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batkave t1_itlxv9l wrote

I mean would anyone here want to be a teacher? I doubt it. We don't teach children to succeed, we teach them to ace a test. We can't teach anything that is not whitewashed. Parents and politicians want teachers to be security guards, police officers, baby sitters, parents, and many other things. Parents straight up attack teachers and call for their jobs when their kids are horrible. Plus they are horribly underfunded. Take away police and military money and give it to the schools.

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lostspyder t1_itm0qsa wrote

I’ll never forget my partner sobbing on the phone because a parent was bitching her out for not printing off their kids homework and driving it to their house for them like some kind of ducking courier service…

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SightBlinder3 t1_itmw3dg wrote

>we teach them to ace a test

We don't even do that anymore. We just make them take a test and then change the requirements so enough of each demographic passes.

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killedbyacop t1_itmt1fv wrote

I wouldn't mind being a teacher in a world where people actually worked together to accomplish things and support one another, not in a world where everyone is forced to compete for a paycheck and generally only exhibits concern for their own well-being.

So many problems, and there's a solution for every one of them. But this is the world we have instead, because people don't listen to those who know better. Everyone else thinks they know better. So this is the world we have instead.

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deltabagel t1_itmdd5t wrote

Denationalize school funding.

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JawlessTugBoat t1_itmo9zb wrote

Schools in Virginia are mostly funded through local property taxes. Only a small percentage of a school systems budget comes from the federal government.

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