[AngelaRetired]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

Our reigning dictator brags incessantly about our record state budget surplus of nearly $22 billion dollars and spends state funds to further his agenda minus any benefit to state residents, and we all sit around twiddling fingers wondering how we can improve the teacher situation? How about voting his ass out? Because clearly he's only in this for himself.

Good Morning kyle:

And parents need to take a stand.

When my daughter was in school (now age 35), parents stayed "involved" and I even took my a.s up to UCF and showed it. Lol, they hated that as UCF considered my daughter at age 18 to be an "adult", I had NO SAY in her living acommodations there. She had a scholarship and stayed in the scholarship housing. The RA in charge of supervising the 10 girls in the house on campus was a piece of work. Anyway, I went to the scholarship board and things "improved".

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Angela

[AngelaRetired]

Originally Posted by LKJ1988

I say do away with schools and buses. Make the roads much better with less traffic.

Lol LKJ!!!!

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Angela

[Dave_n_Tenn]

What do businesses do when they have shortages of workers? They require OT. If it's OK for the rest of the world why wouldn't that be part of a solution? Many teachers do extended day after school care.

Why not veterans like in Florida... https://www.flgov.com/2022/08/17/gov...itary-courses/

If your power was out... do you think the power company would say... "we have a worker shortage.... sorry". Of course not. Pay OT as required.

How about Paramedics teaching hygiene? or Law enforcement teaching civics? or engineers/accountants teaching math as a side gig? Nothing wrong with large class rooms for lectures either. I taught at the community college for power company potential employees. i have no teaching accreditations. They learned, I taught- the power company offered jobs to the best.

[AngelaRetired]

Originally Posted by Dave_n_Tenn

What do businesses do when they have shortages of workers? They require OT. If it's OK for the rest of the world why wouldn't that be part of a solution? Many teachers do extended day after school care.

Why not veterans like in Florida... https://www.flgov.com/2022/08/17/gov...itary-courses/

If your power was out... do you think the power company would say... "we have a worker shortage.... sorry". Of course not. Pay OT as required.

How about Paramedics teaching hygiene? or Law enforcement teaching civics? or engineers/accountants teaching math as a side gig? Nothing wrong with large class rooms for lectures either. I taught at the community college for power company potential employees. i have no teaching accreditations. They learned, I taught- the power company offered jobs to the best.

Good Morning Dave_n_Tenn:

Lol, OT would probably be the final nail in the coffin. We are lucky to have them for their regular hours.

Thanks for stopping by to join our discussion.

Angela

[AngelaRetired]

Prior to the pandemic, 24 states had at least one school with a four-day week. “Most of these are found in the western half of the U.S. so places like Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Colorado and Oklahoma,” according to Thompson.Aug 3, 2022.

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https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/59644...some-drawbacks

[carnivalday]

Originally Posted by VA Yankee

How does shortening the school week help with a teacher shortage? You still have the shortfall of teachers during the four days and now the kids are receiving even less instruction time. Maybe the millions spent on the Governors latest stunt would have been better spent providing raises to Teachers and other Public Servants.

I know you're just dying to bad mouth Desantis; this might not be the hill you want to die on.

https://flgov.com/2022/03/21/governo...rida-teachers/

[kyle19125]

Originally Posted by Dave_n_Tenn

What do businesses do when they have shortages of workers? They require OT. If it's OK for the rest of the world why wouldn't that be part of a solution? Many teachers do extended day after school care.

Why not veterans like in Florida... https://www.flgov.com/2022/08/17/gov...itary-courses/

If your power was out... do you think the power company would say... "we have a worker shortage.... sorry". Of course not. Pay OT as required.

How about Paramedics teaching hygiene? or Law enforcement teaching civics? or engineers/accountants teaching math as a side gig? Nothing wrong with large class rooms for lectures either. I taught at the community college for power company potential employees. i have no teaching accreditations. They learned, I taught- the power company offered jobs to the best.

So you're equating a profession that in most instances for advancement or to achieve tenure requires a master's degree, with some that have a two-year technical degree attached and a high school diploma/GED. Furthermore suggesting grades K-6 have large classrooms for lectures.....?? Little wonder we're where we are now given "critical thought" such as this.

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

So you're equating a profession that in most instances for advancement or to achieve tenure requires a master's degree, with some that have a two-year technical degree attached and a high school diploma/GED. Furthermore suggesting grades K-6 have large classrooms for lectures.....?? Little wonder we're where we are now given "critical thought" such as this.

It worked for me. Why do you assume a two year degree either disqualifies someone or they don't have advanced degrees? one of sons is a firefighter/paramedic with an advanced degree.

Teaching itself doesn't require advanced degrees... what it does require is an effective method/way to impart knowledge, both intellectually and emotionally. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Lectures happen all the time when kids visit museums, planetariums, etc., in fact it's vastly better then teaching via zoom classes IMO.