Today is National Teacher Day
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Most important grade?
/puts on high school thinking cap
uhhh... boobs
/takes off high school thinking cap
Well that didn't work.
Best year is 7th Grade, (at least for me) because it was the point where you got to choose what path you wanted to take in school.
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God I hate what school has become. Jeez I only left 8 yrs ago (fuck why did I type that) and it's turned into a mess. It went from being a place of learning to a place where parents fight for their kids to NOT be taught certain subjects.
I know here in the GRPS they were getting rid of the Failing grade and just handing out "Incomplete" which doesn't affect the GPA apparently.
Yeah, compared to what school was like for me, I pretty much despise the education system as it is today.
School should be fucking tough. You should have to work hard for good grades. It's not a event to build up your self esteem, to not make you feel like an idiot because you can't keep up. It's a proving grounds. Those who try, and are graced with the ability, succeed. Those who don't have the wonders of blue collar to look forward to.
Seriously, cut out the new series of fighter jets from the military budget, throw the money into education, and toughen up the rules by telling parents 'Not our fault if you didn't raise your kid right. Make him do his fuckin homework instead of going out, drinking, knocking up miss mary rottencrotch, and playing nintendo, and he won't need a feel good certificate on being 'most attendance' runner up'.
School should be fucking tough. You should have to work hard for good grades. It's not a event to build up your self esteem, to not make you feel like an idiot because you can't keep up. It's a proving grounds. Those who try, and are graced with the ability, succeed. Those who don't have the wonders of blue collar to look forward to.
Seriously, cut out the new series of fighter jets from the military budget, throw the money into education, and toughen up the rules by telling parents 'Not our fault if you didn't raise your kid right. Make him do his fuckin homework instead of going out, drinking, knocking up miss mary rottencrotch, and playing nintendo, and he won't need a feel good certificate on being 'most attendance' runner up'.
Syrup Beaver
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I don't know, I could've easily done without 50% of the crap classes I had in high school.
I wish my parents had fought to get me out of all literature courses at a minimum.
I'm sorry, but being the thirty-seven-billionth person to write a paper about a long dead author's work is not going to teach ME anything useful.
I wish my parents had fought to get me out of all literature courses at a minimum.
I'm sorry, but being the thirty-seven-billionth person to write a paper about a long dead author's work is not going to teach ME anything useful.
I disagree. I took an entire semester that was all about shakespere. We had to read it, not in translated english, but in it's old english context. And translate it. Verbal analytical skills is a skill that I believe is far underated. Besides, not being a moron when someone speaks of MacBeth, Othello, First Night, Taming of the Shrew, or Hamlet doesn't suck.
Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski
Clam whisperer
The problem with governments nowadays is they seem to think everybody has the right to get a degree/whatever your equivalent so they've dumbed down everything so everybody can feel smart. Getting a degree in this country doesn't mean shit, atleast from where I'm stood, any idiot can get a peice of paper for some b.s degree. We used to have a two tiered system where you have universities where the smart people went to get real degrees like Medicine, Literature, Science etc. and then polytechnics where stupid people went. Nowadays they call everything a university and 'EVERYBODY' should be getting a degree, nobody has to work for jack shit anymore. This is why I'd definately want to send my kids to a private school, no way I'd subject them to a mediocre government run institute unless I had to
Syrup Beaver
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That's how it is here too. Anyone can get a degree.
I had a class with a guy that graduated last month. To describe him would be to say he was like John Coffey from Green Mile without the special powers.
He had speech issues, learning issues, and got a degree that I am working on.
If he were to apply for a job that I was appying for in todays market, they may consider him because he will take a lowball offer and I will be jobless in esscence.
I had a class with a guy that graduated last month. To describe him would be to say he was like John Coffey from Green Mile without the special powers.
He had speech issues, learning issues, and got a degree that I am working on.
If he were to apply for a job that I was appying for in todays market, they may consider him because he will take a lowball offer and I will be jobless in esscence.
Syrup Beaver
pants log
This is why I need to be the boss.
I think I felt the ground shake, just a little bit, when you posted that.