Is this acceptable? It's the only way teachers in our local school district can make education work

Here's how the 6 to 12th grade teachers at my local school district work around the lack of: 1. student attention span, 2. admin behavior support, and 3. parent connection:

• The teacher displays the assignment and objectives on the board. It's also always available on Canvas. There are links to videos that explain the concepts
• The teacher reminds the students that if they want to learn the concepts, they'll have to quiet down so they can hear. Very few pay any attention
• The students who want to learn sit in front and the teachers give them the lesson using their regular voice
• Students in the back 2/3rds or more of the class just do as they please. Objects fly across the room. The noise level makes it difficult for anyone to hear. Many have Airpods in their ears
• There is a no phone policy, but phones are out. It wouldn't do any good to say anything because the students who are on their phones are the quieter ones and admin doesn't have any plan for supporting the phone policy - other than to nonrenew new teachers for allowing it
• Teachers spend a lot of non-class time contacting parents to warn them that their child isn't passing - as is required
• Teachers spend a lot of non-class time documenting those contacts, the lack of replies, student behavior, and non-attendance. No one looks at the data unless a parent contacts the principal
• It takes a lot of time to prepare each lesson in a way that can be done independently - which makes it available for any students/parents who suddenly care and want to catch up (practically zero). However, once done, they're good for a couple of years
• Since the lessons are available online, with videos, students who can't stand the noise and chaos are absent a lot
• The students in the front get good grades
• The students in the back will still pass - because teachers are told they must or else (they will face considerable harassment from parents and administrators)
• Chronic absenteeism is through the roof, yet no one cares
• Test scores show that 44% are prepared for college (functionally literate)
• Our graduation rate is 93%
• Our state dept of education has never questioned our very low test score, low attendance rate, and our high graduation rate. There is no oversight of state, county, or district education administrators. They are rarely any good at their overpaid positions
• No one, except some of the frontline staff, cares - yet they are the ones scapegoated if anyone bothers to raise a concern

Submitted November 01, 2024 at 03:20PM by MantaRay2256 https://ift.tt/kbdtXpY