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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dichotomy on January 25, 2011, 10:00:03 AM
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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 :rolleyes:
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I personally love the California public educational system! Getting almost all classes cut, including the world class band that actually MADE the school money! It's so much fun, especially when surrounded by people who are wasting the states money, and the only reason why they are going to school is the free lunches they are given because mommy and daddy did the same thing as well and just spoil their children! It's so much fun knowing that your favorite teacher is being cut next year because the teacher with tenure won't lose their job and because of that, the senior teacher doesn't even care about teaching the students! I just love it! [/sarcastic rant]
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glad I taught him how to be inquisitive on his own.
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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.) (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
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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.) (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
This surprises no one on this board...except maybe the people from overseas who read these posts.
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But OH! what good self esteem skills modern kids have!
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Yup, as long as we rank #1 in Self Confidence, there is nothing separating us from domination.
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To be honest, the only thing that High School is setting me up for is getting a college degree witch is almost the same as a piece of paper, High school sets you up for college these days, and if you are not planning to go to college, the school system does not really care about you.
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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. :rolleyes:
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Forum lag... No fun :noid
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I'm reading but the last time I spoke my peace about a political thread Skuzzy booted me for a week. So my answer to this one, even though I have a major league opinion based on many, many years of experience is... :noid :bhead
Boo
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Considering teachers in my city's education system aren't permitted to give Failing grades, we're definitely headed in an interesting direction. The excuse being used by our board of education.... "We would hurt their feelings..."
Come on bean counters, don't you realize the only thing more fun than counting a student absent is giving them an "F"?! :D
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*ducks*
Sorry Skuzzy.. no politics intended..
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In no way will i be like that once i get my teaching degree. :salute
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Well, I am a highschooler, and it isn't all bad :lol
For starters, we've got some bright kids, and some kids whose relevance in class I question. So that these kids don't hang me by my balls from the flagpole, I've changed their names. Oh what the heck, I'll use just the first names.
Kyle: Barely passing World History II Honors, and more interested in the girls than his grades
Caroline: Somewhat better than Kyle, but still utterly uninterested
Furthermore, there's a teacher who can't even begin to comprehend how backwards his class is. This is a computer programming class, and he neither requires notes nor looks at our code :rolleyes: This guy is so clueless that he sits at his computer for the full 70 minutes, occasionally yelling out "Productivity!".
There are other teachers that seem stuck up, and simply unconcerned with their responsibilites. My Geometry teacher regularly shows up to class late and then procedes to have telephone conversations, while the class just sits in shock.
My other teachers:
Biology: Showing signs of the madness of old age (pity, she is so kind to us :( )
French: Imagine the twisted love child of R. Lee Ermey and Velma Barfield, we're talking really messed up
However, my English and History teachers are exciting, engaging and fun, and always know how to handle a rough day in class.
-Penguin
For those of you who don't know who Elma Barfield is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Barfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Barfield)
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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 :rolleyes:
In Colorado, that teacher would not last a semester with the new state laws.
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Dicho - The Texas Educatin' Agency doesn't actually have any certified teachers. It has dentists and lawyers, both very evil.
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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 :bhead
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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. :rolleyes:
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 (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.) (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
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Used to go to high school in new york, education sucked!
I don't even remember studying for tests, it was all common sense.
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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) :headscratch:.
Point being, it varies drastically between schools regardless of state.
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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) :headscratch:.
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.
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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.
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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 (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."
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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 :rolleyes:
i'd be making some phone calls. not very nice ones either.
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I would but I have a potential real life major league furball coming in the near future and need to focus on that.
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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 :rolleyes:
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.