Posted on 06/18/2006 5:50:31 AM PDT by Valin
WHESS,
Honestly, your post is hard on the eyes. Did you learn about paragraph spacing in your school of education?
I'll get back to your post later when I have more time and patience to sort through it.
Is that your problem with teachers? Have some of the teachers in your family made you mad?
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Amelia,
Do they teach this liberal debating tactic in schools of education? I call it the "Red Herring Psychoanalysis" diversion. Honestly, I am reminded of the character Lucy in the Peanuts cartoon strip. She had a booth with a sign that read, "Psychiatrist is in. Five cents, please". Well, your attempts at probing my state of "madness" is worth less than five cents.
The issue at hand is teacher salaries, NOT wintertime's state of "madness".
wintertime, do you have a college degree?
What sort of really important work do you do that allows you to spend most of the day posting on the internet?
Were you educated in a public school?
Not with two "m"s in it, it isn't.
"my parents always put my sister and I ahead of everyone else."
If they are old-school teachers, they'll paddle you for not saying "my sister and me".
Schooling = Education Myth.
That's why I put my disclaimer at the bottom of my post :-P
Once I learned the "trick" to figuring that out, I never got it wrong again! :)
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that. I've worked in commission sales in some form or another for 15 years. After awhile whatever the current company is selling, it's the same as the last company.
Meanwhile my father has taught junior high school history for 42 years. The children are becoming dumber by the day it seems. He has it seems to spend more time coming up with more and more basic lesson plans and ways to engage the little rugrats. Some things children less than 10 years ago understood implicitly is now considered 'too hard' or 'takes away from little Johnny's extracurricular activities'. Is some of it teachers from earlier in the child's career? Perhaps. But I guarantee you in this feel good nonsensical society we now live in, it's a lot easier to blame teachers than admit a lot of the problem in teaching lies at home with the parents
I'd take commission sales as the easier job any day of the week
Adults think that if children are swindled into believing learning is fun, that they will apply themselves. Nonsense. If I ran a school, I'd tell all the new students: learning isn't fun, so don't expect it to be. But learning is necessary, so you will do it. If you experience some moments of fun during the process they are incidental so be thankful for them.
That would get them started off on the right foot. And they would harbor no false or unreasonable expectations. Therefore there would be no disappointment.
We are not "rich" and we sent our six kids to private school. I got to know most of the parents at the private school, and none of them were "rich", either. So much for that ignorant stereotype.
Private schools will continue to outshine public schools even if vouchers are implemented. Private schools only need admit as many students as they wish to handle. They will also continue to have discipline, unlike public schools. Private school teachers are usually paid less than their public counterparts. Private schools have very little administrative costs, and the cost per student per year is about 1/3rd what the public schools cost. Some public schools will survive and improve their product under a voucher system. Others will go under, and good riddance to them.
I'm not sure where you live but there are some pretty elite private schools around here. They enjoy a well deserved excellent reputation. There's no need to be insulting.
And maybe because "they need only admit as many students as they wish to handle"-their reputations will continue to be wonderful. You answered my question, thanks.
We had a principal who thought we should keep the kiddies entertained so they would learn.
My contention was that many things in life are necessary, but not fun, and the sooner they learned that, the better off they'd be...especially since, if they didn't apply themselves, they were destined for jobs that definitely weren't going to be fun, and the bosses weren't going to care that they weren't enjoying themselves.
Needless to say, that principal & I didn't get along well.
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There should be a bumper sticker:
Look no further-I know it all.
You may be right. When they turn a skating rink into a successful private school, give me a call. I will tip my hat to you.
Nice article.
The solutions to the public school problems are both simple and inexpensive: Institute standards for both the teachers and the students, then stick to them.
But since education isn't really the primary function of the school system anymore, the simple fixes aren't much of a priority.
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