Education Reform Thread

[Roranora]

i imagine our son will have less than perfect attendance

[Ksandra]

https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/...dardize-testsM


53 teachers in Mass refused to administer state testing.


I think it’s stupid they exist, but even more so during distance learning.

My daughter burst into tears over testing because the way it works is the more they get right the harder the questions become. She couldn’t understand why they were testing her on things she was never taught and it stressed her out thinking she did something wrong and that she’s stupid (she’s in the gifted program btw).

[Salodin]

Anecdotal of course, but the fiance said the standardized testing in her class this year was leaps and bounds harder than in previous years, like abnormally so. On top of the struggles in teaching this full school year and the last quarter of the year before that, she's expecting a lot of low scores this go around.

Not to be conspiratorial but feel like this shit is on purpose sometimes lol.

Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

[kuronosan]

It probably is. The standardized tests we took in medical school are ridiculous and often are purposely worded in a vague manner to throw people off. Like, that's your benchmark? Make a bunch of people feel stupid and anxious to get a score spread? You don't even get a raw percentage, just a percentile rank compared to peers and a standard score.

I'm almost certain it's no different for grade school.

[Day]

you went to medical school?

[Ayn]

You went to school?

[Day]

no i was homeschooled by your mom

[Ayn]

Damn dude, my condolences.

[kuronosan]

no i was homeschooled by your mom

That explains your depression.

[Day]

anxiety *

[Andalusian girls]

no i was homeschooled by your mom

[kuronosan]

anxiety *

antisocial *

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/LPNH/status/1401991776030887940

[Zealot]

Libertarians: "Libertarianism is the only viable third party!"

Also Libertarians: "Fuck those kids."

Sent from my SM-N981U using Tapatalk

[kuronosan]

My kids have learned more in public schools than any job site would teach them. These fucking people who think a basic functional education is useless are the same people who benefit from its fruits.

[arus2001]

Alternatively, they wish to keep them dumb as they're easier to keep as wage slaves.

[kuronosan]

I mean their logic is almost literally the equivalent of shut up and go do work.

[NynJa]

https://twitter.com/LPNH/status/1401991776030887940

Neither one will teach a kid how to do taxes.

[Ksandra]

So if you watch/read the news at all you may have seen the drama involved in teaching Critical Race Theory in k-12 schools. This seems to be a topic that tons of people have an opinion on while actually knowing very little about what CRT actually is. This thread was posted on reddit that has a lot of good teacher responses as to why it shouldn't be taught and/or why people need to slow their roll about demanding teachers teach it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/co...ry_in_schools/

Big takeaways are:

CRT is a graduate-level theory that is really hard to teach in a lower setting.

Most teachers (myself included) have no background in CRT and what it is, and do not feel like they could teach it without fucking it up. Could take time to learn in this case, but people don't wanna wait.

[Gredival]

High schoolers don't need actual critical race theory. They just need proper context for their history classes. Like learning how the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement didn't automatically fix everything for black people. But the right has labeled this critical race theory to turn it into a culture war thing, and wokies are like "Hey that shit is a good idea."

They don't need to be reading Wilderson or Warren about ontological antiblackness.

Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk