27 Years of Teaching: What Changed? Cell Phones, Grade Inflation, PBIS, Paperwork, PDs & CRAZY Tests

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[@phillatella6470]

Education is broken at the highest levels. It starts with the Federal Government down to the local school boards. It is sad. The system breaks those who care, and rewards the lazy, ignorant, and complacent.

[@ctruthlyfe4452]

Or maybe the system is coming to a halt like it was designed to do from the get to, after it reached its quota of educated masses. Why else would they stifle teacher salary, cut out programs that use to teach basic skills like auto shop, other programs like truancy officers, etc. They kept on permitting things based on political matters rather than investing in building a nation of strong minded, capable, independent children. Instead the masses are dependent and follow the leader.

[@maryl234]

And where in this theory is parent responsibility to actually parent?

[@TheCarnivoreSoprano]

Culture starts at the top. ​@@maryl234

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

@@maryl234That went out the door when admin., politicians, and the media started siding 100% with them and antagonizing teachers in the process.

[@LadyBGoode-gr8wm]

Education should have never been federally controlled. It was always meant to be local. I will let the reader connect the dots on why.

[@poogissploogis]

My government teacher senior year absolutely refused to inflate grades for students. The principal would often come in and try to coerce him into changing the grades for athletes so they could go to their games, and so they could graduate and play in college, but he stayed true to his principles and refused. They moved him down to teaching juniors so that he no longer had the power to prevent failing kids from graduating. The system is a pile of ash at this point!

[@barbaradiaz745]

30 years in with Chicago public school…. At our last pd day we spent 6 hours learning how to do deep breathing, working on our mental health ,Sel needs, blah blah blah. At the end of the day we were stressed because we could have been getting work done in our classrooms or meeting with our grade level😡

[@therealtoni]

Yes, SEL for kids is not enough!! SEL for fixing teachers because it is our fault!!! Another diversion from the failure of education industry from the top down!

[@RonMcCoy-New]

Amen! This year's PD featured ONLY deep breathing, SEL, etc. I mentioned academics, and my principal shot me such a look. Said principal told our fourth grade team: "Don't worry about teaching academics. Focus only on SEL."

[@KB0101]

30 years here. I have 10 weeks to go. 🎉 Everything has changed in education, and not for the better. I pray for better conditions for the future teachers.

[@johnnyboyvan]

Congrats 👏 on your upcoming retirement. Well deserved.😊

[@sharinaross1865]

Enjoy retirement.

[@Imissyoulou]

What this man is saying is true. Every child does not want to go to college for various reasons. Some children are good with their hands. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be a tradesperson. Carpentery, painting, electrical, plumbing, etc. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be a designer, real estate broker. These individuals can and many times do, make tons of money. Let children explore their options.

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

Exactly! Given the college scene of today in terms of a Bachelor’s Degree no longer guaranteeing students their dream job (or even any job for that matter), tuition requiring student loans on an annual basis, and college itself now being another level of forced general election, alternative solutions to one’s own professional and personal outlooks are well in order! My last three years of college were especially stressful and I wouldn’t wish them on anyone.

[@mickeyc2137]

I actually think tradeschool is a way better route. Costs way less money get finished in much shorter time and most trades make great money

[@dorothyjbond]

Often it's the parents that think the kids should go to college even if the kids do no school work at all.

[@teacherspetism]

33 years here…retiring in May. I know a lot of teachers that doubt themselves and begin to cave to parental pressure and even admin to change students grades. It’s so frustrating…I can’t wait to leave this profession..it’s so toxic and I’m sick of it.

[@theunfortunatespectacle7381]

After COVID it hit me that in our staff meetings no one ever asked teachers what we thought, much less what teachers needed. Admin and the district used staff meetings to solve their problems and ignored ours. Still happening.

[@maryl234]

I taught in 4 states, AZ being the worst environment for teachers - teachers there are some of the lowest paid in the country. Standards based "reporting" was the worst idea in education in the last decade for sure. I taught 25 years and jumped off the Titantic in 2022. When I hear the teacher jargon and acronyms now, It is like listening to cult members. There is such a huge world out there, go explore the world outside of teaching...you deserve much better. Excellent advice of learn how to say "no." I got better at that as I went on through my career also. My phrase became "we need a living wage, we are not volunteers or martyrs. If I am going to do after hours work, then I deserve to be compensated." Teachers' kindness and giving nature will be taken advantage of - so have a thicker skin and boundaries when bombarded with the requests, guilting, and demands. Teachers don't realize their own power, especially now with such a shortage.

[@grantboardman7880]

AZ is such a hard state to teach in, and I've been doing that in one shape or another for the last nine years.

[@grantboardman7880]

AZ is such a hard state to teach in, and I've been doing that in one shape or another for the last nine years.

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

Yes a colleague who temporarily left CA to teach in AZ to take care of a family member said those 3 years were the worst of his life. Low pay, teachers fired for stupid reasons and on an on. He came back to CA and has been here ever since.

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

I have a friend who lives and subs in public middle and high schools in Tucson. She echoes your sentiments.

[@PugLady994]

You should see CO teacher wages... teachers are treated like crap here. We're also a "right to work" (cough cough right to non-renew) state.

[@kris78787]

I was just talking about this with another teacher I work with. The old school way of doing things was perfectly fine. Then they had to go and change everything. Now it is almost impossible to do everything they want out of you for this job in the very short 7-8 hours we have at school teaching. I just spent 2 hours of my own time at home after school today writing referrals for misbehaving kids, which I literrally have no time to do during the day. I have no planning period and there is no transition time inbetween classes. It's ridiculous what they expect us to do with no time during work to do it.

[@BarryBrandon-mz7gb]

You have got to learn to stop working (referrals?? really?) at home. Until teachers stop as a whole, and leave it at school, districts will continue to expect teachers to work at home and on weekends. I'm in year 29 and am proud to say, besides a couple hours to knock out silly 5th grade report cards with 1's-4's, I haven't taken anything home in 20 years.

[@kris78787]

@@BarryBrandon-mz7gb I have to write the referrals because a lot of them are for hitting/hands on stuff. If I don't document it then I get reprimanded for it and written up. This is just another reason why I am planning on finding another job ASAP.

[@CatalinaFOIA]

I agree! I spent 2 SNOW DAYS writing progress reports while being at home and being a supportive loving parent to my 8 year old who had a full day of lessons to complete. Lets say I got ONLY half of them done. There is NO PREP time.

[@kris78787]

@@CatalinaFOIA This is why I truly believe every teacher needs an assistant helping them. Dentists, doctors, and lawyers etc. have assistants which help them do their jobs, shouldn't teachers have the same thing?

[@RobbieMcT97]

And the pay could be increased and the work schedule would NOT change. Most professionals get assistants, support staff, open time periods in the day. That is what needs to appear.

[@morganflame480]

Mr Peters is my favorite teacher i was apart of the class of 2020 and his finance class was the class i would look forward to. I still use what he taught me to this day!!

[@TataAraiza]

Mr. Peters! One of my favorite high school teachers! Taught me many things I apply in my life still to this day. Great teacher and Friend. Thank you for interviewing a great mind!

[@soonahero]

You have the best KZbin channel ever! Thank you for speaking the truth. We're not incompetent or making things up, things are dire.

[@TeacherTherapy]

Thank you! 🤗

[@Gira315]

The lack of motivation and interest in the subject is something I see trickling up to the college level. You would think that if you go to college, you're motivated to learn, you're interested in academic subjects. Not these kids. I teach "traditional" aged first-year students at my main job, and these kids' only interests are things that directly relate to themselves, sports, and money. That's it....and they have no motivation to generate any interest in anything else, because they feel entitled to everything. As far as they're concerned, they don't have to care about my subject. They enrolled in the school, and did me the honor of enrolling in my class, so we all owe them those grades and that diploma. The only thing they're interested in learning about in school is how to do the least amount of work possible and just how much special treatment everyone is going to give them.

[@maryl234]

2010....shortly after the smart phones came on the scene.

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

Also the year that Common Core was first instituted before becoming fully implemented nationwide in 2014.

[@kris78787]

​@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 ugh let's just waste time and teach kids 3 different ways to do a simple math problem instead of using the time to teach them neat handwriting, how to read clocks, and properly count change.

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

@@kris78787Exactly

[@emilyann4549]

I graduated from high school in 2014. I went to an alternative high school. God bless the souls of those teachers. 😅 those class rooms were chaos. At lunch time we would all go to the back field and smoke cigarettes and weed, who knows what else kids were up to. There were fights, yelling, kids walking out of class. I actually had a great relationship with one of the teachers. Id go hang out in his classrroom during lunch and listen to music. Hed lend me books to read like Animal Farm and Dantes Inferno. That man is the sole reason I graduated and continued my education as an adult. Seriously, from a once troubled teen, thank you to all the teachers who teach in lower class areas or alternative schools. You people are heros. Im so sorry to hear that things have gotten worse.

[@KimFinkbeiner]

The Ruby Payne pyramid can be applied to teachers, too. Many were not having basic needs met or taken into account, especially during COVID. There was no consideration for teachers with health conditions, or those whose personal children were high-risk for illness. And even afterwards, no time for bathroom breaks/conference periods taken with meetings/daily morning and afternoon duties/etc.

[@KimFinkbeiner]

also, after teaching almost 30 years, I feel that there is much more of an attitude that if a teacher isn't directly teaching or in a meeting/PD that is supervised by higher-ups, then that teacher isn't working. It began to feel more like we were the students instead of professionals adults, autonomy was drastically decreased.

[@iconiclust]

Sounds like cope. Liberal types took God out of the classroom and replaced Him with rainbows and perversion. Then teachers are surprised they have some howl at the moon pagan kids.

[@DisgruntledUSA]

This was a very good episode. You can tell this guy is/was a very good teacher. While I agreed with everything he said, the thing that resonated with me the most was pointless PD sessions. I was a high school chemistry teacher and I once had to sit through a PD session put on by a former elementary school teacher and the content was clearly aimed at young kids. I remember sitting in the back of the room and I was so angry that I was shaking. I left teaching and I really miss the good parts of the job. I had great relationships with the majority of my students and parents. When the parents found out I wasn't coming back I got seversl emails from parents that were so flattering and kind that it almost brought tears to my eyes. It's unfortunate and sad what a fecal tsunami education is. It could be a really wonderful job under better circumstances. Unfortunately those circumstances only exist in rainbow land.

[@tracigraham8414]

I teach in Arizona too. I disliked the Galileo tests (the quarterlies) because they were too difficult. Teachers would say Galileo is like a college entrance exam. Why force 3-8 students to fail a college entrance exam repeatedly and frequently then say considering the material hasn't been taught yet, the scores are pretty good...

[@mimiruss8444]

As long as politics and money are involved it will stay exactly the same

[@gabharri910]

I wish I didn't believe that, but that seems to be the case.

[@likethecolorgreen]

34:00 when i hear people use the babysitting thing they usually mean the parents use school like babysitting.

[@reality_design]

I Appreciate you guys sharing your experiences...🙂

[@TeacherTherapy]

Thanks for watching! 🤗💖

[@pabloescobarschanclas]

bro’s been in education as long as i’ve been alive. that’s crazy.

[@pabloescobarschanclas]

@ who are you referring to? because i’m not gen alpha, and this man isn’t my teacher, lmao.

[@aaron2295]

Regarding grade inflation, it reminded me of a friend who went to South Korea to do English teaching. I think he stuck around for 3 years but was pretty depressed by the end of the first year and a major factor was he was forced/heavily pressured to inflate grades. So probably not just a U.S. issue.

[@earth2emma]

My mom also taught finance at one point in her career and it was the subject she was happiest teaching. She could make her own curriculum and not have to abide by some wacky standards cooked up by the superintendent. But the students have definitely become more defiant over the years so she switched careers entirely.

[@english2643]

I can totally relate to the teacher's experiences myself after almost 25 years of teaching! I am also a first-time author who is looking to leave the profession very soon. Thank you Trish for your excellent videos!

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

Nice to meet another fellow author-and-(soon-to-be) former teacher (I left teaching last year)!

[@madenewministries]

Education is just not recognizable anymore and public schools are the worst!

[@MannatAjmani]

Badly behaved and the teachers are not allowed to do anything because of government rules

[@danthem.1598]

THIS INTERVIEW SPOKE TO MY SOUL pheww

[@dawnmorgart4038]

I wanted to teach and share the love of learning....not jump around and be a game show host focusing on state tests. It is really sad. Learning is such an inspiring, natural thing to do.

[@sfregion7653]

I just witnessed a teacher complete a week suspension for taking a student's phone. The student claimed they were assaulted. Make of that what you will.

[@thehighllama8101]

The teacher probably took the phone out of the student's hands. Take anything out of a student's hands, or touch the student in any way, you're probably screwed as a teacher.

[@marieljackman1850]

I am a foreigner teacher and I was about to apply for a job in the USA. They are looking for foreigner teachers 😅 … and now I know why! It must be horrible to work at the public schools in the USA.

[@onemoreyeartoretirement]

Teachers are required to establish norms for their departments. I've been thinking about school norms, though. At my high school, the (unofficial) norms are 1) you don't have to go to class or be on time (there are no consequences); 2) you don't have to do any classwork (you'll pass anyway); 3) you can be on your cell phone all day in every class (there are no consequences); 4) students and parents rule the school (teachers and administrators are afraid of repercussions); 5) school is not actually about education (how can any student learn with the above established behaviors that have become so normalized?)

[@christopherrosado6053]

Best talk...Best guest, I've have seen on KZbin. " Real discussion" Thanks

[@stacypastry2440]

I graduated high school in 99 from a nice middle-class district. I can't imagine fighting in class or treating a teacher like this. I'm sure there were schools back then that had these problems, but they were surely much less numerous.

[@Nina_Olivia]

Yes, I graduated in 97. The majority of us were obedient and wouldn’t dare answer back to our teachers. If we stepped a foot out of line, our parents would sort us out! In fact, the odd student who disrupted a class in high school was told off by other students who didn’t appreciate the disruptions. How things have changed! 😞 Hearing all this is both mind-blowing and sad!

[@marierejoiceinjesus3846]

Read The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt 1999

[@johnnyboyvan]

She was brilliant and revealed so much.

[@jessykaiser6373]

Loved this interview with Chris! He's a treasure. He taught two years longer than I did. Like he, I too had mostly good experiences ... although sometimes very challenging, they were still rewarding moments with students. I would love to share them, if you are looking for more future guests. Thank you for all you do to bring these people & their stories into the light for us to see and hear.

[@TeacherTherapy]

Thanks! ❤ Feel free to email me at [e-mail]

[@variedinterest1]

50 percent for ZERO work...Can I get 50% of my pay for not working..??

[@Tastiest-of-Cakes]

I truly don't understand why our society does not see teaching as a skill. Not just anyone can be an effective teacher. In Japan, teachers are addressed as "sensei", which is also used to address doctors. That will give you an idea of the respect for teachers that is built into the culture. I'm not a teacher or a parent, but I know we need to make some major changes in education, starting with basic respect for the teacher.

[@emeraldandjade4]

It seems that the majority of teachers question or doubt themselves--believe me, it's not you! 😂

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

As a former teacher, I can confidently say that it is definitely not the teachers’ fault in the slightest. For all the other parties involved in education to happily lazily sit on their butts and act like unwarranted dictators over a profession and the skills required to properly perform it-none of which these parties (parents, administrations, the government, and students) have the tiniest concept of to begin with, it’s all an intended setup for failure directed squarely at the teachers by these aforementioned human evils.

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

That is so true. I used to doubt myself my first 5 years especially.

[@munimathbypeterfelton6251]

I echo Chris’s sentiments 100%! His and my teaching careers paralleled one another pretty closely. My teaching career lasted 22 years from 2001-2023; I was in middle school when Chris started teaching in 1995. Therefore, I was on the student end of learning when it came to working with those very same manipulatives he was describing early on in his interview! And I can also tell you that when I attended PDs that did focus on academic instruction, the guest speakers didn’t have much if any classroom teaching experience. Rather, they were theorists who were there just to promote their own ways of thinking through their published periodicals. Plus, their main schtick was, unsurprisingly, all about teaching teachers new corporate-driven ways in which to make the students’ learning lives easier to the point of students doing their own required parts less and less and then getting rewarded materialistically or otherwise every time they followed the directions. In other words, if the target audience of teachers present at those PDs weren’t willing to go the extra mile to hold their students hands every step of the way and bribe them with rewards, then the teachers weren’t doing their job properly. 🙄

[@melliott3681]

This was a great example of a very successful teacher who loved what he taught, and yet.....still retired probably before he thought he would, but just couldn't take the changes in education and the negative effect it was having on him. I applaud that he got out of the classroom when he noticed he was beginning to slack off and didn't want to become "that" teacher. I could relate to the 2010 timeframe. What was it about that year? That was my last year of high school. I switched to the college level, which I'm glad I did as I've been able to continue my career for a few more years.

[@BarryBrandon-mz7gb]

What's "That" teacher? So we should all leave early because we don't like the changes? It's basically crowd control and making sure to not hurt feelings. I'm not letting entitled kids cost me any of my pension.

[@melliott3681]

@@BarryBrandon-mz7gb The second part of your post is the answer to the first question. If all you're doing is crowd control and making sure to not hurt feelings, then you are "that" teacher. Look, no judgement, because teaching today is hard, and the system is broken, so if you want no more than to crowd control and suppress emotions, then all power to you. I know that wasn't enough for me, call me selfish, but I had more to give in terms of educating, so I made the switch.

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

That year saw the demonization of urban teachers and reconstitution of schools and politicians and journalists attacking veteran teachers. The LA Times was front and center in this regard. Teachers were graded as effective or ineffective based on student test scores and these were published in the LA Times. It was my worst year in education in Los Angeles.

[@SecretAgentPeterson]

Thank you for the shout-out quote

[@johnnyboyvan]

32 years for me . Loved it except in my last 2 years. They were glorious days😢. Most parents were very supportive and my favorite class to teach was Literature 12, but with lower enrollment they simply filled in my class with 5 to 6 kids who didn't even know what a metaphor was. 😮Love you from Canada 🇨🇦.

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

Love you, Canada. I visit as often as I can. I am trying to get my teaching credentials transferred to Saskatchewan and BC. We shall see what happens

[@katieg2161]

In this era of SEL and PBIS, solid classroom management is so underrated, but so necessary.

[@wistariawhispers937]

Grade inflation is a real problem!

[@Diesel3356]

What a wonderful, high- energy teacher. I’m sure most of his kids looked forward to his class each day.

[@billybob-tl2tb]

This is true everything this guest is speaking on. I love goguardian as well

[@i-spy-ty]

Hello Trish! Thank you so much for the content on your channel. I was wondering, when teachers are using acronyms such as PBIS - would you mind putting the definition or saying what that is during the video? I often listen to these as I work and am not looking at the screen often. Thank you so much!

[@tinblessing8]

I love your channel and insightful interviews! Thank you. One gentle suggestion: Consider a more professional audio set-up. Use of a quality microphone, as one example, would help you to sound less metallic and echoey. Thanks so much.

[@thriftyminia]

I am VERY interested in his finance course. Anyway we can get a hold of it, if the price is right, I wouldn’t mind paying

[@marcmeinzer8859]

I’m an extremely old fashioned person who was the first on my submarine to switch back to the antique crackerjack uniforms which were being reintroduced in 1978. So people thought that I was nuts, especially since I had a degree and was an OCS drop-out who didn’t want to be an officer but rather a merchant seaman. But the merchant marine wasn’t hiring in 1982 so I taught parochial school. I wasn’t nice to the kids. I had learned to be brutally manipulative in the navy. Then big city high school turned me into an 800 pound gorilla to the point where the older kids at Job Corps were clearly afraid of me and would part to allow me to pass in the hall because if someone became violent I would absolutely annihilate them. But the administrators were all fools so I went back to sea then finally barber college. To me in capitalism no opportunity to automate workers out of existence is ever overlooked and the same will happen to teaching. So keep an eye out for universal brick and mortar online academy. Teachers are considered to be a pain in the ass so they will be disappeared just like the inconvenient people in one of the Bourne movies. The teacher of the future will be inside of the kids tablet devices and the only school workers will be janitors, security guards and hourly tutors without contracts. Thus spake Professor Driftwood of the Adult Learning Center, Cuyahoga Community College, downtown Cleveland where the campus police take no prisoners but shuttle all of the scumbags off to the county jail where they always have a bed available.

[@jonathanbynoe4375]

The education system has to change. Get students engaged in more hands on work, and balanced that with reading and writing. That way they can have an interest on a few subjects and have an idea on what profession they want to go in. The scariest thing is that students are more dependent on electronics. When I was going to school in the 90's, we mostly study out of our text books and we learn some things on the computer, it was a good balance in our learning.

[@lulubellek3988]

Private tutoring has been my pathway for over 25 years. I, too, notice the changes in students over time. Chris is on point, it's around 2010 and forward that the changes became noticeable. Today, it's the GenZ wrath that permeates the classroom, and at tutoring. I have more leeway in getting GenZ students to settle down; it's those damn (long) bathroom breaks that drive me nuts. I'm still working on figuring out the bathroom issue.

[@Guiltyangel605]

Great work ❤❤❤

[@margithammer8835]

What a likable guy.

[@thetruthwillsetyoufree891]

Please read “Weapons of Mass instruction” by John Taylor Gatto. Great video btw spot on! 🎉

[@brianfelix71]

This guy right here, Chris Peters is definitely on my top 5 teachers of all time, great guy🤝🏻

[@Bunsense_Gaming]

When I was in high school 10 years ago, we still had some level of respect for teachers purely for their role. I'm theorizing that kids today see right through the "role of the teacher" and sees them as a underpaid person that has to wear 10 different hats in the school and know they can get away with things. I really blame administration for this, as they clearly use the teachers as "general staff" when they should hire other people to perform certain tasks around the school. This is all my observation and probably doesn't represent everyone.

[@victoriaryan23]

I transitioned from teaching to the tech field in past couple years. Something I have still not figured out is the dichotomy I’ve experienced, where the standards were so low for students when I was a teacher, compared to how fiercely competitive the field I’ve entered is. This could be related to the field, but it just seems strange.

[@Nyahaakitty]

Hi Trish, I’m currently reading both The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler and Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier. I’m curious if you’ve read these and would love if you could do some videos on the topics covered in the books.

[@TeacherTherapy]

Both of those books are on my future audiobooks list! I will try to listen to them asap, and hopefully, I can eventually make videos about them! I've actually been thinking about doing book reviews, so I'm glad to know there's interest! Thanks so much for the ideas! 🤗💙

[@abigailhornibrook2470]

My dad uses to call teacher "glorified babysitters" then he would get pissed at me when I would blow off my school work.

[@therealtoni]

I so prefer interviews with male teachers!!! They are so frank and clear.!

[@sheneedsme]

Because I am married to a former Teacher of the Year and school administrator I always felt comfortable volunteering in schools like I used to do in her classroom. At first I got a lot of resistance from the women principal, teachers and women volunteers because they were protecting their turf and I it seemed unnatural for them to have a Dad volunteer. I was persistent and my daughter loved having me there as did the other students. Word got out amongst the teachers that I could fix anything, would clean up after sick kids, I helped out with the special ed kids and I often brought in the teachers favorite coffee and bagels. During Teacher Appreciation Week I organized other Dads and kids to wash all the teachers cars. I raised money and built things for the teachers classrooms. What I learned was that the vast majority of teachers are incredibly dedicated and that once in a while they like to be recognize for everything they do ❤.

[@TeacherTherapy]

Thank you so much! 💙💙💙💙

[@startrekperson]

Don’t mess with the rows! Going to rows and then having them group up as needed was one of the best management choices I made. All of the pseudoacademics in my ed program who looked down on the practice never taught more than 2 years. By that point I had been teaching for 4. You gotta do what works.

[@AJ-tk7ps]

By rows you’re referring to the table and seat placement right?

[@startrekperson]

@@AJ-tk7ps yeah I mean desks in rows.

[@Topself24]

I agree there should be introductory vocational classes to show students what other types of trades are out there. Mechanic, technician, electrician, plumber, carpenter, contractor, landscaping, machinist. There are a lot of high paying professions that do not require college degrees. Do students know that?

[@peterhuston7888]

It's interesting to hear Chris's opinion on standards based grading. I'm sure he's right about the effect it has in his school, but where I am, it's being implemented as a way to raise the bar. I don't have to be afraid to mark a student as failing most or all the standards on a given assignment because they will have feedback and a future opportunity to meet the standard and the bad mark on that early attempt won't "follow" them. I wonder if more or less any reform would have been twisted to lower the bar in the schools he taught in.

[@jjc6530]

US public schools say they are enforcing standards and are standards based curriculum in the classroom. It’s not true, they say one thing but another really happens. Many kids are 2-3 grades levels behind. Many teachers just pass kids despite them meeting standards because of the pressure from administration and parents. All they care is the kid passing despite any learning that happens. It’s sad, really sad how the U.S. public education system is just a fake educational institution. When it’s really just a place to babysit kids. Sad. It’s this bad now, imagine 5 yrs from now, how worse it’s gonna get.

[@kcc879]

my school recently employed new deputies, first thing they did was stop teachers being able to send students out to SS to diffuse fights, unsafe wrestling or running around the room. They have no intention of dealing with the heat of students. Then they introduced triage, and phone ban, which took up all the time in triage. Now, as teachers we can't pre-empt behaviour to PREVENT major issues, for me, that has meant broken windows in the classroom because what I had was only level 1....

[@Absynthe12]

The students in my school found out how to override go guardian.

[@aaron2295]

I definitely think the majority of success in education is dependent on the students and their attitude. Parents probably next because they can easily be a good support or drag on success. My guess would be administration next because at least from my experience most teachers were great when I was in school (graduated 2005). I only had 5/6 that I would have rated poorly. Only one was outright not good, he was absent for a good part of the year and when there he had us watch Gone with the Wind over and over. Some of the other teachers I think it was more a personality thing. I was a B+ A- student pretty much all K-12. I had an English teacher that gave out very short written assignments worth like 10 points, pretty regularly and were 50% of our grade. When school started back up after winter break she only gave one of those assignments and I got marked half off because my paper got crumpled. She stopped giving the assignments out and my mom got really mad at me because of my grade. I had a tutor at the time suggest I ask my teacher for more assignments. I went to my teacher after class and asked if she could give another assignment soon so that I could raise my grade and she got really offended. Most teachers I think are really fair and reasonable especially if they know effort is being put in. I can tell that the state of education has become a lot worse since around 2019. I have worked in an IT department at a community college since 2012. There have been three trends I find worrying that I have experienced. Kids being really nasty/belligerent, parents trying to do their kids work, and there has been an increasing number of students that call our department that have a really hard time communicating.

[@Ccl2tb]

What a nerve-wracking experience it must be to teach public school these days! It must be so frustrating to have to bend over backwards to appease disruptive or even downright dangerous children. knowing the board can turn against you for not looking the other way. You are forced to just push them along, to be a bigger problem for the next teacher, future employers, and possibly even the legal system. Similar to the 'defund the police' movement, the ability for anyone to pull out their cell phone to record and edit the footage in the most incriminating way, then having your hands tied to administer discipline, impedes the process of creating a safer, more educated society . It looks like the admins are more afraid of being accused of violating the 'human rights' of the most problematic people, who want to drag everyone else down with them, than they do about the rights of the rest of the class to safety and a quality learning experience. Mass resignation is the result.

[@Prophezora]

This guy is awesome

[@sheneedsme]

My brother would say how easy it was to be a teacher. I told him he would not last even one day in my wife’s special ed classroom. I tried and I couldn’t do it.

[@deltabravo9903]

Thank you

[@ETBlair]

The days before cell phones…. Camelot.

[@northshorelight35]

The new methods are ineffective. Students understand rules. Use rules!

[@DisgruntledUSA]

Hey Trish, has Chris been on before as an anonomys guest? His voice sounds familiar.

[@TeacherTherapy]

This is his first time on the show, but I agree his voice sounds like Mr. Peterson, for sure! 😄

[@jeremeolson5555]

I agree with the politics and school dont mix

[@kendallmarie6655]

Genuinely I would like to know what the rationale is for having kids have their cell phones. I don't see why it's not required they all put it in a basket at the beginning of class. I am 27 and we used to do that in a lot of my classes... it seems obvious to not allow it.

[@Matthew-s4v]

With so many situations like Sandy Hook, Parkland & Uvalde happening over the years... as a parent, I wouldn't feel safe if my kid didn't have their phone.

[@KazeShikamaru]

I agree we shouldn't be college or bust but liberal arts education has proven to not be super effective. I like where he is coming from here but don't agree with that. I think a rebuild is needed as even back in the 90s he saw the flaws. The good old days was a smoke screen from people who don't see the bigger picture. You know how to find them Trish. Good work as always. I love you don't try and push a narrative.

[@sherwood9917]

When you say that a liberal arts education has "proven to not be super effective", from where do you get that idea? Is that based on a study? I ask because employers consistently note that the "soft skills" (learning how to communicate effectively, think critically, problem solve) that students learn at liberal arts schools are ones that they value.

[@travisjones640]

What exactly is standards based grading?

[@loislane1290]

Read up on Ruby Bridges!

[@lisasamuelson2650]

Is your financial class available?

[@jacquelinemaria2902]

Did you ever check out the channel degree free? Could you make a video of them for those high school teachers to give students alternatives.

[@TeacherTherapy]

I haven't seen it yet, but I'll add it to my research list! ❤

[@exjwborn-in2134]

❤❤❤

[@ebert8756]

Old school is good school !!! 💪💪💪

[@variedinterest1]

Love Ruby Payne

[@eugenenewton3296]

Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

[@grantboardman7880]

Ugh, AIMS and AZ Merit....

[@variedinterest1]

Could have been an email

[@geraldstone8396]

Why can't student behavior be addressed? Is there a financial penalty from the department of education for enforcing student discipline? Is it the student discipline ratio thing? I would have thought student behavior could be addressed without financial impact.

[@BarryBrandon-mz7gb]

Because the parents will come down on the principal (who will side with the child or parent 90% of the time anyway) and also complain to the district office. The district's main concern is not students or teachers or education.....it's to avoid lawsuits. Period.

[@kris78787]

Admin deletes referrals at my school. I have had several referrals deleted that I have written. I don't even know why I bother writing referrals. Most of the time it doesn't do anything

[@geraldstone8396]

@@BarryBrandon-mz7gb I understand avoiding lawsuits most businesses want that too. If that's the case then why are cameras in the classroom so opposed? Remember I'm old. I hated school but did get a decent education. Teachers called the shots. If you were sent to the office it was serious. You were either going to be suspended (out of school) or swats.

[@alexa3322]

System sucks.

[@variedinterest1]

I LOVE GO GUARDIAN!! Set up 3 eight hour "scenes" and you can block whatever you don't want them on. Message them and see everything they're doing during COVID

[@NoAnonymityPodcast]

Trish I emailed you about coming on my podcast can you check your email please

[@TeacherTherapy]

I'm so sorry! 🥺 I actually couldn't find your email. Did you send it to [e-mail]? Unfortunately, my schedule is pretty full until June, so I'm not able to be a guest on your podcast at this time. I apologize for my delayed response! 💙