I'm a teacher and I feel a great sense of relief with this. The entire system needs to be destroyed and rebuilt. I am hoping to make it in my career until this new system is in place, a system where kids learn what they need to know to be successful and don't feel they are in prison all day.
I grew up with school cafeterias and school buses in the 50s and 60s. There was nothing terrible about it. It was simple food and simple transportation, and no one got up in a whirl about it. I have more memories of the classrooms than of these aspects.
My prescription is to return largely to the course content and textbooks of my father's generation in the 1930s. I read his textbook on grammar. College level, with details about what punctuation marks there are and how to use them. I read a textbook on home economics (cooking) and it was almost like reading a chemistry text, explaining what goes on in the chemistry of baking bread. There is a very clear and substantial thesis that, once it was accepted that everyone needed to go to college, the high schools relaxed all their standards. The prior attitude was that a high school diploma was as far as most children would go in their formal education, so the idea was to cram in as much as possible. My high school taught courses in English Literature, Mathematics up to calculus, Geography & History, French, German, Spanish, and Latin, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Shopwork. Not to mention electives in Art, Music, and Theater. The marching band was the pride of the town. Today, its music building is a demolished memory.
It still sticks with me. If I have a problem expressing a sentence, I sometimes get out of it by asking myself "How would I diagram this sentence?" And it always helps me sort out subject vs. object nouns and pronouns. I don't say this publicly out of a desire not to seem arrogant, but my general attitude is "If you don't know how to diagram your own sentence, then you don't know what the fuck you are saying."
When you realize who Robert Maxwell is and what businesses he owned, you realize our educators have a LONG journey ahead of them.
(Hints: "Ghislane" and "Daily Mirror, Macmillan Publishing and the British Printing Company").
I'm a teacher and I feel a great sense of relief with this. The entire system needs to be destroyed and rebuilt. I am hoping to make it in my career until this new system is in place, a system where kids learn what they need to know to be successful and don't feel they are in prison all day.
My heart sings for you.
School cafeteria and food like prison, buses like prisoner transport...the whole system needs to go
I grew up with school cafeterias and school buses in the 50s and 60s. There was nothing terrible about it. It was simple food and simple transportation, and no one got up in a whirl about it. I have more memories of the classrooms than of these aspects.
My prescription is to return largely to the course content and textbooks of my father's generation in the 1930s. I read his textbook on grammar. College level, with details about what punctuation marks there are and how to use them. I read a textbook on home economics (cooking) and it was almost like reading a chemistry text, explaining what goes on in the chemistry of baking bread. There is a very clear and substantial thesis that, once it was accepted that everyone needed to go to college, the high schools relaxed all their standards. The prior attitude was that a high school diploma was as far as most children would go in their formal education, so the idea was to cram in as much as possible. My high school taught courses in English Literature, Mathematics up to calculus, Geography & History, French, German, Spanish, and Latin, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Shopwork. Not to mention electives in Art, Music, and Theater. The marching band was the pride of the town. Today, its music building is a demolished memory.
MDGA-Make Diagramming Great Again!
It still sticks with me. If I have a problem expressing a sentence, I sometimes get out of it by asking myself "How would I diagram this sentence?" And it always helps me sort out subject vs. object nouns and pronouns. I don't say this publicly out of a desire not to seem arrogant, but my general attitude is "If you don't know how to diagram your own sentence, then you don't know what the fuck you are saying."
When you realize who Robert Maxwell is and what businesses he owned, you realize our educators have a LONG journey ahead of them. (Hints: "Ghislane" and "Daily Mirror, Macmillan Publishing and the British Printing Company").
Here Here! 50’s and 60’s were the best.
I could go on about this all day. I’ve got way too much to say it adequately here.
hilarious username, fren!!
Well I hope everyone says it. I want to change towns education but need to draw on everyone's knowledge.
Sounds good to me and you can help make it happen…. 🙏
I'm certain you felt out of place for so long with the liberals ruling over this whole system.