Posted on 03/21/2019 5:51:34 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Btt
I returned to college in 1989. While in grad school I had to teach, do odd jobs, be a gopher for my Prof and give tests.
The first time I gave one, I was shocked to see students cheating openly. Looking on other people’s paper etc. I warned them and they kept doing it. I finally had to threaten them.
They weren’t dumb btw, just cheaters.
CC students take placement tests. Some are placed into remedial classes. Your friend’s sister probably teaches remedial math.
Other students are placed into the college-level math courses.
Educators are taught badly if children have already lost interest just as they are entering the sweet spot of education, around 5th and 6th grade where children naturally have open brains and in years gone by, when taught well, they are able to learn languages like Latin and deeper math concepts.
They thing is educators don't even know they are teaching for bad results. It was planned that way in order to create adults who cannot think.
The schools are creating political activists. “Torpedoes” for left wing dogma. Academics is secondary.
That's why every time I see a $RedForEd sticker (in Arizona) I want to cover it with a picture of an iPad entitled "Your Replacement." :)
It’s called negative learning. At some colleges you can test graduating seniors and they will perform consistently worse than they did as incoming freshmen.
The question was: If X plus 5 = 10, what is the value of X? It took her an entire week to get the kids to finally say 5. So the following Monday, just on a hunch, she gave them another problem: If Y plus 5 = 10, what is the value of Y?
Obviously the value of Y is X.
I despised school starting in first grade. By the time I got to second grade, I was horrified because I realized that HS graduation was an eternity away.
Over the summer months (at least in the first few years) I’d forget the misery, and look forward to the first day of school. Then before the first week was out, I was well aware that it was going to be a lonnng way until June. :(
I have few memories of 1-12th grade, except that I hated it. Kindergarten was pleasant enough though. I enjoyed one class in HS which was one semester. It interested me greatly. Otherwise, the experience was dominated by drudgery and stress.
I don’t even like thinking about it now. Wish things had been different. I admired others who could focus and had a purpose and made their education meaningful. All I wanted to do was bolt. No adult ever noticed that there was a problem. I just figured that’s the way it was, so it did not occur to me to say anything. I was probably right about that.
At least back then, the subjects were real and there were standards for functional results. What’s going now is an abomination on any number of levels.
I know a good early childhood teacher who is subbing this year in public schools. She has observed that kids in upper elementary can’t read and don’t know basic arithmetic. Then she subbed in a lower grade at the same school and saw that the teacher reads everything, including test questions, to the children, then lets them correct their answers until each child achieves a 100. Even for reading tests. So the children are passing but learning nothing. This helps the school’s end of year “report card”, I guess, but the kids are doomed to ignorance unless they have parents that teach them at home.
A friend of mine characterizes K-12 public schools as failure factories. I couldnt agree more.
Ok. Where is the corner pocket on a pool table?
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I believe GOD developed math through the creation of this strange and beautiful universe.
It all figures.
I can't help but think that these "educators" are themselves products of the same degraded system that they're now administering to their pupils.
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