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X ` Man[_3_]

On 6/19/12 11:52 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:47:23 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

On 6/18/12 9:48 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:48:22 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

This sounds like "rote learning and memorization" to me: "18 weeks of a
8 hour a day school is equal to about 48 credit hours of
college in classroom time." Not much time to think about what you are
learning and contemplating possibilities.

This was a little different than the set it and forget it education
you get in regular schools. We lived this stuff. I had a side gig
tutoring a couple of the E5s that were in a rate change and
struggling. I wasn't paid but I got good duty.
Those boys were scared because the penalty for failing was a lot worse
for them. I spent a couple hours a night going over the day with
them.. They got me into Cappy's White Horse tavern for a beer after.
I also did not have to get up in the morning for jumping jacks.

The "set it and forget it education you get in regular schools"? Sorry,
I missed out on attending those sorts of schools. I remember a lot of
what I was taught in high school and most of what was covered in my
classes in college, and all my life I've built on that knowledge base.

The public schools I attended (DC and PG county) were not that great
but still better than they are today.
In Florida, when less than half the kids passed the FCAT, they simply
regraded the tests to a lower standard.
This is after 3 years of teachers complaining that they were only
"teaching the test"

The
class was taught in one of the oldest buildings on campus, a large
structure built shortly after the Civil War. The steam pipe heating
system really cranked on those cold winter mornings, and many of us
wondered if they would explode and kill us all before we finished the
"required" class, or, if we survived, whether we'd have to repeat the
class in another building.

We had steam radiator heat in my high school too. They were hissing
and banging all day.

I blame parents more than any other factor for the poor performance of
their kids in school.