If we are going to have public schooling, especially compelled public schooling, we must take care of the human needs of children.

[Unkotare]

Are you saying that each student gets the individual attention they need?

That's the goal.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Juniorocracy

College education means the student's Daddy buys him a job. As usual, statistics are misinterpreted. The greater wealth of college graduates doesn't reflect the true value of "education"; it reflects the wealth of their birth-class. Exceptions prove the rule and are irrelevant.

Dividing into only two classes, wealth and "poverty (= inferior feral minorities)" is also misleading. Only those born into the White working-class are important. They built this country, not the Sissies in Suitcoats.

If the Ruling Class Thinks So Little of Brains, Let There Be a Brain Drain

You have to play the cards you're dealt. Under the present system, there's no reason for non-Preppies to ever study for college. Even the highest IQs should learn about non-educational opportunities and go to school on that.

Pro-Lifers Propagate Immorality

Another reason to be in favor of mandatory abortions.

Only Those With Talent Should Call the Shots on Education

I have no reason to follow that misleading line of the parasitic ruling class. The few who can do economically valuable work in college should refuse to do so unless paid more than they can expect from any other job at that age. Just like perfect-SAT Bill Gates, they should use their brains only in non-academic pursuits.

So...are you on crack?

 

[Jarlaxle]

Not ALL of you get guns. Just trained resource officers. No, dear, no one would ever give you a gun. Why, that would be criminal.

Are you on drugs?

 

[Jarlaxle]

Cash Cows for Corporate Cowboys Are Tamed Cattle

B students are jealous of A students. That is unnatural; such resentment doesn't happen in sports. Your attitude proves you are being manipulated by a higher power whose wealth is created entirely by humiliating geniuses.

Where do you GET this shit?

A good teacher can make all the difference. The problem with education is that it is produced for the mass (read, class), not the individual. The teacher establishes a three-way relationship between her/him self, the subject, and the class. Whereas the relationship should be between the teacher, the subject, and the individual.

"Nothing causes the student to sit up and pay attention more than being called upon by the teacher to participate." -Woodznutz

So, unfortunately, can a bad teacher.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Are you on drugs?

No. That would be you. As we all well know.

 

[Jarlaxle]

No. That would be you. As we all well know.

This, class, is the crazy cat lady projecting, as usual.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Well, schools have to make accommodations for pregnant students, why not their kids.

My daughter's high had a child care center on site.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

That's exactly right.

My point is that if we are not going to educate the unfittest, unfit because they do not come to school prepared to learn, then why force them to come to school at all?

Because that is what the law says we have to do.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Can you speak for the entire system, which is what we're talking about.

Why not? You seem content with wielding a broad brush in all your comments.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Have you taught your students the best way to floss? Oral health is a big problem among adolescents. How about your obese kids, have you guided them to a healthier weight? Have you had "the talk" with each student privately regarding sex?

I have dozens of such questions.

Why don't you know these answers? Didn't you ever attend school?

 

[Woodznutz]

My daughter's high had a child care center on site.

There was only one pregnancy in my high school class. The girl left school and never returned. In my day it was quite a scandal.

 

[Woodznutz]

Why not? You seem content with wielding a broad brush in all your comments.

The view from the outside is much more objective.

 

[Woodznutz]

Why don't you know these answers? Didn't you ever attend school?

These weren't questions in my day. People who flossed their teeth were considered weird. Sex ed was purely physiology and was embarrassing for everyone including the teacher.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

There was only one pregnancy in my high school class. The girl left school and never returned. In my day it was quite a scandal.

Things change to reflect reality. Many of these girls were already married and they also took classes in parenting. The teachers could also leave their kids there.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

These weren't questions in my day. People who flossed their teeth were considered weird. Sex ed was purely physiology and was embarrassing for everyone including the teacher.

When did you attend school? Was it in the 1950s?

 

[Woodznutz]

When did you attend school? Was it in the 1950s?

Graduated HS in 1958.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Graduated HS in 1958.

In other words. you know nothing about the current education policies and processes. How does someone in their 80s even operate a computer with any sense?

 

[Woodznutz]

In other words. you know nothing about the current education policies and processes. How does someone in their 80s even operate a computer with any sense?

Those graduating later don't seem to be very smart.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Those graduating later don't seem to be very smart.

I have three kids, and their spouses and 4 grandchildren that are products of the public schools and they all seem to be a lot smarter than you. My daughter-in-law was actually in my class during the 10th grade.

 

[Woodznutz]

I have three kids, and their spouses and 4 grandchildren that are products of the public schools and they all seem to be a lot smarter than you. My daughter-in-law was actually in my class during the 10th grade.

I wouldn't judge the whole educational system by your own family. Very subjective.