re: Martha MacCallum (pissed-off) about Public School Teacher Shortage

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Maybe the schools should try to micromanage their teachers less. Let them teach and have their backs.

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That combined with the kids can get away with anything and they know it. Schools do not get paid for kids not attending so they don’t suspend or expel them like they should. Things we used to be suspended over is a warning now.

My aunt is a teacher In the Houston area and the kids don’t show up to school and she gets bitched at for them not taking in the material and doing poorly on placement exams. She will tell the principal “they’re not here to learn!!!”

The principal will tell her that she’s not trying hard enough to reach them. I couldn’t do it.


I know a bus driver that wrote a kid up 13 times and he’s never been suspended from the bus or anything. Same woman was physically attacked by a student and he was suspended and came right back.

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There's your problem right there. Amazing how many people embrace complacency

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I'm mocking her for hers...

Pointing out a problem is entirely different than being part of a solution.

We already know the problem of inner city schools.

The teachers are giving out the test questions and answers prior to the tests..

I mean, if it’s a private school, I can see how it would be nice. But public schools, especially in urban areas…. I’d have lost my shite before I could ever get established.

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Standardized testing has fricked up the education system.

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Nothing wrong with standardized testing as long as the standards are sufficiently high and don't coddle an entire culture that wants every handed to them on a silver platter.

need mo'culcha' in teaching

The public school teacher vacancies, and the flight to private schools are both indicators of the same core problem…public schools filled with feral sociopaths who cannot behave in a civil manner, much less be taught.

This slow separation of the civilized from the ferals is occurring in many areas of society. Schools are but one. St George ring a bell?

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Nothing wrong with standardized testing as long as the standards are sufficiently high and don't coddle an entire culture that wants every handed to them on a silver platter.

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...and the testing results aren't tied to funding. When we give the schools every reason to push kids through the system, regardless of their performance, we shouldn't be surprised at the results. As always, gov't is the problem, not the solution.

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lost the support of administration in dealing with problem kids.

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I’d imagine one of the biggest problems with teachers is dealing with the “my child never does anything wrong” parents.

A revealing video about [college] standardized testing: Our Rulers Want Us Ignorant

"The College Board ain’t telling why it’s hiding the ball, but there are two possible reasons. One is that it wants to spare the feelings of “people of color.” It doesn’t want to trumpet the fact that if a passing score is three, 70 percent of blacks and 58 percent of Hispanics fail – and they’re less likely than whites and Asians even to take the tests. The truth is just too awful. But the College Board could have a different reason. A lot of colleges now make standardized tests optional for applicants, and the main reason is that favored minorities don’t score well. These days, rather than recognizing the obvious – not all groups achieve at the same level – the fashion is to claim that the tests are biased. The College Board needs to sell tests to stay in business, so maybe it thinks it can keep sales up if it hides facts."