{"id":27215,"date":"2024-06-01T05:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T05:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/term-paper-teachers-are-not-babysitters-why-education-should-end-at-the-9th-grade-2022-by-stephanie-wynne-assessment-of-cslos-1-2\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T05:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T05:01:49","slug":"term-paper-teachers-are-not-babysitters-why-education-should-end-at-the-9th-grade-2022-by-stephanie-wynne-assessment-of-cslos-1-2","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/term-paper-teachers-are-not-babysitters-why-education-should-end-at-the-9th-grade-2022-by-stephanie-wynne-assessment-of-cslos-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Term Paper: “Teachers Are Not Babysitters: Why Education Should End at the 9th Grade” (2022) by Stephanie Wynne (Assessment of CSLOs 1 & 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contents<\/h2>\n

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  1. Introduction <\/li>\n
  2. The Education System is Overwhelmed <\/li>\n
  3. Parents Subconsciously See Teachers as Babysitters <\/li>\n
  4. Teachers are Not Babysitters <\/li>\n
  5. Awarding Students with Free Time <\/li>\n
  6. Teachers, Take Your Power Back! <\/li>\n
  7. Rethinking Teaching <\/li>\n
  8. Don\u2019t Forget About Physical Books<\/li>\n
  9. The Curriculum Plan <\/li>\n
  10. Curriculum Benefits for the Student and Teacher<\/li>\n
  11. Get Rid of the Degree Structure<\/li>\n
  12. L.O.Y.O.T. Learn On Your Own Time: No more post-education unless you want to.<\/li>\n
  13. Not Needed: Administrators and Board Members<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/h3>\n

    Introduction<\/h3>\n

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    This paper is for parents, teachers, and students that think outside the box of traditional educational thinking.  Thinking that can be liberating, next level, creative while making a difference in the world. Per the 80\/20 (Kruse) rule only so many people will be able to join the workforce or create a business. The current educational model shows the children cannot argue with the teacher and are not satisfied because the teacher doesn’t have all the answers. <\/p>\n

    Then the student graduates with only enough skills to work at a local mom-and-pop pizza spot.  The more elaborate jobs like McDonald’s and Olive Garden will require master’s degrees to be considered for employment.  Most of the younger generation (Schwab) are looking to lead the future, but because they don\u2019t have the leadership and communication skills we have only the existing education model and as the saying goes \u201cInsanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.\u201d (Einstein)<\/p>\n

    Communication and critical thinking. will be the keys to opening the gates of the future. Students and their parents need to be able to convey their thoughts and opinions in a way that makes others think or are inspired. Some students talk like their under-educated parents with \u201chood talk\u201d but when the students enter the business world individuals have to learn the language of business or else be dancing in the mailroom preparing to deliver packages in carts for the executives.<\/p>\n

    So what’s the purpose of the education system then? To get students prepared for adult life? To prepare the students for life outside the parent\u2019s home? So students can function in society? Well, I\u2019m not so sure about that anymore. What if the student can function in society without education so then what?<\/p>\n

    The education system is antiquated and needs to be overhauled I propose getting the children in and out of school as quickly as possible. I propose that children only be educated thru the 9th grade or eleven years of school versus the normal eighteen years of school (preschool through four years of college). <\/p>\n

    Technically in our new digital age teachers can become obsolete. Many teachers are babysitters who tolerate students that don\u2019t pay attention because they are hungry, poor, or have a lack of interest. However, there are still plenty of hungry children who manage to get through school. I was one of them. The teacher does what they can with what they got. How can they deviate from a curriculum that the state put in place? The student is in class about 6.24 hours per day using California as an example. With each class being about 45 to 50 minutes using a jr. and high school as an example.<\/p>\n

    What can a teacher realistically teach students, especially if the students have a lot of questions, are preoccupied with their cell phones and video games? The teacher teaches what they can. The current curriculum is limited by what the teacher can talk about, seasoned with a few personal comments so the teacher has no choice but to regurgitate what they already know so that each class they teach is the same and within the time constraints.<\/p>\n

    Freire is pouncing on the teachers using elaborate words he was taught. He talk about the \u201cbanking system of operation.\u201d (Freire) which I don’t agree with. Freire must look in the mirror because obviously he was educated by the way he wrote. Freire was enrolled in law school at the University of Recife in 1943. He also studied philosophy, more specifically phenomenology, and the psychology of language and was an astronomer (Wikipedia). For him to lash out at teachers with fancy words is hypocritical. How did he learn? Did he not graduate from high school, college, graduate college? Apparently, the deposits paid off.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n

    The Educational System is Overwhelmed<\/h4>\n

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    The education system still uses the old technology of the teacher talking to the student and the student listening or not. No worries because one day there will only be teachers overlooking the work the students turned in while sitting at home drinking coffee. From my perspective, the parents have to be involved and now since many are working from home remotely, it means they can study with their children and learn as well.  The average reading level of an adult in the United States is at the 7th- to 8th-grade level.  <\/p>\n

    If the educational system keeps the teacher in front of the student with the likes of Google’s 1.5 billion websites available to check and research information, the teacher will not be able to keep up with an average of 24.5   students @ five classes per day in a California high school. Not including homework.<\/p>\n

    Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n

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    • The average American reads at a 7th- to 8th-grade level. <\/li>\n
    • High School students read at a 5th-grade level.<\/li>\n
    • High School dropout 8.9% (2019-20)<\/li>\n
    • College Graduate with no job 5.4% <\/li>\n
    • Students aren\u2019t interested in school<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h3>\n

      Parents Subconsciously See Teachers as Babysitters<\/h4>\n

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      Some parents subconsciously see teachers as babysitters, but the parents have a responsibility to learn what the kids are being taught. If the kids have any questions about what they\u2019ve learned for the day, they need to be able to speak with the parent(s) about it. But the parents don\u2019t have time to bother with homework because they gotta go to work to pay some bills! The parent has to be a part of the educational system.

      \u201c…the babysitter can watch Jr.\u201d \u201cWhat babysitter?\u201d her boyfriend Max asks. \u201cThe teacher silly,\u201d said Pam. \u201cOh right,\u201d agrees Mac while puffing on a fat blunt. \u201cThey give the kids free lunch and an evening snack, but I pack a little something extra because Jr. will be there until five o’clock if he gets a little hungry. He leaves when the teacher leaves so he doesn’t need anyone watching him,\u201d says Pam, stuffing Jr.’s backpack. \u201cSo you gonna be able to pick him up on time?\u201d asked Pam with her hands on her hips. \u201cCool no problem,\u201d says Max exhaling with a little cough. \u201cLet\u2019s go Jr.!\u201d said Pam ushering Jr. out the door. \u201cBy Max!\u201d Yells Jr. as Pam shuts the door and blows Max a kiss. \u201cGot it,\u201d said Max, grabbing the kiss from the air and stuffing it into his mouth while coughing.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n

      Teachers are Not Babysitters<\/h4>\n

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      Parents, can you imagine teaching a room of twenty to thirty students? Many of them are distracted with their cellphones and many teachers are irritated because the students aren’t listening. The teachers are not frickin babysitters! Parents, can you imagine being a substitute teacher for one day in 2022? <\/p>\n

      \u201cEverybody take your seats please,\u201d the parent says dryly. Are you f-ing kidding me? They want me to teach these goofloofs?\u201d The parent thinks as three overweight students walk out of the class talking loudly on their cell phones and smacking on gum. Why am I here? They don\u2019t want to learn the stupid oafs, she smiles to herself as she pulls her laptop out of her leather briefcase, plugged it in, and switches on the digital chalkboard.<\/p>\n

      \u201cOk everyone, let’s settle down. Settle down,” she said, staring blank-eyed at the students. The class clown fat Albert was popping his gum loudly when he said, \u201cLook at her granny shoes!\u201d The class roars with laughter. The parent felt her face get red hot and walked briskly out of the class, almost tripping over her granny shoes. The classroom screaming laughter echoed in her ears.<\/p>\n

      What the students didn\u2019t know is that she didn\u2019t get any sleep last night because her son had an asthma attack. Then she overslept and dodged in and out of traffic that took almost two hours to get there. They didn\u2019t know she barely had a moment to breathe and half a cup of coffee before she had to put on her fake face. They didn\u2019t know she will be at the school all day with five, no six classes and will have to grade over a hundred of incomplete, sloppily written papers after work. Not worth it the parent thinks! <\/p>\n

      So the parent has to tolerate the morons for a one-day paycheck. I don’t need this shit, the parent thinks as she looks down the hall for the nosey security guard and then pulls a tiny vodka bottle out of her bosom. The size you see on domestic airplane flights. She chugs it down, her second of the morning, and then slips it into a nearby trash container. She smiles at the granny shoes joke and walks confidently back into the class ready to take on anything. Not really giving a damn if anyone smells the vodka on her breath or not. Ok, maybe that\u2019s a little extreme or not. However, I propose\u2026<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n

      \u2026 Awarding Students with Free Time<\/h4>\n

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