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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 4h \ parent \ on: Purpose of Education Education
In public schools, there's a lot of very poor quality teaching going on, even in vocational classes. And I'm talking about "good" public schools, not inner-city hellscapes.
For instance, a young person I know was taking a cooking class. It was overall not terrible, but:
- The teacher was absent a lot. Lots of teachers are gone a lot. Then you have a substitute. The substitute is NOT allowed to actually let the kids cook! So they have to read about cooking, or watch a video. Probably less than half the time are they actually cooking.
- Most of the time, the kids were taught to make sugary crap - cakes, cookies, sweet crepes, etc. Very little of "here's how to cook a decent, healthy meal".
Another example - I took a woodworking evening class at a public high school recently. I had high hopes, but the actual teaching was absolutely miserable.
- It made me sick to see tens of thousands of dollars of woodworking equipment so poorly treated. Very expensive equipment, not even any simple instructions on how to use it. Lots and lots of expensive wood, wasted because of easily avoidable issues.
- The woodworking teacher was awful. He picked a really complicated project, using the most complex equipment, and was then often unavailable to show us how to use it. Out of 6 students, only 1 finished the project (the one with prior experience).
Good teaching, with good, high quality teachers, is very rare in the public school system.