The students in question:
Posted on 07/11/2012 9:24:38 PM PDT by neverdem
“A mime is a terrible thing to waste.”
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Don’t bother asking them to compose a business letter. There is no App for that unfortunately. And forget spellcheck. It’s written by those same “uneduca-mated” kids as well. (had to hyphenate it to get past Apple’s speller).
Garbage in garbage out. If you just look at what goes in the door of most High Schools, it is no surprise that the product is defective. If the families don’t value education..the kids don’t either. No reflection on any race or creed. You can have two parents with no education, but know that their kids must learn and study..and look presentable when they go out the door..and their kids will learn and achieve, but when parents don’t give a rats ass..neither do the kids. We got lots that don’t care.
Garbage in garbage out. If you just look at what goes in the door of most High Schools, it is no surprise that the product is defective. If the families don’t value education..the kids don’t either. No reflection on any race or creed. You can have two parents with no education, but know that their kids must learn and study..and look presentable when they go out the door..and their kids will learn and achieve, but when parents don’t give a rats ass..neither do the kids. We got lots that don’t care.
The students in question:
fie on the speller! can’t you make it take whatever you want, if you insist?
The focus shifted to teaching to the lowest common denominator. This was one of the primary reasons my dad retired a few years early. He couldn’t take being told by the HS principal that his classes were too hard (Advanced World History, US Government) and well that he couldn’t in good faith continue to teach about the US government as it no longer resembled anything like the Founding Fathers designed.
I read the other day that if you add a letter at the end of a word and then delete it , it will let it go by the spellchecker.
Student-teacher ratio in the typical classroom is probably different than in the aggregate due to the nearly one-on-one teaching that goes on in special ed classrooms. I don’t know where those kids were 50 years ago, but they weren’t in school. These are not kids who just need a little remedial instruction, but kids with severe handicaps that will probably prevent them from ever being employed. Many will need to be in custodial care for their entire lives. I feel sorry for these kids and their families, but I also question the amount of education dollars that are allocated to them.
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I saw some product advertised months ago on TV (some kind of “dragon” in the name), by which a person could speak to a gadget and their words would print out on a screen in a document. While the commercial showed a handicapped person using it, I believe the true target was people who say “wiff” and “breaffest”; the gadget would translate their gibberish into intelligible English. Basically, rather than fix the problem, they will just adjust to it (while keeping lowered expectations for companies to hire them).
In a local convenience store I ordered a sandwich via a touchscreen app; it prompted you to be very specific with what you wanted, including quantities of condiments and such. I was speaking to the “replacement American” making the sandwich in Spanish (he spoke NO English); the buttons I was pressing were probably showing up simply as pictures to him on the other side of the counter (I don’t think most people realize how many of our Hispanic “replacement Americans” are illiterate - in Spanish).
I save emails from some staffers in case their qualifications are brought up in the event I promote someone else; it will stop the discussion in its tracks.
I have a friend that taught second grade in an inner-city school; he had “students” who would refer to a book as “that” or “that thing”. They literally had never seen, or used the word for, books; the fact is that a growing number of households simply don’t “have books” in them.
Teachers are filled with a million excuses as to why their students are impossible to educate (that bear no reflection on the teachers themselves); rather than debate the point with them, I tell them they should simply draw a daycare worker’s salary (with no education requirements at all for the job) and stop wasting money that could be better spent on children born to loving, caring parents that actually care about their education.
“When I tell people that, just as an example, the average Boston teacher’s salary is around $82,000, they refuse to believe me.”
One factor that I believe was critical in Governor Christie’s win here in NJ was the fact that the Asbury Park Press released the salaries of all of the public school teachers in NJ; it ended the whole debate as to whether or not teachers were paid enough, and made it clear that the building were crumbling because so much of the money went right to teachers’ salaries.
Check out what the teachers are making: http://php.app.com/edstaff/search.php
This comes not only from "mainstreaming" but also multiculturalism. It's been going on for years. Now the products of this ed philosophy are teaching in schools and colleges. Go figure.
(Not deliberately putting a values wrench on this, just stating a difference between now and the days of, say, schools in late 19th to mid-20th century, and now.)
>>I don’t think most people realize how many of our Hispanic “replacement Americans” are illiterate - in Spanish
On a related note, I know a guy who designed the graphic elements that show a Taco Bell line worker how to make their menu items out of their various raw materials. No text, all graphics, in those instructions.
“A mime is a terrible thing to waste.”
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