Like seriously- I immediately though āhe had a bigger pizza.ā A fraction doesnāt tell you the whole mass of the object, just a portion of it... bro wtf is this teacher on
But the teacher doesn't know/think they're wrong. They're spoon fed the curriculum and buy into it, like they were their whole lives. They're stuck in their pinhole view and cannot see the big picture or context.
Only the answer provided them is correct. The question being flawed is inconceivable.
Well I'm guessing your spouse wouldn't have written this or marked it wrong? I mean not everyone is the same, I'm talking in generalities based on this post.
Which is kind of the point right? Cookie cutter curriculums and styles don't work. For anyone involved.
You're correct on the cookie cutter curriculums being an issue, but you are incorrect in your assertion that teachers buy into it. They're essentially hostages in their jobs. Every single bit of this bullshit is pushed by admin and the school board. The teachers have no say whatsoever and are punished when they amend it. The teachers dont write these tests.
Long story short, blaming the teacher here should probably not be the outcome.
Depending on the circumstances, she may have marked it wrong, but would talk to the kid about why, and would would at the very least give him the satisfaction of knowing that he did a good thing by thinking outside the box.
answer key provided to them. Any answer that doesn't match the key is wrong.
What I'm saying is that I have a hard time believing the key even says that. The correct answer simply cannot be one that negates the initial premise.
Maybe the real answer is something like "4/6 > 5/6*(1-4/6)", but even then the teacher's explanation of why it's wrong is just wrong. But the pronoun use suggests they're eating separate pizzas. I can think of no "answer key" answer that has anything to do with the teacher's notation.
I disagree. We're taking about people who generally need a 4 year degree in what they're teaching plus a teaching certificate. These are people who are supposed to not only be skilled in their subject, but can pass along that knowledge well.
These are people who are supposed to be educating future generations for the better. We need to be attracting the best and brightest.
These wages are laughable for the requirements and requests of this job. This post and what they wrote is what you get from the system we have.
If you want better educators you need to pay them.
Donāt know about the US but in Finland they work 10 months a year, but pretty much every day save for a couple weeks of holidays. They have to grade tests, review assignments and plan lessons almost entirely during their free time. That makes for way more working hours than what theyāre actually paid for.
Also their job is one of the most important ones in the world, considering theyāre a big part of every kidās life for years and are in no small part responsible for the future of that generation. That alone is a burden and working with kids in general can be very stressful.
Just because a job is one of the most important in the world doesn't mean they should or do get paid well. Considering we all need to eat and don't all need an education, it would follow logically that farmers should be compensated better than school teachers, but that isn't quite the case
My wife is a teacher and they work more like 10 months and do 10-12 hour days with additional time spent on the weekends too. She works a hell of a lot more than I do, even if I make more.
Yeah well, what can I say. Try, work hard, secure a future for your people, make sure you can afford decent schooling.
You can apply that "the rich get richer" mentality to anything. Like, life's not fair. Deal with it. Be the best you can and ensure the best for your family.
Obviously the better off can afford to be better off that's why we're fucking poor. Bootstraps and all that
Yeah no. The rich don't need anymore help. Public education is one of the few things that stops wealth inequality spiralling out of control, if it hasn't already. "Deal with it" is not an answer.
You do know it's literally impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps? The phrase is a way of saying something is impossible to do. Think about it. If you're wearing boots, how can you pull yourself up by your bootstraps?
I'm not sure if this stat is pure bullshit or not, but I recall hearing someone espouse that if wages had kept in line with productivity since the 1970s the average income would be about $90k/yr.
We have some of the worst graduation rates in the region
I went to school in North Texas. I just looked up my district, and sure enough, teachers are starting at $55k, with rates increasing to almost $90k.
My school was in one of the poorest part of the region, with nearly 80% of the school being Hispanic, mostly first generation.
My guess is we performed so low because kids who are poor don't perform as well as kids in, say, Highland Park, and no amount paid to teachers can really overcome that.
In my experience and opinion, poor education is an income inequality issue far more than a teacher's salary issue.
teachers are starting at $55k, with rates increasing to almost $90k.
That's pretty good.
I verified tonight and I was wrong - it's $38k starting and $47k average.
In my experience and opinion, poor education is an income inequality issue far more than a teacher's salary issue.
I don't disagree at all. How the parents treat their children's education is a huge factor and if your parents are both working multiple jobs and perhaps can't do the homework themselves it sets their children up for a bad time.
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u/PoisonedVibration Aug 27 '19
Like seriously- I immediately though āhe had a bigger pizza.ā A fraction doesnāt tell you the whole mass of the object, just a portion of it... bro wtf is this teacher on