President* Biden’s education ideas— a teacher’s perspective

Public school teacher here, and before the downvotes and attacks, I wholly reject CRT, 1619, and other woke BS (I teach science, for perspective).

In a typical gen ed high school class, here is your breakdown in 2020:

30+ students per period, of which:
1. as many as 8-10 are receiving special ed support
2. Just as many are receiving bilingual support
3. A number are receiving 504 accommodations
4. A number are from low- socioeconomic background (more on that later)

Now these groups are not mutually exclusive, i.e., one can be a non native speaker, poor, special ed kid. Right alongside the average Joe who doesn’t receive these services.

I bring up socioeconomic factors because the data is there that if a child isn’t read to by PARENTS ages 1-5 they will be at a massive reading disadvantage when they enter school and will not catch up even by grade 12.

The reason why students don’t know anything in grades K-12 (disregard AP / honors students, they are smart cookies) who have had a gen ed curriculum is they are learning alongside the groups I mentioned before. They bottom line is things like “No Child Left Behind” have effed up out kids is — it should be called “Slow The Herd So The Spastic Three Legged Blind Water Buffalo Can Keep Up.”

Quit trying to cram a college-prep curriculum down every student’s throat. Boost our trade school programs— carpenters, welders, non-educated coders, dental hydentists, plumbers, truckers, etc can learn their craft instead of trig and physics and most will make more than I will in 2 years of experience

By the way, if you as a teacher and DON’T spend twice as much time and effort with the special populations enumerated above, your reward is a license in jeopardy.

TLDR:

Special populations are killing general education and hurting regular education students. Curriculum is watered down and as long as these students are in a regular classroom, regular students will not thrive nor learn.