Our governor is a former teacher, an idiot who probably unfortunately is typical of many teachers in the state and a prime reason why our education system has become so awful. And it has deteriorated rapidly with 16 years of Dem governance. Here are a couple of charts showing how bad it is. The first one shows where Minnesota ranks on 4th and 8th grade progress on reading and math. Adjusted for demographics, Minnesota is well below average, and below a number of southern states which have focused on actual education, not indoctrination.
And it isn’t because of lack of spending. Minnesota has wasted a fortune on education, but that money is going to staff and consultants, often for DIE purposes. Here we see that despite the massive rise in per pupil spending, math and reading scores have declined. So Minnesotans are getting a double whack from Fat Timmy–their taxes have soared and their kids are learning less. This has consequences for Minnesota’s economy as well, as we turn out graduates who are incapable of doing many jobs, certainly the ones requiring better education.
Unions are a huge ponzi scheme for democrats. How is it that they are the ones that most benefit from fraud and waste. Maybe its time for unions to take what they give to democrats and give back to the schools they teach at to save their jobs. Of course that wont happen because union administration has to feather their nests. And we know this that layoffs will only affect the newer and most productive teachers, never the teachers that need to go.
Underpaid teachers is a common explanation for the high percentage of teachers leaving the professional after on 2-3 years after graduation from college.
The reality is all professions have a high number professionals leaving the industry a few years after college (from their degree) as they realize that the choosen career path was not for them. Teachers have a much higher early exit rate due to the fact that college education for teachers has a very easy academic requirements and very few students are weeded out in college as compared to law, or engineering or accounting.
Appears the Mississippi’s rise in reading in partly due to the shift back to the very basic phoneics in the early grades.
Similar results from the rote learning of math including memorizing the multiplication tables.
What does “adjusted for demographics” mean? It sounds controversial. I saw some recent photos of local school classrooms full of students and was surprised to note that the demographics were completely different from what they were 30, 40, 50, years ago.