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Remember in the 70s all those commercials (by the NAACP?) which said we were to judge a person by who they were, not their skin color? Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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I thought racism ended the day Nikki Haley lowered the Confederate Flag at the South Carolina State Capital. Am I wrong??? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although I applaud her for the job she's doing as a duly appointed member of the Trump administration as our UN Ambassador, that is the one issue I would hold her feet to the fire should I ever meet her face to face. Appease appease appease...not enough ![]()
I do. Along with the PSA's for The United Negro College Fund because "a mind is a terrible thing to waste". In my yute, I thought, "wow...what a worthy cause". "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Teachers shouldn't have to demand anything. Part of success in life and part of going to school is self-motivation. One doesn't do something because someone else demanded it. One does something but one wants the outcome of it (ie - in this case, learning something). One doesn't learn because someone else is demanding it. It's not the competency per se that will hold these kids back. It's their attitude. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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Well, based on personal experience I can say that when teachers demand performance from their students, the students will step up and perform. At least they did when I was a student, and some years later when I was teaching at the college level. Same applied when I was on an instructor assignment for IBM. That assignment lasted a year, teaching about a new machine and technology. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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I think History of Somalia should be added to the curriculum. Must have been an oversight. | |||
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You make a good point. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Elk Hunter:...Well, based on personal experience I can say that when teachers demand performance from their students, the students will step up and perform..../QUOTE] After 20 years of teaching college, I mostly agree with you. At least a few years ago many students would rise to the level of expectation. I just had this discussion with the Dean's admin asst. These days, too often students have been coddled, and believe they deserve success even if they don't/can't/won't perform. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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..I might suggest those are not independent variables. "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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The problem is that these kids graduate and infect the voter pool - which impacts all of us - especially as they continue to migrate out of their local cesspools and into other states/communities. | |||
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Perhaps we're interpreting "demand" differently? I agree with teaching to the limits of a students ability. Teach more complex stuff. Teach at faster paces. As long as the student can keep up. If that is demanding performance, then I agree. Let them rise to the occasion, rah rah rah. If by 'demanding' you mean to request someone to do something that they don't want to do (ie - read this book, solve these problems, etc) then demanding doesn't help. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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The GDC's fomenting this absurdity should be summarily terminated. ____________________ | |||
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there are lies, damned lies and racist statistics [B] Against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC | |||
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None of this kind of theory is to help Black people advance. That is counter productive to the Progressive who needs failure to build their careers upon. If success helped the Progressive, then Black people would be made to excel, just like anyone else. ************* MAGA | |||
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As a society, we've become too polite. The appropriate response to this is open, loud, and public mocking and ridicule, preferably at well-attended public meetings. Start with "You're an idiotic f***ing muppet, and here's why..." Do that enough, and perhaps it will sink in. | |||
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It is not just Minnesota... Twenty five years ago I sat in a high school classroom watching a masterful teacher conducting her charges in a lesson on government. Over a rushed lunch she told me that this was going to be her last year as she was taking early retirement. Why? Earlier in the year (shortly after the first semester) she had to attend a meeting with the building principal and justify to the parents of six of her students why they had not received A grades. The parents were concerned not with what the students produced but how the grade would impact their children's future educational plans. The teacher told me that when she started teaching had she given out six A grades in a class the principal would have asked her to justify so doing. At a national level the issue of behavior disruptive to the educational environment is only a portion of the travesty that has become the reality in many of the modern K-12 public school systems. What are the contents of this almost toxic brew we are serving this nation's children? 1. An appalling national decline in both literacy and numeracy. 2. Cheating and plagiarism on scales that would make Bernie Madoff and Jayson Blair blush. 3. The highly negative impact of the misuse of technology in far too many classrooms which has allowed students to replace effort with glitz. 4. Parents who refuse to provide for their child both the structure and modeling necessary for a child to grow and function in the world (perhaps the big one). 5. A system that focuses on the remediation of deficiencies rather than the building of strengths. While this impacts the student with subject-area weaknesses, the more troubling aspect is that too many top students are not sufficiently challenged. 6. Absurdly deep and broad learning goals established on the part of states' department of education. 7. High stakes testing, the results of which produce a politically untenable position for the politition so states keep changing both the tests and how they are scored which forces educators to play a twisted game of "pin the tail on the donkey." As difficult as this is for me to write, the only practical solution to repair the damage done to the public educational system that I can see is the promotion of competition. Whether through vouchers or tax credits, allowing parents to choose where and how their child is educated will, in time, force the public system (still a great ideal) to reform. Silent | |||
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Scoutmaster: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Elk Hunter:...Well, based on personal experience I can say that when teachers demand performance from their students, the students will step up and perform..../QUOTE] I taught a Freshman algebra. One day I was called to meet with a parent, student and vice principal. Surprise, the student had told them what a great teacher I was and how much she enjoyed math. Her mother asked "You used to enjoy math until you got to middle school. What happened? The student replied "Oh, then I knew grades didn't count and we'd get passed anyway." If it's free, people don't value it much. “ The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. | |||
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I have yet to find one. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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My teachers didn't demand it--they expected it. It was my parents that demanded it! flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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