[wintertime]

The students in my community college art program are essentially innumerate! They need calculators for most simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They can not read a ruler! Fractions are a mystery.

Yes,...I have CONTEMPT for the teachers who passed these students from grade to grade.

I have CONTEMPT for the principals who awarded them MEANINGLESS high school diplomas.

I guess that makes me obnoxious and an egoist.

[miss marmelstein]

I love the kids in my classes! But in between learning the mother sauces, we do nothing but take quizzes. 4 or 5 quizzes a week. Nuts. I’m thinking of transferring to a pastry school in Manhattan.