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This map should embarrass the hell out of every conservative/republican:

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Other things I noticed about 15-18 year olds:

-almost all of them have zero idea how our government works. They think the President is THE power in the government and the SCOUTS has no right to strike down laws.

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“We just need them to register to vote be smart enough to punch a ballot for the candidates we will do the rest. tell them to choose.  We’ll give them money to live on in exchange.”

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The business minor actually a great idea.  My son is a 17 yr old junior and is trying to figure out what he wants to do.  He really likes chemistry, but isn't sure. I've told him, "Whatever you decide to do, make sure to get some business classes under your belt because every single career eventually turns into running a business and a large focus on sales.  If you want to be an electrician, you'll start by crawling around under houses working for someone else. Then you'll go independent and get a van and an assistant . . . then before you know it you have 5 vans and 8 or 9 people working for your and your job is 90% running the business and generating new business. Same goes for engineers or lawyers or dentists.  I'm a lawyer with an economics degree and an MBA and it was shocking how little business knowledge my fellow law students had - and the complete lack of law school instruction regarding how to actually run a law practice.  I'm a partner now and and being able to do budgets and sales and collections is more important than simply knowing the legal side of things.  If you don't have the business chops, you're just a worker drone. A pharmacy program probably doesn't spend much time at all teaching students how to profitably run a pharmacy.

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Teachers are mad and quitting because students don't know what they're supposed to know.

Hmmm.

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sounds like federalized education was a mistake to me.  No Child Left Behind is a perfect example of why "bipartisan" and RINO's are usually bad for the country

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If I'm understanding this map correctly, Wyoming is tied for the dumbest state in the country?

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This was on another site. From what I gather in the thread, this is a normal high school not in a poor area.




I teach high school. Age range 15-18 years old. I have seen students who can't do the following:

-Read at grade level. Some come into my classroom at a 3rd/4th grade reading level. There are some students who cannot sound out words.

-Write a complete sentence. They don't capitalize the first letter of the sentence or the I's. They also don't add punctuation. I have seen a student write one whole page essay without a period.

-Spell simple words.

-Add or subtract double-digits. For example, they can't solve 27-13 in their head. They also cannot do it on paper. They need a calculator.

-Know their multiplication tables.

-Round

-Graph

-Understand the concept of negative.

-Understand percentages.

-Solve one-step variable equations. For example, if I tell them "2x = 8. Solve for x," they can't solve it. They would subtract by 2 on both sides instead of dividing by 2.

-Take notes.

-Follow an example. They have a hard time transferring the patterns that they see in an example to a new problem.

-No research skills. The phrases they use to google are too vague when they search for information. For example, if I ask them to research the 5 types of chemical reactions, they only type in "reactions" in Google. When I explain that Google cannot read minds and they have to be very specific with their wording, they just stare at me confused. But even if their search phrases are good, they do not click on the links. They just read the excerpt Google provided them. If the answer is not in the excerpts, they give up.

-Just because they know how to use their phones does not mean they know how to use a computer. They are not familiar with common keyboard shortcuts. They also cannot type properly. Some students type using their index fingers.

These are just some things I can name at the top of my head. I'm sure there are a few that I missed here.

Now, as a teacher, I try my best to fill in the gaps. But I want the general public to understand that when the gap list is this big, it is nearly impossible to teach my curriculum efficiently. This is part of the reason why teachers are quitting in droves. You ask teachers to do the impossible and then vilify them for not achieving it. You cannot expect us to teach our curriculum efficiently when students are grade levels behind. Without a good foundation, students cannot learn more complex concepts. I thought this was common sense, but I guess it is not (based on admin's expectations and school policies).

I want to add that there are high-performing students out there. However, from my experience, the gap between the "gifted/honors" population and the "general" population has widened significantly. Either you have students that perform exceptionally well or you have students coming into class grade levels behind. There are rarely students who are in between.

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Come by my room later.

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Has she tried having sex with them?

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These teachers are not teachers, they are administrators of whatever BS course the school purchased that year.

They just serve up the work, they don't teach.


My thoughts.

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Maybe that teacher needs to fail her students from attending the next grade

They also cannot type properly. Some students type using their index fingers.

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It's 100% parenting.  Kids learn most things at home and then fill in some gaps at school.  

It's amazing what kids can do when you give them that individual attention as a parent.  Read to your kids, do math with your kids, do sports with your kids.  They are just little sponges at that age and can learn virtually anything if you have the patience to teach them.  

I think my kids have been read to 99% of the nights of their lives at this point (5 and 7) with only a few rare nights where we skip it.  Not a surprise that they both test in the 90th percentile or higher on everything.

That works for anything, not just reading, writing, and math.  There's some kids out there with incredible talents and behind every one of them is a patient parent that put in the work.

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You are 100% correct.  


My Wife just quit as an elementary teacher last year.  

A shocking number of her kids were nowhere near they grade level the should be on every subject.  Attempting to actually, you know, teach them and help them would get her bad remarks on her reviews.   Any outside ideas or resources presented by her or others during meetings would be met with ridicule.  Schools don't want teachers.  They want drones that will just regurgitate the materials the district buys into.  I'd say about half of her team were teachers who actually cared about kids and got into teaching for the right reason.  The other half were drones who were happy with the status quo and only taught so they could be around their friends and bitch about their home life.  Not shockingly enough, just about all of the former have quit or moved on to something else.

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Other things I noticed about 15-18 year olds:

-almost all of them have zero idea how our government works. They think the President is THE power in the government and the SCOUTS has no right to strike down laws.

-no sense of cause/effect/consequences. Nor any sense of time/planning at all.

I think the plan of creating stupid masses that need to be led and taken care of is working. Of course, the Elite’s children will have top level education.

Quoted:...Full disclosure: I have a Masters in Education.  Fight me.  

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So, does anyone know if Russia has better schools and education than the US?

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Has she tried having sex with them?

Quoted:...Math has to be mastered at every step along the process starting with counting, then addition and subtraction, and on.  Practice is required, there is no way around that fact.

Elementary and junior high math should always be connected to the problems of life, that's its purpose.  Teachers must never stigmatize "word problems", those come from, or 'model',  life...

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I’m a teacher.

I don’t use any school provided curriculum.  I create all my own.  I teach American History with a decidedly conservative, nationalist bias.  Even get the kids repeating “taxation is theft”.

Get great evaluations. I’m typically at the highest rating that Ohio has - “accomplished”.

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No doubt there are plenty of bad teachers out there but IMO teachers as a whole are unfairly blamed for the system failures.  I see it like blaming the boots on the ground soldier for a failed military campaign instead of the flag officers running the show.  What about the great teachers that try to do a good job but whose hands are tied by the system?

What is a teacher supposed to do when they aren't allowed to fail a student even if they do nothing?  When there is zero parent participation?  When they have students in their class that do not speak English?  When they have students in their class that have physical and/or mental impairments and are supposed to have an aide with them but they don't?  When administrators tell them that essentially short of someone being killed to not bother them with discipline cases.  When students are grade levels behind yet there they are?

If you are like my wife you quit teaching for good after a couple of years.

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Other things I noticed about 15-18 year olds:

-almost all of them have zero idea how our government works. They think the President is THE power in the government and the SCOUTS has no right to strike down laws.

-no sense of cause/effect/consequences. Nor any sense of time/planning at all.

I think the plan of creating stupid masses that need to be led and taken care of is working. Of course, the Elite’s children will have top level education.

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Doesn't surprise me one bit.  Every child left behind.  

It's a circular problem that feeds itself.

Children don't learn from their parents. They both work two full time jobs.

They don't learn from teachers because there is no consequence for not learning.  They can't be held back.

Kids see the slugs moving on with them and they lower their own level of effort.

In this manner they are dumbed down.

Then they vote for terrible politicians like Biden who will drag power up federally.

Governors and legislature that sucks up power and removes it from the district.

The school board is voted in by the same uneducated and uncaring people.  They take power from the principal and give it to themselves.

Then the principals take power and leeway away from the teachers.  The teachers are getting butt fucked by their own unions which are paying to have power taken from the teachers by all levels of government.

Then those teachers are handing out a curriculum determined by the people furthest from the children and who have the least idea of how to teach.

So their students become more dumbed down.  Then those students go on to vote for even worse politicians.

Now you can't put kids in a timeout by themselves.  You are forced to agree with their lies.  You can't remove violent kids or those who disrupt the entire class all day every day.  And so the education suffers.... And they vote for even worse politicians.  The politicians OP votes for.

This has been an ongoing trend and it's not reversing any time soon or maybe ever.

In order to save some of the children of this country we need to have more private schools who are not beholden to the politicians who only make things worse.  

Vouchers for the same amount that a public school gets per child for ALL parents.  Regardless of wealth.  

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This is interesting:



They also signed anti-immigration laws so strict the fed gov sued them, they’re Pro Gun, and want to reduce spending on entitlement programs.

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Good to know. I may start one this weekend since I'm freaking tied down with the gotdang flu.

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Stupid people raising stupid kids. All of these things usually make perfect sense when you meet the parents. You couldn’t pay me any amount of money to be a teacher.

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Some students type using their index fingers.

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Nationalist .. you mean like hamiltonian?

 The free market education system would greatly enhance the student education as well as teacher experience

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If I understand it correctly, it's a map without any key, code, title or explanation whatsoever.