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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 07 2017, @06:06PM (1 child)
We are talking about stopping trespassing, not determining whether someone has trespassed. Your rebuttal is a straw man.
If you're not certified as a productive individual, then you're defined as trespassing wherever you stand; you should be processed accordingly, as per the system of contracts that define such processing.
Of course, perhaps you can find people willing to support you (say, your parents), but you'll be confined to their property or arrested for trespassing. If there is nobody, then you join the military, and if you don't want to do that or you fail to assimilate into the military, then you go to prison for trespassing (or insubordination, in the case of the military).
Whether in your parents' home or a military prison, you can always choose to take those tests again to prove that you are a certifiably productive person, and thereby be released into society.
You're right. I bet there will be a large network of property owners who give refuge to indigent fools. That's their business. However, if those fools try to abuse productive society, they should be dealt with according to well-defined plans that are hopefully corrective—those plans are a retaliation, not an aggression.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 08 2017, @09:04PM
We are talking about stopping trespassing, not determining whether someone has trespassed. Your rebuttal is a straw man.
Nonsense. The point was that stopping people from trespassing is not subjective like testing for "compliance" is, and is not nearly as open to abuse.
they should be dealt with according to well-defined plans
What's with these "well-defined plans"?
those plans are a retaliation, not an aggression.
You are wrong. If you're attacking people simply for being lazy, then you're nothing but a thug. I'd rather have some lazy people than insane authoritarians like you.
Well, the way you word things makes you seem like a troll, so hopefully that's the case.