On 8/31/14, wake up call wrote:
> Please--PsyGuy does not speak for teachers.
Actually when PsyGuy is not deliberately being provocative or
just a dipstick, what he says is usually spot-on.
>I am a teacher
> and I certainly will miss your child if you remove them to
> home school.
I am a teacher too. I certainly miss students when they
withdraw from my class, but a student here or there doesn't
make much difference to the overall functioning of schools.
The exception being the very small rural schools where one
student can significantly impact the ADA.
>If twenty people share your views I will be out
> of a job. Last year, we saw many families pull their
students
> out mid year to home school.
We sure aren't seeing that around here. I spent 6 years in a
very large district. In that time we opened up one 5A high
school, two middle schools, and four elementary schools.
Plans are being developed for even more. Enrollment rose at
most schools.
The largest and fastest-growing district in our area is
building at the rate of one classroom a day.
I find it hard to believe that many students are leaving your
schools for home schooling.
1)Most families are not prepared to home school; both parents
work, don't have the resources, etc.
2)Schools are funded by the average daily attendance. A
large exodus would have your administrators and school board
doing whatever they had to stop the flow.
>Maybe the public schools could
> get out of Common Core,
Public schools in Texas do not use the Common Core. The state
did not adopt those standards. Some private schools do use
them.
>which 6 out of 10 people on the street
> are opposed to, and get out of the business of using kids
for
> guinea pigs for every new fad that comes along. Maybe
> teachers can stop acting like pushers for the crap that is
> being pushed on the public. Yes, people are fed up. And it
> isn't just a few. PsyGuy is hung up on the tea party which
> he thinks is the villian in his imaginary world. Liberals,
> Dems, Repubs, tea party and libertarians are all fed up
with
> over testing and selling kids out for profit. Wake up
> teachers. The STAAR testing and the curriculum is just used
> to get you on the same page so you can be replaced easily.
> Jump into the resistence movement.
>
>
I agree that Texas students are over-tested; although in my
experience, it's the district and their benchmark testing
rather than the STAAR testing that creates the situation.
I also have some problems with some of the TEKS. Not all. I
don't think it is possible to create a set of standards that
100% approved by everyone.
What do you propose? No standards at all? No accountability
at all?
We had that for years, and children were being "left behind"
all over the place. Kids of color, kids from disadvantaged
families, kids with learning differences: many, maybe most.
of these children did not get a quality education. For poor
kids and kids that are ethnic minorities, this is still true
in many places.
What would you see in place of all that you are resisting?
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