Replacing Teachers

[P@triot]

If you care about education, this is well worth watching the entire video:

?Will Computers Replace Teachers?? ? Editor of Reason Magazine Says ?Dear God I Hope So? | Video | TheBlaze.com

 

[Grandma]

Rott, how do you think kids are home schooled? Their lessons are delivered and tests taken online.

 

[Mr. H.]

After 4 (count 'em, four) years of stellar performance as a teacher, Mrs. H. was fired. Flat-out fired. Rather than being granted tenure.

She was replaced with another teacher who was related to another teacher. Who knew the principal.

Nepotism, cronyism, favoritism. It is rampant in the public school system.

Public schools- it's not what you know. It's who you know.

 

[squeeze berry]

After 4 (count 'em, four) years of stellar performance as a teacher, Mrs. H. was fired. Flat-out fired. Rather than being granted tenure.

She was replaced with another teacher who was related to another teacher. Who knew the principal.

Nepotism, cronyism, favoritism. It is rampant in the public school system.

Public schools- it's not what you know. It's who you know.

what?????

I thought it was impossible to fire a teacher

Didn't the all powerful teachers union step in?

 

[Mr. H.]

Pay no attention to the old drunk

 

[squeeze berry]

Pay no attention to the old drunk

booze keeps my arthritis lubricated

 

[P@triot]

After 4 (count 'em, four) years of stellar performance as a teacher, Mrs. H. was fired. Flat-out fired. Rather than being granted tenure.

She was replaced with another teacher who was related to another teacher. Who knew the principal.

Nepotism, cronyism, favoritism. It is rampant in the public school system.

Public schools- it's not what you know. It's who you know.

One of the worst causes of problems are the teacher's unions. School districts need to start flag refusing to negotiate with them (by refusal I mean meeting ANY of their demands - as I understand it, you must "negotiate" but that's all in appearances - if you refuse their demands, you're not actually negotiating).

There is simply no place for unions in anything government run.

 

[P@triot]

Rott, how do you think kids are home schooled? Their lessons are delivered and tests taken online.

Well, not exactly. In most cases, a parent or other family member teaches them. And when that is not the case, and the classes are done online, that is usually done with a real, live teacher via web-conferencing.

This video was about computers replacing the teachers - not using them to interface with the same old teachers.

 

[Unkotare]

If you care about education, this is well worth watching the entire video:

?Will Computers Replace Teachers?? ? Editor of Reason Magazine Says ?Dear God I Hope So? | Video | TheBlaze.com

Now we know the answer to that question: Not bloody likely.

 

[Cassandro]

Classrooms are already moving away from personal instruction by teachers. They may try to assist individual students, but they often do not have sufficient subject matter knowledge to effectively present the material to be learned.

 

[Woodznutz]

The first thing teachers need to do is stop boring the kids to death. Next, tell them plainly what they are expected to learn. Then inform them that you don't really want to be here either, so we all have to make the best of it.

 

[JohnDB]

Private Schools are not much different....
Wealthy Donati g families get preferences with which teachers are hired or fired despite how monstrous the children behave.

But there are a precious few....
That are more focused on learning than anything. And those institutions are more child warehouses than anything else. (Boarding schools) Children are taught but don't really get to see parents that often.

 

[Unkotare]

Classrooms are already moving away from personal instruction by teachers. They may try to assist individual students, but they often do not have sufficient subject matter knowledge to effectively present the material to be learned.

That is only 100% false.

 

[initforme]

Another blame teachers thread.....yawn. same old empty rhetoric.

 

[Woodznutz]

Another blame teachers thread.....yawn. same old empty rhetoric.

Teachers are as much victims of the system as the students are. They mean well but their hands are tied by the administration.

 

[initforme]

Teachers are as much victims of the system as the students are. They mean well but their hands are tied by the administration.

I can accept that in certain places. We have it really good here. For whst they do they are severely underpaid.

 

[Woodznutz]

I can accept that in certain places. We have it really good here. For whst they do they are severely underpaid.

Don't they get a lot of perks and bennies?

 

[initforme]

Don't they get a lot of perks and bennies?

Pension is pretty good. Insurance is good.

 

[DGS49]

Most teachers retire in their early 50's, with a full pension plus generous benefits. When SS kicks in it gets even better for them.

If you are working a normal job, you will have many years to ponder that reality, as you work full time from age 55 to [probably] 70, hoping for a generous SS pension, while your retired teacher-neighbors are sipping mint juleps on the patio.

They like to whine about salaries (which vary dramatically across states and school districts), but that early retirement is why attrition is virtually non-existent among teachers.

As for the OP, no new technology or breakthrough discoveries in teaching-learning will change the power of the teachers unions. It is analogous to ball-strike umpires in professional baseball. They have been obsolete for decades with technology that gets every single call right, but the umpire unions have prevented implementation until they got guarantees that the new tech will not cost them jobs or money.

Teachers will obstruct any new technology that threatens their jobs, pay, or pensions. Count on it.

 

[initforme]

Most teachers retire in their early 50's, with a full pension plus generous benefits. When SS kicks in it gets even better for them.

If you are working a normal job, you will have many years to ponder that reality, as you work full time from age 55 to [probably] 70, hoping for a generous SS pension, while your retired teacher-neighbors are sipping mint juleps on the patio.

They like to whine about salaries (which vary dramatically across states and school districts), but that early retirement is why attrition is virtually non-existent among teachers.

As for the OP, no new technology or breakthrough discoveries in teaching-learning will change the power of the teachers unions. It is analogous to ball-strike umpires in professional baseball. They have been obsolete for decades with technology that gets every single call right, but the umpire unions have prevented implementation until they got guarantees that the new tech will not cost them jobs or money.

Teachers will obstruct any new technology that threatens their jobs, pay, or pensions. Count on it.

If its so great then you should go into it. Envy is not admirable.