I may attempt to re-create said diatribe tomorrow, as my pain meds are muddling my mind and I expect to be asleep shortly. However, I cannot leave this post without defending my father. (Never, ever insinuate unflattering things about a first-born daughter's father! It does not go over well, I assure you.) It is highly presumptuous of you to presume that an Ed.D is any less "lofty" than a Ph.D. I would love to see you try to breeze through George Peabody College for Teachers (now part of Vanderbilt University) and their doctoral program. (You would have my father as a professor, should you take summer courses!) I can assure you that my father is perfectly able to "cut" any Ph.D program that is thrown at him. He has never graduated at any level less than the top of his class, from high school on up. He has an IQ of 172, and is as smart as the proverbial whip.
My mother's IQ is in the genius range as well (she's the parish nurse and an ordained minister at our church), and all three of us girls were expected to bring home nothing less than straight A's. In college, only 4.0 was acceptable. It was tedious, but thankfully I enjoyed my studies for the most part. The ones I didn't enjoy were tolerated long enough to "make the grade," then be thankfully dismissed. We dared not disappoint. It wasn't an unreasonable demand of any of us, actually. If we couldn't have cut it, they would not have demanded it.
Now I am extremely sleepy, and must be off. I am typing by rote as it is. Perhaps I shall try my original response to you on the morrow. (Oh -- one more thing that is horribly exasperating: having people throw my "newbie" status in my face every time I turn around. Who cares how long anyone has been a registered member on this board?! It shouldn't matter. I am not mentally or intellectually hampered simply because I didn't register on the FReepers' board until last month! Capiche?)
Have a good night's sleep. Thank you for the compliment. I don't consider you an intellectual midget either. (That is high praise coming from me.) *G*
FRegards,
SLJP (aka Beep)
What an awful, sinking feeling when you realize that a long, exhaustive reply has gone *poof!* into oblivion. I've had similar things happen to me when my browser freezes up just as I am about to post something. There is not even an opportunity to cut-and-paste it into a text file. I can see the text right in front of me, but the error message gives me no choice but to shut down the program.
I apologize for my comments about your father. I do not know him, and it was unfair of me to disparage him. It is true that my experience with DE's has not been a positive one. But that does not justify my making assumptions about your dad. From what you say, he sounds like a great teacher. Which is good, because we need all of them we can get! (Especially if he is a conservative! ;o)
Who cares how long anyone has been a registered member on this board?! It shouldn't matter.
I agree. I only brought it up by way of comparison to your questioning of my qualifications. Free Republic thrives on a continual stream of new, passionate members. It is trite but true: we were all newbies once. If you encounter oldtimers who question what you say based upon your "member since" date, please understand that we regularly attract disruptors who register new screen names and abuse the forum. So we do tend to be a little suspicious of newcomers until they have a track record of posting, and we have had a chance to feel them out.
This thread is getting long. If you like, you can reply to me via freepmail. That way we can avoid reloading this thread again and again.
Shalom.