Posted on 04/04/2011 4:58:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
bttt
I’d like to think it means less competition for my kids, but as teens they are already frustrated with their peers and will not be happy having to work with the majority of them.
Sez here u talk like a fag and uh...ur shit's all retarded. 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now.
Like no shit!!!
On a more positive note, our quaint native patois will amuse our Chinese masters.
On a more positive note, our quaint native patois will amuse our Chinese masters.
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A lot of kids don't bother learning proper spelling and grammer because if they do write, they automatically get corrections from word processing programs.
I have always had teachers who insisted on correct grammar and spelling. Also after summer vacation when you went to the next grade the teacher used to ask us what we did on our summer vacations and some said something like I and my friends, or I an my brother etc, the teacher corrected the student and said never say I first, the correct grammar is my friends and I, or my brother and I etc
yeah, he be gettin all up in my FACE n stuff....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4
Totally like whatever, you know?, by Taylor Mali
As much as I enjoy broaching these topics with humor the results arent funny when these students get out into the real world to compete in a full-time job applicant pool. So there has to be a serious discussion of how this problem became so pronounced and what can be done about it.
I dunno. Some do okay...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUS6nKpddec [Language warning]
Its time for a new strategery. I think you gnome sayings. Gnome sayin?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ [language]
Like, u no were I bee coming from man.
“Ken you feel me, professor?”
“no means know” ping
As bad as their language skills are, their ethical skills are worse.
Why not skip college altogether, save a quarter million and get an online degree that people will call meaningless because it only cost a few hundred dollars.
Meaningless is an improvement.
We don't need KNOW education
We don't need KNOW thought control
KNOW dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey teacher leave them kids alone
All in all it's just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
***President George W. Bush was considered an idiot by most college professors simply because he was inarticulate.***
I’d forgive this professor for saying the above if it weren’t for the fact that he also said that he, himself, climbed the stairwell. He must be an amazing acrobat if he can climb up the housing of the stairs.
We pretty much got rid of high culture, though. Orchestral music? Opera? Even jazz is something for nerds now. Do people read poetry? Latin? Greek? Once upon a time, anyone aspiring to better themselves or to rise up in society tried to get an education in these areas. It made them think better. It made them speak better. It helped them understand "the long conversation" of culture which takes place over centuries of human striving.
I think the 1960s had a lot to do with this problem. All that fancy stuff -- getting dressed for dinner, nice manners, going to the symphony -- all of that was just bourgeois evidence of the stunted life of Americans living in the suburbs. Away with it! We don't need high culture!
Instead, we'll just, like, get funky wi' de homeboys and totally chill. Dat's what real peoples do. And stuff.
Very true.
My 14 year old niece does her state capital homework using Google.
The other day, I talked her into taking Spanish as an elective. Well, she’s so smart, she went on Google translator and asked me for different words.
“Cat”, I’d yell from the other room. She’d come back with-”cat!” “Mother”-she’d come back with mother etc.
After about ten words, I stroll into my office, and discovered she was clicking on the wrong ‘Listen’ button.
How could she think that all 10 words would be said the same way albeit a little strange due to lady computer voice-but really-talk about no common sense and lack of skills!
“Just Google it” is all she knows! And the teachers encourage it she tells me. The classes she can’t really Google/fake, she’s got 70’s in-it’s so frustrating to watch her fail in slow motion...
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