Posted on 05/19/2021 6:54:31 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
This past year the COVID-19 pandemic has affected every facet of our society, perhaps nowhere more starkly than the education sector. Despite the massive disruption caused by COVID-19, teachers have persevered, with the best interests of students at the top of their minds. They deserve an enormous amount of thanks as well as the continued support from all of us to carry on in this challenging environment. Appreciation for teachers should not last just one week – they should constantly feel our gratitude.
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I’m homeschooled one while working, and before reaching 18, she was more well educated than many university graduates.
When I was in college I was shocked at students in the College of Education. There was a senior about to graduate who could not understand that .5 and 1/2 were the same thing. While there are many people who want to become teachers there are too many who end up in education because it is the only major they could pass.
Most of them deserve nothing but our scorn for what they’ve done to this Republic.
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I’m a public school teacher and I can vouch for the truth of this statement. Public education hs become a cash cow for the activist Left. Until that changes (which it will not), the inexorable decline of US unity and morality will continue.
Hey blame it on Google voice recognition. All I did was forget to proofread it..
Although it is pretty funny LOL
When I’m on my PC I type everything. But when I’m on my tablet I let voice recognition take care of it. And like most people I’ve gotten really sloppy about worrying about those types of word errors.
99.99% of them give the rest a bad name.
BUMP!
If ya fail to go back to classrooms ya should fail to get a check.
When they favored unions (e.g., SEIU) over science, education, kids, society; I quit all admiration. I can’t wait until their pensions run dry.
Let me follow up on attacking teachers. My laziness with voice recognition negates nothing of what I said. When my daughter was in the ninth grade she had to help her algebra teacher because the woman, who had a degree in math, couldn’t work some of the problems.
When my daughter was in marine biology she and one other girl were asked by the teacher to leave the class (for the semester) and not come back and and he would just give them A’s. He told them that because they were such good students and the rest of the class was so backward, that their presence disrupted things. Because the rest of the class couldn’t pass open book tests.
In her architecture class the teacher was giving Bs to A students unless they brought in tokens from some contest at McDonalds. Now you can deny that happened but I know the kids involved. My daughter refused to do it and consequently received a lower grade. I offered to intervene but she said that the stink would be so bad around school because of the scandal that she did not want to be connected with it.
I could recite dozens more stories. But I’m not going to waste the time. It just gets so absurd you think you’re on LSD when you look back on it. In the teachers’ defense the administrators were just as bad. I dealt with a number of them one on one, including school principals, guidance counselors, superintendent of schools, head of ESC, and school board members. I never dealt with so many people who were afraid to make any decisions for fear they would get called on them. I even had the superintendent of schools say to my face that if he agreed to my request in regards to my daughter’s request to skip a grade, what would he tell other parents who wanted the same thing? He agreed that she was capable of it, but he did not want to take the responsibility of making the decision. And there’s a whole lot more to that story than I don’t even attempt to outline here.
So yes, I probably could fill a small book with the insanity. Fortunately a good portion of her twelve years was homeschooling, actually 10 years since she went to college at sixteen.
We did know some individual outstanding teachers. And we were very fortunate that we did. But again that wasn’t the rule.
So if you don’t like my attitude about teachers and the public school system that’s your problem , because I dealt with them much more intimately than the average parent.
Under the same pair of idiots (Bloomberg and DumblASSio), you were not allowed to discipline students any more, particularly those of color. Consequently, any attempt to teach the class to those who wanted to learn was disrupted by the ferals who came to school simply to hang out with their buddies, sell drugs, and amuse themselves by disrupting classes--all with absolutely no consequences. I was threatened nearly every class period with bodily harm, every day, and no disciplinary measures would be taken, which the students well knew.
I am thrilled beyond belief to have had enough years in to retire. If I couldn't do it the right way, I had no desire to participate in the grand scheme of educational fraud being perpetuated. It's not teaching, it's just playing at it.
You have my sincere sympathy and admiration for dealing with that.
Not that it matters much, but you have my word of honor that all I have described is true and accurate (my wife will back me up on that). And I left out *plenty*.
That said we were truly blessed with several teachers that made so much difference and years later still speak of them.
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