their children. And no, Jerry, they don't know, any more than they know more than pediatricians about their children's medical care.

 

I know you think teachers are human scum, the lowest form of life, irrelevant. I can't really reason you out of that stance, because reason isn't what got you there in the first place. I don't know what did--maybe some dark, traumatic event.

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Originally posted by: David Miller

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      Actually, teachers like you,Lewis, are human scum. A teachers job is to educate - not to indoctrinate. 

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Originally posted by: tom

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And no, Jerry, they don't know, any more than they know more than pediatricians about their children's medical care.

 

If a parent disagrees with their pediatrician they have the option to get a second opinion.  Frequently in the public school setting, parents are told to just deal with it. After being stuck at home, they were able to actually watch what was being taught in school & they couldn't believe what was going on.

 

In NYC there are almost 700 teachers, being paid, who are not allowed in the classroom while waiting for their terminations; (cases can take 3 years).  They are assigned to what is called rubber rooms, where they sit all day doing nothing at a cost of over $30m annually. 

 

NYC has lost over 125,000 students in the past 2 years.  The Board of ED doesn't know where most of them went.  Some are in private schools, others moved, most are missing.

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Originally posted by: Jerry Ice 33

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I said there are plenty of good teachers.  Read what I wrote.  But there are still way too many protected bad ones.  That is why parents are showing up at school board meetings demanding schools open up mainly for a virus that barely was affecting kids at all.  And that clearly has been proven now.  If those chicken shit teachers are too scared to teach during Covid, there are plenty of young teachers ready to take their spots and hopefully catapult the cirriculum into the 21st century with it as well.  But we all know the real reason the teachers didn't want the schools to open up.  It was just to extend an already long summer break for them where they could half-ass teach virtually.  That is why parents are finally showing up at school board meetings.  

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Originally posted by: tom

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According to the CDC less than 800 children out of 28m died of covid.  That is a 0.003% mortality rate. 

 

According to the KFF transmission from children to adults is negligible. So the school rules were of little effect, but it did cause a significant decline in learning & social development.

 

For someone such as Toxic kevin who is concerned about about education, you would think he would be more concerned.

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