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Originally Posted by Jives
Exciting and stimulating young minds is a difficult job. You have to be part mentor, part actor, part MTV entertainer, part scientist, and part stand-up comedian.
Occasionally lessons go wrong and statments are misconstrued...it goes along with the job. When it does, you get this kind of thing. I'm sure that this all looked good on paper. The alternative to this a monotone teacher, pulling out the same worksheet everyday for decades.
Teachers are some of the most imaginative and creative people in our society. Think about it, do you have to be interesting, and creative, in front of seven different audiences, every single day on your job to be effective? A teacher does.
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Jives, you and I have butted heads before and here we go again.
Just read about a study done by the Gov. that showed 85 million Americans read at a 4th grade level.
33 percent of YALE for God's sake students couldn't name the country north of the US
I work a part time job with some students from our local College. They were taking a US gov. class and asked me who I thought was the most powerful person in our gov. When I said Condi Rice or Karl Rowe they had to ask me who they were.
While in the middle of a college level Gov. class!!!
Maybe teachers should stop being so imaginative and creative and teach.
Must be a very hard job cause nobody seems to be doing it.
I could go on and on but I'll be as brief as possible. See I'm one of those guys who has no respect for the American teacher. I thnik they teach the little clones of themselves and view kids who don't fit the mold, so to speak, as disposable.
That is why they warehouse them in special classes or alternative schools or dope them up after saying they have ADD.
My own personal view is this. To our nation the top 10 percent of our college grads are indispensable the remaining 90 percent, insufferable.
I don't consider teachers in the first 10 percent.