"The Terrasque."
"Right. I shapechange into that and drop my jaw to the ground."
Posted on 02/12/2008 7:51:36 AM PST by grundle
In before the teacher haters.
You really just cannot make this stuff up.
You’re right—lately real life is giving Scrappleface a real run for its money
Just about every other employer has mechanisms for weeding out these sorts of people, and the fact that a school system wasn't able to do that reflects badly more upon the school system than this individual.
The wonderful Department of Edumacation strikes again.
A little hard to believe.
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In before the FReepers who hate leftist Unions and the institutionalised dumbing down of America.
Oh wait, I hate those things too.
What puzzles me about this is that you need a teaching credential to teach in California, and I was under the impression it involved a written test.
Not hard to believe. I knew many HS and college grads who could barely spell, much less read.
I'm with you. Just ain't buying it.
Literacy is a very basic skill and an extremely important one in our world, but it is quite surprising how easily people can get by without it. Also surprising is the lengths that the non-literate (or more accurately, semi-literate - total illiteracy amongst adults is extremely rare in the west) will go to avoid being “caught out”. They can be very, very inventive about disguising their lack of reading/writing skills.
Evidently not exclusively a recent problem...this guy graduated from college in 1961.
I say we bash illiterate teachers here all we want. It isn't as if they will ever know.
I am not sure he isn’t still conning his way to success.
I’ve seen surveys and news articles citing very high percentages of college students or college graduates who were functionally illiterate, usually defined as not being able to read a bus or train time-table, or comprehend a paragraph of prose. I have to say that I doubted those surveys for two reasons. First, I had to read and write like a lot in college, and I’m sure someone would have figured out if I couldn’t. Second, I’m sure that everyone I work with can read, although I’ve run into people who I need to work with, but who don’t work for my organization who will take a document (not always one I’ve written, so it’s not me), then hand it back to me and completely misunderstand what it says, which has lately caused me to wonder whether I’ve just run into a highly educated but illiterate adult.
He had high school and college diplomas. Civil service applicants can't even be tested for typing and computer skills under current Federal Regs.
I think it is possible. And if true, note the relationship between not being able to read and the bad behaviour in the lower grades.
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