Replying to @jasminexETH
I believe this chart is an accurate depiction of what you would see on your screen if you gave your cable company $79 a month.
Peter Greene
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Peter Greene
@palan57
education ranter, retired teacher, writer, SAHD, quasi-musician, Forbes.com, @Progressive4Ed, curmudgucation.substack.com
- You want to talk about learning loss? Then talk about all the learning lost to high stakes testing. 1/
- Replying to @SecCardonaThat's not education. Public education is not meant to serve the needs of employers, but the needs of students. Yes, students probably need a job. But a job training system is meager and narrow. Our children should aspire to more than being useful meat widgets.
- The "litter boxes in schools" story is the most basic litmus test. Anyone repeating that is a liar. There is no rational "well, maybe" wiggle room. That's someone telling a lie in hopes of whipping up their base.
- $28 trillion! Why not $280 trillion? 143 quadzillion? We're just going to keep making up bigger and bigger numbers!
- Replying to @BillGottlin and @DudespostingWsHow about an employee who says, "I don't want to be hired by a company that is only hiring me for the work I'll do."
- Replying to @palan57Want to address learning loss? Never mind tutoring and summer school. In most schools. you could add 6-10 weeks of instruction just by completely scrapping the Big Standardized Test. 4/
- Replying to @palan57Not just the test itself, but the time spent in test prep and just plain learning how to take that kind of test and speak the test manufacturers' language. Plus the pre-test tests (to see how well we're on track for the test) 2/
- Replying to @palan57People who have not been in the classroom for the last couple of decades have no idea how much education time has been eroded by high stakes testing. 3/
- The sheer volume pieces by actual teachers and administrators about the uselessness of testing and the gross distortion of "Learning Loss" into a marketing tool is becoming pretty staggering. And yet, once again, teacher voices are ignored.
- How cool would it be if some of the people determined to protect children from "discomfort" and naked pictures and naughty words employed that same zeal to protect children from the effects of poverty, hunger, and illness.
- So today my boys' school ran a program that they hadn't informed me of or checked out with me ahead of time. So when I picked the boys up, I asked them about it and they talked to me and now they are eating a snack and everyone is fine. It's so easy.
- Teachers: "Oh, you want *accelerated* learning! Sure. I've had secret of learning more stuff faster in my filing cabinet all these years. I just didn't think anybody wanted it, and it would have made my job too easy."
- The teacher walkouts have already been going on for the last decade-- we've just been calling them a "teacher shortage"
