This is not new. When I was teaching elementary about 20 years ago I was told the same thing. I’ve had to change grades because someone never helped their child but had a big enough mouth to change the principal’s mind about the kid’s grades. After 25 years I burned out badly. I loved the job but hated the useless nonsense that stopped me from actually doing my job.

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We‘re not allowed to fail them. The lowest they can get is a 53.

I teach seniors. They need my class to pass. Admin has given thinly veiled threats about failing them. It looks bad for the school and affects funding and that’s all they care about.

They pass even if they don’t show up. One girl came to school only 2 months out of the 10 and passed with a B last year as a junior. I have her now and it’s the same bullshit.

“Rigor“ is a joke. They’re 3-4 grade levels behind and we often have to go over middle school level lessons, yet admin is down everyone‘s throat about rigor.

Discipline is a joke. They don’t do detention anymore, so the kids know that they can misbehave. They’re only suspend for serious offenses like drug use or fighting.

Parents are uninvolved and for some reason that’s the teacher’s fault. They never answer the phones for calls home about discipline, but come graduation time they’re yelling and screaming because their child has failed senior year(though not really, we just give them a packet of work at the end and then they pass 🙄)

Were given limited supplies and often have to purchase our own. We got a grant last year from the district and I purchased 3 toners since I want them to do handwritten work as often as possible because they use AI too much on their Chromebooks. All three were stolen by other staff members and no one is being held accountable.

There was never any real support when I stared out 2 yeas ago and although I love my fellow veteran teachers they’re just as stressed and busy to ever properly mentor me.

Everything is always broken and never gets fixed. Microwave, elevator(had to carry heavy supplies up three flights of stairs.), two windows broken in my classroom, three desk broken, etc. Since LAST year.

Grades are almost always fluffed. Every F turns in a D. Too many D’s need to turn into C’s.

There‘s a phone policy that’s hardly enforced. It up to teachers to deal with it.

My mental health and anxiety has worsen since I started teaching 2 years ago. I’m leaving classroom teaching permanently after this year.

I just needed to rant. Couldn’t even make it to the 5-year mark and became a statistic. Have a nice rest of your day!

Thanks bush

I would’ve read this if it were text but I’m not going to keep zooming in and out to read some screenshot on mobile.

ChatGPT doesn't need to be accurate if people are unable to think for themselves. This is all on track for the "intelligence as a utility" future the LLM wankers have in plan for us

I worked in a place where you had to have parent permission to fail students.

Also, “base-50” grading - all work, whether turned in or not, earns a 50.

Online school is really a ticking time bomb though. Even before AI, it was basically kids spending an afternoon googling crap and getting credit for a full semester of high school.

Working as intended.

The goal right now is not to produce future scientists, engineers, or the best and brightest.

the goal right now is to produce barely functional simpletons that can only just barely manage to survive on their own. the kind of people that don't question, don't think, don't analyze, who don't do anything but believe what they're told by people they view as an authority figure.

this is the end goal of decades of attacks on education.

America spends more per student than most other countries yet churns out the worst possible results.

Reminds me of the novel 'Wilt'. He is a teacher at a vocational school, and he has to convey the joys of English Literature to classes called 'Meat 1' and 'Bricklayers 2'. Attendence is mandatory, but the course is not scored. And most students are bigger, stronger, and butcher (pun intended) than he.

The whole idea of the American education system of teachers grading their own students and essentially being able to just arbitrarily decide passes or fails is completely wild.

Americans are Idiots.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

When I was in school, anything below 67% was failing, so that number on its own is a shocker. But, yeah, these young people are the future of their regions and countries and that seems like a very bad thing.