Solution-Intelligent

“Oh, that’s because you were asleep when I explained it.”

Indignant look.

So here’s my question. Seriously want an honest answer, here. Why the indignant look???

I’m honestly asking. Like: Don’t boo me, I’m right. Do you (18 year old, actual adult high school senior) honestly have such little self-awareness that the only thing you can do with all the cognitive dissonance you’re experiencing with the tiniest little dose of reality is force yourself to ignore it and decide since you can’t possibly be wrong ever, at all, that I must be wrong somehow.

Seriously asking. What is actually misfiring in the brain here?

It is not an opinion. There isn’t another solution. It is basic economics. Supply and demand. Econ 101. Changing how you treat teachers will help a lot too, but districts that raise salaries first and raise salaries most will not experience any shortages. It’s just math. Come to Econ class.

I keep seeing on here how students are never, ever, ever to blame for anything they do. They are entirely passive victims of their environments, and instead of calling them to account for their choices teachers have to be vigilant about how we can restructure things to reach them and hold ourselves to 100% of the accountability. I get that’s largely true for the 7 or 8 year old elementary schooler. But is there really still no personal responsibility at all for my 17-18 year old high school juniors and seniors? Or is accountability and personal responsibility something that they only get with their diploma with no training or experience in how to use it in a system that thinks they have

I think some scholars are smoking pot in the dirty public restroom.

That scholar is functionally illiterate.

Those two scholars are making a baby underneath the bleachers in the gym.

I can’t do it, pass rate statewide is 40%. I gave them 37% with disadvantaged kids. They want 70%! I can’t do it.

It’s back door dis-integration. Have to leave the struggling kids in? No problem. Just pull the high performance kids out and everyone’s boxes are ticked.

Makes perfect sense when you understand it this way.

Unless they’re 18.

Cause that’d really incentivize me in a lot of positive ways, to be honest.

Just making sure we understand the whole system is built on the backs of teachers who feel guilty for not doing more.