How about paying teachers more and supporting teachers when the parents/kids attack them for not letting the kids do whatever they way?
Depends on the state, but one consistent one is another one you mention, which is getting teacher’s some space between the parents. Another element is just giving them some measure of creative flexibility in delivering curriculum. I teach in the corporate world and have had many former public teachers come over. The number one and two reasons for leaving the field aren’t pay, they are those other things. Complete lack of creative expression and being constantly bombarded by parents who want to interfere with how their children are being taught.
I just wanted to comment on how I absolutely hate the wording of the phrase “We’re Huge in Learning Loss!”
learning loss
It is possible for tech to be useful in schools. There may be a time in the best future where AI gives children across the planet access to much more education than they have historically had. The issue with the way the tech is used in the West right now is that it destroys classroom cohesion. Phones, tablets, and Chromebooks have become YouTube and tick-tock machines that kids retreat into whenever they are able. Getting kids to be interested in working with others on anything is becoming a monumental task. Not to mention that hardly any of them think it’s actually valuable to learn anything at all other than how to make money as a streamer or influencer.
Edtech is such a garbage industry filled with the worst people. Pumping schools with proprietary software and SaaSS should have been made illegal decades ago, now the students and teachers are going to really feel the consequences
Oh dear God. Kids don’t need “nifty gadgets” to learn, they need an authentic learning community and a reason to care.
Completely agree. They do need opportunities to train on certain gadgets, but they are solving no problems with this kind of focus.
One thing that annoys me is the schools went back to in school without any seeming strategy for remote in the future. Every kid above a certain age should attend school remotely once a week so that if something like this happens again they are immediately prepared for it.
Don’t forget the far right, “end public schools”, theocratic fascists that ride in on this wave to exploit the vulnerable moment.
