re: Louisiana Education, main complaints?

Charter schools and teachers.

I'm a huge proponent for raising teaching standards if you improve the pay as well.
Most education degrees are equivalent to a general studies degree

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Most education degrees are equivalent to a general studies degree

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then come teach my chem., physics, and A P. Chem classes with your general studies arse degree.

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- the teachers

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Many great teachers in this state. However, maybe just as many lazy ones, especially older ones, who are coasting by. Despite Common Core, they continue to stick to their old ways, old methods. These are the ones that have given the same tests 20 years in a row, copying it so many times that the print is faded and hard to read. With no real ability to fire a teacher, we end up with many bad ones. Low pay doesn't help either.

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- the administration

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I think this is the biggest problem. My wife is a HS teacher and from what I can tell, being a teacher and being an administrator are two completely different skill sets. Yet... every administrator is required to have 3 years experience. What makes one a good teacher doesn't make one a good administrator.

Also, administrators who are "beloved" and have been a principal forever, yet are also coasting and not adopting to the needs of schools today.

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- the curriculum

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No real issues here, except I think the schools could do more to educate parents about Common Core methods.

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- teacher education

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Is an absolute joke here in LA. When we moved to Texas for a few years, despite my wife being fully certified in LA, she had to take all new certification tests, because TX basically laughed at an LA certification.

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- testing

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This isn't LA specific so I don't think is a complaint per se about LA education. However, I think testing is well-intentioned but terrible in reality.

Agree 100%, fat fingered a down vote, my bad

LHSAA, amirite?

John White

He was brought in to set up Common Core. Once the backlash began, he had no clue. So the entire state is rudderless, for the foreseeable future

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What is your main complaint for education in Louisiana

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the quality of students

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how the system is geared to help the shitty students and not help the elite students. i understand the egalitarian and welfare aspects of the policy, but it's still backwards (and our macro results show this year after year)

About ten percent of my students are SPED and I don't have an aid. Imagine a class of 30 kids... 5 of them highly intelligent and 5 of them with modifications. Teaching those kids is like teaching calculus to a garden gnome. How can I possibly read tests aloud when I have 25 other students who want me to shut the hell up so they can take their tests? It's an injustice to every student in that class. Plus...the parents. Oh, the parents. I teach about 150 students and get like 3 parents during parent/teacher days. I try to call parents when I have issues with a child and..."we're sorry, but this number has been disconnected." The problem with Louisiana education is that our government has created a society of entitled crybabies and they are rewarded for producing children out of wedlock. There is no accountability.