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[Rufus T. Firefly]

Oh. I wonder what it should be?

When I started to teach back in the dark ages
of 1956, misspelling got points deducted. But
that was dropped several years ago. A child
might have its self esteem lowered if the
spelling was criticized.

And now those same children are in Congress.......

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Labor Day weekend is coming; better stock up on the health and beauty supplies.....

[rex desilets]

Seems appropriate. Would be improved with some adverts for fine beers, porters, in my case.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Seems appropriate. Would be improved with some adverts for fine beers, porters, in my case.

Yes, a good porter would be nice and will put one in later today to cool down while thinking of you....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Ssuuuure, once imbibed, any of those treats (not meals ) can help anybody feel they are healthy and beeauuuutiful, until their effect wears off, sometimes with much effort bowing over and hugging onto the bowl, or hurling at some poor helpless shrub or unsuspecting pavement somewhere. (Yes, spoken from personal experience aplenty back-in-the-day.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

Anybody tried that phone number?

[rex desilets]

I hear it's a direct line to Lena Dunham

[rogruth]

Is that somebody we should all call? Why?

[robert.]

Oh. I wonder what it should be?

When I started to teach back in the dark ages
of 1956, misspelling got points deducted. But
that was dropped several years ago. A child
might have its self esteem lowered if the
spelling was criticized.

Did your students do homework?
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryla ... story.html

[rogruth]

This has been coming for some time.
If you have not been associated with schools for some time ,you will be amazed with the changes.
Private schools and their advocates will not admit it but they have also been affected with similar changes.

I retired just before these changes had become entrenched in Georgia.
I really don't even like to talk about this but the colleges have become such an influence on education
and progressivism is so strong in the colleges, especially in education, I have almost given up.
If you talk to young educators, and I use the term loosely, they have no idea what you are talking
about or that there is another way.

Sorry about the rant.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This has been coming for some time.
If you have not been associated with schools for some time ,you will be amazed with the changes.
Private schools and their advocates will not admit it but they have also been affected with similar changes.

I retired just before these changes had become entrenched in Georgia.
I really don't even like to talk about this but the colleges have become such an influence on education
and progressivism is so strong in the colleges, especially in education, I have almost given up.
If you talk to young educators, and I use the term loosely, they have no idea what you are talking
about or that there is another way.

Sorry about the rant.

Makes school irrelevant..........no wonder kids no nothing at all other than how to pass the standardized exams - the teachers don't know anything more than that themselves.

I'll echo your rant and raise you one.

I remember when I went to grad school at what was a much larger university than where I got my undergrad degree and hearing about all of the remedial course that were available for incoming freshmen and wondering WTF that was about - that was more than 35 years ago. Kids like that promptly failed out after their 1st semester where I had attended....and then I remembered the kids I graduated with that went off with a teaching certificate - the dregs of my graduating class that work up as seniors realizing that they had nothing to show for their 4 years, a GPA of just over 2.0, and no employment future -- get a teaching certificate that took no effort and apparently in PA next to zero intelligence, .y contemporaries teaching the next generations.....and then I realize how we got where we are today.......

And, it all came back when my daughter was in public school, bored to tears, confronted by teachers that knew less than she did about her class subjects - the much ballyhoo'd Fairfax Co. system of VA - moved her to a private school that pushed her to her limits......now off getting her PhD.

[rogruth]

Yes and I agree. Also admit that there are exceptions to what we are saying but not very many.
THIS IS NEVER ADMITTED BUT MOST OF THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN THE SOUTH WERE FOUNDED TO AVOID INTEGRATion.
Please excuse the capitals. Mistake of one of my two typing fingers. Many of these type of schools have been integrated now
because of social and financial pressures.
I do admit that a school that is able to attract upper level students for whatever reason seem to have better reputations.
The Savannah Arts Academy, a public school which has competitive entrance requirments and is for fine arts students,
has the highest scores of all Savannah public schools. {I do not know how the private schools compare.] The Arts Academy
uses the old Savannah High School building. That building was so old and in such poor condition that a new school had to
be built to replace it because " students just can't be expected to do well and learn in such deplorable conditions". So the old
SHS students went to a new building, scores did NOT go up, drop-out rates did not change and the Arts Academy moved into
the old building and produced the best of everything in the county. I know this is not a surprise to most of the users of MTJ.

[webenda]

It was six years ago today I called that number (888-743-4335) to see if they needed any help.

All I got was an advertisement for a new movie starring Will Ferrell called “The Virginity Hit.”

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Looks legit, right?