My wife has found that it's often a mixed reaction when you lay out how the kids act in the classroom. Some parents are aware and want/need help, while others are oblivious and don't care. With the parent groups on facebook things still get out and everyone usually finds out about the drama.
Yip, It'll be harder for teachers to deviate and teach their agenda instead of the curriculum.
I've been through the OU teacher ed program, TE+, which is the usual 4-year undergrad program plus a year of graduate classes. You did not need to have any credits in the subject you were going to be teaching. I have a BSED in Social Studies, Secondary Education. NO History classes, NO Geography classes, NO Math classes, just education classes. Pedagogy supposedly lets someone who has taken the classes for teaching teach any subject. You do have to take certification tests in Oklahoma. Well, did then, I don't know about now. I was certified for Mild-Moderate Disability, Mid-level to Intermediate Math, and several of the Social Studies specialties. Wanted to teach history, but after graduation, found that history teachers almost had to be coaches. Was, at the time, only one in the state who wasn't. I think sports in school is mostly a waste of time and energy. So I started their Master's program in Special Education. Got close to half-way through it before I developed obstructive sleep apnea, undiagnosed until nearly the end of the school year, which essentially killed my nascent teaching career. Took me a few years to believe it. And now I'm glad I'm not in the field.
Any of my teachers who were still alive would immediately have dropped dead upon learning that I'd become a teacher, even for a short time. And the ones who are dead, I expect they're spinning in their graves like a jet turbine!
I don't know of any school district that has had scores increase honestly. I've known of a few teachers and administrators who got higher scores for a short time. They then got caught cheating on the scoring. OTH, teachers are expected to do a lot more than just teach their subjects. Some of that is, in fact, indoctrination, some is just making up for a lack of parenting at home.
Or been a teacher or administrator.
When I was doing one of my teaching experience observations, I did it at the high school where I was a teacher's aid, running their In-School Restriction (ISR) program. The school had, at that time, about 1400 students. We got nearly 140 parents showing up for Parent-Teacher conferences. Numbers were about equally divided by students doing very well, and students doing not very well. That was less than 10% of the parents.
I agree, teaching is untenable In my opinion. The distractions for kids are significantly worse than when I was in school. I don’t know the fix.
That is something I wanted to see when I was teaching. Though I'd make it publicly available, too.
