tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468878494750616528.post8043634816762720773..comments2024-01-01T22:27:57.121-06:00Comments on A Kind Word and a 2x4: Things that make you go..WTF?Da Curly Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631427436506831892noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468878494750616528.post-62257113399343948282011-05-16T17:33:49.354-05:002011-05-16T17:33:49.354-05:00Sotarr..I figured as much
Tim..hence why I said fi...Sotarr..I figured as much<br />Tim..hence why I said fire every single administrative official and they're hangers on.<br />and no I didn't know about the mentally retarded scores counting. Yes I agree the system is totally fucking idiotic...hence my rant.Da Curly Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07631427436506831892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468878494750616528.post-50129879100332438292011-05-15T18:24:49.363-05:002011-05-15T18:24:49.363-05:00A couple of things:
1. The reason the administrato...A couple of things:<br />1. The reason the administrators are not getting laid off is because they make the decision on who gets laid off. <br />2. I know 3 teachers and a woman who works the counselling end of things in a public school. They all loathe standardized testing for the reasons you mentioned. Did you know that severely mentally retarded children are also required to take and pass the same damn standardized tests. The school districts are given no leeway and the mentally retarded kids' scores count against them. The standardized testing system we have now is idiotic.Tim Covingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01577035817767794314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468878494750616528.post-74441137066324642662011-05-15T17:10:23.732-05:002011-05-15T17:10:23.732-05:00Really. We did trig AND the Calculus. And no cal...Really. We did trig AND the Calculus. And no calculators, although we WERE allowed slide rules.<br /><br />And then, memorization. Hamlet's Soliloquy. The Gettysburg Address. The Preamble to the Constitution. . . amongst others.<br /><br />Even in language classes: reading Caesar's De Bello Gallico in the original, and in German, reading Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front". . and DOING the original Dreipfennigopfer. . .Keith Glasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06190296702572064845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7468878494750616528.post-2636767273723172422011-05-15T13:24:03.572-05:002011-05-15T13:24:03.572-05:00Exactly, why fire the teachers when it's the a...Exactly, why fire the teachers when it's the administration that's useless. Being the child of, and spouse of teachers I can tell you there ARE teachers who are worthwhile and want to do more than teach the TAAS or TAKS tests.Tea HAGnoreply@blogger.com