I taught years ago, and that was a problem then too, but not of the size it is now. I taught at an upper middle class high school in the Bay Area, near Stanford, so most parents well educated. But I heard from colleagues in other schools around the area about problems. It’s been a while since I was involved in public education—my young…
I taught years ago, and that was a problem then too, but not of the size it is now. I taught at an upper middle class high school in the Bay Area, near Stanford, so most parents well educated. But I heard from colleagues in other schools around the area about problems. It’s been a while since I was involved in public education—my youngest is 45—but I certainly didn’t have to “teach to the test” nor did my kids have to “learn to the test.”
But whoever’s fault it is, education has sunk into—well, a generation (or more) of trumpites—and the drain on funds for “school vouchers” isn’t going to help. Nor are restrictions on what teachers can even SAY in a classroom about mundane things like (for history) “what happened.”
I taught years ago, and that was a problem then too, but not of the size it is now. I taught at an upper middle class high school in the Bay Area, near Stanford, so most parents well educated. But I heard from colleagues in other schools around the area about problems. It’s been a while since I was involved in public education—my youngest is 45—but I certainly didn’t have to “teach to the test” nor did my kids have to “learn to the test.”
But whoever’s fault it is, education has sunk into—well, a generation (or more) of trumpites—and the drain on funds for “school vouchers” isn’t going to help. Nor are restrictions on what teachers can even SAY in a classroom about mundane things like (for history) “what happened.”