Posted on 08/12/2023 7:10:07 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Had a Jesuit chemistry teacher like that. One day before class I was lighting the Bunsen burner valve jets on fire, with no burner attached. For some reason I ended up on the floor. I later pleaded with the principle that it was a simple misunderstanding of how the equipment worked. Five demerits latter I was on my way.
Yep. Back then we knew better than to act up at school.
You got that right. We also had to do homework, know subject matter and pass tests to move up and onward.
Homework, as much as we hated it, instilled discipline and time management skills which are severely lacking in most of the students in public schools today.
I had a class in HS called Pre-Law. We had to hand in "briefs" that ran 10 or more pages. Not only that they had to be typed. Freshman year everyone had to take a mandatory typing class. After that almost every homework assignment in every class had to be typed. Most of could type 60 words a minute with very few mistakes. This was way before computers.
We had excellent education back in our day and the generations before us. Difficult, practical subjects that you had to master. Too bad it’s all gotten the destructive liberal forces on it, not to mention the total pedophiles and freaks running the schools. What a shame.
That will NOT improve the abilities of current "educators." More money to the same failing slobs will not make them rocket scientists. Teacher unions resist pay scales that include competence.
Yes to your mainstreaming comment. I’m not sure many FReepers realize that over the past few decades it has become policy to put all the special ed and behavioral problem students in with the regular classes. Along with other changes such as not being allowed to discipline children or permitting students to use phones at school, this has made teaching impossible in many schools.
Everyone thinks of the quiet somewhat mentally slow kid when this idea of mainstreaming is discussed when the reality is screaming autistic children, thugs harassing other students and destroying property, etc.
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