How Many Decisions Do Teachers Make Every Day?
Teaching is an exhausting job.
If you’re a parent, you know how tiring it is with just one or two kids.
Imagine having a room full of them — Twenty to thirty children, each demanding your attention, each requiring your urgent help – every minute, every day, for hours at a time.
Back in the late 1980s, before education became totally absorbed by standardized testing and school privatization, we used to wonder about the effects of such need on a single individual.
We used to wonder how much was really being asked of our teachers.
Today no one outside of the classroom really gives it much thought. We think of educators as part of a vast machine that is required to give us and our children a service.
We’re stakeholders. They’re service providers. And the students are a national resource.
None of us are people.
Perhaps it’s this dehumanizing economic framework that’s helped the edtech industry and testing corporations make so much headway trying to replace educators with apps and iPads.
But back in the days before George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind or Barrack Obama’s copycat Race to the Top, or Donald Trump’s blatant Destroy Public Education, we Continue reading: How Many Decisions Do Teachers Make Every Day? | gadflyonthewallblog
