Yep, the problem exists all through the education structure... TAs also have it pretty bad! My father was a Mathematician at University... he always complained that at some point, they were de-incentivised to fail students... because that would mean that the completion metric would go down, and that would result in less funding! So... pass students at ALL COSTS! If they didn't understand the course material... make the examinations easier! Just make it easy to pass... who cares if they actually learn anything...
I do the private teaching/tutoring as a side job normally... I also teach violin, but my principal "day job" is as a performing musician (as a zzp in the Oude Muziek field). However, this year... Math/Physics teaching has become the major earner! Everything else has pretty much crashed to zero!
I have toyed with the idea of doing high school teaching... but the idea of teaching 30 people at once is a vastly different concept to teaching and inspiring one person at a time!
Thanks for the article, it will make for a good test of my Dutch! Happy that people in more influential positions are also thinking similar things.
PS: Thanks for the article gift!
You're welcome! I sort of assumed you were dutch sorry! 🤦♂ The Correspondent is also available in English now. If I see a nice article in English there, I'll share it with you 👍
No worries, I can read Dutch well enough to understand, but my speaking can be a touch variable!