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The fact that the education system managed to forget how to teach kids how to read is unbelievably infuriating. I have been guilty in the past of rolling my eye
by fwlr 4y ago
The fact that the education system managed to forget how to teach kids how to read is unbelievably infuriating. I have been guilty in the past of rolling my eyes at “teachers are heroes, teachers should be paid like rockstars”. I don’t feel guilty anymore!
- CalRobert 4y agoIf teachers were paid like rockstars we'd be able to get better teachers.
- yamtaddle 4y agoIn my neck of the woods, if we paid teachers as well, by mid career, as gas station managers, we'd get better teachers.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agoDon't know how anyone who went through school would ever feel guilty about rolling their eyes at that.
- fwlr 4y agoI went to a selective-entry single-gender public school, I have always just assumed my school experiences aren’t reflective of schools in general and refused to draw conclusions from my experiences.
- gshubert17 4y agoA similar tragedy was losing an effective treatment for scurvy, later rediscovered and connected with Vitamin C. https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm