AZLD4Candidate
AZLD4Candidate's JournalThe state of teaching worldwide and the fact is, it's getting worse and no one truly cares
Teaching is the only career field where your experience is not only not valued or compensated, but is actually used against you.
"That's great you do things that way, but it's not (enter district's name) way. Adjust or we'll find someone who does."
This is how administrators think and feel. Every teacher needs to prove they can do the job and tow the school's line without question. Dissent is disloyalty in administrator's eyes.
“Yes, you've been a teacher for X number of years, but we need to see if you would be a good fit here, so show us how you teach.”
Every teacher that comes in is worthless and needs to prove themselves. Every teacher is only as good as their last five minutes. It's the only profession that does through this.
No one tells a surgeon "do a demo surgery to prove your skill, then you can operate on my heart."
No one tells a chef "do a free demo meal, then I'll decide if I want to eat here."
No one tells a principal or superintendent of a school "do a demo leadership for a while and then we'll decide if we want to hire you."
Doctors, lawyers, engineers, even taxi drivers, don't get this. But teachers need to prove themselves every moment of every day.
Auditions work for actors. You have to earn the part. Teachers are supposed to be highly educated professionals. For the paltry sum teachers are paid, it isn't worth the constant scrutiny.
The best teacher for most districts is a younger than 25 year old kid right out of university with just a bachelor's degree, no experience, that can be molded and browbeaten into what a district and society wants from them.
Added to that, experience means nothing. Advanced degrees mean nothing. All that matters is a certification from the State. You could be a PhD, have books published, and loads of accomplishments in your field, but, without that certification, you school district will even look at you.
It is time to change the way we view teaching and teachers. A state certification means NOTHING. Never has, never will. Experience, knowledge, and understanding that teaching is an art and not a science is most important.
But, state education bureaucrats, school administrators, school boards, and the public don't care. We have a nationwide, actually a worldwide teacher shortage, but instead of making it easier to become and stay a teacher by incentivizing people to get into and stay in the profession, we double down on the idiocy and make it harder with worse conditions, more unfunded mandates, and more insanity.
And don't be a teacher from one state trying to transfer your certification to another state. Full faith and credit applies to every license, except a teaching certification.
Add to this the fact that most people consider teaching "the best part time job anyone could have," and all we get is lip service from politicians without actual, meaningful improvements on standards, practices, compensation, benefits, and conditions, and there's a reason the entire system is about to collapse. Include into the equation those parasitical charter school systems that go into with the notion the public school system is terrible because "govimint" and it's amazing that children can function. Also include that parents pawn their responsibilities off on schools when it comes to parenting because we "don't have time" due to "job, career, and other commitments," and there's a reason we're down 10-15% of full employment in education and most don't last more than five years.
Every that has run for president, governor, Congress, or state lege in my lifetime has vowed to fix education. Let's see the results:
1970s - The self-esteem movement. Because the problem with education is that children don't feel good about themselves. However, studies have repeatedly shown that high self-esteem does not improve grades or achievement, does not quell the use of drugs or alcohol, and does not end instances of violence in schools because highly aggressive people think really highly of themselves. Who would have thought narcissists and sociopaths have high self-esteem?
1983 - A Nation At Risk equalled "teachers are terrible and we must hold them accountable." Society, parents, and even students needed not apply for accountability, neither did school administrators.
1994 - Goals 2000: FAILED due to lack of funding.
2002 - NCLB: Let's test our kids into insanity and make everything based on a test since it works so well in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, and most of Asia. Which is why Japan, China, and Korea are the three countries with the highest teen suicide rates in the world.
2005 - School choice movement via charter schools: Let's drain the schools of finite funding by setting up schools run like businesses. That will raise the cream of education to the top. It didn't. It created even more problems.
2010 - Common Core: Let's make everything focused on math and science and take the fun out of writing so students can do the work and write ups, but can't think, create, or be imaginative since art and humanities are worthless in the economy (well, teach economics because it's all about making money anyway). Look at the art that comes out now. It sucks and all we do is cover old songs, remake old movies and TV shows, adapt books and comic books because they "already have a built in fan base" (more business than art since nothing is truly being created), or rehash things already done.
2014 - Sec of State Arne Duncan, at a forum stated that our "teachers come from the bottom of the academic barrel ((paragraphs 7 and 8).
2021 - Let's get people to vote in voucher systems so students at "failing schools" can go to best private schools with state money. Look how it is bankrupting Arizona.
Now, there is total focus on social-emotional development in schools, in which it doesn't matter if the student does well, learns, progresses, or advances, so long as they feel good about themselves and are happy. What's most important is if the child is happy, not if the child learns.
All of these changes were done WITHOUT input from those of us teaching. We don't matter in education. Never have, never will. This system "works" in spite of itself and not because of itself. Until teachers are valued and Ed-bizz (like Houghton Miffin, Pearson, etc), school administrators, and parents are held accountable, there will be no change and it will get worse. We will continue to see shortages in education increase and we will look to the terrible policies of places like Korea (where I lived and taught) and China (where I lived and worked) to solutions. While their students can't create and think school is just for job placement, at least they are fantastic test takers.
I counted three Lonesome Rhodes moments
1: I don't know what race she is and I don't care.
2: They are eating your cats and dogs
and the worst:
3: I took a bullet in the head for all of you.
He don't wanna another debate - He is now the Panda Express candidate - Orange Chicken!
My wife's four year journey for her green card comes full circle: We finally thanked the man face to face at Demstock
We finally met the man that got us over the four year hump. I'm 6'2" and I felt small.
Jim Cornette on Hulk Hogan Appearing At The Republican National Convention
I love Jim Cornette.
Trump calls for modifying 25th Amendment to make it possible to remove a vice president
Source: CNN via AOL News
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday called for “modifying” the 25th Amendment to allow for the removal of a vice president who “lies or engages in a conspiracy to cover up the incapacity of the president,” a political nonstarter and the latest escalation of his attacks on President Joe Biden and the change atop the Democratic ticket.
“If you do that with a cover-up of the president of the United States, it’s grounds for impeachment immediately and removal from office, beause that’s what they did,” Trump said during a campaign rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin.
In the wake of Biden’s poor June debate performance and his decision to end his presidential campaign a month later, Trump and his Republican allies have accused Vice President Kamala Harris and top Democrats of covering up a decline in the president’s mental fitness.
The Harris campaign declined to comment on Trump’s remarks on Saturday.
Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/trump-calls-modifying-25th-amendment-203601963.html
This barrel has no bottom.
Florida state lawmaker indicted on felony charges related to private school
Source: AP via AOL News
A Republican state representative in central Florida has been indicted on felony forgery charges related to her administration of a private Christian school that she helped run with her family.
Carolina Amesty, 29, turned herself in to authorities at the Orange County Jail on Thursday and was booked on four felony counts. That is after a grand jury found that Amesty forged a man’s signature on a document that she notarized in 2021 while working as an administrator at her family's Central Christian Academy, according to State Attorney Andrew Bain. The alleged forgery happened before Amesty was elected to the Florida House of Representatives.
Each of the charges are third-degree felonies, punishable by up to five years in prison and $5,000 in fines.
The indictment of Amesty — who is currently running for reelection in her district west of Orlando — follows investigations by the Orlando Sentinel into Amesty's background, financial practices and role in the family-run school.
Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/florida-state-lawmaker-indicted-felony-184110633.html
Shocked! Another Republican. . .another indictment.
Polls show a changed, close 2024 race heading into Labor Day
Source: NBC News via AOL
Two words sum up the national and battleground state polls released ahead of Labor Day weekend, with fewer than 10 weeks to go until Election Day: changed and close.
Changed, because most of the surveys — conducted after President Joe Biden’s exit from the 2024 race, after the Democratic convention, and after independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed former President Donald Trump — show Vice President Kamala Harris with narrow leads nationally and in key battlegrounds.
That’s compared with polling that mostly showed Trump with a narrow edge before Biden’s departure
Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/polls-show-changed-close-2024-090000208.html
Gotta keep up the narrative of a horse race for ratings and profits.
Six hostages, including Israeli American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, found dead in Gaza
Source: NBC News via AOL
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli American taken hostage in the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, is among six hostages whose bodies were recovered Saturday.
"With broken hearts, the Goldberg-Polin family is devastated to announce the death of their beloved son and brother, Hersh. The family thanks you all for your love and support and asks for privacy at this time," a family representative said.
President Joe Biden said the bodies of Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages held by Hamas were recovered in a tunnel under Rafah.
"I am devastated and outraged," Biden said in the statement.
Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/israeli-military-says-located-several-221148807.html
All Israel's fault. Remember, these hostages are zionists and, according to the pro-Hamas protestors, all zionists must die.
"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."
I'm sure I will hear crickets from this from the mainstream media. After all, doesn't fit the narrative about how peace loving Hamas is and how Israel is a genocidal rogue nation that targets civilians.
Trump turns to Truth Social to share sexual jokes and calls for 'military tribunals'
Source: NBC News via AOL
As the presidential candidates head into the most heated phase of the election year so far, former President Donald Trump has made a distinctive shift in tone on his Truth Social profile, lashing out in increasingly vulgar, misogynistic and vindictive posts.
Just this week, he’s reposted messages calling for his political opponents to be jailed, calling for a return of “public military tribunals” for people like former President Barack Obama, as well as making a graphic sexual joke about Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrat Hillary Clinton, his opponent in 2016. The repost of the sexual joke now appears to have been removed from Trump’s profile.
But you’d only see that if you’re a user of Truth Social. On other more mainstream platforms like X and TikTok, Trump has maintained a more even tone, one seemingly designed for consumption by a much wider swath of American voters.
Truth Social has long been a safe space for Trump allies and acolytes, a place they’re free to lean into unfounded claims of election fraud and a search for revenge, with the distinct possibility those messages could be seen and reposted — or “retruthed" — by Trump himself. But it has a far more limited reach than the major platforms, leaving things largely out of sight and mind for the vast majority of Americans.
Read more: https://www.aol.com/news/trump-turns-truth-social-share-202158223.html
Demented Donnie Douchebag dons dumbass disaster, dolling out drivel to dipshits.
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