@cvprbd9kq2 Not if you disaggregate by subject and grade level. For example, math high school teachers have high scores on the math SAT compared to the general college population.
@WhiteSunCapital@TheMagaHulk I agree, it's a free market. So if teaching were such an awesome deal, then everyone would get into that career. And yet in fact many leave the profession within 5 years.
Teachers are the whiniest profession in America.
They work less than half the year.
They're back home by 3:30 PM everyday.
They never have to work weekends or holidays.
But then they'll whine they aren't paid for their 20 minute commute.
@CBayswater@educator4ever36 And even more it depends on simply which students the teacher happens to have in their classroom. In every district this is tried, and I've seen it first hand, advanced teachers tend to become so-called distinguished or whatever.
unpopular opinion: the reason most kids "hate reading" is because we turned it into a performance review. reading logs. book reports. comprehension quizzes every chapter. we took the most naturally enjoyable thing a kid can do and made it feel like homework. then we wonder why they stop the second nobody's grading them.
As always I only support military action anywhere, in any context, if it directly serves the interests of American citizens. It’s troubling that the arguments we’re hearing for this war in Iran, including from Trump himself, seem to revolve primarily around “bringing freedom to the Iranian people.” As Americans, the freedom of Iranians is not our responsibility. If a single American life is lost in the service of that goal, it will be a travesty.
What nobody has even come close to sufficiently explaining is how this war will first and foremost directly benefit American citizens. That is a case that needed to have been made clearly and convincingly before this move, and it wasn’t. We’re also told how this will benefit Israel, and I’m sure it will. But Israel is not America. What does it do for America? How does it help us? That needs to be explained to us. And it isn’t “panicking” or demonstrating “disloyalty” to demand those very basic answers about how American tax money, and potentially American lives, are being spent.
We hear about the danger of a nuclear Iran, but that’s odd because we were told that Iran’s nuclear capabilities had already been set back decades. We hear that this war will be over quickly and easily because Iran is powerless, which I hope and pray is the case, and maybe it will be. But that’s odd, too, because if Iran is such a paper tiger then how were they a danger to us in the first place? It seems hard to argue both that Iran is an existential threat to the United States and that we can topple them in 20 minutes with no casualties or negative downstream effects.
Also the political calculation really matters here. A huge majority of American oppose this. That’s just a fact. If it costs Republicans in 26 and 28, then, no matter how things work out in Iran, it will not have been worth it. A free Iran at the cost of Democrat rule here at home is a bad deal. A free Iran for an unfree America would be just about the worst trade of the century.
I’m praying for our great country today.
@DelawareTrackXC@educator4ever36 Many books are banned because they have the n-word, not because of conservative sensibilities as this whole meme implies.