Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field

Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by Meritiooo on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:59PM (#30235016)

That's very disappointing to read.

Imagine you are the kid which will end in prison. Wouldn't you feel betrayed from society if society can already see that you will end in prison and is doing nothing against it?

You can we haven't accepted the right answer though: more money for education.

Smaller classes, more support, proper trained psychologist

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Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by ipnon on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:13PM (#30235196)

The United States already has below average class sizes, and spends 37% more per student than the average.

There is some evidence that large class sizes produce better results, and it would seem that whatever the US spends its education money on isn't working, because our students test much lower than our investment would predict.

[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd

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Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by 01100011 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:36PM (#30235449)

I was a bad kid growing up. I ended up at a pilot program consisting of about 14 kids, mostly more screwed up than me, and about 3 psychiatrists and 5 support counselors. It did basically nothing for the kids. The thing that helped me the most was my parents moving away and putting me in normal school in a different state and peer pressure helping me be normal.

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Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by ryan93 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:23PM (#30235321)

The schools with the most future prisoners are already highly funded. Psychologists cant do anything for people stupid enough to end up in prison.

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Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by RappingBoomer on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:01PM (#30235040)

most teachers will tell you the truth--it's there from birth, and basically incurable

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Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by defterGoose on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:07PM (#30235117)

I mean...I'm kinda glad you got out of the profession...

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Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by toomuchtodo on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:43PM (#30235526)

I think it’s become tragically obvious that a whole lot of children are born to parents who should’ve never had children and have no business being parents. These children end up dumped on educators with zero support at home, and so little social system support we could also say it’s zero.

This isn’t nature versus nurture per se (although I believe the data does show some ability and intelligence is genetic/inherent), but that it takes a lot for a human child to succeed unless they’re at the higher end of the bell curve (and even then it’s no guarantee).

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Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by RappingBoomer on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:09PM (#30235139)

yeah, I understand your meaning, but you fail to understand the situation...did you read the article? NO ONE can do the job...

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Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by dragonwriter on Sunday February 06, 2022 @03:29PM (#30236661)

> more support

Mostly outside of education. The US spends a lot on education and gets poor results for the investment because it also spends on lot on institutionalizing racism and reinforcing socioeconomic insecurity in the working class, which creates a lot for the education system to work against.

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