Posted on 11/05/2013 7:34:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Well, Cohen must be Jewish as well. His last name is about as popular for Hebrew as Smith for English-speakers.
Should be posted in every newsroom around the country.
bfl
>> a method of consensus building known as the “Delphi technique.”
Study up on this, boys and girls.
There are quite a few teachers here at FR.
This is my last year of teaching (32 years)
I've got to head off to school. Thanks again.
To put it more bluntly, most of them should never be allowed contact with any children. I thank God I never had children because I would be the kind of parent you read about that ends up being arrested due to interaction with a teacher.
Do I have a bias against teachers? To a certain point, yes. My first four years in school, I was sent to the special ed class only because at the time I had trouble with s and th words. Not one teacher tried to work with me on that. For years and years my handwriting was atrocious. Only between my junior and senior year did it improve because my oldest brother saw I was holding my hand wrong. He corrected it and set up a system for me to write/print better. No teacher ever tried to correct that - just gave me bad grades. I had teachers make fun of me in front of the class because I did not know the answers to math problems. I had a teacher in the 5th grade that would angerly throw chalk and erasers from the front to the back of the class, hitting the wall. When I started school in Maryland, the bathrooms were labeled lavatories. In 67 I started going to a Virginia school and the students - led by the teacher - laughed when I asked to go to the lavatory.
I could go on and on. And I think the main reason this occurred is because I came from a dirt poor family, a broken home. Teachers knew that, put me in the discard box, and concentrated on the students from stable, middle-class and up, two parent households.
School was a hellhole for me. I started reading and learning on my own, picking up more information than the teachers knew. I have an excellent memory, able to remember what I read. I started coming to school only a couple days a week, read the assignments, pass the tests.
This crap about stuff being placed in your record is just that - crap. I did 20 years in the Navy, made rank, worked and set up equipment that my teachers would have to hire people to set up for them. None of the stuff from my past ever came back to bite me. And I firmly believe if you cannot do, you teach. And if you cannot teach, you become a librarian. And if you cannot be a librarian, than you get appointed to the education board where you make up rules to suit your socialist utopion fantasy world and make life more miserable for students and eventually the public.
Most teachers are dumber than dirt and by their very stupidity, cause evil to happen.
My pleasure, take care.
I’m sorry to hear about all your negative experiences with schooling. I personally had good experiences with schooling. I guess it shows just how much our childhood experiences influence our thoughts even as adults.
As an aside, thanks for your service.
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The unvarnished truth.
“Most teachers are not doing evil things at work.
What do you suggest teachers should do? Not accept the paycheck...quit?”
Yes,Quit! - before an outraged public has them tried for assorted legal offenses and then all their ill-gotten pensions, policies, assets, etc are subjected to forfeiture upon conviction.
What should anyone do if their employer turned out to be part of a vast illegal enterprise devoted to destruction of the Republic?
“I was just teaching the curriculum” will work little better than did the “Good German” plea “I was just following orders.”
Homeschool PING!
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