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Teachers are kept in check by school administrators, other teachers, parents, and nowadays increasingly media (both social and professional). Parents teaching
by pavlov 3y ago
Teachers are kept in check by school administrators, other teachers, parents, and nowadays increasingly media (both social and professional).
Parents teaching at home have no guardrails. They can beat their kids or feed them candy all day, and nobody will know for a decade.
- jvanderbot 3y agoI have a vague sense from talking with teachers that the school systems are soul crushing, for both teachers and students. The consensus seems to be that there are very little resources for anyone not in +/- a half std dev of the mean, academically speaking, so both those outlier groups suffer.
- randomdata 3y ago> They can beat their kids or feed them candy all day, and nobody will know for a decade. If they disappear into the forest, never to be seen by society again, sure. But for the families that have some community engagement, you soon find out. People notice, people talk. Of course, knowing and doing something about it are very different things.
- Turing_Machine 3y ago> Teachers are kept in check by school administrators, other teachers Err... no. No, they aren't. You have no idea how hard it is to fire a bad teacher. I'll give you a hint: real friggin' hard.