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re: American schools teach less and indoctrinate more than ever before.
From my opportunities to talk with high school speech & debate teachers and students, a major reason for "teach less" is time sucked away for multiple standardized tests and the rush to have students get prepared for "what's on the test."
Did all of these "clutch the pearls" conservatives who are losing their shit over drag queens really never see an episode of Flip Wilson or Carol Burnette back in the '70s? Flip's character Geraldine Jones was probably the most popular part of the show, and Harvey Korman did drag regularly on Carol Burnette.
Not to mention Milton Berle and Bugs Bunny….
Yes, but Bugs had his balls removed first.
"Geraldine's" best saying, IMHO: "Don't fight the feeling."
I don’t want this statement to be viewed “anti-woman” (I’m clearly not) but I do wish we had more male teachers in the primary / middle schools. Maybe it’s anecdotal but I substituted regularly in the Wray schools almost 20 years ago. Even then the majority of kids in the middle school were from single-parent homes. No judgment on anyone but I witnessed far too many middle school boys lacking a positive male role model in their lives.
Maybe we could start paying public school teachers an appropriate wage so we can persuade all those gifted with the talent of inspiring our youth to choose the profession?
Michael, first they must stop all the mindless testing, requiring teachers to “teach to the test”. Then you have to get parents to back off and let teachers actually teach, without some whiney parent complaining every day that “I don’t want my child reading that!”
Then you have to pay them enough to live on. I saw a story somewhere yesterday that some school districts are actually going back to boarding the teachers with students’ families so they can afford to live in the district.
Fix those things and we might actually entice young people back into the profession.
Agreed on all accounts. I have a family member who quit teaching because she had to teach to the test. She was fed up there were no emphasis/ability to teach critical thinking skills.
It's true about the benefits of positive male role models, and there has also been research done on likelihood of success with positive adult models ( not necessarily teachers – bus driver, coach, paraprofessional, Boys and Girls club staff, etc) that "look like" the kids – i.e., same ethnicity.
Don't have time to look it up right now, but I do know that's a thing.
Also teachers can't afford to live in their districts, for the most part. I can't.
The day the pro-lifers start funding the infrastructure necessary to support families *and* build a world-class workforce pipeline is the day I’ll start paying attention to them.