Wow
I canât say you hear too many stories about getting your arse beat by a toddler.
Unfortunately, teachers are without remedy in controlling students. This would never have happened a half century ago before the advent of Progressive Educational Theory which believes in rewarding students for effort rather than achievement, deluding students about life. The student was probably named âChuckie.â
You mean dating back to 1897 with John Dewey? You poor thing, now tell me about how teachers arenât empowered and parents are coddled while you talk about how your GOP is putting cameras in classrooms, terrorizing teachers, threatening teachers and librarians with jail time, and removing all rights of the educators, etc?
Dunce
Controversial take here. Reinstate Corporal Punishment. It must be parent approved. The fact that kids know itâs a possible consequence, will serve as a deterrent.
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100%. I didnât know it was controversial. I got my tail whacked a few times
I am not referring to John Dewey but to the perverse practice of Rogerian Psychology during the last fifty years and morons with mortarboard hats not admitting that failure is part of life with which individuals must deal. Furthermore, education should be for mastery which can be measured psychometrically. Today, educators are moving against objective measurement and replacing it with subjective nonsense. Small wonder SAT scores reached their zenith in 1962 despite efforts to make make the SAT exams less challenging. Small wonder students from some third world countries outscore Americans especially in hard sciences and mathematics .
Teachers should be compelled to pass examinations in their own discipline. For a while this was done in Florida, and it exposed many teachers who should never have been conferred degrees much less teach children.
Read about the failure of schools in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, how students cannot read, and have acquired no skills enabling them to succeed in life. Students must be divided by aptitutde or teachers are charged with an impossible tasks.
A case in point was one year I was assigned to teach 41 students Chemistry. Half of the students could hardly read or do simple arithmetic. When I failed half the class after the first semester, my principal raised objection. I explained that the first thing studied in chemistry is gas laws, and that was as far as the class could progress since students hadnât a clue how to compute ratio and proportion problems. Then, I had to teach them to use slide rules. There were no scientific calculators at the time. As I told the principal, you must transfer them out of the class to a class in compensatory education, or theyâd fail the entire year in my class. With the twenty I had left over, we covered a year in chemistry in one semester, and all students made A or B grades. Only one black student remained. He turned out to be my best student, and today works for Monsanto as a research chemist with patents to his name.
Are you off your meds? Weâre talking about a teacher being attacked by a 5 year old and youâre over here talking about person-centered psychology and mortarboard hats. You plainly referred to something developed by Dewey in the late 1800s and now want to refer to psychology. Seems like the mortarboard moron here is pretty obvious.
First, you mean 1963 not 1962. In 1962 Math was 498 and Verbal was 473. In 1963, Math was 502 and Verbal was 478. However, that was on the 1941-42 scale. How would you compare that to the scale beginning in 1972?
Strange coming from a person whoâs party wants to dismiss basic biology as a fairy tale, telling kids the earth is 6000 years old and evolution isnât real. Hard sciences? Your party pretends climate change is fake and second hand smoking doesnât hurt you. The biggest attack on hard sciences has come from your team, who are you talking to?
For instance?
Seems reasonable.
Yet, the worst performing schools arenât in DC or Baltimore. Alabamaâs Chickasaw City Schools are the worst performing schools in the country. Alaskaâs lower Kuskokwim School District is #2 worst in the country. Arizonaâs Window Rock Unified School District 8 is the 3rd worst performing school district in the country. Arkansasâ Osceola School District is the 4th worst performing in the nation. Floridaâs Hamilton County School District is #9. You have to go to # 20 to get to Maryland - Somerset County Public Schools.
See, thatâs how quantifiable facts work. Maybe you were subject to Rogerian Psychology in your upbringing and donât understand measurables and KPIs.
As far as your teaching story, sounds like youâre a terrible teacher.
I get your narrativeâŚthe old days were great, right before the âblacksâ and everyone else got to thinking âtheyâ could go to college too. Itâs not that you couldnât teach a lick, but that everyone before you didnât teach your students enough to get to your class. Itâs not that you suck as a teacher. Itâs everyone elseâs fault.
But, I do agree with the others in stating we should be able to have teacher whip their asses. Punishment should be required. Secondary schools for shitbags should be expanded. Also, allowing parents to dictate education should be shunned.
He walked with martin Luther king and fought for black rights
He lived in Moscow and learned their history and political system
He is a retired lawyer
He is an Islamic scholar
Now heâs an expert in pedagogy
Heâs an expert in everything, saying nothing, and lies about it to boot. You canât make this up.
Bikki is pure human trash.
I do find it curious you failed half the class, blamed the class, and explained you began with gas laws, and then wanted them to âcompute ratio and proportion problems.â What level of chemistry was this? Again, it sounds like youâre a terrible teacher. By metrics, youâre horrible if you failed half of the class, but what Iâm curious about is your order. You started with gas laws? That seems strange to begin with the 3 fundamental gas laws as opposed to say, an introduction to Chemistry, a discussion of matter itself, the chemical foundations of elements, atoms and ions or nomenclature or chemical compositions. You went straight to gas law. I find it hard to believe they couldnât compute a ratio. I also find it lazy that you couldnât teach a class to divide data A by data B. Also, why are you having them calculate proportions? This wasnât statistical analysis. Wasnât this an entry level hs chemistry class? Whatâs your problem? Who the fuck let you teach?
But then you bought a matâŚ
Now one dare fuck with you!
Youâre a nice guy huh fat fuck?