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Have you ever had a sleepy looking cashier give you to much change back, I did today after .........
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The idea of changing the way basic skills are taught comes from the educators at the college level. Just like engineers........they get a brain storm.....write a book and sell it down the pike. They end up with royalties in their pockets from the books and our kids can't count change!! Sit down and have a child add up a column of numbers in front of you........it certainly is not the way you and I learned and the whole concept confuses them.
Parents do not get involved in teaching their children........they leave it up to the school because the whole system of ABC's and 1-2-3's has been changed dramatically. And it is easier to send the kid off to school for baby sitting services, and never even look into what their children have learned for the day. Kids don't even eat meals with their parents anymore, let alone discuss the day's activities at school!!! Children are pushed harder and harder to achieve good scores on their mastery tests so the town will be eligible for more federal funding. They are being taught "TEST" passing skills and not basic everyday life skills of problem solving.
Yes, we vote in these elected officials for the school boards but our political system does not give us much of a choice between bad and worse.
My brother-in-law is a principle in a middle school....smart guy book wise but common sense in the everyday field........just doesn't happen, and there are many educators like this. They believe everything they read rather than saying how is this going to benefit the children in the long run. Their long term vision is blurred by the hierarchy's acceptance of brainless ideas being sold to them by college level educators who have a financial stake in the whole deal!
Parents do not get involved in teaching their children........they leave it up to the school because the whole system of ABC's and 1-2-3's has been changed dramatically. And it is easier to send the kid off to school for baby sitting services, and never even look into what their children have learned for the day. Kids don't even eat meals with their parents anymore, let alone discuss the day's activities at school!!! Children are pushed harder and harder to achieve good scores on their mastery tests so the town will be eligible for more federal funding. They are being taught "TEST" passing skills and not basic everyday life skills of problem solving.
Yes, we vote in these elected officials for the school boards but our political system does not give us much of a choice between bad and worse.
My brother-in-law is a principle in a middle school....smart guy book wise but common sense in the everyday field........just doesn't happen, and there are many educators like this. They believe everything they read rather than saying how is this going to benefit the children in the long run. Their long term vision is blurred by the hierarchy's acceptance of brainless ideas being sold to them by college level educators who have a financial stake in the whole deal!
... sounds like your brother in law is part of the problem.
You recognising part of the problem, have you taken steps to get him fired or transferred to a position where his decisions don't affect the kids getting a better education for which your tax money is paying?
If not, shame on you for even posting and putting blame on the teachers. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
I'm not coming on to be tough on you Bobbie .... just trying to get every tax payer, you included, to be more involved with getting government to do better.... at ALL levels. It's so easy to criticize, more difficult to be involved.
It took a bunch of us several years (should have been hours) to get a drug addicted teacher taken out of the class room ... not yet fired .... but we are working on it.
I'm a tax payer and husband of a teacher of gifted and talented students (previously a regular class room teacher) ... who sees it all / has done it all, and has the privilege of teaching gifted students turned off in their regular classes, or are supplementing the terrific work their regular teachers are doing with them.
My message to everyone who pays taxes .... demand accountability from your school system on an individual school, teacher, and administrator basis. Don't put up with the BS excuses you will receive, expect results ... not excuses.
You recognising part of the problem, have you taken steps to get him fired or transferred to a position where his decisions don't affect the kids getting a better education for which your tax money is paying?
If not, shame on you for even posting and putting blame on the teachers. If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.
I'm not coming on to be tough on you Bobbie .... just trying to get every tax payer, you included, to be more involved with getting government to do better.... at ALL levels. It's so easy to criticize, more difficult to be involved.
It took a bunch of us several years (should have been hours) to get a drug addicted teacher taken out of the class room ... not yet fired .... but we are working on it.
I'm a tax payer and husband of a teacher of gifted and talented students (previously a regular class room teacher) ... who sees it all / has done it all, and has the privilege of teaching gifted students turned off in their regular classes, or are supplementing the terrific work their regular teachers are doing with them.
My message to everyone who pays taxes .... demand accountability from your school system on an individual school, teacher, and administrator basis. Don't put up with the BS excuses you will receive, expect results ... not excuses.
Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska
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Years ago, my husband and I went to deposit some cash into our account, I think we had like 600.00 all in 20's... the gal at the bank began counting.... 50, 100, 150.... I said "excuse me, your counting that wrong, those are 20's" she replied that she knew that and now I messed her up! So she began to count again, 50, 100, 150... my husband interupted her and told her that those were 20's, and again she began to count, a third time she was interupted, and she was really pretty angry at that point and argued with us, so my husband said to me.. "Let her count it her way, it is cash, the mistake cant be traced, and we will have all kinds of extra money so you can go shopping..." the teller stopped, then finally realized what she was doing... she laughed and said "Well I only made that mistake because we bundle our 20 dollar bills into 50's..." as I pondered how one could bundle 20 dollar bills into fiftys, I decided not to argue with her... we changed banks the next day..