Behavioral issues are a huge big deal. This is one of many reasons that I think school choice is essential. We need more schools that can pick up the slack in addressing behavioral issues. This is especially urgent with children from lower-income single parent households and dysfunctional households. Mainstreaming them into classrooms an…
Behavioral issues are a huge big deal. This is one of many reasons that I think school choice is essential. We need more schools that can pick up the slack in addressing behavioral issues. This is especially urgent with children from lower-income single parent households and dysfunctional households. Mainstreaming them into classrooms and calling it good is a crime. I feel like the whole inclusive classroom movement is misguided in many ways. Yes, we want kids with special needs to have opportunities to socialize with normies, but we've gone too far with that, too.
That said, pedagogy is a thing, and long-term experiments on students have shown that how we teach math and reading aren't working. And we need higher quality teachers as well. I think Massachusetts is the only state that tests teachers' math skills. What a shame more don't. Most middle school teachers cannot do fractions, decimals or percentages. Yikes. Math phobia is a teacher problem that gets passed onto students. Only math specialists should teach math given what we're dealing with in terms of most teachers lacking math skills.
Behavioral issues are a huge big deal. This is one of many reasons that I think school choice is essential. We need more schools that can pick up the slack in addressing behavioral issues. This is especially urgent with children from lower-income single parent households and dysfunctional households. Mainstreaming them into classrooms and calling it good is a crime. I feel like the whole inclusive classroom movement is misguided in many ways. Yes, we want kids with special needs to have opportunities to socialize with normies, but we've gone too far with that, too.
That said, pedagogy is a thing, and long-term experiments on students have shown that how we teach math and reading aren't working. And we need higher quality teachers as well. I think Massachusetts is the only state that tests teachers' math skills. What a shame more don't. Most middle school teachers cannot do fractions, decimals or percentages. Yikes. Math phobia is a teacher problem that gets passed onto students. Only math specialists should teach math given what we're dealing with in terms of most teachers lacking math skills.