We don't need teachers anymore

[ADigitalArtist]

Going to post the same thing I did last time this subject came up.
"Not every family is in the place of privilige where someone can be home all school day. Forcing all classes home could put serious financial strain on families. For the poor especially, schools provide supplies and equipment, even food that kids can't get at home."
Are Classrooms Necessary?

 

[Thief]

Can you do that with your cell phone too, to turn it on? I didn't think that works.

check out some youtube
people are splicing and dicing ALL kinds of images

you can't trust what you see

 

[Kapalika]

Um actually we need more teachers. Classrooms are crowded as it is. At least in America. 30+ students to a teacher is not unheard of.

 

[Aupmanyav]

My grandson's problem is that he is required to sit for three classes, i.e., about two and a half hour. Of course, today is a Saturday and no lessons. However, that does not solve any problem. Other than when he goes cycling with his elder brother, all masked up in the neighborhood, he has to be at home because of Corona.

 

[exchemist]

You don't seem to understand... My kids don't go to school. There is no school. There is no teacher for the "more technical stuff".

...We have an education emergency on our hands.

That is odd. During the epidemic in most countries there has been some attempt at least by the schools to teach on-line. It has admittedly been patchy, depending on how well-organised each school is, but most have arranged something, part interactive and part self-study with written assignments. Are you saying the schools attended by your children have offered nothing at all? What do they say about when school resumes, after the summer?

 

[Secret Chief]

My partner has a desk based job and currently has to work from home. We live in a small place with little spare "capacity." She has had to buy a desk and a large, supportive office chair. The best option we've come up with, after much gnashing of teeth, is to basically wreck the bedroom. Good job we don't have any kids needing similar.

My friend is going in to work late and is facing disciplinary action. She is going in late to ensure her child does the online tutoring, otherwise it doesn't get done. Kids, eh.

Education is so much more than accrual of data. Much of it is around socialisation and learning interpersonal soft skills. Humans are group animals and need to be around their peers. eg my partner had to learn to deal with being bullied at school. Bullies don't stop being bullies once they leave school so you need to learn how to deal with such things as adults.

 

[Samantha Rinne]

okay, that was a lie, we do need teachers. But maybe we don't need so many.

What if we hired the brightest minds, who were proven to be the best teachers, each to teach 1 subject per grade all across the country, on a Skype type program, live. And common questions would be generated and answered. Afterwards, the programs could be 'reviewed' if someone feels like they need clarification..

There could be a sensor on each child's laptop, with facial recognition that recognizes whether the child is watching and paying attention, and if the child is not paying attention, then the parents will recieve a 'report' on how well the child pays attention.

Is this a good or bad idea in these days of coronavirus?

**** that.

We don't need teachers anymore. And we definitely don't need a sensor that checks whether a kid is paying attention or not.

Back to basics, away from state controlling everything. School as it is now, is just an indoctrination laboratory.

So my nephew and niece were talking about their classes over Zoom or Skype or whatever.

My niece was in a so-called acting class, where instead of learning actual acting, she learns to pretend that a desk is a chair, or a lamp is a banana (Learning to substitute reality for whatever other people say is reality).
My nephew is taking a paranormal studies class (yes, let's ban religion from the classrooms, and instead teach superstition).

How about no? How about we have homeschool, and teach kids to read, write, and do real math. To think critically. To use logic and reason. To actually be productive members of society and not spend their lives rioting for a group that will turn against them when they are no longer useful (read up on what Hitler did to his early people, read up on what happened to Old Bolsheviks).

 

[Twilight Hue]

okay, that was a lie, we do need teachers. But maybe we don't need so many.

What if we hired the brightest minds, who were proven to be the best teachers, each to teach 1 subject per grade all across the country, on a Skype type program, live. And common questions would be generated and answered. Afterwards, the programs could be 'reviewed' if someone feels like they need clarification..

There could be a sensor on each child's laptop, with facial recognition that recognizes whether the child is watching and paying attention, and if the child is not paying attention, then the parents will recieve a 'report' on how well the child pays attention.

Is this a good or bad idea in these days of coronavirus?

It would certainly be progress. A proven bright well-educated teacher is worth their salt.

Unfortunately we have a lot of teachers that don't even want to take an academic test on a periodic basis to see if they're competent enough to teach the subject because of the unions.

The only downside would be lack of lab and field work that may be necessary in order to properly graduate some subjects.

 

[bobhikes]

okay, that was a lie, we do need teachers. But maybe we don't need so ?

Children learn through personal experiences. Books and lectures may point them in a direction but experiences with life and others teach them. Which is why parents are the first teachers and why cran schools don't teach online either. They do not have enough experiences to relate all lectures and books to be able to learn from them. Even other students help kids learn by expressing thoughts they wont have individually.

 

[Thief]

a few weeks ago I was watching a teacher speak at length and detail.....magnetism

what caught my eye was the digitized 'chalkboard'

as he penned the equations across the transparency
he was see on the FAR side doing so

the optical illusion can mess with your head

 

[metis]

Anyone see either of the interviews of Betsy Devos this weekend? They were a "trip", let me tell ya. However, she's sorta stuck as well having to parrot what Trump has demanded in regards to all children being mandated to attend in-class sessions regardless as to what may be happening with the pandemic locally.

So much for them supposedly being "pro-life".