"Lower Standards, More Money" slogan pays off as students found useful for $$. Dumber "F" schools excoriated for not being savvy enough to cheat like the "A" schools now awash with mucho dinero.Examiner -- June 18, 2009
The Florida Department of Education announced today their annual report card for Florida schools. According to the 2009 school grades, schools in Florida had their most successful year to date.
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Being employed by a Florida school board I get to see first hand how dumbed down things have gotten. At least in the maths, it seems they don't even get much of a foundation. Most of the students in the Algebra II class I used to teach couldn't even do basic multiplication with out a calculator. And they screamed, cried and whined at the sight of fractions. And these were high school senoirs! Many of which were planning on going to college. What's really awful is that Alg II has become little more than a review of Alg I. And Alg I has been stretched out to 2 years - Alg I A and Alg I B. So theoretically a kid could take 3 credits in math, which fulfills thier requirement to graduate. And, in the process, have taken Alg II, which is the minimum requirement for most colleges. But they only have the knowledge of a first year Algebra student. Great idea, don't ya think?
It gets worse, a few years ago they decided to do away with prereqs in math. Back when I was in school, you had to have a C or better to advance to the next higher level math class. Now, let's say a student failed Geometry and Alg II. That's OK! They can still take trig and even calc if they wanted to.
Sometimes I wonder why I got into this. Oh yeah, I think I can make a difference. I actually want public schools to improve. And I like helping and teaching kids. And I think that if I positively impact a kids life the world might be a slightly better place. Yeah, it soulnd all sappy and sentimental, but wiell that's just how I feel.
YOU, especially YOU - shouldn't be around children, especially in a teaching position, one of authority. Have you read none of the predator articles I've put on here? You are at high risk of hurting one of the kids you say you wish to "help and teach." It's not your responsibility to help and teach someone else's kid, so don't make that your excuse.
As for the public schools, they're never going to be "better." Better was in the past; the future involves nothing but a grand implosion. Don't delude yourself into thinking otherwise. Shoot, by simply participating in the failing educational free-for-all, you're actually impacting the kids negatively which only makes the "world" worse, not better.
Consider this: You stay in a miserably failed system (in every possible way, real or imagined) because you're attracted to the children which is sick. When you consider that the students are extremely repulsive in their behaviors and attitudes which is evident in how they talk, walk, dress, work, etc., it reveals further how deeply perverse your attraction for the kids really is. Normal people don't like repulsive people. I certainly can't stand to be near a public school, let alone a public school product. Public school students are like diseases to me, similar to the swine flu. I can't be around them, and neither can my family.
Why else would anyone in their right mind continue working in a hell-hole public school like you, especially when you know how bad it is? It's definitely not "to make the world better" because it only makes it worse. Really, it's for your own perverse personal benefit. You need to do some genuine self-reflecting in order to realize this.
YOU, especially YOU - shouldn't be around children, especially in a teaching position, one of authority. Have you read none of the predator articles I've put on here? You are at high risk of hurting one of the kids you say you wish to "help and teach." It's not your responsibility to help and teach someone else's kid, so don't make that your excuse.
So are you saying I'm a predator? Me? Someone that regardless of gender won't date someone without job and at least some college, preferably a degree. Oh you probly didn't know that. Or that I actually dumped a young lady because she not only did not have a job, but had no desire to get one. You most likely also are not aware that I'm not about casual sex and will only have sex with someone I am in a relationship with. And I'm sure you don't know that I think of my students like they are my own children. If I want anything for them it is success. Nothing less than that. I doubt you will believe me.
As for the public schools, they're never going to be "better." Better was in the past; the future involves nothing but a grand implosion. Don't delude yourself into thinking otherwise. Shoot, by simply participating in the failing educational free-for-all, you're actually impacting the kids negatively which only makes the "world" worse, not better.
You sure about that? I did manage to get one troubled girl to stop doing drugs and cutting class and to take school a little more seriously. There was a young man who I got interested in math after I showed him how useful it was to the career he was planning on going into. Sadly, there was one that was a cutter that I really wanted to get help for, but they dropped out shortly after talking to me about it.
Consider this: You stay in a miserably failed system (in every possible way, real or imagined) because you're attracted to the children which is sick. When you consider that the students are extremely repulsive in their behaviors and attitudes which is evident in how they talk, walk, dress, work, etc., it reveals further how deeply perverse your attraction for the kids really is. Normal people don't like repulsive people. I certainly can't stand to be near a public school, let alone a public school product. Public school students are like diseases to me, similar to the swine flu. I can't be around them, and neither can my family.
Consider this - you are just assuming that I'm attracted to kids because of what? The fact that I'm bisexual? That's really all you got. And did you even know that or did you just assume I was gay? An assumption based on what? The behaviours of others? How much do you know about me? How much do you think you know?
Why else would anyone in their right mind continue working in a hell-hole public school like you, especially when you know how bad it is? It's definitely not "to make the world better" because it only makes it worse. Really, it's for your own perverse personal benefit. You need to do some genuine self-reflecting in order to realize this.
I did some self reflecting a long time ago, this is where it brought me. My favourite moments in the classroom are those where I can clearly see that one has learned something. That moment when it all becomes clear to them. Those times when students have thanked me. Those times when I felt appreciated. I wouldn't trade that for any amount of money and they certainly do make the rest of the nonsense I see during the course of my day worth it.
I practically live by these simple words from VNV Nation -
"This is your world.
These are your people.
You can live for yourself today,
or help build tomorrow for everyone."
http://colossalpublicfailure.blogspot.com/2009/07/publik-skool-homo-teach-needs-to-repent.html
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