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Holykitty
Netherlands246 Posts
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koreasilver
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3: Q) In what year did Columbus sail to North America? 2050bc, 2002ad, 1492ad, 1992ad A) 2050bc what the fuck | ||
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XazXio
United States356 Posts
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DakotaA7X
United States74 Posts
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PoopLord
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Engore
United States1916 Posts
I knew several kids in my class that shouldn't have graduated yet they do. How public schools work in small towns in US. | ||
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jacen
Austria3644 Posts
Parents don't care about educating their kids anymore. They care about them getting good grades. Everything not in the curriculum will be of no interest and teachers are the enemy that want to drag down your kids' grades. They don't realize that 1) There is learning new things outside school 2) You need skills you learn in school in the outside world 3) Things you learn interconnect. It's actually that easy. Also some teachers forget that some kids just aren't as smart as them. The bell curve has a left side too, you know? But i figure it's more about the parents than the teachers. | ||
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liam33
Canada192 Posts
Q) How did the Jason, an underwater robot, assist in the photographing of the sunken Titanic? A) It can go underwater. well at least they got this one right | ||
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Kashll
United States1117 Posts
Yes there are a lot of really unintelligent people out there. | ||
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Kurr
Canada2338 Posts
Teacher talking about the female reproductive organs and goes on a tangent about a tribe in Africa where the men would sew the lips closed when they left on trips so the women couldn't cheat on them. Then, a student with an incredibly confused look goes : "But... how do they eat?" I've never laughed that hard in a class. We had like 30 girls and 3 guys in class (including his gf), it was pretty hilarious. Many tears were shed. | ||
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
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HwangjaeTerran
Finland5967 Posts
On September 23 2011 13:16 Bubelzeeb wrote: Thanks for this. Unfortunately I can't watch the clip right now  However, after reading this blog I did a little research. It seems the model that has been most successful is Finland. Great article here. Their sytem took forty years to get right but looks nothing like how I was taught. It deals with the problems you raised but focusing on learning and not passing. There are no standardised testes until your final year. This blog provides a pretty good summary. From experience I can say it's still pretty shit though. But yeah, some of those questions a ten year old could answer, anywhere in the first world, really. | ||
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Bobo_XIII
United States429 Posts
micronesia (and any other current or aspiring educator in this thread), i sincerely fucking hope that you are making a legitimate attempt to not only dump information into these kids' brains, but also mentor them and guide them to be better and more successful people in life. one of the most overlooked aspects of a 'good teacher' (especially in america, where knowledge isn't always as heralded as it should or could be in many parts of the country) is the quality to mentor a kid to at least develop some/more will to learn and grow intellectually. otherwise, you're as much of a problem as past teachers that apparently 'have failed' these kids. edit: if this offends you or anybody else, i'm sorry. it is a fucking peeve of mine for people in mentor/leadership roles that shrug off responsibility... i have this (maybe unfounded or discolored) view of today's teachers fitting this perfectly. i know some shitheads from high school that are fucking terrible at communicating ideas and concepts to people, let alone providing some semblance of guidance to the audience probably most in need | ||
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macmann
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SuperbWingman
United States33 Posts
No wonder teachers are often heavy drinkers. This is news to me but i guess this explains alot. | ||
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jacen
Austria3644 Posts
On September 23 2011 14:43 Bobo_XIII wrote: i sincerely fucking hope that you are making a legitimate attempt to not only dump information into these kids' brains, but also mentor them and guide them to be better and more successful people in life. one of the most overlooked aspects of a 'good teacher' (especially in america, where knowledge isn't always as heralded as it should or could be in many parts of the country) is the quality to mentor a kid to at least develop some/more will to learn and grow intellectually. This is what i was referring to. The function of explaining why it's a good idea to learn interconnected and learn outside of school was traditionally implemented by parents. Kids still spend a majority of their time outside school and teachers in high schools see "their" kids for a few hours a week. You can't learning coach 20-30 kids in that time frame. I still view this as the job of parents. If they can't do it, they have to hire private tutors that doesn't convey knowledge but learning ideology and methods. /edit: The schools could do that, but that would require MUCH more funding and for the kids to stay even longer in school. Also they kids would not be able to easily transfer this methods/ideology to the outside world as they would, again, learn it in school. Doing this at home has much benefits imho but it has to be done somewhere. | ||
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RebirthOfLeGenD
USA5860 Posts
On September 23 2011 12:56 micronesia wrote: New York State. I teach in one of the best counties for education in the country lol What county do you teach in? | ||
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Tppz!
Germany1449 Posts
The sad fact is that there are realy ppl who are that dumb. What do they even know? Can they do math? Like 1+2= ? | ||
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Bobo_XIII
United States429 Posts
On September 23 2011 14:53 jacen wrote: This is what i was referring to. The function of explaining why it's a good idea to learn interconnected and learn outside of school was traditionally implemented by parents. Kids still spend a majority of their time outside school and teachers in high schools see "their" kids for a few hours a week. You can't learning coach 20-30 kids in that time frame. I still view this as the job of parents. If they can't do it, they have to hire private tutors that doesn't convey knowledge but learning ideology and methods. /edit: The schools could do that, but that would require MUCH more funding and for the kids to stay even longer in school. Also they kids would not be able to easily transfer this methods/ideology to the outside world as they would, again, learn it in school. Doing this at home has much benefits imho but it has to be done somewhere. it's a responsibility that has to be assumed by any and everybody playing in some part of a kids' upbringing. the line "it takes a village to raise a child" is very true. with todays' school systems, teachers (next to managers and bosses at part time jobs) have more face time with kids next to parents... they can essentially be viewed as second parents. it doesn't require some formal or rigid program or structured approach for teachers to orient kids in the right direction. it just requires adults to be adults, and part of the adult:kid relationship is to be a good role model when in a position of authority. | ||
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saltywet
Hong Kong1316 Posts
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