BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration’s plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training, finding that cuts are already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher shortage.
Glad it was blocked, a shame it was also facing cuts. Good teachers are becoming rarer and rarer, hardly anyone seems to care for children to learn. No respect for good teachers or good curriculum. Teachers are still underpaid, under appreciated, and under equipped. Parents and politicians increasely dont want effective educators, they want cheap babysitters, how better would our society be if people were taught effectively.
Imo there are plenty of good teachers but, a lot of times, public schools don’t want good teachers, they want good test results.
Good teachers get weeded out. It drains the life out of you, seeing kids hurt and knowing how they need helped and what they are being set up for but you are not equipped to help them and advice falls on deaf ears, uncaring administration or parents. I see lots of people training to become and alot of new educators, but as you said the powers that be, care about test results and image not staff or child well being. Teacher aren’t given the tools and liberty to help students, they are just expected to make sure they dont hurt themselves too much and get good test scores. It hurts educators to see kids get hurt and be set up for failure ane be told that’s just what we do.
The educators that stick around either dgaf, are too burnt out and too desperate or still have thier optimism, but that seems to tend to run out eventually, or some found the unicorn, as we are told “find a school where you like the curriculum”, fingers crossed I find such a mythical land.
Yeah I pretty much agree with all of this.
We’re in this situation where a lot of kids don’t want to be there because they’re not learning what they want to learn (only what brings in the funding), but they can’t leave, but they also can’t fail. So, like, what are we even doing?
It’s a mess but unfortunately I don’t see the current clown show of a Federal Admin making any positive adjustments in the future.
EDIT: Oh,
1/21/3 of the staff of the Dept of Education just got Doged, so, guess I’m a motherfucking psychic!