[czbond]

If they want to improve teachers performance - reduce the $hit modern society is making them deal with. They're very under paid.

How would you like to deal with corraling 23'ish hyper nut jobs all at different levels? That you have to be their parents, psychologist, DEI, identity fosterer, special education teachers etc.

Funding in many schools isn't there now for specialists to do these roles.... because teachers wanted to earn more after inflation, so cuts made - more responsibilites to teachers.

So the teachers are having to take on the role of many of society's "dump bucket" of stuff that parents should be taking care of.

[dwater]

When I worked in a relatively well to do suburban district I had class sizes up to 35 students. Because I was a math teacher, administration did their best to keep our class sizes under 30, teachers of other core classes were more likely to have 30+ students, and classes that didn't have standardized tests might have more than 35. If I recall correctly, every year I taught 9th graders, who are often hyper nutjobs.

[czbond]

Props to you! Sanity is fleeting with 30+ 9th graders

[drewbug01]

> Funding in many schools isn't there now for specialists to do these roles.... because teachers wanted to earn more after inflation, so cuts made - more responsibilites to teachers.

This seems as though you're implying that it's the greedy teacher's fault that our school systems shove ever-increasing responsibilities upon them. As if the total pot of money in the system is a fixed, immovable sum, and so that if a teacher wants a raise it must mean that something elsewhere has to give.

Is there any shred of evidence to support that kind of thinking, though? We can quibble about salaries and outlier districts all day long if you want, but fundamentally it's not like teachers are the most highly-paid group of workers out there. And governments manage to find money to increase funding to other systems year after year (the police, for example).

[czbond]

>This seems as though you're implying that it's the greedy teacher's fault that our school systems shove ever-increasing responsibilities upon them.

I believe the opposite. I believe teachers are underpaid, not greedy at all, and under staffed. Often education is under funded (in areas of the country such as mine).

[drewbug01]

Gotcha - the comment read precisely the opposite to me, thank you for clarifying :)

[paulryanrogers]

DEI? Did you mean IEP?

[czbond]

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Districts have placed individual responsibility to the teachers in many cases with a strong DEI push - even stronger than had existed pre-covid.