Just teach history.”
JUST TEACH!!! SOMETHING relevant!!
“Graduates” from high school today are basically unemployable.
Cannot WRITE—They PRINT..Makes me nuts.
Cannot do math—only with a calculator- cannot do math in their heads—at all.
Cannot COUNT OUT CHANGE correctly...Give me a wad of change and bills and walks away —again—makes me nuts.
Cannot dress properly for the interview or for the actual job.
Cannot leave their cell phones- I-Pods—texting devices— in their cars and think they can use them at will during the work day when on the clock...Grounds for instant firing if I am the boss.
Cannot realize that all those metal attachments on their bodies are not attractive to the retail public and to some of us are downright disgusting.
The ‘new bakery owner’ who is interviewed on TV and he has a nose ring and other metal attachments. Shuuure—I am going to buy something Mr Nose Ring baked from scratch!!! NOT!
You all know what I mean.
Teaching today is a 13 year exercise in producing a lemon.
If we had lemon laws on students, the courts could NOT take care of anything else.
Reminds me of a job interview I was giving. The prospective employee was sitting there and stated. “May I axe you a question?” I said. “You use an axe to chop wood.” The interview was over.
You described about 20 to 25 percent of the students in my school. There are more good kids out there than many suspect. There are some major turds as I see you are aware. We have a population though, where I would estimate that 90% are “churched”.