As we near the return to pre-pandemic “normal,” the full extent of the damage is emerging. Amidst the wreckage, America’s bruised and battered teachers are still standing - barely. It has been infuriating to watch the scorn or indifference directed toward teachers. They, and teachers unions, have been blamed for failing to open schools or for the suboptimal online programs that have replaced real learning. All of this compounds the already dismal circumstances under which teachers have persevered for decades.
Steve - as always, you've expressed perfectly the flawed system track of mass school education. Thank you for your continuing advocacy on behalf of the students and our future ....we desperately need to move past the archaic test based ways (especially in this age of computers) ...and certainly the pandemic exposed us even more to the need for such change. The burning question as in all great changes .... where and how to begin? And how can we pay teachers higher salaries for their quiet noble deeds and countless hours caring and nurturing our kids?!!!
Thank you Steve- What you say is so true! The positive experiences and joys of learning need to be in every classroom- From public to private institutions-I wish more people appreciated this teaching style!
Thanks for this Steve. I can’t help but note how many of the teachers’ frustrations you discuss are similar to those of physicians who now find themselves working in a metric guided world.
Steve - as always, you've expressed perfectly the flawed system track of mass school education. Thank you for your continuing advocacy on behalf of the students and our future ....we desperately need to move past the archaic test based ways (especially in this age of computers) ...and certainly the pandemic exposed us even more to the need for such change. The burning question as in all great changes .... where and how to begin? And how can we pay teachers higher salaries for their quiet noble deeds and countless hours caring and nurturing our kids?!!!
Thank you Steve- What you say is so true! The positive experiences and joys of learning need to be in every classroom- From public to private institutions-I wish more people appreciated this teaching style!
Thanks for this Steve. I can’t help but note how many of the teachers’ frustrations you discuss are similar to those of physicians who now find themselves working in a metric guided world.