If your school experience looked like mine, then you had about 25 teachers in K through 5th grade, maybe another 25 in middle school, and about another 40 in high school.
Just under 100 teachers. I remember maybe a dozen that were ok and at best 3 I’d be willing to talk to if I saw them in the wild these days.
Personally I think public schools don’t attract high quality talent and we’re getting what we’re paying for with near-poverty salaries.
A poorly educated public is one of the major underpinnings of a fascist dictator state. It’s why school funding has been on the decline for decades - capitalist alpha-type one-percenters have been pulling the politicians’ reigns (particularly the willing Republicans, but over time the Democrats have been bought, too) & playing the long game, and it’s now reached fruition.
50 different teachers before high school? Did you move around to different schools multiple times a year or something? My understand of “lower quality” schooling is usually too many kids per teacher, not the other way around.
I had 1 teacher each year throughout the year from K thru 6, with a few extra for things like art, music, and gym. Middle school and high school had like 6-8 teachers a day for the whole year (not counting the random class with a teacher’s aid).
If your school experience looked like mine, then you had about 25 teachers in K through 5th grade, maybe another 25 in middle school, and about another 40 in high school.
Just under 100 teachers. I remember maybe a dozen that were ok and at best 3 I’d be willing to talk to if I saw them in the wild these days.
Personally I think public schools don’t attract high quality talent and we’re getting what we’re paying for with near-poverty salaries.
A poorly educated public is one of the major underpinnings of a fascist dictator state. It’s why school funding has been on the decline for decades - capitalist alpha-type one-percenters have been pulling the politicians’ reigns (particularly the willing Republicans, but over time the Democrats have been bought, too) & playing the long game, and it’s now reached fruition.
Cool… so how do we fix this?
Guillotine
50 different teachers before high school? Did you move around to different schools multiple times a year or something? My understand of “lower quality” schooling is usually too many kids per teacher, not the other way around.
I had 1 teacher each year throughout the year from K thru 6, with a few extra for things like art, music, and gym. Middle school and high school had like 6-8 teachers a day for the whole year (not counting the random class with a teacher’s aid).