People still need teachers. But how they interact with those teachers seems like it is going to change. My kids are moving into middle school now and I'm thinking a lot about how I will advise them regarding higher education.
Yes, people will always need teachers, but the number of teachers needed is going to decline sharply. A lot of faculty are going to lose their jobs over the coming years due to school and department closures. I think I will probably be okay, since my institution, while not the best, also isn't one of the marginal ones either. But it does mean that the quality of life for faculty will get worse, because we have less bargaining power.
I am not surprised by this in the least. Our family decided to start homeschooling a few years ago and I know of at least half a dozen other families who have started homeschooling since the pandemic.
What was viewed as a radical schooling method in the 90’s is increasingly common and well resourced.
The article attributes the decline mostly to lower birth rates and folks moving from states with the largest school districts (CA, NY & IL), but I can’t help but think that parents choosing to homeschool or send kids to private/charters is having a growing impact.
They've already been declining for a decade, so this also needs to be interpreted as additional decline from the baseline people probably have in their heads.
The political thing is complex regardless where you are in that or what made up problem they come up with, but I feel that it is the center point as to why it's happening. Theres also different problems with some teachers. You have to be lucky to find some really good teachers too.
People don't want to admit it, but since covid, remote learning is triggering everyone to discover that remote learning is convenient with emotional response as to what politicans pushes around with kinds of strange negativity, including technocrats who see that online learning is the future. One time, I saw a 90s kids comedy TV show called "All That" where two kids put on thinking caps and used them to provide answers in seconds, without paper or any computer screens. I think our tech lords are on to something with Neuralink implants and AI.
It's a projection for 2031 tho?
I see how I probably should have said:
But I think "it was" -- as in the babies already haven't been born -- feels more appropriate.
Well you can always make foreigners great again!
I like that idea! The more the merrier!
Are they going into homeschooling?
Homeschooling is growing rapidly where I am in Western Australia.
This is one of those slow motion crises that’s easy to ignore until it’s too late.
Fewer students = fewer future workers, smaller military recruiting pools, strained entitlement programs, and declining innovation
This is genuinely very scary to me and I often wonder if I should switch professions
People still need teachers. But how they interact with those teachers seems like it is going to change. My kids are moving into middle school now and I'm thinking a lot about how I will advise them regarding higher education.
Yes, people will always need teachers, but the number of teachers needed is going to decline sharply. A lot of faculty are going to lose their jobs over the coming years due to school and department closures. I think I will probably be okay, since my institution, while not the best, also isn't one of the marginal ones either. But it does mean that the quality of life for faculty will get worse, because we have less bargaining power.
I am not surprised by this in the least. Our family decided to start homeschooling a few years ago and I know of at least half a dozen other families who have started homeschooling since the pandemic.
What was viewed as a radical schooling method in the 90’s is increasingly common and well resourced.
The article attributes the decline mostly to lower birth rates and folks moving from states with the largest school districts (CA, NY & IL), but I can’t help but think that parents choosing to homeschool or send kids to private/charters is having a growing impact.
They've already been declining for a decade, so this also needs to be interpreted as additional decline from the baseline people probably have in their heads.
Who Controls our Children by Peg Luksik (1992)
great news overall, however the state-sponsored bullshido lessons will come in a form of homeschooling curriculum, AI-enhanced;
the parasite is after the formative years, a very crucial period of learning;
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Is this all k-12, higher ed, pre-k?
Public, k-12
Here's the original source:
https://bellwether.org/publications/how-student-enrollment-declines-are-affecting-education-budgets/
The political thing is complex regardless where you are in that or what made up problem they come up with, but I feel that it is the center point as to why it's happening. Theres also different problems with some teachers. You have to be lucky to find some really good teachers too.
People don't want to admit it, but since covid, remote learning is triggering everyone to discover that remote learning is convenient with emotional response as to what politicans pushes around with kinds of strange negativity, including technocrats who see that online learning is the future. One time, I saw a 90s kids comedy TV show called "All That" where two kids put on thinking caps and used them to provide answers in seconds, without paper or any computer screens. I think our tech lords are on to something with Neuralink implants and AI.
That’s a bigger shift than most people realize.
https://twiiit.com/marcportermagee/status/2045487026460373380