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Originally Posted by Trip
Just curious.
American teachers have lost any sympathy they had long ago. The public school system we have is just going in the shitter further an further and we can't really make changes thanks to their unions. Tenure is the biggest joke out there. Who else gets nice fat agreements to never get shitcanned when they are doing horrible jobs?
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Problem is, it's swinging in the opposite direction now: they're basing everything on test scores. So tenure is going away and everything depends on whether or not kids score high on standardized tests (at least here).
That means one of two things are going to happen:
1) teachers are only going to teach to tests and the kids won't learn jack shit except rote memorization
2) numbers will get fudged, especially on English exams or more subjective tests
You can't take a numbers based outcome approach to education, especially when you factor in each students' aptitude and ability. It just won't work.
This is why I left the teaching profession to begin with: I don't agree with basing everything on standardized testing.