Posted on 02/23/2014 5:18:26 AM PST by Libloather
These kids should learn write from wrong.
Earlier this month, The Post exposed a scheme at Manhattan’s Murry Bergtraum HS for Business Careers in which failing students could get full credit without attending class, but instead watch video lessons and take tests online. One social-studies teacher had a roster of 475 students in all grades and subjects.
Red-faced administrators encouraged a student letter-writing campaign to attack The Post and defend its “blended learning” program. Eighteen kids e-mailed to argue that their alma mater got a bad rap.
Almost every letter was filled with spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Haaah skrewels.
“You don’t have to be “smart” to learn to read, write, and do arithmetic. You don’t even have to be average. You do have to be taught. Those with lower native ability and in less helpful environments, especially, have to be taught by the proven, basic methods. Phonics, math facts, penmanship and composition. Drill, drill, drill. Memorize, memorize, memorize.”
Well said.
Because a skillful teacher can encourage students to want to do their homework, with rewards for the effort and not just handing in correct answers that were done by mommy and daddy or a tutor.
It's not hard at all to write assignments that students can do without their support group doing it for them. Homework should be reinforcement for what was learned in the classroom. In many cases, the problem is that the teacher fails to teach something well or at all, and the only students who "get it" are those who have someone else outside the classroom teaching it for them. And then they blame the kid for not having parents who can teach the lesson or pay someone to do so.
After I retired, I spent about four years as math coordinator at a high-end learning center. Some teachers were like gold mines for us....most of our students came from their classes and they needed someone to teach the material.
That may work better when home environments are more stable but when the chaotic home environment is characterized by blended families, loud music/TV and people chattering/yelling/arguing, how is the child expected to get anything done at home?
The most essential attribute to learn is to have the ability to learn.
Irony is a type of humor that requires a ‘smidgen’ of intelligence, rendering it incomprehensible to liberals.
Must have taught there the ‘Evelyn Woodhead Sped Reedin Korse.’
Why should resources be wasted on these people? Why bother to try to educate them at all? It’s a waste of time, effort, and money.
Let them meet at a recreation hall in the morning. They can play basketball, have double dutch contests, some type of vocational training, whatever. At least they will be off the streets for eight hours.
Encourage the 11% who are really interested in learning and forget the rest.
It’s hopeless and it’s never, ever going to change.
Enough is enough!
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Business Career and you watch videos? Unless you are going to be a Video game designer, what other business will let you goof off?
“Awarding” for “rewarding” isn’t the end of the world. The excerpts were selected for these errors, so they are not evidence that the letters were filled with them.
Even if they are typical, they show extensive use of compound syntax, and in that regard I would consider them very encouraging if I were an English teacher, which I ain’t.
I won't go into detailed particulars because you can Google them.
He resigned and faced criminal charges because he fondled himself whenever he met with Detroit School Superintendent Teresa Gueyse. Even given the lewdness of that action, Mathis crossed the line one day in 2010. Again, Google it.
Mathis resigned, then requested reinstatement to his position.
One board member, the Rev. David Murray, was in favor of the 55-year-old Mathis' reinstatement, saying:
“He’s a young man; maybe he didn’t know it was offensive to her. It’s not something I would do. He’s a young man. That’s just the way it is.”
I kid you not.
When liberals don’t have the facts on their side, they call names.
I did not say these children were dumb. They need to be exposed to capable teaching. Each child wants to succeed.
They ol’ skewel. We new skewel. Don’t be retartet
Thanks.
The one response was correct.
“We are the future of New Your city, and for some. The future of the country.”
I wondered that myself. Not only that, look at the stressed “e’s” across all the sampled replies, the common usage and forms of “helpxxx”, the stressed “pro” character strings in “program” and “reportxx”. A single illiterate teacher did them all!
Er, or she transcribed them to look better. The handwriting had to be atrocious.
At least they’re no longer required to learn to read cursive.
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