> If your teachers are incompetent, they won't be able to help you one way or the other, so it's best if they just get out of the way. Might be worth consideri

> If your teachers are incompetent, they won't be able to help you one way or the other, so it's best if they just get out of the way. Might be worth considering the effects of changing teacher demographics. For a variety of reasons the public employee unions have been eliminated, and a side effect of that is the old salary model had very low pay for the first years of teaching (like $20K) vs very high pay after 20 years in (like $80K) averaging out to a decent living, in the end. But if higher ed profits the more teachers they produce, such that they graduate 20K for 10K of job openings or whatever, plus the teachers union is toothless if not gone, that means all the teachers at my kid's middle school are under 30 and make less than $25K/yr. And this in a "good district", in fact academic award winning (the kids culture and genetics obviously matter a lot more than teacher salaries WRT outcomes). "When I was a kid" teachers were an interesting cross section of humanity from old to young, but now 95% of them are under 30. The district likes to brag about the teachers so we get a list of diplomas from the better universities (remember higher ed graduates twice as many diplomas as there are jobs, so the only people getting jobs are above median...) the side effect is that the average BS degree in Ed at my kids school was awarded around 2010 or so. The job title of an experienced teacher is "realtor" or "waitress" or honestly I donno but I assure you there are no experienced teachers employed by school districts anymore. So the point of this is you can't handwave away demographic change... My Algebra II teacher was maybe 50 and knew her stuff after teaching it a few decades, ditto my high school calculus teacher who must have been 60. I had a parental-age economics teacher who was very influential, ditto an influential parental age history teacher and a grandfatherly government/social studies teacher. But those days are over and the financial savings of only hiring kids to teach kids are obvious BUT its also obvious that almost nobody in the building has more than maybe 5 years experience teaching. Saving money is cool, but it results in the blind leading the blind. You NEED a curricula and overall plan that assumes all teachers are inexperienced and more or less incompetent because for financial / political reasons that's what we have today to save money.