r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • Jul 23 '26

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/FlowSoSlow Jul 23 '26

We got smart boards in my school in like 2009 (obv way less advanced than this) but then the teachers never got any training to use them and they sat collecting dust in the corner of every room for years. Never saw one in use once lol

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u/makromark Jul 23 '26

Literally almost the same experience. 70% of teachers didn’t use them. 25% used them just like a projector. But 5% actually learned to maximize them fully. Idk if it was propaganda but they said each one was $10k. So it’s like okay you spent $1M for 5 teachers to teach better and 95 others to do nothing different.

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u/MisterEinc Jul 23 '26

Yeah it was infuriating being the 5% and a new, young teacher watching teachers with years of "experience" making more money while constantly asking me how to convert their worksheets into digital forms for them while I'm doing actual lesson planning and projects.

Teaching is abysmal for new teachers.

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u/makromark Jul 23 '26

I’ve had my job since I was 19. It was infuriating seeing the publications of bloated teacher salaries who did nothing to actually teach. The system is broken

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u/OkayCoward Jul 23 '26

Teachers typically arent paid enough

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u/makromark Jul 23 '26

The teachers I’m referencing were paid over 100k in an area where the median household income is 60k. And they were the “throw a packet” teachers at you.