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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by syops on Saturday June 19, 2021 @10:33PM (#27566599)
Want to actually teach kids things they need to learn to succeed? This is the wrong job for you.

I teach at a community college and for years I've told newcomers to profession that one thing this job is not about is teaching.

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by Leparamour on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:42AM (#27568815)
>and for years I've told newcomers to profession that one thing this job is not about is teaching.

So, what is about then?

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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by syops on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:11AM (#27568966)
High passing rate and minimal number of student complaints. No one in administration cares if the high passing rate is because standards were lowered. All they care about is that more than x% pass.
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Re:Life as a public school teacher in the San Francisco Bay ... by Leparamour on Sunday June 20, 2021 @07:43AM (#27569142)
Another sad instance of Strahern's adaptation of Goodhart's law[1]:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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