Right. Thaks for this. See the book "The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University." We have "Centers for Teaching Excellence" at colleges now staffed by managers--called "faculty"--who have never taught in a classroom. Such groups "train" and control the faculty through a series of mandated inanities called professional development workshops that change with the latest trends each year. Maddening. See also Frank Herbert's notion that all societies and institutions ultimately collapse because of the inevitable bloating of management, resulting in an unsupportable, non-productive, top-heavy structure.
Also, the insights of meddling politicians with law degrees is rarely helpful.
I am mostly on your side since micro-managing is mostly a negative force except in areas of public safety and personal and public health — where the stakes are life and death. Outside of that, it’s mostly demoralizing. However, I wonder if you have considered what I believe are the larger problems in education. Since the 70s, an earlier Republican form of our current Doge systematically dismantled local school districts by consolidating them into much larger districts. This created mega high schools that not only combined children from several different districts, but also added 7th & 8th grades to the high school campus thus eliminating jr high schools. I think we can agree that college-style campuses are not conducive to the developmental stages of children in jr and sr high. Simultaneously, they kicked their cafeteria, maintenance, and bus services to the curb making them contract workers — companies like Kelly Services rehired the same workers at significantly reduced pay and benefits.
Also a problem is the use of tenure, which was once applicable to only college/university professors for academic freedom as it related to the expression of their academic work and research, with K-12 for the protection of jobs in and of themselves.
I do feel for teachers in challenging districts because what the teacher tries to impart to the student is often unraveled by the parents at home. That is an issue no one has an answer to.
Right. Thaks for this. See the book "The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University." We have "Centers for Teaching Excellence" at colleges now staffed by managers--called "faculty"--who have never taught in a classroom. Such groups "train" and control the faculty through a series of mandated inanities called professional development workshops that change with the latest trends each year. Maddening. See also Frank Herbert's notion that all societies and institutions ultimately collapse because of the inevitable bloating of management, resulting in an unsupportable, non-productive, top-heavy structure.
Also, the insights of meddling politicians with law degrees is rarely helpful.
Hear! Hear! And more books to loan from the library. Thank you.
Wow. In Missouri this is coming from the DEI-panicking state legislature but every word could apply anyway.
I am mostly on your side since micro-managing is mostly a negative force except in areas of public safety and personal and public health — where the stakes are life and death. Outside of that, it’s mostly demoralizing. However, I wonder if you have considered what I believe are the larger problems in education. Since the 70s, an earlier Republican form of our current Doge systematically dismantled local school districts by consolidating them into much larger districts. This created mega high schools that not only combined children from several different districts, but also added 7th & 8th grades to the high school campus thus eliminating jr high schools. I think we can agree that college-style campuses are not conducive to the developmental stages of children in jr and sr high. Simultaneously, they kicked their cafeteria, maintenance, and bus services to the curb making them contract workers — companies like Kelly Services rehired the same workers at significantly reduced pay and benefits.
Also a problem is the use of tenure, which was once applicable to only college/university professors for academic freedom as it related to the expression of their academic work and research, with K-12 for the protection of jobs in and of themselves.
I do feel for teachers in challenging districts because what the teacher tries to impart to the student is often unraveled by the parents at home. That is an issue no one has an answer to.