Our children are our future….Years ago when our youngest went off to first year University, she was a top student in our rural world. She was not ready and struggled. The students that are going now from “covid-ed” are even less prepared for next stages and I shudder to think what will happen to them. Public education must be made a priority as we are quickly destroying our future.
Interesting points! I'm an elementary teacher. I was curious to see how many parents spoke to me in private about hating online learning but said nothing to the administration. And, the messaging from the leadership has been to drown us in toxic positivity. 'You've got this' and 'you are so important to us' have been on repeat for 2 years now while almost half our staff has turned over. Online learning was a great way to flatten the curve. Now it's just a political gambit.
Well said. The majority complain about many things, be it education, politics, or policies they dislike, yet do nothing to change the status quo. Education has been taken over by the School Boards and teachers unions, to which they determine the way your children are educated. If your unhappy with the ideology and indoctrination instead of reading, writing and arithmetic, do something. Go to school board meetings, start home schooling, or look around for other options. If you still can not find anything, get together with others who feel the same and start something new.
Yes, she is correct, but one reason not everyone embraces change, especially in math is because being bad at math and being a professional is embarrassing for many people...I am one of them...I became a CA even after I failed Math 30 and was afraid of it in university in Alberta. My friends could NOT believe I couldor even would succeed at my chosen career, I did for many years and have the framed certificates on my wall in my home office!. The thing is accounting Math is easy, engineering math not so much. What I learned was that I wasn't bad at math, I was bad at understanding the way it was taught, without any regard to how it is practical and usable, which is indicative of the fact that the ONLY unit I excelled at was geometry in all its forms.
Not a great start calling people with opinions whiners. Some people don’t crow about what they are “doing” about it, but are actually “doing” quite a lot. And the electorate in all jurisdictions are permitted to have a reasonable expectation that elected officials and public employees deliver the services promised and paid for, including sensible policy decisions
"Heck, even three parents at the principal’s office … they’d have no choice but to change tactics. "
What exactly are we advocating here?
Advocating for people to express their views to a principal is one thing, appearing to suggest that people gang up on a principal in their own office is another.
You like your textbooks “the older the better”? I certainly hope the solutions we find to the problem of schooling are better than this. Progressive teachers are working on this too.
Our children are our future….Years ago when our youngest went off to first year University, she was a top student in our rural world. She was not ready and struggled. The students that are going now from “covid-ed” are even less prepared for next stages and I shudder to think what will happen to them. Public education must be made a priority as we are quickly destroying our future.
Interesting points! I'm an elementary teacher. I was curious to see how many parents spoke to me in private about hating online learning but said nothing to the administration. And, the messaging from the leadership has been to drown us in toxic positivity. 'You've got this' and 'you are so important to us' have been on repeat for 2 years now while almost half our staff has turned over. Online learning was a great way to flatten the curve. Now it's just a political gambit.
Well said. The majority complain about many things, be it education, politics, or policies they dislike, yet do nothing to change the status quo. Education has been taken over by the School Boards and teachers unions, to which they determine the way your children are educated. If your unhappy with the ideology and indoctrination instead of reading, writing and arithmetic, do something. Go to school board meetings, start home schooling, or look around for other options. If you still can not find anything, get together with others who feel the same and start something new.
Yes, she is correct, but one reason not everyone embraces change, especially in math is because being bad at math and being a professional is embarrassing for many people...I am one of them...I became a CA even after I failed Math 30 and was afraid of it in university in Alberta. My friends could NOT believe I couldor even would succeed at my chosen career, I did for many years and have the framed certificates on my wall in my home office!. The thing is accounting Math is easy, engineering math not so much. What I learned was that I wasn't bad at math, I was bad at understanding the way it was taught, without any regard to how it is practical and usable, which is indicative of the fact that the ONLY unit I excelled at was geometry in all its forms.
Written by an Ontario teacher, and mum. https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/im-a-public-school-teacher-the-kids?r=ilfha&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Not a great start calling people with opinions whiners. Some people don’t crow about what they are “doing” about it, but are actually “doing” quite a lot. And the electorate in all jurisdictions are permitted to have a reasonable expectation that elected officials and public employees deliver the services promised and paid for, including sensible policy decisions
Ummmm,
"Heck, even three parents at the principal’s office … they’d have no choice but to change tactics. "
What exactly are we advocating here?
Advocating for people to express their views to a principal is one thing, appearing to suggest that people gang up on a principal in their own office is another.
You like your textbooks “the older the better”? I certainly hope the solutions we find to the problem of schooling are better than this. Progressive teachers are working on this too.
Well said.