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A group of teachers in the US was asked to share their experiences as a teacher.

Below are five comments made by teachers.

The question is... which of these are real and which are made up?

1. A high school student asked me what it means to "put in his own words" instead of copying and pasting.

2. One of the questions on a 2nd year (sophomore) high school test asked "What do Chile, California, Alaska and Japan have in common?" One student answered "They're all in America."

3. I asked an undergraduate student for their opinion on a text. They pulled out their phone, typed my question into ChatGPT, and read aloud the answer it gave.

4. I asked my fifth grade student if I buy 5 apples and you buy 20 more than me, how many apples do you buy? She answered "20?"

5. My eighth-grade class was studying the Sahara Desert. One student asked if the desert was dry.

Please vote in the poll below, and add an opinion if you want.

What the research says

Studies of redshirting have found pros and cons. Some research has found that any boost in achievement fades away as children get older. Redshirting could increase high school dropout rates because older students would reach the legal age for quitting school earlier. It could also disadvantage men by delaying their entry into the job market.

The older students consistently scored higher on tests in third grade and, to a lesser extent, eighth grade. They were more likely to attend college and less likely to go to jail as juveniles. The findings were true for children of all backgrounds, but especially for boys and for children from low-income family. These traits, which girls tend to develop earlier, have been shown to be crucial to academic success.

Children develop this kind of self-control through pretend play, and older children probably spent more time doing that in high-quality, play-based Danish preschools.

A study of 400K children in every state found that those with birthdays just before the kindergarten cutoff were significantly likelier to be diagnosed with ADHD than those with birthdays just after the cutoff.

What else could help, if not redshirting?

A better alternative to redshirting all boys, some researchers said, would be to make it optional for any student so that parents could choose whether it was right for their child, with advice from teachers and the option to attend an extra year of public pre-K.

An easier change, some said, would be to make the cutoff date for kindergarten earlier, so all children would turn 5 at least a few months before they start. Teachers could group classes by birth month, with the older kindergartners together in one class and the younger ones in another.

Also, schools could restore more of the play-based learning — like dress-up, art and nature exploration — that was much more common in kindergarten before 2000.

As a teacher & a parent I 💯 agree. Kids SHOULD sit with, befriend & get to know intimately boredom, rote tasks, uninspiring people, etc.

Now, is the tax paying community getting VALUE if every lesson isn't 💯 "utterly & totally engaging"? That's a different question and one that I'll ask later.

So? Value in boredom? I made the poll binary on purpose.

This concerns a NYS PTA suggested questionnaire about the NYS phone ban in schools. The question to be put to parents, students & teachers is:

"What considerations, concerns, or suggestions do you have regarding a) storage of student devices during the school day b) consequences for policy violations, and c) how we can address differing viewpoints about the ban?"

The OVERWHELMING majority of responses NYSPTA has received so far is along the lines of "I need to be in touch with my kid during emergencies & family logistics ". Problem is it's a multiparty question with a binary choice!

The Q is about STORAGE & CONSEQUENCES, NOT how you feel about the new law. They are soliciting IMPLEMENTABLE SOLUTIONS that the communities can live with.

How do I say my opinion without endorsing or opposing this non answer? Why do modern parents need to project their anxiety & narcissism into EVERYTHING?

"Students do not shed their rights at the school house door". Chief Justice Earl Warren in Tinker vs DeMoines Central School District 1969 concerning the legality of students wearing black arm bands as a silent protest of the Vietnam War.

As a teacher I can SEE & EMPATHIZE with both sides BUT this is a "Fuck your feelings" issue for me; free, unfettered & robust protections for free speech are primary & paramount over some alleged potential "bullying".

I KNOW these kids. They DGAF & have a "live and let live" attitude. This is the PARENTS & SCHOOL BOARD getting involved where they don't need to be.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna194212

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear a Massachusetts student's challenge to his middle school’s prohibition on his wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “There are only two genders.”

The case arose from student Liam Morrison’s dispute with Nichols Middle School in Middleboroug. Lawyers for Morrison at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal advocacy group, say students were “bombarded” with messages promoting the view “that sex and gender are self-defined, limitless, and unmoored from biology.”

Morrison believes that view is “false and harmful,” and he responded in March 2023 when he was in the seventh grade by wearing the T-shirt. After he was told to remove it, he later wore another shirt that said, “There are [censored] genders.”

Morrison was not punished for wearing the shirts, although he was told he could not wear them in class and was sent home when he refused to remove the first one.

This case presents an issue of great importance for our nation's youth: whether public schools may suppress student speech either because it expresses a viewpoint that the school disfavors or because of vague concerns about the likely effect of the speech on the school atmosphere or on students who find the speech offensive,".

This was before you had all the pretty and young teachers that get themselves into trouble for molesting their students. These were the days you had the strict, mean, and old teachers with watermelon-sized boobs that mandated you use cursive writing. Ahh... the 2000s