Same as what happens in a literature classroom but online the teacher\ host gives assigned reading and then we join to discuss it
I really wanna find something like this so if anyone can tell me where to search :( I am 20 years old, but I really loved reading so I want to continue
does anyone have experience they can share about being in a split class in CA public school?
my kiddo was put in a TK/K split and is in the TK cohort. the school admin gave me a sales presentation on why it’s a good thing when I voiced my concerns about the placement. essentially they said tough luck and tried to tell me parents prefer a split and he will have more one on one time.
Hi! I'm an American and Russian citizen, and I've recently finished a bachelor's degree in Psychology in Russia. I've heard that there are many opportunities for students like me to pursue further education in Europe. I would be unbelievably grateful if someone could share their experience about a similar situation: what were you pursuing after graduation? I'm particularly interested in either sexology or criminology/forensic psychology, but I'm open to other suggestions as well!
Thank you so much in advance!🥹
I have been thinking about education as a one-to-many system. A teacher has to work with many students at once, even though each person arrives with different prior knowledge and gets stuck at different points.
But I do not think the answer is to turn education into one student alone with an AI. Learning is also social: discussing, collaborating, seeing how other people think and having a teacher who gives direction.
What interests me is whether the individual experience around the same knowledge could become more personal. The source and objective could stay shared, while the explanation, interface, practice and feedback adapt as the person learns.
I am building an open-source project around this idea, but I am still trying to understand the boundary. What should become personal, and what would education lose if it stopped being shared?
This is primarily directed at higher ed students but all are welcome too. I'm looking to get a sense of the various opinions/feelings on AI generated media in courses specifically. So graphics, images/"photography", video, etc.
If you know something is AI generated do you still trust the content presented?
Are all uses okay? Are all not okay? Are there uses that are okay and others that are not? When and why?
Do you have a different feeling if the AI media is a small amount and there is primarily non-AI media in other parts of the course?
Does the use of AI media impact your perception of the school? Faculty?
Any and all opinions are welcome, please feel free to elaborate on why you feel a particular way. Thank you!
Hello everyone I’m a 19 20 in September male who is seriously behind on most thing I had a undiagnosed authority problem in school I have Oppositional Defiant Disorder or (ODD) I have it in check now and days but it seriously set me back on all my academics I didn’t learn how to read till 6th grade and am not great at math I’d say I’m ok with plus and timetables and division but not fast or rly grabbing the basics basically what happened was I found my way of doing them then told it was wrong then years later figuring out it was right all along but by that point I had lost the motivation to fix it I currently read better now then some elders and degree holders I know I’m in college now and getting good grades but would like to get up and catch up no matter what it takes but am at a loss for how exactly to do that if you have any ideas or knowledge as to how I’d be very grateful to hear them thank you all
Hi, I just started my junior year of high school, and quite frankly I am disgusted by my state’s education system. It’s abysmal, requiring massive policy upheavals. Nobody is given the opportunity to live up to their full potential. So, if possible, I’d like to do something to change it. The problem is, I’m a bit stumped because I feel absolutely powerless.
For more direct context, I live in New Mexico. It is one of (if not the) lowest ranked states education-wise in the country, and from what I’ve seen is only getting worse. I know that this is also largely due to poverty, but one can’t help but feel like schools are designed to nip attempts of escaping impoverishment in the bud. I, myself, work with a tutoring group to help serve elementary school students who are behind, but my impact is small and it’s hard to make progress when (and I can’t emphasize this enough) they’re missing YEARS of content. I’m very worried for what the future might hold if things continue to trend downwards , and the American public just gets dumber and dumber until we can’t function without the government’s oh-so-benevolent handholding.
That said, if anyone has experience with stuff like this or tips in general, I’d really appreciate it.
Also, I didn’t take too long to write this (it’s mostly just train of thought) so if you need some clarification on anything please ask. I could spiel for days.
im 19F living in the uk. i dropped out of college after passing my level 2 health and social care course. i left when i was 18. i was retaking my maths and english exams and i ended up passing english but didn’t pass maths. im working full time but only for the money. the job i have currently is not even in the career i want. i cry a lot because i regret leaving college. i want to go back but the only thing thats stopping me is the fear of going back into an education with loads of people. school has always made me nervous as ive had previous bad experiences all throughout my education (before college) and im also just a socially anxious person. another thing thats stopping me is my age. i worry that ill be the oldest person in my class and ill feel weird and embarrassed. does anyone have any advice? it’s making me really depressed, i feel so lost in life and i just hate where i am right now. all i want to do is study and get my maths qualifications, progress onto the next health and social care course level and eventually go onto uni. please any advice would be much appreciated!!!
Hiii
I am class 9 and studying french
Pls recommend me extra book with good content for studying and that teachers use for exams😝
Hello, I’m a 19-year-old who is starting university for the second time next month. When I was 18, I got into a fairly decent university where I studied Product Design. It wasn’t my first choice, but I chose it because the university had a good reputation, and I felt like I had something to prove academically.
Before I even started university, I was going through some personal problems that had a significant impact on my mental health and how I performed academically. A few days ago, I was academically withdrawn from my university after failing one of my final modules, and I was devastated.
I’ve always compared myself to someone I used to be friends with. He was always an excellent student, consistently achieved the highest grades, attended a private college, and is now studying at one of the best universities in our city and is about to start his second year. He has also told me that because I wasn’t academically successful at school or college, I will never amount to anything in my life.
Next month, I’m starting university again, this time on a foundation year studying Construction Management. Although the university I’m going to isn’t as highly regarded as my previous one and is looked down on, I genuinely want to work hard, build a career, and make something of myself.
However, I constantly compare myself to this person and feel as though I’ll never be as successful as him or achieve anything meaningful. I know that I shouldn’t let someone else’s opinion define my future, but it’s difficult to stop thinking this way.
I really want to use this opportunity to turn things around, dedicate myself to my future, and prove to myself that I am capable of achieving something. I would really appreciate any advice or tips on how I can overcome these feelings, stop comparing myself to others, and focus on building a successful future for myself.
https://youtube.com/shorts/g3\_WSzLNTAw - Jeff Bezos talk about theoretical physics that inspired this post. Idc about politics or his persona
Math and phisics is about solving problems. The closest you can get to solving a problem is to solve a similar problem.
But do we need to actually solve anything? The option is to find an answer and think through the problem, simulate your way of solving it from the begging to end and why exactly answer is like this and what are pros and cons of this answer if there are possible multiple answers.
The problem with that is does it stimulate brain enough so pattern recognition and problem solving skill is activated and works wonderfully to solve similar but other of this kind problems?
If you think about it 90% or even closer to 100% of what mathematicians and any kind of expert knows is about what they learned based on other people's solutions, theories. Ability to solve problems comes from deep understanding of topics complemented with great but simple, straightforwar thinking abilities. Human brain is developed when it sees and uses structures, patterns, so we should use more system like approach. For example:
problem statement
Simplification, sumarization, refinement
Analyzing
Mind map, pattern recognition, research on similar problems
Criticizing
Highlighting what's important again and what can be used from already solved problems
Trying out ideas, brute force and simulations
Fail, analyze/criticize downpits, start the cycle from 1. point again
Difference between criticizing and analyzing:
Analyzing - looking from facts, logic perspective. Similar process is synthesis
Criticizing - that's the neet part when humans shine more ig. Judging the problem based on your feeling, intuition. People understand more subconsciously then they realize, thinking part is a layer that's killing subconsciousness. Creativity is also a part of subconscious processes? With a layer of abstraction which thinking is it's impossible to think creatively or it's very limited. Thinking is used to analyze and simplify ideas, problems only. So without this step it's not possible to solve any unique problem but it's important to state that problems are not 100% unique. Some previous solutions to similar problems can fit to those 99%. It's a reference to bio-engineering where solutions of nature are implemented in technical problems.
Maybe the way to go is to have this approach to anything in life to ask questions why it work and why in this way to deepen our understanding because a shallow understanding will often times be incorrect
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What is written above is correct?
How would you rate the importance of mindset and this type of bullshit talk in math, physics, thinking in general?
This is an interesting article on the future of education environments from a few trusted brands in the education furniture and design industry.
What struck me as important take aways from this article is the necessary design for face to face connection and collaboration, and how flexibility in education furniture is crucial for success in an ever-evolving enviroment.
I'm curious what you'll have to say about the subject. What does your ideal education facility of the future look like?
This year, thanks to a new Florida law, high school students can now satisfy both their arts and physical education credits if they're in marching band for two years.
For all the former and current band kids, would you agree?
So last year my son was bullied relentlessly upon entering high school. It affected him so drastically that his confidence took a complete nosedive that never fully recovered. I had to pull him out of school because he refused to go. I moved him from NY to my old high school in NJ (with my parents) for the rest of the school year, where he encountered no further issues. I found and applied my son to a charter school for the following year, and things were looking great at first.
At the end of the school year, I moved him back up to NY. My parents are moving and so he cannot continue in NJ. I waited to hear from the charter school for next steps. When I did, the woman was strangely cold as she informed me that because of block scheduling in NJ, my son was short 2 courses and would not be able to enter the 10th grade. She said that she would get back to me regarding alternative options, but somehow I knew that I'd never hear from her again, and I never did. The problem is that this woman appears to "run" the entire charter school, even though she is not even the principal. She seems to have developed some kind of vendetta against me as well. When I called back I found out from someone else that the charter school offers makeup courses that would resolve our issue, something the woman never mentioned. That person said that they would get back to me. That person never did.
I briefly tried to get in touch with the public school, but they were similarly apathetic and unresponsive, and my son has no interest in setting foot in the building anyway.
At this point I feel completely abandoned by the school system. If I do nothing I will be forced to home school my son, which I am willing to do even as a single mother who works full time. But can I at least make a complaint so this never happens to anyone else again? And to whom? Is there any option I haven't thought of? Please help.
My goal is to eventually work in k12 administration. I plan on majoring in education then getting my teaching license. I'm not sure if I want to work as a principal or assistant principal but that might be because I did research into these roles. I'm not sure what else is out there. My skills lie in english, reading, writing, presentations, and basic admin skills.
If yes, then prove me wrong 😭😭
I recently built Next Dollar, a 90-minute financial literacy course for teens, and I’m looking specifically for middle and high school teachers to test it and give me honest feedback.
My long-term goal is to make it usable in classrooms, so I’d really value an educator’s perspective.
If you’re interested, comment or message me and I’ll give you a free access code.
Full disclosure: this is a course I created and normally sell, but access is completely free for testers.
The world feels increasingly fractured because we don't put enough emphasis on empathy and emotional intelligence. We don't need more highly intelligent people in positions of power who lack the ability to understand or care about how their decisions affect others. A leader or business owner can generate revenue while still causing serious harm to society, the environment, and the people who work for them.
We shouldn't be surprised that society struggles when schools do so little to develop empathy, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal skills.
If we consider ourselves an intelligent society, we should be able to recognize this. Intellectual ability alone clearly isn't enough to solve complex social problems.
We keep repeating the same patterns while expecting different outcomes.
The world already has abundant resources, yet some people accumulate far more than they need while prioritizing themselves over the wellbeing of others. Education could play a much larger role in developing people who understand the consequences of that behavior.
And when people say, "Parents should teach this," I have to ask: what about the parents who were never taught these skills themselves?
We will really look back and think "Wow, they really thought that teaching kids only math and history would make them good citizens?"
During my freshmen and sophomore year I took Honors spanish 2 and 3. I am wondering if I should take Honors Spanish 4 for my junior year or if I should swap that for a (virtual) AP Cybersecurity course on a website called VHS. This website is for courses that aren’t given on school, so all our work for this class is done on chromebooks with a virtual teacher.
I want to be a STEM major (likely engineering) or do something with physics and astronomy. My mom is telling me to drop spanish to take an AP cybersecurity course. I honestly am stumped.. what will colleges like to see better?
Background info: This year I’m taking Honors Physics, Honors Precalc, APUSH, AP Lang, AP Env. Sci, AP Comp Sci Principles, and IDK IF I SHOULD DO SPANISH OR VHS COURSE BECAUSE I LIKE THE GPA BOOST OF ANOTHER AP COURSE BUT DONT COLLEGES LIKE TO SEE MORE THAN 2 YEARS OF LANGUAGE?? HELPP
I’ve also been learning chinese for 7 years, gone to actual chinese schools aswell, so idk if that makes a difference!!
I’m not sure which course college would like to see more 😔 I also like the gpa boost of another AP but at the same time i feel like 3 years of language might be important
PLS HELP
Hi, I enrolled my daughter (8) with an OG student this summer who was starting her practicum and needed students. We started sessions twice a week. I just received a message from her saying she is stopping all tutoring effective immediately. We are now in a pinch as, my assumption, most students are beginning their practicum and already have their practicum students. Does anyone have any leads on programs or tutors that might have availability? We were doing online sessions. I'm so disappointed and my daughter was really doing well. Any contacts to reach out to would be so very very appreciated.
my parents are gonna make me go abroad in either of these two countries because i have relatives there.
will be a college student and i just wanted to know which is better? when working as part time while being a student, because i will be starting to live independently.
Would love to hear others unorthodox classroom management strategies. Things that actually work but are a bit different or outside of the box. I think every year first years are just getting worse in terms of their boundaries and respect for teachers. I can usually manage my classes with very few issues but found last year hard as I had huge numbers in a practical subject that I wouldn’t usually have. The constant talking and not being able to pinpoint who it is drove me crazy. Currently I use a seating plan to help and go over expectations but I don’t always follow through on my threats! I also find that the older I get the less patient I am. I used to be considered a young, fun teacher but those days are gone! 😂 I feel I can be very cross at times which is a new thing for me! Anyway, the more imaginative the better!
I’m posting this in a serious manner, and only for thoughtful and considerate replies in return.
Those of you that have graduated over the past couple of years with your bachelors (business / finance / marketing, etc), but something business related for sure…
I am really puzzled as to why we continue telling folks, but not just kids, to go to college. I hear often… well, it’s required, I won’t get a job.
My follow up question to that is, were you in worse condition before or after you got your degree? Are you now in debt from the degree and not able to get a job in your chosen field making what you thought you would?
I got a versatile business degree because I was advised this was a good investment. I can tell you now that it wasn’t, and it hasn’t done well for me. I’m 40 with 15-20+ years of professional experience and good skills. And I feel the market is flooded with me X 1,000. I equate this to mean low wages, no value in a degree, no longer a premium benefit.
So, do we turn around and start getting Masters now? If we do, this, to me, is a called credential inflation, and in my words is a selling a guarantee that doesn’t exist.
I applied to a classroom assistant role and the principal contacted me Thursday regarding an interview this week. I contacted him the same day told him the days and times that worked for me and he confirmed the time, but not the date. I told him tomorrow or Wednesday would work for me and reached out via email again to confirm which day would work but havent heard back.
Would it be inappropriate to call the school and ask? I just feel like with email, the principal won't see it in time and I could lose out on the interview.
Please tell how you all are doing it ? Any suggestions , advices are most welcome . Me being 25 i am a bit curious to know how does that work , i have no clue 🙆♂️
Question says it all in the title. I live in Ontario Canada if that makes any difference.
I believe that the utopia of AI in education, is serving as an educator and facilitator for students who are struggling with a concept or problem. This educator can serve as an expert in that field, giving a step by step break ground of the solution, and why it's the solution.
AI has access to virtually infinite knowledge and datasets, so one would think that it would follow that this would create an automated machine, that helps those struggling with a concept be able to communicate to that machine, and receive a world-class explanation of that topic. However, there are both sort-term and long-term problem with this utopia coming into reality.
As per short-term problems, most AI models are generally designed to receive positive feedback from the end-user. This is done primarily through 2 ways. The first of which being agreeing to whatever the student has to say, without giving any opposition, and the second being having heavy confidence within their answer, even when it's incorrect. This is problematic because it risks the miseducation of individuals. In both of these ways, AI is confidently assuring the student that an incorrect solution is correct, and is giving confident assertions as per the logic as why that is the case. I have had instances where I have asked AI a question, and it so confidently gave me the incorrect answer, and later when I emailed my instructor they said the exact opposite of what the AI told me. This lead me to be really skeptical of AI's responses, and if it's reliability is poor, then that's not a tool that should be heavily utilized, or used without regulation, and that is creating a large-scale risk of hurting student's learning towards a subject. This is a short term problem, because AI can be retrained to not have this level of arrogance, and programmed to not just give out new information.
As per the long term applications, I don't believe that AI will ever have the empathy and contextualization abilities that a real, human educator can give. I don't believe that AI will ever be able to truly understand the nuance of one's understanding, the same way an individual can, as it lacks empathy and context. AI will never be able to grasp the misconception and student's difficulty understanding a topic, and give a personalized response and feedback. It will instead give universal and generic explanations, and not be able to accommodate for the student. AI will never be ablet to replace the empathy that a real person can bring.
Overall, I don't really believe in the potential of AI in education in the future, and I don't believe anything will ever be able to replace human tutoring and educating.
Following up on a post a few days ago - sharing an editorial from The Advocate’s John Casey about what’s been happening in King George County, Virginia, after the community there reacted with voiceferous bigotry after the story broke. It gets at a much bigger question about who gets to make decisions about student belonging and support.
Last year, students at King George Middle School tried to start a Gay-Straight Alliance. They wrote a constitution, found a faculty sponsor, and received approval from the principal. Seventeen students signed up within three days.
Then conservative community members took to Facebook. The faculty sponsor was targeted online, accusations of “grooming” started flying, and the School Board ultimately changed its rules to block noncurricular clubs at the middle school, effectively stopping the GSA from meeting. The students and their families are now suing in federal court.
Casey writes about growing up without anything resembling a GSA and what it means to watch adults take away a space that LGBTQ+ kids themselves were trying to create.
From an educational perspective, the situation begs the question: What responsibility do schools have when students organize an approved club, only for community pressure to intervene?
Hi everyone! I have created a subreddit at r/neurodivergentEd for neurodivergent educators to support and advocate for each other.
Is anyone else also facing receiving continuous spam messages over Calls and WhatsApp from this new Spamming University called MASAI School from Bengaluru? For the past 2 months, I've been receiving multiple messages asking to enroll for a course in AI while all along riding on the back of the IIT name. You block one number and you receive from another, an endless loop of scum marketing.
I've never enquired about a course in my life let alone online, and yet here I am being harassed by these scammers for something which I will NEVER in my remaining life enroll for.
Information available online show the owners as Prateek Shukla, Nrupul and Yogesh who seem to be a band of bandits from some IIT (as claimed). They have perhaps completed a course in stealing people's personal data and spamming and harassing them. With these credentials, one can only wonder what kind of education will be imparted at such scam universities run by these pathological and desperate scammers!
Hello everyone. So, I am an assistant at a university and this year we plan to open a new lecture about the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence. We plan to make an interactive lecture, like students will prepare their projects and such. The scope of this lecture will be from the early ages of AI starting from perceptron, to image recognition and classification algorithms, to the latest LLMs and such. Students that will take this class are from 2nd grade of Bachelor’s degree. What projects can we give to them? Consider that their computers might not be the best, so it should not be heavily dependent on real time computational power.
Also, I’m thinking about a lecture on “how to use AI properly”. Like, it blows my mind how terrible some students use AI to write code. Antigravity is free for them, and surely they will be using some kind of AI tool to write code either way. I’m using Claude Code for like a year now, and spending at least one hour to write the first prompt to start working everyday. Yet, students usually give the exact text of the homework as prompt. What would you people recommend me to check out and refer to students as tutorials on how to use AI tools for beginners?
I learned programming before AI and thought myself how to use AI. The tutorials I watched on Claude Code and stuff were basically tips and tricks for me. So I’m not sure how I can teach what I do to students without making it look like witchcraft, which it isn’t really.
For AI homeworks, My first idea was to use the VRX simulation environment and the Perception task of it. Which basically sets a clear roadline to collect dataset, label them, train the model and such. Any other homework ideas related to AI is much appreciated.
I recently sat down with a Florida teacher with over 25 years of teaching elementary aged children. They shared with me their difficulties in teaching in the present times. They have children dressing as the opposite sex (example 8 year old boys in dresses and hair bows); children that are to be addressed by name other than what is on their official records. And fellow teachers that are transitioning to the opposite sex, complete with hormones etc, while teaching. The atmosphere in the classroom is not supportive of the students learning and concentration. There’s a lot going on. And the school boards, county officials and principals are walking a very fine line from a legal standpoint. So basically, our teachers are on the frontline alone. I was not aware of this (I am childless), and I was just wondering if parents are aware of what’s going on in elementary school these days. For the record I totally respect parent’s and teachers decisions within their own home but why bring that in the classroom? Surely an individual can transition to the opposite sex and dress neutrally. Where is the line?
IT education sucks 😭
I don't know how to start this rant but I believe I would start with my experience in high school computer science which really just is IT at this point. Computer science in Cambridge o level's is one of those things that's given more credit than it deserves in under developed countries that have spent a fair share of time under colonial rule. The reason I say this is because in the name of computer science, I was taught:
How bar codes work
How printers physically work
How touch screens physically work
Different types of storage devices
Keywords used for the application of IT in different domains
An inaccurate view of AI
A terrible introduction to networking and cryptography.
Inventing keywords for psuedo code, keywords that literally no one uses aside from our curriculum
And the only useful things: some sorting algorithms, flow charts, and logic gates (truth tables and stuff), the very basics of some programming languages.
Making us memorize SQL (without even telling us which flavor or for which SQL engine, this syntax is for)
A break down on how bad it was:
1.Now teaching bar codes is fine, but making us memorize exactly how it works in theory, at this level is useless and is the wrong way to introduce one to computer science.
2.knowing the types of printers and touch screens is useful, but teaching us the exact physical steps is useless unless you also teach us the physics behind it and even then the utility would be null. All we were thought were abstract steps, rather than the process in terms of physics.
We were taught storage devices in terms of utility and speed, and that was in abstract terms rather than concrete speed based on different generations, and whether a device is SATA, makes use of PCIe, and the moving parts and other possible points of failures of each one.
The keywords that were invented out of nowhere and the definition of AI was "an imitation of the human brain through artificial neurons".
Introduction to networking and cryptography was also terrible, like in networking we were shown a IPv4 packet format as an "internet packet", and we skipped over everything except for looking at diagrams and classifying them as half duplex or full duplex, or filling in a missing device like a router or a switch, while in cryptography, it was just public key and private key in assymetric encryption, and private key in symmetric one, again a terrible incomplete introduction. We were thankfully atleast taught about data integrity techniques like checksums, but even that was purely theoretical, and quite outdated for practical usage.
Psuedocode keywords that we had to memorize so we could pass an exam was their way of introducing us to problem solving.
The SQL part is self explanatory.
A levels:
A levels (which comes after o levels) isn't any better either, except for a project that you must complete at the end, but even the project is a joke, since any trash computer game made with Pygame or something would pass, but a computer driver won't since there aren't enough people to check those stuff.
Conclusion:
1.If they want to teach us computer science theory, then start with the theory of computation, and from there take us to data structure and algorithms.
2.If they want to teach us theory about IT then start with teaching us what a shell is, the directory layout of Linux systems, different file systems, different boot systems, configuring the different types of init process, managing users, managing network interfaces, managing ip tables, and then slowly taking us to networking, from managing a small networks with a single router, to managing a network with many routers using IGPs, the moving to managing autonomous systems using BGP, and so on. All this while also teaching some details about ways to specify hardware specification for different components(clock speed, ppt, tdp, instructions per seconds, etc for CPU, and similar specs for other important components) , cryptography(a proper introduction this time, and improving data redundancy using some data integrity techniques and teaching how to design them.
Final words:
I guess the main goal of this kind of "education" is easy marking and for certain types kids to feel smart. In my case, four years ago (when I was 14), I simply couldn't learn those stuff. My parents thought, I was failing because I didn't try hard enough, but every subject in school was either highly abstract or there to brain wash me. Like the only subjects that functioned the way they are supposed to were the once meant to brainwash me, while the rest were easy to mark placeholders with abstract concepts that maybe helped a teaching business boom, but at the cost of my grades and education. Atleast, the other kids who are good at abstract/unconnected ideas passed, so good for them.
Looking for some honest takes on where video learning is heading.
I’m working on an engine where the core idea is simulative video learning. Basically, you input what you're trying to learn, and it generates a video simulation tailored to that concept- allowing you to visually see how variables change, how systems interact, or how complex ideas play out in real time.
Do you guys think simulative video is actually the logical next step for learning, or do people just prefer standard video/text explanations? Would love to know if this is a real pain point or if current tools are good enough.
In South Korea, one’s undergraduate institution is often treated as a kind of social pedigree.
The name of a university is not regarded merely as information about where someone studied. Rather, it tends to function as a broad indicator from which people infer a person’s academic performance at the time of university entrance, family background, social network, and individual ability. An OECD report has also noted that, in South Korea, people are ranked for long periods according to the prestige of the university they attended, and that educational achievement is closely connected not only to employment opportunities but also to social status and marriage prospects.
What is particularly revealing is that many Koreans mock those who attend a more prestigious university for graduate school than they did for their undergraduate studies, describing it as “academic credential laundering.” In other words, they tend to fix a person’s social status according to the first university that person entered, as though one’s undergraduate institution permanently determined one’s worth.
I believe that this irrational social structure is one of the major factors behind South Korea’s persistently high suicide rate, which has long remained among the highest in the OECD.
Education is often described as the foundation of a nation's future, yet students continue to face additional financial burdns beyond their tuition fees.
In many colleges and universities, students are required to pay separate exam fees, and these charges are not always clearly disclosed at the time of admission. If the examination centre is far from the college, students often have to arrange and pay for their own travel. Even when a college provides transport, an additional bus fee may be charged.
On top of this, many students also have to pay convenience fees or payment gateway charges simply to make mandatory payments such as admission fees, tuition fees, or exam fees.
Education should not become a source of hidden or avoidable costs. Colleges and universities should be transparent about every fee they charge, and students should not be required to pay convenience or transaction charges for making compulsory education-related payments.
No convenience fee or transaction charge should be levied on students for paying admission fee, tuition fees, exam fees, or any other mandatory educational charges.
Crazy story here - Students and their families are suing a rural Virginia school district after officials allegedly changed club policies several times after conservative outrage on a local Facebook group, to prevent a gay-straight alliance from forming at King George Middle School. (The comments on a post about this story do NOT pass the vibe check at all in that group.)
The lawsuit says the district continued allowing groups including yearbook, robotics, an outdoor club where kids learned to skin squirrels, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes while telling students they could create a similar club only if they removed explicit references to LGBTQ+ people.
The families argue that the district violated the First Amendment and the federal Equal Access Act by discriminating against the students’ viewpoint.
I am working at the moment doing my bsc in information technology as well on the weekends.
I honestly don't understand whats the point of a bsc is.
Modules in it are all self learnable and literally what we study irl.
I used almost all the tools and theories explained in the courses either self learned or at work, so there's no new logic behind it either.
I have no idea what's the use of a desertation. I'm doing it for the sake of doing it for a really dumb topic as well. No one's gonna read it, lecturer ain't gonna read it completely so what's really the point.
Hi everyone! I recently finished building Next Dollar, a 90-minute financial literacy course designed primarily for teens preparing to leave home.
It covers paychecks, banking, budgeting, credit, loans, education costs, moving out, and investing, and includes interactive simulations throughout.
I’m looking for a small number of people willing to complete it for free and give honest feedback on the content, clarity, and overall experience. You do not have to be a teen—parents, educators, and other adults are welcome too.
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i went to a charter school that we couldn’t afford because my mom insisted. i struggled heavily in elementary school with mathematics and socialization, the teacher was openly wondering if I should be held back because I excelled everywhere else and ultimately I wasn’t. I wish I were held back.
in middle school I contributed to struggle with both subjects far more than the average student. and during middle school I experienced a severe death in the family and was in a disruptive unstable home. I should have been held back or placed into special ed.
instead i Wasn’t and just kept being pushed through. I eventually improved grade wise at math but I was never quite alright mentally or academically.
looking back I desperately wish I had been in public school instead and had been held back and placed in special ed. I desperately needed it. It would have been noticeably easier financially. I could have actually gotten help And career guidance. The charter school offered minimal classes and no practical life skill classes at all. I had very poor advising during college applications as well
i know it’s absurd but I wish things could have been different
I informally surveyed 100 university professors on what advice they give students about their future given the advancements in AI.
The first takeaway is that the answers were more generally advice about using AI rather than the impact of their future because of AI. Tsk, tsk. My lesson learned is about asking a question more clearly to get the results I’m looking for.
Still, I synthesized the answers into three sections: The consensus viewpoints, interesting minority viewpoints, and controversial opinions.
If you are interested in the source responses, feel free to DM me and I can share them.
Here are the results synthesized with an AI tool:
Preparing for the Future of AI
We advise students to approach artificial intelligence as a powerful, evolving tool that requires a balanced mindset. You should aim to master the technology rather than fear it, using it to handle repetitive tasks or as a scaffold for brainstorming, while fiercely protecting the core human skills that define your unique value.
Consensus Viewpoints
Interesting Minority Viewpoints
Controversial Opinions
I'd you want more detail why I failed here is why my grandma died and my mom went to prison and we didn't have enough money to spend on private classes food school utilities etc I see a lot of my freinds passing only me failed , and the channel name is tumqin in yt to know more about the story cuz I don't write all of that so no one will read it and I will be thankfull if anyone helped me
Hi, I recently finished my first academic year in my bachelor degree of Applied informatics. I studied chemistry in secondary school and decided I want something different, so I chose IT. That came with many challenges including having to learn everything from scratch compared to my classmates who mostly came from IT field already. All this to say, I have a very little experience and I don't know what is normal and what is not so feel free to tell me off for being stupid.
Onto my question. During the year, I was quite surprised by the amount of AI we were made to use in our projects and overall studies? Like, it was almost a daily occurrence where a teacher said "generate the code based on the prompt I gave you and then tweak it so it works".
I felt like I was behind a lot because I tried to actively understand what the code the AI generated was saying. One teacher even redirected all the questions I had about a certain issue to AI saying "just tell it your problem, and it will solve it for you".
I understand that professors have a very little time to explain every single issue to every student, but I feel like I have learned very little and just let the AI do all the hard thinking for me. That is not what I want to do, I don't want to be dependent on it, I do understand that the current market will demand AI use, but I also want to be able to think and problem solve for myself.
So far I resorted to self study in my free time, reading "Head first in Java" and trying to program some simple applications, sketching out the idea first and looking for answers online when it doesn't work as intended. I do admit that I use AI for some very specific problems that I wasn't able to find in any forum (or simply didn't understand since English is my second language) but I try to not rely on it.
I don't know much but this excessive use of AI in my daily education is worrying me, it is possible I am just not getting it correctly, but I wanted to ask if this is normal I guess? What are your thoughts.
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Unfortunately, Last Friday (31/7/2026), suicide had claimed the life of a dedicated educator in Malaysia. A teacher who's been subjected to numerous workload and pressure by the principal. It's tiring, painful, but being responsible and dedicated, she obeyed and tried to survive until she can't do it anymore. Thank you teacher for your fight. Rest in peace 🙏
As an educator, I'm sad but now I'm enraged by the pure silence from the related authorities, the MOE, the school, the policymakers from top to bottom. And it's not new, teachers had been voiced out a number of issues they faced. Only a small number of it were mentioned without proper solution.
A student made a headline and they sent a memo, IMMEDIATELY. But a teacher? It's been 24 hours since the news came out and guess what? Silence.
People must been asking. Why teachers aren't openly taking action about this? The answer is our hands are tied. Speak criticism against the gov and you'll lose your. And there's been cases where a teacher got dismissed from speaking the truth.
HOW CAN WE EDUCATE THE FUTURE IF THIS KEEPS HAPPENING
Basically I'm american but I did all my education in mexico, now at my that I have moved to Texas how can I do to get an American diploma? Thanks guys
My family has opted to attend our neighborhood school for many reasons. It is, on paper, a decent school, and I think my children can be successful there. That being said, I do sometimes get a little pang of anxiety as I watch friends send their children to private schools that boast amazing outcomes. I have often read that parental support and engagement can have a more positive impact than any particular school, and that gives me comfort. However, I guess I don’t know what people mean by that! Beyond the obvious of knowing the teachers, and being aware of completing homework, is there something more I can do? TIA!
My child attends a private high school in LA, California. This is the second year at the school, but my financial situation has drastically worsened. I won't be able to afford the full tuition fees anymore. My child likes the school, but unfortunately, I cannot afford the fees any longer. If anyone has experienced this situation, what are my options? Thank you
After work id been extremely exhausted, I can still run, exercise if the temperature is right, and feel better at work. Or class
I am a student within California that is just short on A-G, I've graduated through high school already and i really wish to enter CSU's when spring semester rolls around. I haven't seen any other topic like this come up before, and frankly I don't know where to look, so I've come here to ask!
How would one be able to take any courses in community colleges (Hartnell, etc) and receive A-G requirements via said courses?
Hi all - I am trying to educate myself more on the history of immigration and the effects of illegal vs legal immigration and politics in general in both the US and Europe.
Internet seems very biased on either way so I am looking for fact based or generally well acclaimed books to read instead.
Does anyone have any good books that discusses or outlines these issues or anything similar?
Thanks in advance!
TLDR: I am looking to educate myself on political topics more and am looking for as non biased resources as possible.
I am starting to find those cheerful teachers/professors to be annoying...espically if they start singing in class... and prefering a more "dry" teaching style ...
The "fun" teaching style is very distractive for my learning. Wondering if anyone going though a period like this? I am confused by myself.
I’ve decided my late August baby will be starting school at 6 years old. I just feel like starting school at barely 5 is just a bit too early, but I’m on the fence with my June kid.
i know there have been studies done about older kids having better leadership opportunities and more focus in school, as well as winter birthdays having more opportunities and even preforming better academically and in sports.
my hold up with June is it is right at the end of the age. if she was born in July or August i probably would keep her home until she was 6. but my hold up is if I send her at 6 she will graduate at 19. I wouldn’t want her to feel socially outcasted or not bond the same as her peers, since a part of her class would be 17.
does anyone have any experience with this? has anyone ”red shirted” their June bag? why or why not?
My district is adopting a scripted science curriculum this fall, and teachers have been told to follow the lessons as written.
If your district uses a scripted curriculum, how closely are you expected to follow it? What happens if a lesson isn't working for your students?
I am looking to write an article on how sanctimony has been having a detrimental effect on education. I am mostly attempting to discuss how educators and the community in general has been pushing a sanctimonious mindset on teachers and students that has resulted in the abandonment of effective instructional practices in favor of ideologically driven practices with questionable results. I feel as if SEL practices have been one the primary examples of this.
I was wondering if this community had any examples or experiences where they have seen learning detrimentally impacted by sanctimonious mindsets or ideas.
Curious to hear from students, teachers, and parents — not the polished "this is how school should work" takes, but what actually surprised you once you were in it. Was there a moment where the reality of teaching, learning, or the system itself didn't match what you expected? And what's something you wish someone had told you earlier?
She said she's had students who had to go back to get those high school credits after finishing community college and applying to places like law school and medical school.
I'm now 26 and want to go to higher education the difference between the two is it'll take me 7 months for all my diploma classes I have a limit of submitting 15 assignments a week maximum, or minimum 1-2 months for GED. I was informed I scored highly on both english and math pre-tests.
Hello everyone. Actually, I'm from a country under sanctions and basically have zero access to PayPal, Visa, or any normal payment method. Trying to apply to two Master's programs abroad right now (would be the first in my family to study abroad, kind of a big deal for me) but even the application fees are hard to pay because of this.
Was thinking crypto might be my only real option here, but I don't want to just throw a wallet address out there and hope for the best. So I wanted to ask if anyone actually know a decent platform for this kind of thing? Something built for individuals, not just registered charities/nonprofits (I checked a few already and they're mostly for orgs, not random people like me).
If you've been in a similar spot or know someone who has, I would really appreciate any tips.
I've tried and financed a portion of that, but I need money for the rest and I'm running out of time.
I have had this topic bouncing around in the back of my brain quite a bit in the past few months and I'm just wondering what others think about it.
Feel free to share your personal feelings-based opinions, factually informed opinions, any history you may know relating to this topic, pros and cons of nationalized curriculum, common arguments for/against it, implications and consequences from not having one, potential dangers in adopting one, resources to learn more about this topic/debate, etc. I'd really love to have (respectful) discussions in the comments of this post so please consider circling back if your original comment gets a response!
I look forward to reading all of your responses! Thank you for taking the time to comment!!
Hey people, so I am worried that I’ll be getting U’s this August - I wrote messages in the majority of my GCSE papers to the examiners marking them (in the extra space at the back) because I thought it would be nice lol. I didn’t write anything rude or sensitive, I said things like ‘please let me pass this paper’, ‘have a good summer’ ect ect. I’m kinda regretting now lol. 🫠
Not sure if this is exactly the right forum to ask, but for anyone who is from Vancouver bc Canada would you happen to know how getting physics 11 credit would work and how to exactly. I didn’t do physics 11 back in secondary school because I’m quite bad at math and the idea of physics scared me.
Would love to know any advice or how you may have done it. Sorry if this seems rushed thinking about this is just keeping me up.
I’ve made it a goal to become a much stronger reader over the next few years. I want to increase my reading speed **without sacrificing comprehension**, improve my vocabulary, retain more of what I read, and comfortably tackle more difficult books.
I’m not looking for speed-reading gimmicks—I’m looking for methods that are actually effective, whether they’re backed by research or simply worked well for you.
What books, habits, courses, exercises, or resources had the biggest impact on your ability to read, understand, and remember what you read?
If it matters, I’m trying to read Gene Wolfes The Book of the New Sun , but I’ve heard they are at a college grade level 10, whatever that means
And right now all I read is self-help books
The world is changing so fast that 'study hard' just doesn't hit the same anymore. What should we be telling kids instead?
Hi, I’m not sure if there’s anyone who works at Kipp/SST (Texas) or has ever dealt with their hiring process. Anyways I applied in May (for an administrative role), and had an interview (with Kipp) about the first or second week of June with like 4 people which really caught me off guard, and they told me that they’d update me on whether I’d be hired or not and I never got an answer from them. I keep checking my applications and none have been updated since nor have I gotten a rejection email.
I also applied at SST last week (Educational aide) haven’t heard from them, but does anyone know how long it usually takes?
I’m looking for more creators with educational content; Whether is be science, investing, law, math, politics, space, etc. maybe even a specific niche you are interested in or teach to your own students. I remember watching crash course with Hank/john green back when I was still in school. Any recommendations are appreciated :)
Can someone tell what fees structure at Himalayan nursing institute which is under techno I got 3.4k rank in jenpas ug 2026
Structured unit was falling flat, kids checked out. A student asked a slightly off-topic but genuinely curious question, and instead of redirecting back to plan, I let it become the class. Forty minutes of real engagement, kids arguing respectfully, building on each other's points, no worksheet in sight. Learned more about their thinking in that one class than in weeks of "on-plan" lessons. Anyone else had a class go sideways in the best possible way?
I was checking their website and saw 620+ job offers mentioned there. Sounds pretty good. Ngl, but beyond that I wanted to know more about the actual placement preparation.
Like when do students usually start preparing? Does the Career Development Center help with aptitude, interviews and professional skills?
Would love to hear from someone who knows about the process
The ability to solve a set problem quickly and accurately is not the same as the ability to find a question worth asking and hold on to it for years. Getzels and Csikszentmihalyi had art students draw a still life and watched how they worked. Half chose their objects in haste and began drawing at once; the other half handled the objects a long while, shifting the arrangement, setting up the problem to be drawn before drawing it. Critics judged the second group's work more original, and years later it was the second group that was still painting. This is where framing a problem parts from solving one. The real trouble now is that posts calling for the second ability are filled by people selected for the first.
Korean college admissions has no instrument at all for measuring the ability to frame problems. Whatever department a student applies to, the common gate of Korean, English, and mathematics has to be crossed. Britain does otherwise. After the age of sixteen a student picks three or four subjects from roughly eighty and goes deep into them, and university entry is decided by those few subjects. Oxford specifies required subjects course by course, and University College London keeps a list of preferred subjects and asks for two or more from it. A student bound for history is not pushed out by calculus there. Calling the system violent is exact at just this point. Every year hundreds of thousands of students are turned away without ever having had their aptitude tested.
The 2028 reform did not narrow this gate; it widened it. Elective subjects in Korean, mathematics, and inquiry have been abolished outright so that everyone is assessed on identical content by an identical standard, and inquiry, where students once sat either social studies or science, now demands both. The stated ground is fairness, the removal of advantage and disadvantage between subjects. Yet the easiest way to remove such advantage is to ask the same thing of everyone. The more uniform the demand, the further the exam drifts from what an individual department actually needs.
What a gate screens out becomes visible in those who get through it. Lee Hyejeong conducted in depth interviews with 46 of the 150 highest ranking students at Seoul National University, those with averages above 4.0, surveyed the whole enrolled student body, and carried out a comparative study with the University of Michigan. Her finding was that undergraduate education at Seoul National University tilts sharply toward receptive thinking rather than critical and creative thinking. The top students clung to receptive study, a continuation of the primary and secondary school method, instead of the study the university expected of them. The disposition that selection had demanded kept paying off inside the university. A gate does not merely screen people out; it goes on rewarding the disposition it screened for.
An exam does not only measure people, it makes them. To someone who has spent more than a decade under the premise that a correct answer lies somewhere, questioning a premise is a strange gesture, never once rehearsed. And for anyone who bore an absurd gate to the end and came through it, that gate has already become the warrant for his own record. Doubting the rule that chose you turns into doubting your own record. So compliance becomes self justification, and those screened in this way settle into the upper reaches of society.
p.s. The point of this piece is not that we should teach more creativity, but that departments should be allowed to name the abilities they need. The judgment that assessing all five areas is the better course is a perfectly tenable one. Still, if the price of that choice is failing a prospective history student on calculus, why the price must be paid is a question that has to be answered on its own.
This is all theoretical…but…due to the difference between IEPs and 504s how would a student who is homeschooled go about getting a 504 plan, especially if they have a medical diagnosis? Would it be similar to an IEP in that they would reach out to their home district’s 504 coordinator to request that the process get started?
I’m sure many of you know what I mean. The hot/warm meal is obviously ready for us and now it’s lukewarm/cold by the time you stop talking. The content will be there after lunch, I promise.
Can someone tell me if I'm doing this right?
I applied for a non-teaching position at a Catholic grade school in my neighborhood. I found the job listing on the career portal/website for my city's Archdiocese; it's also listed on LinkedIn.
On the job listing itself it says that interested/qualified candidates should email their resume and cover letter to the principal at the provided email, which I did. However, I also notice there is a downloadable job application on the website attached to the listing, but the language and fields used in the job application is specifically for teaching, which this position is not.
My question is, do I still need to fill out that job application and send it to the Office of Catholic Education despite it not being relevant to the open position and also despite me already emailing the principal with my info? Alternatively, should I also apply to the job via the LinkedIn post? I really want this job and am just worried that I'm missing a step and just sending my info to the principal isn't enough and that I'm not considered fully applied to the job despite the listing asking to send the info. Like would sending the application to the OCE act as sending it to HR to get my name on their radar, or did I do everything I needed to?
New data from the Center for American Progress dropped recently, and the numbers are stark: 46% of young children nationwide live in areas where licensed child care slots are outnumbered by demand at least 3-to-1. In remote rural areas, that number jumps to 70%. That's not a niche problem — it's basically a coin flip for any family with a toddler.
Break it down by congressional district and the picture looks worse:
This isn't just a data point — it's waitlists that stretch months into years; it's families who end up cutting hours or leaving jobs entirely because there's simply no care to be had; it's programs operating under capacity because they can't hire staff. For K-12 educators, it ripples forward: kids who miss out on early learning windows often show up to K-12 already behind.
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📊 Congressional district breakdown
Curious what this looks like from your POV: Do these numbers track with what you're seeing in your school or district? Are you noticing kids arriving less "kindergarten-ready" because they couldn't access early care? What does the waitlist situation look like where you are?
I live in a red state but in a very large metropolitan area. We thought we were fortunate to get a spot for an acclaimed elementary in the magnet school lottery. Two years later, our school district was taken over by the state and our beloved principal was fired and atrocious changes were implemented (removing our award winning library, teaching to test, error-ridden AI lesson plans and constant evaluations, etc.). We fortunately had another option as we have a second home in a rural area, so we moved our primary residence to our second home and enrolled our children at the local, highly rated school. I come from a rural farm family educated in public school, so I thought this would be a good change. Unfortunately, my children were bullied for not being religious (my moms side of the family is full of extremely religious conservative preachers but I decided to distance myself and my children from that religion due to many factors). My oldest child, a daughter, is extremely smart and was the main target of bullying, so I tried to find another alternative. She was accepted to a non-religious private school. However, I have since learned that key board members are Republicans politicians or their spouses.
In preparation for the upcoming school year, we received an email discussing their dress code which included the line “students are expected to adhere to conduct and grooming per their biological gender assigned at birth.” What does conduct per biological gender mean? I am livid. If they wanted to specify dress code requirements, fine, but this is ridiculous. There are religious schools in the area, but as a non-religious school, I expected more. Other than leaving our state or homeschooling, which are not feasible due to our jobs, how should we educate our children without indoctrination and interference from politics?
My son has been working on fun, animated, educational videos this summer. He created this song and video about the Boston Tea Party. Is this something that would find worthwhile to share with your kids or classroom? Do you have any feedback?
I’m currently researching online colleges and would like to hear from people who have attended an online program and can share their honest experience.
What school did you attend, what degree did you earn, and how was your overall experience? The biggest things I’m interested in are the school’s reputation, whether you actually liked the school, and if you would recommend it to someone else.
I’d also like to know about the cost and whether you felt the degree was worth the money. How were the advisors, financial aid office, and other staff? Were they helpful and easy to work with? How were the professors and classes? Did you feel like the online format was organized and that you were getting a quality education?
If you could go back and choose again, would you pick the same school?
I’m looking for a reputable online college with a good student experience, reasonable cost, and a degree that employers respect. Any honest opinions or recommendations would be appreciated!
hello! i was just wondering if any of you here has copyleaks. our thesis is due today and theyre requiring us to submit an ai and plagiarism check from copyleaks but the library is closed already so i cant get it scanned there. thank u please help abgirl out 😭😭😭
When I was growing up, it was common place for the school buses to drive through town on a particular route and pick up kids, then go to each school and drop them off. This is a small suburban town. I imagine things are different in big cities.
That was 30 years ago. Now they do pick up and drop offs at the closest school. So basically if the kid goes to a school 1 mile away, they get dropped off by parents at a nearby school, where a bus takes all the kids that get dropped off there to the different schools in the system so they can get where they need to go.
This seems inefficient even though they say it's so we can "avoid the drop off lines" at the actual school he's going to. But wouldn't this just create another drop off line at the closer school? And the drop off lines are probably long because this bus system seems so inefficient. A lot of parents figure if they have to drop the kid off at a school anyway they might as well drive a little bit further to the actual school the kid goes to.
So what's the norm in your district? And what's ideal these days? Should we have school buses picking up and dropping off directly at kids' homes? Should that just be the approach for young kids while older kids get a more standard city bus type schedule but with school buses? Or does it make sense to drop off kids at a nearby school facility and then bus them wherever they need to go in the district?
(I imagine larger cities have a single school for multiple grades in a district. Our town is one school district with multiple schools for different grades scattered all around town.)
Been thinking about this after talking to a few teacher friends who say prepping for standardized tests has started to crowd out actual curriculum time - not because the tests are inherently bad, but because the pressure to hit benchmark scores changes what gets taught and how
Curious what people here who work in education (or have kids going through it) actually think. Is the issue the tests themselves, or how schools/districts respond to the incentives around them? Feels like there's a difference between "testing is bad" and "the system built around testing creates bad incentives," and I'm not sure which critique is the stronger one
i’ve been homeschooled for so long due to personal issues and i haven’t been able to learn but i want to go back to school and be in the correct grade so i want to know how to learn everything decently fast im willing to spend 5-10 hours a day more if necessary i just want to make progress
I graduated high school in 2015. I grew up in San Diego, California. And the town I grew up in near the coast Encinitas beautiful place loved living there had had a great time. My family was not rich. We were just middle-class. we moved Encinitas in 1999 and it was a time where back in the late 1990s homes were much cheaper in SoCal. But I’d say the neighborhood we moved to was just a regular middle-class neighborhood. However, the school I went to high school at La Costa Canyon. In a very affluent neighborhood, the people who live there I wouldn’t say were like super rich like there weren’t mansions everywhere. But they were definitely affluent upper middle class. Most people live here had white collar jobs, high-level business professionals, lawyers, Scientists, The type of people who probably hung out at the country club. I’d say they were upper middle-class to wealthy but not like millionaires. Not like millionaires.
So I was diagnosed being on the spectrum when I was six back in July 2003. So I since I was in first grade. I had an IEP, but during elementary school, I felt pretty included. I was in general Ed classes with the regular kids. I made a lot of good friends. The special ed services I did get was this place called the learning resource center, which was a place I would go. get help from aids and tutors, and it worked a lot. And the teachers, I had both in special ed and in general Ed we’re both very supportive of me. They believed in me a lot. Things were going really good until I finished elementary school and entered middle school.
Then once I started middle school, I was still getting the same thing thing I was still in general lead classes among the mainstream kids. I would go to the learning center or in middle school. They called an academic support. To get tutoring and help with the work from other classes. And I guess the problem I had was mostly like I started struggling with math when I was in fourth grade and we started doing fractions. Although I always struggled with math, I started struggling as early as like second grade. But I was able to keep going forward but then third grade when I got to division is when it got hard.
But once I entered high school, in august 2011 that’s when things totally started hitting the fan. And things got completely off the rails my first year of high school. I was putting in this program, called the transitional alternative program a total joke. It was like for kids with very severe disabilities. And they were making me start over like I was getting work that was like additions and subtraction. multiplication. And goals my manager, saying that I would learn to do my cursive or sign my signature. They were giving me words puzzles in 9th grade. There were two general ed classes I did have. One was a science class the other was an English class. beginning of my freshman year and I really liked it I felt I learned a lot in the class. And I thought I was doing pretty well from like the first few tests. I did pretty good on. But then two months in to my freshman year. I found it I was flunking the class and then my case manager started telling me that the class was too hard for me and that she was going to take me out. And put me in remedial courses that were taught. And I didn’t wanna do that. I thought it was offensive. And I told her I really like the class I’m in. this woman was just not a nice person. She always wanted to think she was right. She was never willing to listen to anyone’s descent. If you disagreed with her, she get really hostile. And my question is why why asking that you want to take these classes make her lose her shit.
So after that, my father went to one of the IEP meetings with her and he said well if my son wants to be in these mainstream classes, let them be in there. She never listened because she said that the whole team couldn’t agree, but I don’t know. I’m pretty sure that if the parents say no, then that should be it. And then afterwards. Like my mom and I literally asked for assistance and I was working my tail off to stay in these two classes. They didn’t do anything. They didn’t give me an aid, a note taker, any assistance. To help to pass, and then eventually they took me out of those 2 classes that I enjoyed, I was devastated.
My entire freshman year, I was miserable because I felt like I was being used as a useful idiot. And I was getting work that was early elementary level. I went home practically once a week crying. I had trouble sleeping at night, because I was so angry that they didn’t want to listen to me. And it wasn’t like I was some lazy kid, who felt entitled. No, I wanted to be challenged. I wanted to do the harder work that was grade level. They were the ones putting in all the roadblocks. Anytime, I tell him I want to take this class they’d say no. It was totally demoralizing.
So after that, they put me in these remedial classes where they were giving me like work that was like at grade level, but it was done in a slower pace. And eventually, I got out of that program the transitional alternative program. In the middle of my sophomore year.
And I got a change in case manager and I was put back into the program that was similar what I had in elementary school program for students with normal learning disabilities. Things get better. I eventually got to take General Ed classes. My junior and senior year. But it was not easy. I had to fight like crazy like work, my ass off to prove them wrong that I was capable of being in there. My junior, I had a general lead history class and I took biology General Ed. But I was in remedial English and a remedial algebra class. And then my senior year when I said that I wanted to be in chemistry and I wanted to take Spanish they both all like sayed no way. Ian’s even though I sucked at math I wanted to take civil engineering as an elective. In my case manager, when I told him I wanted to take it he called what I wanted to do “delusional”. and it just seems unfair. Like, can’t they look at the fact that they care like that they’re passionate about wanting to be in there and they’re interested and if they’re willing to work hard and put in the effort. Doesn’t that matter the most? it’s like they kept using my math struggles as a weapon against me. My whole idea is, I think a better system is exposure and learning things which is the goal of education who cares about the stupid tests. Like it’s like trying to make it like living in North Korea.
It wasn’t as restrictive when I got out. I got a lot more freedom to be in mainstream classes. Then I did when I was in the previous program. It was a great improvement but still. There were still obstacles and limitations on what courses allowed to me is offensive. You can’t do that to kids. That’s the whole reason you take classes in the first place is to learn things. You shouldn’t have a team from above deciding over you. Like in China or The Soviet Union.
Like they shouldn’t put so many restrictions I literally posted on an education form a couple months ago. And got into a bunch of arguments. People were saying that we should never ever let a child decide their educational path because their kids. That’s what this one girl said she said that if we did that they just drop out of school immediately. Another person said “ if you cant do the work, you got no business being in that class no matter how much you think you’ll enjoy it”. I’m like seriously do they have to act like I’m a bad person for saying that kids should have variety we shouldn’t be limited into what horses they want. It just seems like common sense to me. Here’s my grand idea if the kid likes the class they feel the information they’re gaining is useful to them and then so what leave them alone. Let them pursue the path they want not have somebody from the top down deciding everything. I flunked classes when I was in college, and I retook them. Same thing for high school. If the kid fails the class, let them take it again don’t downgrade their work. Why am I being talked to on Reddit? Like I’m some crazy person who escaped from a mental asylum. I’m just Saying my experience, and how I think kids In special ed and kids with IEPs should be given the same choices. In the classes they want to take as the kids in general do. Not lock them in an environment where they’re gonna make them feels like their world and life is gonna be limited.
Because at the end of the day, the worst thing you can do to a kid I think is destroy their self-confidence. It’s the worst form of abuse.
Eg. Classical education, IB program, Waldorf
Wondering about statistically proven successful programs. I don’t have kids im honestly just curious, so this question might be misguided as I don’t have a great understanding of the true differences between educational pedagogies and the extent to which they are compared to each other.
Whenever I read about them, I get the sense that a lot of progressive educational programs boil down to “teaching kids how to learn”, so any info on the differences in leading educational theories would be cool!
I have an experience of a study environment at a university where people pray for others to get lower marks so they get an advantage over others in a relative grading system. Another problem is students cheating and getting more marks not realizing they are doing two wrongs: one is compromising their own competence and the other is injsutice to the other hard working students.
Some more problems I observed throughout my academic journey at university are professor often outpacing the comprehension speed, very short duration of semester making it very difficult to adapt quickly.
Also focus is mostly on bombarding as many information as possible in very less time regardless of the understanding or intellectual stimulation for crearivity. In-depth information without intellectual stimulation is of no use.
Another problem is often very rigid academic structure with no room for creative learning process and administration being very unsupportive of new ideas and try to maintain status quo.
I am open to your feedback and get some other valuable perpsectives of these problems or even some new ones.
Thanks.
Greetings teachers,
Recently, our school (which is private) asked teachers not to return papers to students, that is, unit tests, quizzes and worksheets. Their reasoning is that they are afraid that a teacher might have made an error and don't want to field complaints from parents.
I think this is wrong on so many levels, beginning with the fact that yes, teachers occasionally do make mistakes, but that's because we are human too; not the end of the world. Firstly, I think this small task falls under best practices, which all teachers and schools should adhere to at all times, but more importantly, returning papers to students allows them to learn from their mistakes. I guess you could also say that schools that put forth such a policy don't support their teachers.
Is this happening at your school? What's the reason?
Thanks in advance for your comments.
So I emailed a few schools before the holidays started and 2 got back to me to have garda vetting complete- no word from the rest. I plan to re-email them again when schools start back..
Do I contact the other schools who I have completed garda vetting with to remind them or do I wait for them to contact me if needed?
What is the way this is done as I am new to this area
Hey everyone,
I'm 19M, in a really bad place right now, and I honestly don't know what to do anymore.I've always tried to stay positive and set small, realistic goals for myself. During high school, I worked as hard as I could. I pulled all nighters, studied for hours, and genuinely believed I'd score maximum marks and even earn a medal. Instead, I ended up with average grades and almost failed one subject (I even had bad marks in the last two grades of hs). It felt like I had disappointed both myself and my parents (even though they've never pressured me). After that, I applied to unis, but family issues, financial problems, and some personal situations involving my brother made everything much harder. I'm not blaming them,I know I got distracted and eventually severely burned out. After I failed to get into my dream university, I completely lost the motivation to keep trying.I took a year off after high school to work on my mental and physical health, but things at home only got worse.
I even ignored all that but at this point I've lost all the motivation to study, I don't know if I'm just dumb some people around me made me feel that way too, friends and family.
Studying feels like my only way out, yet I can't seem to make myself do it consistently. I genuinely feel like there's something wrong with me. I've seen people who were in worse situations than mine end up doing much better, and I'm not saying that out of jealousy I'm just trying to understand what I'm doing wrong. I'm not doing well financially don't have much resources or money to spend in expensive courses or stuff.
Has anyone here been in a similar place? Have you managed to rebuild your discipline, improve your mindset, and get your life back on track? If so, what actually helped? Not motivational quotes,I'm looking for practical advice or habits that genuinely made a difference.
For context, my goal isn't just to get good grades. I want to build a better mindset, become more disciplined, improve my social skills, and eventually build a career in finance and economics. Right now, though, I feel like I've wasted almost two years of my life and have nothing to show for it.I know I'm still young, but it's getting harder and harder to believe that things can get better. I'd really appreciate hearing from people who've been where I am and made it out. And please drop any resources/pages on any social media platforms/yt, or any books that helped you! or helped you improve yourself!
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I am a Student and Educational Models are very Expensive for me, but 3d Printing is cheaper So i made a website its also free for everyone, so Teachers can find the best 3d models and they can order it from there nearest 3d printing farm,
what do you think?
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Teachers who have taught in a charter or private school what has your experience been like?
Have you taught in a public school? If so, how is it better or worse than public schools?
What is your pay like?
What are the students like behavior wise?
How is your funding for the school and for the classrooms?
What state is your school located in?
My first job was a charter school and it was not a good experience. However, I know that charter and private school experiences vary. So I'm curious to know.
