I guess I'm a snob.............. - Page 3

piece-itpete · #1 03-14-2012, 10:08 AM

I caught a bit of a lecture (I wish I could remember the guys name!) where he said the US has been 7 seperate cultures in conflict all along.

To make generalisations of the sort, well then, the corrupt Cleveland Dem machine must be the template for Democrats everywhere. As far as higher education, I guess maybe the left could look to secondary 1st. Back our mayor's reforms in the teachers union.

Pete

merrylander · #2 03-14-2012, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I caught a bit of a lecture (I wish I could remember the guys name!) where he said the US has been 7 seperate cultures in conflict all along.

To make generalisations of the sort, well then, the corrupt Cleveland Dem machine must be the template for Democrats everywhere. As far as higher education, I guess maybe the left could look to secondary 1st. Back our mayor's reforms in the teachers union.

Pete

There you go again, it's always the union's fault. If they spent half of the money they waste with NCLB and all the other experts, on the schools we would be better off. Instead we have "experts" most of whom could not find their arse with both hands and a flashlight, getting in the teachers way. Fire the whole damn lot of them and let the teachers teach.

piece-itpete · #3 03-14-2012, 10:29 AM

I know two people functionally illiterate - with Cleveland HS diplomas.

Pete

merrylander · #4 03-14-2012, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete

I know two people functionally illiterate - with Cleveland HS diplomas.

Pete

Probably like the situation recently in DC, they fired a really good teacher using that ditzy woman Rhee's rating scheme. It seems that her fifth grade students were promoted from the fourth grade because "someone" erased the wrong answers on the tests and put in the right answers. After all the school would have been punished under these half-assed new testing schemes. Fairfax county in VA grabbed the teacher in a flash.

As a former teacher I really wish people who know nothing about teaching would take all their "expertise" and shove it. If we don't get these "experts" out of the damn way we will wind up with a functionally illiterate nation. Oh but we will have destroyed the teachers unions and driven all the good teachers out of the system so that will be OK.