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Can we talk about school.....particularly quizzes, test, mid-terms, and finals?
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Joining this party late.
As a teacher I always told my students, "In this class there is NO HOMEWORK..." Cheers from the students. "...IF you can finish your work during classtime." I'd say about half the kids finished during class time. Of the other half, about half would finish as homework. That one quarter....well, the most common report card "comment" I left when students failed was, "Dose not complete assignments or homework." Seriously, I felt the one thing I was most tryng to instill in them was a sense of a work ethic. The harder you worl the luckier you get.
I'm generally optimistic about today's youth. As a teacher, in spite of the knuckleheads that made teaching stressful, the majority of the kids were decent and well intentioned. As a parent, my daughter, my nieces, their friends, all did well in school. My daughter and her cousin just graduated HS and both had the highest GPAs of any family members, ever (my daughter was 4.2). And yet both, of their own volition, decided to enroll in community college. What's the point, they said, of spending money for online classes? So my daughter is getting GE requirements done and taking some 3-D animation and computer coding stuff, classes that are easlily adapted to online learning. In Fall '23 she will transfer. OK, enough of the proud dad rant.
Question for Grommy- if the blame for public education's failing are "the incompetent leftists running state governments," how do you explain that 8 out of of 10 of the lowest ranking states ( 9 if you include Arizona which Trump supposedly won) are red states?
As a teacher I always told my students, "In this class there is NO HOMEWORK..." Cheers from the students. "...IF you can finish your work during classtime." I'd say about half the kids finished during class time. Of the other half, about half would finish as homework. That one quarter....well, the most common report card "comment" I left when students failed was, "Dose not complete assignments or homework." Seriously, I felt the one thing I was most tryng to instill in them was a sense of a work ethic. The harder you worl the luckier you get.
I'm generally optimistic about today's youth. As a teacher, in spite of the knuckleheads that made teaching stressful, the majority of the kids were decent and well intentioned. As a parent, my daughter, my nieces, their friends, all did well in school. My daughter and her cousin just graduated HS and both had the highest GPAs of any family members, ever (my daughter was 4.2). And yet both, of their own volition, decided to enroll in community college. What's the point, they said, of spending money for online classes? So my daughter is getting GE requirements done and taking some 3-D animation and computer coding stuff, classes that are easlily adapted to online learning. In Fall '23 she will transfer. OK, enough of the proud dad rant.
Question for Grommy- if the blame for public education's failing are "the incompetent leftists running state governments," how do you explain that 8 out of of 10 of the lowest ranking states ( 9 if you include Arizona which Trump supposedly won) are red states?
good luck getting an answer to that last question.Joining this party late.
As a teacher I always told my students, "In this class there is NO HOMEWORK..." Cheers from the students. "...IF you can finish your work during classtime." I'd say about half the kids finished during class time. Of the other half, about half would finish as homework. That one quarter....well, the most common report card "comment" I left when students failed was, "Dose not complete assignments or homework." Seriously, I felt the one thing I was most tryng to instill in them was a sense of a work ethic. The harder you worl the luckier you get.
I'm generally optimistic about today's youth. As a teacher, in spite of the knuckleheads that made teaching stressful, the majority of the kids were decent and well intentioned. As a parent, my daughter, my nieces, their friends, all did well in school. My daughter and her cousin just graduated HS and both had the highest GPAs of any family members, ever (my daughter was 4.2). And yet both, of their own volition, decided to enroll in community college. What's the point, they said, of spending money for online classes? So my daughter is getting GE requirements done and taking some 3-D animation and computer coding stuff, classes that are easlily adapted to online learning. In Fall '23 she will transfer. OK, enough of the proud dad rant.
Question for Grommy- if the blame for public education's failing are "the incompetent leftists running state governments," how do you explain that 8 out of of 10 of the lowest ranking states ( 9 if you include Arizona which Trump supposedly won) are red states?
lean on the coding classes...you learn the nuts and bolts and you can do any job in the organizationJoining this party late.
As a teacher I always told my students, "In this class there is NO HOMEWORK..." Cheers from the students. "...IF you can finish your work during classtime." I'd say about half the kids finished during class time. Of the other half, about half would finish as homework. That one quarter....well, the most common report card "comment" I left when students failed was, "Dose not complete assignments or homework." Seriously, I felt the one thing I was most tryng to instill in them was a sense of a work ethic. The harder you worl the luckier you get.
I'm generally optimistic about today's youth. As a teacher, in spite of the knuckleheads that made teaching stressful, the majority of the kids were decent and well intentioned. As a parent, my daughter, my nieces, their friends, all did well in school. My daughter and her cousin just graduated HS and both had the highest GPAs of any family members, ever (my daughter was 4.2). And yet both, of their own volition, decided to enroll in community college. What's the point, they said, of spending money for online classes? So my daughter is getting GE requirements done and taking some 3-D animation and computer coding stuff, classes that are easlily adapted to online learning. In Fall '23 she will transfer. OK, enough of the proud dad rant.
Question for Grommy- if the blame for public education's failing are "the incompetent leftists running state governments," how do you explain that 8 out of of 10 of the lowest ranking states ( 9 if you include Arizona which Trump supposedly won) are red states?
get a business degree mixed with some comp-sci/networking stuff and she'll be able to buy a house in our neighborhood some day
Told the nieces and nephews to look into to SQL/database/Python, general engineering classes, or in a pinch, Excel certification.
So far:
1 fashion design
2 tugboat crewmate
3 vet assistant
4 child development
5 airline pilot
tugboat people can make bank, in fact anyone who goes to the Maritime Academy. If you don't mind being gone for months you can have the majority of the year off of work
those all seem like passion careers which is even better
if you can get in to something you're passionate about, good
if you're aimless, python, database, networking are all AMAZING skills that get your foot in the door and will allow you to find your way once you're on the inside
at this point, I've done almost everything short of being "sexy marketing babe at tradeshow"
if you can get in to something you're passionate about, good
if you're aimless, python, database, networking are all AMAZING skills that get your foot in the door and will allow you to find your way once you're on the inside
at this point, I've done almost everything short of being "sexy marketing babe at tradeshow"
I knew a guy that drove for CalTrain...worked a few hours in the morning and surfed all day
probably retired and flush right now
Or he did like my uncle and got a second state job at like 50 so he can get that sweet double pension
yeah, that double pension game is real....neighbor is Air Force and his wife just finished nursing school and took a commission with them as well. the benefits are pretty wild.
my brother's friend is a Coast Guard lifer...seems like an interesting way to game that armed services scratch with lower risk of winding up in a fox hole somewheres
At my sisters' school district they are having trouble getting subs.
When someone suggests upping the pay, they get all "[N-word], please!"
At my school a couple of teachers have turned down classes at the last minute because they don't want to teach in class.
I'm ready to get covid'ed on by the kids, having been tripled vaxed and covid infected.
When someone suggests upping the pay, they get all "[N-word], please!"
At my school a couple of teachers have turned down classes at the last minute because they don't want to teach in class.
I'm ready to get covid'ed on by the kids, having been tripled vaxed and covid infected.
I love to say to students, "You didn't write this."
They say "WHAT! HOW DARE YOU QUESTION ME?"
I say, "We can go talk to the Dean and I'll make my case why you cheated or just give you a zero."
They say, "Oh, well, I didn't cheat, but I will just take the zero."
"Sure."
doesn't work that way in high school.
you accuse them of cheating, you get the parents screaming at everyone, the principal acts like he's going to make an example, then eventually does nothing about it and asks you to let them resubmit the assignment.