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Re: Idle Ramblings
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Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:57:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Chris Maddison writes:
> I've just GOTTA stick my two cents into this one. I've been going to the same
> school district for 13 years; (I'm a senior, YAY!) good ol' Albia Community
> School District in Albia, IA. And they are the most bass-ackward bunch I've
> ever seen. They try to "prepare" you for the rest of life, when all they
> accomplish is wasting 7 hours of your day, filling your head with stuff they
> read out of a book! Do any of these teachers KNOW anything about the subject
> they teach? I say not many. I mean, unless I'm gonna be an Advanced Algebra
> professor at some college, am I ever gonna have to know what X - (2Y pie r
> squared, minus, cubed root, yadda yadda yadda? No. School sucks, and so does
> standardized tests. Period. The only fun to be had at school is PE, or when
> a teacher actually knows what they're doing and doesn't just go by the book.
I don't even know where to trim Chris' words, so I'll just quote the whole dang
thing. I'd venture to say that the attitude he displays helps drag down the
standards of American education. It's one thing to be upset with the quality
of your school's education; it's quite another to be upset because they dare
try to educate you. How excited about learning can you get, if you'd rather
whine about learning from books?
Much of what I thought I never needed in high school, I've ended up using in
the real world. I've been surprised more than once that X - (2Y pi r squared
etc) has turned out extremely useful. I wish I'd taken better notes in
math class. (Note that I am not an advanced algebra teacher at college.) Same
is true for the English, history, science, and sociology classes.
Conversely, about the most wated time for me in high school was spent in PE. I
have never been in a situation where I've had a need to throw a football or
slap a hockey puck. *IF* the physical education classes contributed to
bettering my health, I might have a different opinion. Sorry, it didn't
happen. All PE did for me was to help alienate me from the crowd. Give me
more books and less PE, say I.
Don't get me wrong; I am not happy with the current system. But I feel that
what's needed in public school is a stronger language, math, and hard science
cirriculum. In no way can kids from the American education system compete with
their counterparts in the majority of industrialized nations today.
Just dropping a couple o' pennies...
Cheers,
- jsproat
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| (...) Add not-so-industrialized nations to these..:-) At least for high schools. One of my friends from high school went to US via an international student exchange program for a period of one year in a US high school. I remembered that he was not (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) That is one of my major *major* beefs from the normal schooling system. They teach you things which definitely might turn out to be useful; but do you hear the teachers ever mentioning that? Not in my current school. One of my favorite and (...) (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| <snip> I'd venture to say that the attitude he displays helps drag down the (...) Touche. I'm not trying to drag down standards, nor criticize you. I'm not saying you criticized me; we each have our own opinion, and are entitled to it. My GPA is (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I've just GOTTA stick my two cents into this one. I've been going to the same school district for 13 years; (I'm a senior, YAY!) good ol' Albia Community School District in Albia, IA. And they are the most bass-ackward bunch I've ever seen. They try (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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