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My wife is a primary public school teacher in the U.S. I read to her your comment, and she said to me, "We have 21 teachers at our school, and only one of them
by Wistar 4y ago
My wife is a primary public school teacher in the U.S. I read to her your comment, and she said to me, "We have 21 teachers at our school, and only one of them resembles what that comment describes."
- donw 4y agoMy parents were both teachers. A significant trunk of my classmates went into teaching after college. We keep in touch. The above comment is accurate.
- Wistar 4y agoWhich "above comment"?
- bluepoint 4y agoyes.
- anotheraccount9 4y agoThe previous comments are not logically equivalent, (bitwise AND) have the same truth value.
- eitland 4y ago"Above" typically means above in thread, i.e. "parent", i.e. the post/comment one replies to.
- PeterStuer 4y agoI agree it is fully ambiguous as to which above refers in this case.
- donw 4y agoClarifying my ambiguous response: "Above comment" refers to "most teachers are jobsworths that don't care about their students".
- klipt 4y agoMaybe teachers in the minority gender experience less positive interactions with certain colleagues than teachers in the majority gender?
- bmitc 4y agoAs an anecdote, I was a math major. I took an elective course on the history of mathematics, which must have been a requirement for math education majors, who were under a separate department and even college (i.e., not the math department or college of the arts and sciences). I was the only math major, and I'm pretty sure the only male in a class of about 20 or so. The professor was one of the easiest and most straightforward professors, basically giving out a study guide of homework problems that directly reflected what was to be on the exams. I am fairly certain I got 100% on all exams. I have never witnessed more complaining and moaning from students than I did in that class. The education majors (i.e., everyone else) complained about absolutely everything, from the book to the professor to the material itself to "difficulty" of the course. It was unbelievable that these people were supposedly wanting to be math teachers but were complaining endlessly about a history of mathematics course. I experienced basically the same from the education majors in the introduction to proofs class. My mom was a teacher, but those experiences forever tainted the picture of a modern day teacher. In fact, one of the primary reasons my mom retired early was due to her fellow teachers and requirements from the school. She was mandated to use PowerPoint and share lesson plans. But the lesson plans received from the younger teachers weren't up to her standards, so my mom usually had to redo the others' lesson plans, on top of her assigned lesson plan material. Additionally, the kids with the lowest test scores and behavioral problems were usually transferred to my mom's homeroom class for her to help turnaround, which she usually did. What an absolute nightmare.
- pnf 4y agoEducation programs are the cash cows of universities. They are universally, intentionally subpar compared to the other colleges.
- kalimanzaro 4y agoThat the high school teaching experience is vastly different from your wife's experiences teaching primary school children... seems to make sense?