re: Matt Walsh lets teachers have it

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That was Steve Walsh.

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No, that's Brandon and Brenda's dad.

I think he's thinking of the old 49ers football coach.

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I think he's thinking of the old 49ers football coach.

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I thought he was the guy who started the grape juice empire?

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They'res an arse or 9 posting in this thread right now complaining about teachers. Walk the walk buddy, you wouldn't believe how competitive education is. Did you know to teach high school you have to take algebra, calculus, etc in college and then theirs the praxis which I bet most of you ot geniuses couldn't even pass!!

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Stahp!

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shitty of pay

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You shouldn't. You've clearly outdistanced yourself from such peasantry right here.

He's correct. A good classroom depends more on quality students than great teachers. It's a job that could see most of its members replaced by technology

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It's a job that could see most of its members replaced by technology

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This is likely to happen, which makes me happy that I'm 22 years in. Interpersonal communication is becoming obsolete in many segments of our society. Online education and homeschooling are exploding, especially the former.

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And by “slightly” I mean that I consider the public school system to be a cannibalistic mutation that brainwashes our children, devours their individuality and their creativity, and annihilates the moral values their parents instilled in them (if any were instilled at all).

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I believe he stole this thought from a George Carlin stand-up bit.

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Who is Matt Walsh, and why should I care what he has to say

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Seems to an uninformed douche trying to get into the AM radio crowd groupthink sphere who give all their money to the beloved celebriries by parroting the ideas they wish to gear. I don't blame him, seems like good money. Bill O the Clown wrote the same book like 6 times and those morons bought each one.

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So, the sad fact remains, like it or not: kids are going to school, but they aren’t learning. Well, that’s not entirely fair. They do learn how to masturbate. And they learn about sodomy. And they learn about transvestites.

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LOOOOOOOOOOOLLLL

dipshit

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Agreed. The idea that we can't condemn or demand better is asinine.

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Most of the good educators I know (and I know some), hate the system we have now. But I feel like there's a lot of people in public and politics out of tune with what teachers are dealing with in a lot of areas.

I've seen a lot of good teachers walk away from the profession, especially ECE/Special Ed teachers, because they're burnt out. These are the folks whose day doesn't stop at 2:20 pm when the kids leave or in the summer when they're attending PDs in order to keep up with the newest teaching strategies and etc. They're walking away because there's this sentiment that they should fix all of society's social woes and that they should be punished when they don't. Nor should they be expected to be a surrogate parent when they're not.

A teacher should never have to step back into a classroom with a kid that's physically assaulted them. They shouldn't be expected to have every single kid, mental/emotional issues or not, to be "college ready". I've seen this happen multiple times when I worked in an at-risk public school. They send kinds off for "alternative placement" for 6 weeks and expect them to come back "rehabilitated". It's insane. And it's happening at higher and higher rates as parents and legislators are given more control over what happens in a classroom.

Most everyone wants better, but we're handcuffed by legislative tape that wants to turn a blind eye to what's walking into a teacher's classrooms.