OT: For Cathy F

#41

n5hsr wrote:

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The public school didn't really have one back then.

I'm not 50 yet, I started Kindergarten the day AFTER Labor Day in 1962.

It was common in the federal system in 1962, when my first child was
in kindergarten, and even now the federal government runs some of the
best primary and secondary schools in the U.S. and abroad, as any G.I.
can tell you.

#42

<rantonrave (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote

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NEA opposes home schooling. Why? From what I've seen, most home schooled
kids are smarter than the public school kids.

Is that based on purely anecdotal evidence?

The home schooling advocates I know (6 of them) want their kids protected
from science. What a trend, ya know?

#43

"Cathy F." <clfr (AT) adelphiadotdedot (DOT) net> wrote

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"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant (AT) mindspring (DOT) net> wrote in message
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Proof can be seen at any fast food place.

Hell they can't even make change without that fucking computer. .
....and they don't HAVE to memorize the times tables anymore.

What louse crap our education system is.

Flush the whole damned thing and start over!

--
Scott in Florida

These things are the fault of the parents. Parents just like you.

BULLSHIT! I made SURE my kids read, and knew the multiplication tables,
and were able to THINK rather than rely on a machine to think for them!
*I* had to make up for what the "Education System" was lacking!

Excuse me, but I teach my kids (students) to read & we are presently
reviewing the mult./div. tables (& doing equivalent fractions) in Math.
Yesterday, when reviewing the doubles, I intro-ed them to "x" squared &
square roots, just for funsies. The concept is very easy, but it's
certainly not in the third gr. curriculum, so they got all excited - big
kid stuff (I think it's in the 5th gr. curriculum). And now they 'get'
what that one key is, on calculators. ;-) reading: besides decoding &
fluency, of course we do literal comprehension. But inferential
thinking, compare/contrast, etc. is required, though not all of them are
truly ready for it yet.

Cathy

Can most of them match singular & plural verbs & nouns in their writing
yet?

Yes. That sort of grammar/usage seems to come naturally - as long as it's
spoken correctly in their daily lives.

Cathy

I wonder what happened to Bush. His daddy talks reel gud.

#44

Hachiroku ãƒãƒãƒ*ã‚¯ wrote:

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Sorry, Cath, can't speak for Charles, but I for one don't want teachers
passing ANYTHING off to grade-school kids except for readin', writin' and
'rithmatic.

Why do you insist that teachers must either speak only with southern
accents or spell badly?

#45

Scott in Florida wrote:

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What louse crap our education system is.

Was your misspelling intentional?

#46

<rantonrave (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote

Hachiroku ???? wrote:

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Sorry, Cath, can't speak for Charles, but I for one don't want teachers
passing ANYTHING off to grade-school kids except for readin', writin' and
'rithmatic.

Why do you insist that teachers must either speak only with southern
accents or spell badly?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Wait till you see how he sometimes plays games with capitalization, making
up rules to suit his disastrous ideas. He claims kids learn by example, and
then provides the worst example possible.

#47

Mike Hunter wrote:

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On Sat, 12 May 2007 14:57:53 -0400, "Cathy F."
clfr (AT) adelphiadotdedot (DOT) net> wrote:

After teaching for 35 years, I still get formal, written observations.

Not by people that count.....

Who would be people that count?

Mathematicians, accountants?

I can understand being evaluated by mathematicians, but why also by
lowly accountants? Not only aren't they academics, but they barely go
beyond basic arithmetic.

#48

On 13 May 2007 08:28:12 -0700, "rantonrave (AT) mail (DOT) com"
<rantonrave (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote:

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Scott in Florida wrote:

What louse crap our education system is.

Was your misspelling intentional?

lol of courseeeeeeee

--
Scott in Florida

#49

Can we assume you do not patronize your local McDonalds?

mike

"JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

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I've watched public education go down the tubes since 1962

No, you haven't.

#50

"Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2 (AT) mailcity (DOT) com> wrote

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I've watched public education go down the tubes since 1962

No, you haven't.

Can we assume you do not patronize your local McDonalds?

mike

Can we assume you never noticed the kinds of people who did nothing but pump
gas 40 years ago?

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