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1 posted on 01/20/2015 10:05:12 AM PST by reaganaut1
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bump


2 posted on 01/20/2015 10:10:40 AM PST by EveningStar
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Keep in mind this.

1. The teachers of the 1900-1960 period were mostly people who’d done one single year at some teacher’s junior-level college, gotten a certificate, actively read the classics, and structured the classes to fit their way of teaching. In the late 1960s as I attended, they still had a couple of teachers without any bachelor degrees.

2. If a person had a deep background in physics, and wanted to take five years off from their professional side to be a regular science teacher...most states would make it a hard and difficult experience getting the stupid certificate. Unless you attend their special teacher classes....you won’t move up into the ‘special group’.

3. The twelve-group system is now regarded mostly as a professional kid-sitting service, where most kids could pass a test in the tenth grade and just graduate at that point....moving on. We waste time, resources, and funding....keeping the current system going, and providing major leagues sports some potential help in training future athletes.


3 posted on 01/20/2015 10:12:40 AM PST by pepsionice
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its because of a lack of funding

just ask them


4 posted on 01/20/2015 10:12:45 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
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Wait a minute, I have been told that teachers are underpaid and over worked and have allot more ‘education’ than the average American worker and a lifetime pension worth millions of dollars is little to ask for a twenty year career.

Have they all lied to me?

5 posted on 01/20/2015 10:12:46 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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My final years in high school, 1972, was the first year of integration in Tampa and I had my first ever black teacher. I was appalled by his blacklish. He “taught” science, but he didn’t really TEACH anything. He was there. He kept the black male students under control and that was about it.

This was the year where the WWII generation was retiring at an increasing rate and the hippie kids were cutting their teeth on their first teaching gigs. What a huge difference that was. The WWII generation stressed patriotism. The hippies were saying that Western civilization sucked and we all needed to chill and eat only vegetables.


7 posted on 01/20/2015 10:29:22 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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I had a friendly competition the other day with a teacher who's a friend of my sister.It was state capitals.She asked me about a dozen and then I asked her about a dozen.We didn't do the obvious ones....that is Massachusetts->Boston...we both did the obscure ones.I answered all but one of her questions correctly....she didn't get a single one of mine.
9 posted on 01/20/2015 10:54:59 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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Not to sound arrogant or anything, because I know many fine, intelligent teachers, but when I was in college it was kind of a joke that if you couldn’t make it in any other degree program you got an educator degree.


15 posted on 01/20/2015 1:48:41 PM PST by Rusty0604
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Thus we get the blind leading the blind.

More like the stupid indoctrinating the innocents.

19 posted on 01/20/2015 4:11:13 PM PST by roadcat
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no surprise. I got a teaching certificate in Texas, then a credential in California. All the classes were a joke. Just showing up ensured you’d pass. The last class I took, I wanted to see how little i could do and still pass. I got to the point where I wasn’t studying, wasn’t reading the book, skipped classes, then did the test as fast as I could. still got an A. I have no idea how anyone got Bs and Cs.


21 posted on 01/21/2015 5:15:37 PM PST by Hardens Hollow (Formerly yorkiemom. I couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow. Join us!)
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