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As teacher resignation letters increasingly go public -- and viral -- new research indicates teachers are not leaving solely due to low pay and retirement, but also because of what they see as a broken education system.
In a trio of studies, Michigan State University education expert Alyssa Hadley Dunn and colleagues examined the relatively new phenomenon of teachers posting their resignation letters online. Their findings, which come as many teachers are signing next year's contacts, suggest educators at all grade and experience levels are frustrated and disheartened by a nationwide focus on standardized tests, scripted curriculum and punitive teacher-evaluation systems.
Teacher turnover costs more than $2.2 billion in the U.S. each year and has been shown to decrease student achievement in the form of reading and math test scores.
"The reasons teachers are leaving the profession has little to do with the reasons most frequently touted by education reformers, such as pay or student behavior," said Dunn, assistant professor of teacher education. "Rather, teachers are leaving largely because oppressive policies and practices are affecting their working conditions and beliefs about themselves and education."
The study quoted a teacher in Boston: "I did not feel I was leaving my job. I felt then and feel now that my job left me."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 07 2017, @03:13PM (5 children)
This discussion is about shools. Innocent little shits, for the most part, who haven't even reached puberty. And, when they do reach puberty, they can conform to school standards until they reach the age of majority. Once reaching age 18, and leaving school (with or without a diploma) they can pretty much do what they want to do.
Gotta wonder though - WTF do you make it a hobby to shock people? You're not really comfortable with yourself, and you've got to shock people to justify yourself? Or - you're actually trolling for dates while telling yourself that you're just shocking people?
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday April 07 2017, @03:31PM
She is probably doing what I like to do: force policy changes by following them to the letter.
I am passive-aggressive that way.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday April 07 2017, @06:50PM (3 children)
WTF do you make it a hobby to shock people?
WTF do you make it a hobby to legislate which bathroom I should be in? I'm just following the law and entering the men's room, just like you want me to. It's your damned problem you find it shocking that somebody who appears to be a woman is in the men's room. I have XY genetics, a cock, the whole nine yards. It's your problem, buster, if something about my appearance—without any effort on my part!— makes you think I'm a womyn-born-womyn.
If you didn't want to be shocked, you'd probably back off with the bitching about bathrooms and request that people use the bathroom of the gender they appear to be, regardless of their assigned gender at birth. But you idiots don't!
You want me to present my birth certificate. Guess what it says on there! It has a big M, and I've never had a problem just using the men's room. When I need to take a piss, I just want to take a piss, and I don't care where I take a piss. Your side seems to be adamant that it should be in the men's room, so in the men's room I go!
Haha, maybe you should have thought it through a bit more thoroughly before you joined feminists on the crusade against bathroom rapists! You sound like you're not so sure after all you want me in the men's room! Well, hash it out with feminists now that you're one big happy family!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @10:03PM (2 children)
Where did this bathroom discussion pop up from? I don't see it in Runaway's original post, only in KT's initial comment about it...
WTF with this thread?
(Score: 1) by charon on Friday April 07 2017, @11:00PM (1 child)
[Emphasis added.]
Not sure if Runaway meant it that way (probably did), but kurenai thought it was about the NC et al. "bathroom bill."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @03:23AM
haha ok, I totally misread that as "whenever" like it is some jab at entitled millenials.