#us education system

[gamer2002]

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1696664790821666816?s=09

School board removes a man for reading from the pornographic book they allow in a public school library.

#grooming #child grooming #us schools #school boards #us education #us education system #education #education system #schools #school #us politics #politics

[rosesandthorns44]

Want to hear something horrifying about education?

I recently found out that they still use the exact same edition of the exact same World History textbook that I was taught from in high school.

It was published in 2007...

The kids who are currently being taught from it HADN'T BEEN BORN YET!

Wtf...

I found this out like a month ago when I saw a kid's textbook at work and recognized it by the front cover.

I'm still not over it.

#education #us education #us education system #public school #high school #history #world history #textbooks #screaming #bush was still president of the usa when this thing was published #the “modern day” section at the back was hilariously out of date #books

[elleashling]

fit speaking SO MUCH TRUTH RN about the us education system. we literally would rather pay subs and long-term subs that can’t do anything, or hire new inexperienced teachers, than keep teachers and workers who know wth they’re doing and pay them a living wage.

my mom worked in learning support. fantastic at her job. literally was paid 12$ an hour. as a lifeguard in the summer, i, a minor with no degrees or specialized academic education, would make 3$ more an hour. every teacher i’ve ever had says they aren’t paid enough. one of my teachers quit doing an extra curricular because they only paid her something like 24 extra cents an hour for it???? every student teacher ive ever had got hired straight out of the gate because the school left themselves no other options. hire young people who weren’t getting paid before to make minimum wage :DD

separate issue but i’ve also heard about subs and aides hired in our district that can’t speak english, that can’t do their jobs, that won’t learn how to do their jobs, but the school won’t fire them because they’re afraid of the repercussions of firing a poc. meanwhile the poc teachers and admin that are actually important are quitting. the vast majority of our student and teacher body are white.

but nah lets spend 800 billion dollars on military

#fitmc #tagging bc he said it #education #us education #us education system #sorry im making a lot of posts complaining and also interspersing them with silly ones #just my blog! #elle.txt

[queer-here-loud-proud]

my brother just tried to claim that communism was worse than the holocaust and that Stalin was worse then hitler like what the fuck is wrong with him idc about politic standing but to claim that communism is worse then the holocaust really just goes to show how brainwashed Americans are

#politics #communism #leftist #antisemitism #us education system #red scare #propaganda #us imperialism #Cis white man bullshit

[millionmovieproject]

#don't tred on me #racists #conservatives #us education system #fuck capitalism #capitalism kills #we live in hell #socialism now #abolish capitalism #peoples union

[callese]

Source

#bet they are going to give more money to cops to somehow solve this #ftp #us education system #life under capitalism #california houses #california housing market #California schools #this dumb ass country

[bulldyke-rider]

I was right here because immediately they talked about the whole language method of teaching reading and writing that was created on the idea that learning to read is just as natural and is the same as learning to speak.

But also, I learned that some of what we call whole word is actually whole language.

Whole word is like Dick and Jane books where they repeat the words over and over and then there's a picture maybe and you learn sight words just by seeing them over and over.

But whole language is when they teach you to read with context clues. One of the "teaching" methods being mentioned in the podcast is the teacher covering a word in the book and teaching kids to read by having them guess or use "context clues" to figure out what the word is gonna be.

But other parts of whole language seem like good ideas. They just can't be the foundational step. It's a top down type of view of learning to read. Like, yes, having reading time and integrating reading into other subjects gives you more practice reading, but it doesn't teach you to read.

All in all though, this is fueling my delusion that I can't be wrong because every piece of this has been some shit I've been fuckin saying but like with the technical words attached. Like, I've been calling people crazy for the "why would you teach your kid to read early; the other kids are just gonna catch up to them". Then I hear about a little thing called the Matthew effect, when you start ahead, you tend to stay ahead because you get more practice and enjoy the practice more. I was right this whole time. If the other kids in the class aren't even learning foundational steps, your kid is getting more out of the context clue lesson because they can actually read.

#sold a story #US education system

[the-rainbow-suit-dude]

Inspired by the poll up above…

#middle school #school #us education system #non-us education system

[horizon-verizon]

That post that 50% of US population can't read is shocking. I am studying english as a second language an IELTS test includes such tasks as reading for gist, reading for main ideas, reading for detail, skimming, understanding logical argument and recognising writers' opinions, attitudes and purpose. Isn't it a part of native reading education?

Original post referred to (read the reblogs)

When I was first learning to read (3-5 yrs old) in school, there were no courses or lessons at my private Catholic school that was named so specifically as the ones you listed just now, but they were pretty much included in "reading comprehension". So yes, they are here in the U.S., the problem is that the importance and focus placed on this all might have changed since I went to kindergarten. Catholic/private/religious schools don't reallycount, because the curriculum isn't decided by official school administrators by the state but a private board for the community.

Another thing is that my dad sometimes taught me with books he bought, and I also read independently because I was a bookworm who didn't go anywhere. So that also put me ahead of other people--I noticed--as I grew up. I can't be used as a measure of the average or indicator of it unless you ask my parents how I learned to read.

So the steady decline in teaching "reading comprehension" to children in America, I suppose, has been happening for at least 30-40 years? This is a number I personally guess, considering how old I am (26).

#not asoiaf #ask #us education system

[violet-phoenix-nebula]

Hey everyone!

We all know that teachers in the US get a raw deal. This is one of my teachers from high school, and he helped me get through the hardest part of my life.

Teachers here deserve so much more than they get, and right now I know an incredible one who needs any and all the help he can get. He's had multiple surgeries, deals with chronic pain/illness as well as mental health struggles and needs daily medication as well as other services. He's been out of work for over a year now and he's really struggling.

So if anyone can spare even $5-$10 for one of the best teachers I've ever had, it would be deeply appreciated.

https://gofund.me/bf1ab677

#teachers #teachblr #usa teachers #united states teachers #us education #us education system #best teacher #best teachers #chronic illness #chronic pain #teacher appreciation #financial help #financial hardship #gofundme #please help #pay it forward

[notreallyimportant]

Never in my life, did I ever think I would have to explain the amount of consent educators have to get in order to help a child succeed. And you don’t even have to tell me about how the education system is in disarray, because I’m a para working in my teaching certifications. I can see what’s going on very well.

They need consent to evaluate a child( for free.99) with the school’s psychologist.

They need consent to obtain outside medical information if you got them evaluated by a private doctor. They need it because you just saying the doctor diagnosed them with autism at 3 years old, and they been getting this service ever since isn’t going to get you anywhere.

They need consent to sign them up for services.

They need consent to keep them in said services.

They need consent to release their information to the next school when they move on or transfer.

They need consent to retain your child.

Like your child struggling to read on grade level, or being on a 3rd reading level in 11th grade, the school can’t do much about that without consent.

Also the whole “ my kid is with you 8 hours a day.” That may apply for elementary schoolers, not middle and high schoolers, but still isn’t the argument you think it is. They’re with at least 4-5 different teachers. The first 5 years of their life are with you the parent/guardian. If you aren’t helping your child retain those skills, that’s on you. I can send home a reading packet for homework and you can help with that by simply asking questions about the passage. If you’re not sure how to help with math, look it up, ask the teacher how they’re supposed to do it.

Educators can only do so much in those 8 hours because they have other students besides your child. They give out at least two forms of contact ( phone and email), and most elementary school teachers have ClassDojo or something similar and updates about what’s going on either at school or in the classroom. You can’t say you didn’t know that you child was failing because you can look up your child’s grades online and if you don’t have access, you can :call the school, confirm who you are, and get the login information.

#educators #education #learning starts at home #us education #us education system

[milk-lover]

I still can’t get over how the way that US public school teachers strike is by only working the hours they are paid.

The school system is built on such heavy labor inequality that work-to-rule is a very effective method of distributing productivity; the whole thing falls apart without each teacher donating hundreds of hours each year, on top of their paid instructional hours. It’s such a sham, honestly. We talk so much about how important education is, how our children are our future, but the system we have in place to facilitate that future is entirely inadequate. It only sort-of kind-of functions because every teacher is willing to give away their unpaid time, because they know the kids will suffer if they don’t.

It’s fucking bullshit.

#us politics #labor unions #fucking unionize #us education #us education system #union #idk sure this is a thing elsewhere but I’m specifically saying us public bc that’s what i know abt

[millionmovieproject]

#us education system #us politics #merica #fuck capitalism #capitalism kills #we live in hell #socialism now #abolish capitalism #peoples union

[callese]

#us education system #florida

[thicc-astronaut]

there are some things that I learned about through online fandom instead of in the U.S. public educational system.

I think the real shameful one is that I took a U.S. History class in high school but only learned about the War of 1812 from a Countryhumans animatic where it was portrayed as Canada antagonizing America as brothers do

#us education system #countryhumans #what sucks even more is that the creator of the animatic has since taken it down and that was like my introduction to countryhumans #that was the first countryhumans thing I ever saw online #such a shame

[bulldyke-rider]

[Paraphrased] what is common knowledge to cognitive scientists is not common knowledge to teachers

#sold a story #US education system