K-12 Education

[FearlessF]

I'd put mental illness on the top of that list and say that it contributes to the K-12 education issue and all other national issues

[JerseyTerrapin]

That's why I don't blame admin for anything.  All the bad news they have to give teachers is dictated by the school board/superintendent or by a lack of monies.
Kind of a middle man, sidetracked by an avalanche of BS while at the same time tasked with perpetual improvements. Yet treated like a QB:  all the credit and all the blame.
No one's job in education is easy and it's getting worse.

Thank you.  I never thought of it that way.  But yeah, I guess the administrators aren't all coming up with this (we do have one knucklehead, not sure what his exact title is, who loves acronyms and cliches, and never met a "progressive" new layer of standards and rules he didn't like).  And they have to deal with the completely out of control parents just like the teachers do.

My wife would definitely love to have LetsGoPeay come as principal to Washington Township High School...

[LetsGoPeay]

Thank you.  I never thought of it that way.  But yeah, I guess the administrators aren't all coming up with this (we do have one knucklehead, not sure what his exact title is, who loves acronyms and cliches, and never met a "progressive" new layer of standards and rules he didn't like).  And they have to deal with the completely out of control parents just like the teachers do.

My wife would definitely love to have LetsGoPeay come as principal to Washington Township High School...

I appreciate that. 

I abhor the acronyms and institutional lingo. I have a running list of the lingo that I update constantly. My girlfriend and I will pull it out every now and then and laugh about it. She works in construction management and is a project manager for a massive hospital project in Indy. She gets inundated with her fair share of management lingo as well.