Education ( P O L I T I C A L )

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 02/02/2017 at 20:20 • Filed to: None

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wiffleballtony > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 20:22

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My experience with corporate America teaches me that jumping through hoops is probably the most practical thing I learned in school.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > wiffleballtony 02/02/2017 at 20:29

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I don’t know if you picked it up in some other post of mine, but I am an educator, currently teaching 6th grade. Probably my biggest gripe is with teacher unions. My second biggest gripe is with White people who get bent and accuse others of guilt mongering whenever they have the temerity to point out that American public schools are best equipped to serve White families.

wiffleballtony > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 20:34

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Who says I’m complaining about the education? I’m more bent about the stupidity of corporate America.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 22:15

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The only thing I learned in school, is that I could do very little, and usually get away with it. The biggest problem I had with school was homework. You expect kids to go to school for 8 hours and then go home and do 3-5 hours worth of work? Nah I’ll just go skateboarding instead, while I’m still young enough to enjoy it. I do not regret dropping out of high school, but I do wish I had focused more on college.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 02/02/2017 at 22:21

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The important lessons are emotional intelligence and social skills, none of which most of my teachers gave me.

Frank Grimes > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/02/2017 at 23:54

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most of my teachers were emotionally immature bastards who seemed to hate kids and treated genuine curiosity and questions with sarcasm and shaming. So in all I learned adults were bastards.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Frank Grimes 02/03/2017 at 00:07

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Many teachers cannot set aside their egos. Others are lazy. Limp your way through two or there years, get tenure, then be mediocre for the rest of your career. I’m a teacher and I’ve known plenty of those.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 02/03/2017 at 00:58

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A good teacher can really make a difference. For example I took Creative Writing in 9th grade thinking it would be fun, because I like writing, especially creatively. Instead I got an apathetic 74 year old woman, who hated her job, and creativity. I failed that class with a 37%. Thankfully she retired and my school got a new English teacher. This new teacher made things interesting, and fun, and actually encouraged creativity! I finished his class with a 94%. He also had what I thought was a great grading system. You’re grade was based on 5 or 6 big projects, and a final that counted as 25% of your grade. And you got a week for each big project.

Conversely I had biology teacher who counted 25%of the grade as in class worksheets, 35% home work, 30% the notes you took in class, and only 10% the final. The first time I took her class I got a 95 on the final, and failed the class with a 57%. How the hell do you get a 95 on a final and fail a class? It was because I didn’t write notes. But why would I take notes when I retain information without them? Although to her credit I learned a lot from the work we actually did in class, the hands on stuff is where I learn best.

Also in 7th grade I had a shop teacher who was a lazy ass, I ended up with a 80%. I remember there was one test, where I got a 74% and I had the highest score in the class. If the whole class is a scoring a C or worse it’s the teacher’s fault.