Glad you pointed this out, Warden. Gutfeld happens to be right. Some of the worst schools on the planet are in the hoods of American large cities. If anything, choice gives some kids a fighting chance, a better chance, of securing a better education.
I’ve never watch much for television. Instead, I read books never on a device, always ones I can hold in my hands and turn the pages in which I write in the margins. I’ve seen Gutfeld a few times and found the show witty and somewhat entertaining. The only show I always watch is Tucker whose editorials are well-reasoned and courageous. I think Hannity is an affable guy, but his show is an unending cheerleading session; you’ve seen it once, no reason to watch it again.
I of course never joined any teacher unions, but every poor teacher I ever encountered joined. And when an administrator had the cojones to discipline crap teacher for various reasons, they, the worst teachers, invariably ran to the union for legal assistance. When Florida started administering subject matter competency tests, which had a short history, the rush to the union for legal assistance was riotous. The mathematics test was really challenging. It surprised me that I didn’t make a perfect score on the test. Only one Escambia County teacher did score a perfect; and she was a 'Chinese lady graduated by Princeton, who formerly worked at Ceiba Geigy and had a dozen patent to her name.
Teachers unions are dominated by leftists and financially support leftist political candidates. Their overriding concern is geared more for the benefit of teachers and politicians than it is for the betterment of student learning. Admittedly,on the local level, many of its members are true professionals, and many of them hide their conservative inner feelings as a matter of avoiding hostility.
In the field of education, one sentence can get you fired regardless of your skill in imparting knowledge and fostering achievement. Students will frequently ask you to opine on controversial issues, and you must always refrain from doing so… Minding one’s one business should be a prerequisite in the training of teachers.
Don’t watch him. He’s pretty obnoxious.
It’s really not that far off…I mean if you still wanna be hyper sensitive about his wording (because hyper sensitivity has gotten us so far)
But teacher unions in this country proved what fucking disgusting people they are during covid.
Teachers Unions are some of the worst organizations out there. Total scum.
Some of the worst teachers quit teaching and become employees of teachers’ unions.
Nothing is harder than being a classroom teacher, and the laziest teachers apply for every guidance counseling job that becomes available. They want out of the classroom. Teaching five or six classes with two or three disparate preparations is sometimes torturous. To be a teacher, you must be a paragon of organizational talent, or you’ll be run crazy. Students must be acclimated to routine or a classroom can devolve into bedlam. In all of my courses, and over the years I taught Chemistry, Algebra, History, English, and Spanish, and in every discipline my first consideration was what precisely was important to convey, so I immediately wrote all of my examinations during the course of the year, and I taught always FOR THE TEST. As a teacher, how the hell can you teach without knowing what is important? My students were given 179 homework assignments, and one of my test questions was why with a 180 days school year didn’t I give them 180 homework assignments. Regrettably, some could not answer this question. My students often distinguished themselves on standardized tests of achievement, and I suppose somewhat immodestly, I deserve partial credit for their laudatory performance.
Teaching can drive a human into suffering from high anxiety. The reason for this phenomenon is quite easily explained. When teaching, you can never complete all the work. Some will remain undone. If a teacher has 150 students, and gives an exam comprised of a single essay question, grading the essay becomes an onerous task. If it takes you 5 minutes to read and grade each paper, you’ve expended 750 minutes or 12.5 hours. Ergo, English composition teachers are some of the greatest troopers in the business. They work so much harder than professors, even those who oversee doctoral dissertations. Even when I was a journal editor, my job was difficult, but it was a breeze compared to teaching English composition.
I join Indiana in despising teachers’ unions even though there are egregious examples of administrative tyranny in primary, secondary, and postsecondary education, especially in the latter category.
Really? Like whom?
Are you sure? Have you ever worked outside? I doubt the guys working docks, paving roads, and the like would agree with you. How smug.
So can life…for everyone else.
So, despite horrible tyranny on an undervalued profession you admit can’t be remarkably taxing without proper resources, fuck em…because, you’re not teaching anymore and your politics are benefited?
Gotcha. Right on par