I teach for a living. I'm currently at a community college, but I spent most of the last decade teaching high school. I even did a little 4th grade. (Yes, it is

I teach for a living. I'm currently at a community college, but I spent most of the last decade teaching high school. I even did a little 4th grade. (Yes, it is unusual for any teacher to teach that range of grades.) Educational administrators are idiots. They can not do basic tasks. Give them a list of industry certifications like the one I will link below, and ask them to figure out which classes currently offered in their school or school district might be appropriate to prepare the kids for those certifications, and they can not do it. They yell at the teachers to figure it out instead of providing clear instructions to the teachers. A big chunk of their funding depends on getting their students certified, and they can not make a plan to achieve that. After we know what certifications go with what classes, I suggest they pay the certification fees to get their teachers certified. They yell back that they do not get paid to have the teachers certified. I know that, but do they really expect teachers to prepare students for certifications the teachers do not have? They say it is the teacher's responsibility to keep their certifications up to date. That only applies to their state occupational license to teach, not to industry certifications. School administrators do not understand the difference. I already had the industry certifications because I subscribe to the TEA newsletters, and anticipate next year's goals. I ask for funding for my kids to take the certification exams. The administratoras yell back that either the students need to pay for it or I need to pay for it. School administrators do not care that the extra funding they would get from getting students certified would more than pay for the vouchers. I finally get an administrator with a brain to fund the vouchers. I get about half my students certified. The administrators say that is worthless. They threaten to fire me because if one single student does not get certified, my whole school year is a failure. I am literally the only teacher in the school who got kids certified (that I know of.) The list of certifications is a PDF linked to from this web page: https://tea.texas.gov/academics/college-career-and-military-prep/career-and-technical-education/industry-based-certifications https://tea.texas.gov/academics/college-career-and-military-... Here is a direct link to the PDF: https://tea.texas.gov/academics/college-career-and-military-prep/career-and-technical-education/2022-2024-ibc-list-for-public-school-accountability-final.pdf https://tea.texas.gov/academics/college-career-and-military-...