Education Needs to Be Turned on Its Head

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Topspin said:
dude I don't know about you but I'd have fire bombed some old dudes office as a teen if you tried to rob my summer. let kids be kids, they have plenty time to be miserable later.
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Topper, I don't do this very often but I have to agree with you here. People yammering for year 'round school don't seem to have put much investigation into it. The "highest performing" educational systems around the world know that you will burn kids out.......fast with that type of system. Even those that go year round only go an average of 200 days altogether. Kids need time to be kids. They have to be adults most of their lives if they live long enough.
 
leaningright said:
Topper, I don't do this very often but I have to agree with you here. People yammering for year 'round school don't seem to have put much investigation into it. The "highest performing" educational systems around the world know that you will burn kids out.......fast with that type of system. Even those that go year round only go an average of 200 days altogether. Kids need time to be kids. They have to be adults most of their lives if they live long enough.
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Every once in a while a poor person agrees with me. Hey spell check that for me teach:clink:
 
PostmodernProphet said:
sure there is.....by letting the NEA control the agenda.....don't even pretend our education system is "conservative".......
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He can pretend all he wants, which he usually does. Our kids are suffering because of the liberal education system. The Department of Education should be trashed.
 
fuck you youngins....i am 100 AND 5 years of age.....and i will wuup your ass

when i went to school, we walked uphill both ways

the snow, it snowed both ways

pussies
 
I did actually go my first 4 years of school to a one room school.
Pot bellied stove in the middle, pump outside for water. But we did have a seperate boys and girls toilet.

I did learn lots more per year there though than when they closed it and sent me to the big city school.
 
Onceler said:
Here's my plan for education reform: double teacher starting salaries, with generous raises every year based on performance.
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Paying us more, while appreciated, still will do nothing for the students if the people we answer to (state boards, districts, etc.) continue to keep a leash on us. We are expected to teach to the standards they dictate, no matter how large or small our pay.

As a student teacher this semester (beginning next week), pay is still not an issue for me at all. :)
 
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