A first rate education

[oakranger]

I have to question the quality of my sons school when I get a gmail from him this morning.

Literal words the first period teacher told us: "Get out your computers and look like you are doing something."

Way to go teach 

In Colorado, that teacher would not last a semester with the new state laws. 

[Tupac]

Dicho - The Texas Educatin' Agency doesn't actually have any certified teachers. It has dentists and lawyers, both very evil.

[Plawranc]

my humanities teacher = Tree hugging humanitarian

my english teacher = Conservative disciplinarian

my maths teacher = kind considerate guy who is not to be ffed with

my PE teacher = Legend, nuff said

my science teacher = man who must perish in the depths of helll

that sums up my school 

[Ardy123]

I live in KY and I've never had a horrible teacher, I have had ones that don't teach very well (maybe one every other year) but all of the rest of them are excellent teachers.


They say we're uneducated hicks.  

But they taught you that the earth started 6 thousand years ago and man lived along side t-rex....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40445249/ns/us_news-life

so its no wonder why...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/25/science.student.assessment/index.html?eref=rss_us&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_us+(RSS:+U.S.)
Only 20% of high school seniors can handle material that is grade appropriate in science

[MachFly]

Used to go to high school in new york, education sucked!
I don't even remember studying for tests, it was all common sense.

[Ardy123]

Went to school in California... Then went to university in Oregon... I was surprised that after hearing how bad California schools were, I could breeze through the first 2 years of university and write better than many of my classmates who went to Oregon schools (which took pride in being better than schools in CA) .

Point being, it varies drastically between schools regardless of state.

[Pigslilspaz]

Went to school in California... Then went to university in Oregon... I was surprised that after hearing how bad California schools were, I could breeze through the first 2 years of university and write better than many of my classmates who went to Oregon schools (which took pride in being better than schools in CA) .

Point being, it varies drastically between schools regardless of state.

Fun Fact: California may have very low testing scores, but the golden state also has the highest standards if I recall.

[Ruah]

went to private school, private uni, and i teach at a private uni. . . the quality of student from public schools is terribad and they have to work a lot harder if they are going to pass my class.

lesson - send your kid to private school if you can afford it.

[fbWldcat]

But they taught you that the earth started 6 thousand years ago and man lived along side t-rex....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40445249/ns/us_news-life

No, this is some sort of topic that I will not discuss as it will get the thread started down the wrong path and also get me ejected from the board for a week.

The link you posted is not an example of schooling, it is "let's put some stuff out here and see who bites."

[CAP1]

I have to question the quality of my sons school when I get a gmail from him this morning.

Literal words the first period teacher told us: "Get out your computers and look like you are doing something."

Way to go teach 

i'd be making some phone calls. not very nice ones either.

[Dichotomy]

I would but I have a potential real life major league furball coming in the near future and need to focus on that.

[Babalonian]

I have to question the quality of my sons school when I get a gmail from him this morning.

Literal words the first period teacher told us: "Get out your computers and look like you are doing something."

Way to go teach 

You probabley don't even want to know how many times a week a teacher would instruct us to do this while I was receiving my quality education in the 90s from LAUSD... except we didn't have computers, over half our classes didn't have any books issued on the subject, any most kids never had any casual reading material with them (and most that did had magazines not condoned by the administrators).  My personal favorite experience was my senior year TA assignment, was with a teacher I was cool with (he'd send me out with a pass to get stuff from his car for him, including his cigarettes (this was more for security, leave your smokes somewhere visible in your car inside the teachers parking lot and chances were good someone would break into their cars just for the smokes before noon time, especialy if the students knew you smoked they would checkout those cars often), or over to the starbucks for some coffee routinely) for first period and I'd come into school late most mornings with no penalty... unless he was impatiently waiting for me to get there so I could go grab him his latte, asap.