How intimately should teachers know their students?

[Unkotare]

Reducing immigration from poor countries will reduce 'remittances' back to those countries which now is a staggering 70 $billion per year.

Not how it works.

 

[Unkotare]

As a passenger, and pilot.
Student, K-12.

So all you ever saw were YOUR classes, as a student and not a teacher?

 

[Woodznutz]

So all you ever saw were YOUR classes, as a student and not a teacher?

Exactly. I have the student's point of view.

 

[Woodznutz]

Not how it works.

Immigrants send U.S. dollars to their families back home. That's how it works.

 

[Unkotare]

Exactly. I have the student's point of view.

How long ago?

 

[Woodznutz]

How long ago?

1945-1958, but I don't think students have changed much since then.

 

[Unkotare]

Immigrants send U.S. dollars to their families back home. That's how it works.

Stop every penny of that and it still won’t equate to funding for your imaginary schools all across the country. It really doesn’t work that way.

 

[Unkotare]

1945-1958, but I don't think students have changed much since then.

 

[Woodznutz]

Stop every penny of that and it still won’t equate to funding for your imaginary schools all across the country. It really doesn’t work that way.

There is funding for anything if we prioritize it. We just prefer consumption over investment. For example, I believe most teachers would prefer a pay raise over new school infrastructure (of course they want both but would choose a raise if it came to a vote).

 

[Woodznutz]

If anything, they've gotten worse based on proficiency at grade level.

America's reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

Reading proficiency scores had been getting worse for several years. The pandemic has made a bad situation worse.

hechingerreport.org

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/10/14/nations-report-card-scores-falling/

 

[Unkotare]

If anything, they've gotten worse based on proficiency at grade level.

America's reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

Reading proficiency scores had been getting worse for several years. The pandemic has made a bad situation worse.

hechingerreport.org

I thought you said they haven't changed.

 

[Woodznutz]

I thought you said they haven't changed.

The lack of attention hasn't changed, it has just gotten worse.

 

[Unkotare]

The lack of attention hasn't changed, it has just gotten worse.

What "lack of attention"?

 

[Woodznutz]

What "lack of attention"?

The lack of attention to what is being taught in classrooms around the country. Excepting for serious mental or emotional problems, most kids can easily master their courses. Declining grades across the whole country suggests...lack of attention.

 

[Unkotare]

The lack of attention to what is being taught in classrooms around the country. ....

By whom?

 

[Woodznutz]

By whom?

Your students don't represent all the other students in the country.

 

[Unkotare]

The lack of attention to what is being taught in classrooms around the country. ....

By whom?

 

[Woodznutz]

By whom?

There's only the teachers and their students in the classroom.

 

[SweetSue92]

If children aren't ready for school don't admit them.

Seems so simple yes?

Too bad it's against the law to simply "don't admit them"

 

[Unkotare]

There's only the teachers and their students in the classroom.

And which were you referring to?