OT: For Cathy F

"The system" didn't fail my son, who's mostly had good teachers, 3-4 spectacular ones he considers to be saints, and two losers* who are a waste of oxygen. That's about the same ratio I remember from the late 1960s when I was in high school. He'll graduate with around a 96 GPA. He thought he was going to major in either physics or aerospace engineering, but his AP bio teacher has thrown a wrench in the gears by getting him so interested in fisheries biology that now, he can't decide which way to go.

Theory: Parents used to do a better job of backing up the teachers, but over the years, their contribution has diminished. Why?

• The kids put together a petition for the principal, asking that one of the losers (10th grade math teacher) either get a kick in the ass, or be replaced. He got fixed. Nobody's talking, but it's assumed that the principal read him the riot act.

Not where she lives, a place you know nothing about.

In all fairness, you're talking about Floriduh.

Judging by what I see among the teenagers, nope. They can't even figure change. If I give them 20.13 for a 5.13 bill, they hand me back the change and give me 14.87. I learned how to properly count change back in THIRD GRADE. I learned how to work multiplication tables and multiple multiplications in THIRD GRADE. We never had to review the times tables after that, it was assumed that we knew them. As a matter of fact, after working in the real world a few years, I got so good at math that I got a PERFECT score on my first Accouting test, which really skewed the curve. But as I explained to the teacher, the boss expects me to be RIGHT all the time in the real world. 60% is not a passing grade in life. I probably could have CLEP'd out of the first Accounting Class, most of what I studied I'd already studied in life.

How like a liberal. I disagree with her opinion, so I'm the ignorant boor from Flyover country. We ought to put the liberals in their own country and see how long they last before they don't have us to support their tomfoolishness anymore.

Liberals are:

Elitist, they think they know better than people that disagree with them. Advocates of Big Government. We know better so we ought to dictate from on high. Advocates of the current public school mess, so they can indoctriante our youth with their crap.

Charles of Schaumburg.

They're too busy doing JUST EXACTLY what Pink Floyd was talking about. Thought control. Now with their hate crime (question, name me a crime that isn't done with a motive of hate?) rules they are attempting to create "Thought Police".

May they rot in HELL for what they've done to the kids.

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. (Matthew 18:6)

Charles of Schaumburg

How often did you meet with your kids' teachers? Ever?

I've given up, except in places like the Amish vegetable stand. They know how to give change and appreciate a little extra effort to reduce the 'silver' they have to give.

I wonder if the Amish have their own schools?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

They DO!!!!

A couple years ago, I got short-changed at a U.S.P.S service center, yes that's right at our ever dependable U.S. Postal service. I handed a $20 dollar bill and received change back for a ten. I can't prove it, but I think it was intentional. I demanded my correct change, she wouldn't give it up, I threatened to call the police because even though they said they would get back to me, once I left the place I could kiss my money goodby. Finally another woman who was standing in line came forward and said she saw me give her a $20 bill. When I got home I called the US Postal inspector and reported the incident and suggested they give a course in money handling. Now I see that whenever I put cash down on the counter, the person leaves the bill on the counter until the change is given. That is the way it should be and not hidden away in the till.

I watch other people at various store check out counters and most of them don't even look at their change. I suspect short changing is going on quite a bit. It will decrease with time as more and more people use debit cards. I'm using one most of the time now rather than cash or check.

Thank our wonderful public edjucashun system. At least when I was a kid, we were taught how to do things right. And were also taught that doing things wrong was wrong. Now with their freekin situantional ethinics (The hippies said, if it feels good, do it. Now they teach our kids there is no such thing as true truth.) they probably don't even feel bad that they did wrong.

Thanks.

Charles of Schaumburg

Charles of Schaumburg.

To use a debit card you have to press 1 for English....LOL

There's that good Christian attitude shining through again.

Cathy

School prayer has nothing to do with it.

Since public schools cost less than half as much as good private schools, how are we going to fund a purely private system that the poor can't afford by themselves? Charter schools have been shown to provide no improvement, and school voucher laws place no fee caps and are therefore little more than subsidies for high-priced academies.

Is that based on purely anecdotal evidence?

The USSR is a bad example for your argument, and from our experience with hiring Russian emigrants in Europe, the Russian school system was so academically rigorous that the average Russian high school graduate was as proficient at math as the average American college graduate who didn't major in science or math.

The home schooling advocates I know (6 of them) want their kids protected from science. What a trend, ya know?

Why do you insist that teachers must either speak only with southern accents or spell badly?

Why do you insist that teachers must either speak only with southern accents or spell badly?

Wait till you see how he sometimes plays games with capitalization, making up rules to suit his disastrous ideas. He claims kids learn by example, and then provides the worst example possible.

And only slightly before your day, we were taught by some, even in church, that some races were inferior to others.

"Situational ethics" wasn't from the Flower Power generation but libertarian Ayn Rand, who disliked liberals (and later also conservatives).

I can understand being evaluated by mathematicians, but why also by lowly accountants? Not only aren't they academics, but they barely go beyond basic arithmetic.

Can we assume you do not patronize your local McDonalds?

mike

Can we assume you never noticed the kinds of people who did nothing but pump gas 40 years ago?