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When the federal government got involved with education is when we saw a rise in God being removed, indoctrination, sissies, people being offended, actual learning was decreased and everything became about a test or test score! Our kids are so much more than that!
So maybe him defunding the public schools might be a good thing? However, I’m title 1 funded. My paycheck is 95% title 1 paid. So it could potentially be bad for me and result in a loss of jobs. I will do more research on this but the federal government started stepping in when
Bush was President with “No Child Left Behind”, good principles but executed poorly and mandated standardized testing. Obama gets in and starts the dumbing down of education, even more testing with common core which makes a huge deficit for low income districts. More testing does
Not equal better scores, just doesn’t. We now have “College and Career Readiness”, which is not appropriate for middle schools much less elementary schools, but is just another spin off of Common Core. When I went to college I changed my mind at least 3-4 times before I decided
On Graphic Design. I took the ACT (not a great test taker, severe test anxiety) scores average for the time. Went to college graduated with my graphic design degree super excited and applied for anywhere between 200-300 jobs all over the US. Obama had tanked the economy so badly
That people were struggling to find work and having to find jobs to just make ends meet! Someone with a college degree, student loans and a kid, trying to make ends me! I start working at a private school, no benefits other than pay, as an Aid and Interventionist. Which leads me
To where I am now. I studied my tail off to pass the Praxis subject area in Special Education (what I went into education for), passed it first time. Well I applied to a school for an art teacher position bc art is what my degree is in. I love it, love being able to teach all of
The kids. 450 in one week to be exact! Being art or a specialist we are normally pulled to proctor tests. This is where the story wraps back around... when you see 3rd, 4th and 5th graders crying because if they don’t pass that test they can’t go to the next grade, no matter
How great they do academically. They have to pass this test. It’s heart breaking. Also, being in a low income district our students seem to struggle a little more to retain information. Why are we not spending more time and energy on figuring out the root to that problem?
Adding to this long thread! I have a huge heart and know in the district I live in that most of my students come to school for love, some of them the only food they receive is from school. Is that fair? No! In some cases not all the parents have a dependency on the education
System to provide for their kids!
