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Teacher pay needs to nearly double to afford a typical house (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

AS long as they're held accountable for actually teaching at that payrate, I'm all for it. I had too many teachers that did the bare minimum to make sure we could pass the standardized test and that was it. I hated science in high school because of it and can't get enough of it now that I can learn it from people that give a shit.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

As long as they’re held accountable for actually teaching

the bare minimum to make sure we could pass the standardized test

It's possible these two attitudes are related somehow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Maybe, but some classes that could have been a slog were enjoyable because of those teachers at least trying to NOT make it purely memorization. For example, my biology(?) teacher assigned us 2 hours worth of copying down words and their definition every night. She ended up getting injured or sick and got replaced by a substitute and he had us make a model of a cell out of food and/or candy for homework. Same class, same semester, guess which one I can actually remember now because it wasn't insufferably monotonous.

[–] fxt_ryknow 1 points 4 months ago

Working in a school district currently, that is pushing AI in a massive way. It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

There is a major push here for teachers to use it as much as possible. While I get it to a certain degree... I'm also not sure how I feel about it. Just seems like a more convent way for teachers to do less, and be less "involved".