Yeah... and just because you have greater seniority does not mean you're more skilled, talented, or experienced. You can twiddle your thumbs for 10 years and blend in with nothingness.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZmCJhvQTExA/hqdefault.jpg

But, yeah, why would I go for a teaching education only to work for a High-School making pennies on the dollars.

Fuck that.

The biggest portion of taxes I pay (where I live) are for the schools. I think the itemized list at the bottom of my taxes said 49% goes to the local school. To me that's money flushed down the toilet, I don't have any kids that go to school nor do I think they use the money they appropriate from the tax payers responsibly.

My kid(s) ain't going to public that's for damn sure

I'm doubly glad I don't have to convince my wife of this

Mandatory schools are dumb. I might be wrong about this, but I think all the top scoring academic countries in asia don't have mandatory school or at least i'm pretty sure high school isn't mandatory

Those taxes sure as shit aren't going to a superior education.

I know people who have homeschooled their kids because local public schools were/are utterly atrocious

I intend to either send them to a private school, or home school them.

I don't trust public in this current day in age.

My boss, homeschooled his kids, but they did it by essentially forming a class with like minded parents. That way they still get the social benefits of a school.

I saw a report not to long ago, I think it was on fox news that out of 6 schools in this one area not one person could pass a basic skills test in math or English.

Baltimore

sounds about right

Yup, sounds right

I remember because they brought it up in the context of the Trump/Cummings thing

pointing out one of the many ways Baltimore is a failure.

Maybe they just need to burn it down again - get some space to blow off steam, you know?

oof

*Yet Trumps at fault*

🤡

https://twitter.com/realcandaceo/status/1155169023039901696

^that was the claim i heard, but I don't know its origin, or what the evidence is

Here's an article from 2 years ago that says something along those lines
https://www.baltimoresun.com/education/bs-md-parcc-scores-20170821-story.html#nt=standard-embed

doesn't link to the actual data though, only cites it

relevant quote: `Baltimore City and Baltimore County students scored below the state average. In the city, only 15 percent of students passed the English test and 11.9 percent passed the math.`

Am I mistaken or if your school fails to pass basic proficiency isn't federal funding cut till you bring it back up to snuff?

Couldn't tell you. Though a cynical person might say that it's an excuse to increase federal funding, since obviously they need to throw more money at the problem

I think the tests in question are not federal though

When I went to school we had to take the CAT tests every year, do they still do that. They might be called different thing in different areas, they were basically federal proficiency tests

hmm

In any case, an 88% failure rate on a math test where the hardest thing you'll see is some algebra? I'm actually impressed

That common core crap has really helped matters 😂

ugh

Buahaha.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/409483133583360020/607842560169345045/IMG-20190804-WA0015.jpg

But those *civilians* can go fuck themselves, I guess

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