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@mypacks.net says... I_am_Tosk wrote: In , says... In articleoq6dnQ98EdQevw_QnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@earthlink .com, payer3389 @mypacks.net says... wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:09:33 -0400, wrote: wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:05:55 -0400, wrote: wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:32:51 -0400, wrote: wrote: On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:03:24 -0700, wrote: On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:49:47 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:37:33 -0700, wrote: It is a strange comment from a person who believes in the unions and their policy of paying the oldest and longest serving employees the most, regardless of performance. Who believes that? I don't think you'll find anyone who does. School teachers. Nonsense. They believe performance does matter, and they're sick of teaching to tests that don't teach kids anything useful except maybe how to take tests. Taking tests is a very important skill but these teachers do not want their salary tied to any measure of performance. They want to be paid by credentials and time in grade. Make that sound reasonable to me.. A totally out of touch teacher with 20 years on the job and a PhD, who gets horrible results, makes 3 times as much as a new teacher who connects with the kids and really gets something done in the classroom. That is ridiculous. Too many variables in your argument. You're making assumptions the kids in each class are pretty much the same kids, with the same home life. When I was in public school, the older, more experienced teachers were by far the better teachers. Maybe but I had a terrible crush on Mr. Hansen in 8th grade. He was one of the younger ones. Of course, I can't remember a single thing he said. Most of my public school teachers made really strong, positive impressions on me. In all those years, though, there was only one young woman I considered cute. In those days, just after Franklin "discovered" electricity, the teachers did not have to take the amount of b.s. dished up to them today. Ah yeah, the 50s when teachers could smoke in class and slap the students. Those were the days. We did seem to learn more and classroom discipline was a whole lot better. They still measured our progress on how we did on those evil tests. In fact there was one every Friday. Hmmm. I don't recall teachers smoking in class or on school grounds, nor do I recall students being slapped. Of course we had tests, and lots of them. The teachers all could smoke in the teacher's lounge and a few extended that to the classroom. Nobody ever said a word. My 8th grade social studies (AKA Core) used to bum a smoke off of our "Jethro" student, a kid from West Virginia who was about 18. They would both spark up right there in class. The teacher was only about 23-24. Actually that may have been the best class I had as far as learning anything. The algebra teacher was some old crone who just droned on and on with virtually zero interaction with the class. I think about a third of the class was really not getting the material. I know it baffled me and in summer school it seemed easy. The teacher (in the private school) actually made some effort to help us understand instead of just making it a lecture. That was my last year in Public school. I was in public school all the way, K-12. There were plenty of "prep" and parochial schools in New Haven and in Connecticut, of course. Some of the "snooty" kids went to the fancier prep high schools. I only recall one bad teacher, and that was in junior high school. A match teacher, a young one, and too much the smart aleck. I built a cloud chamber for my seventh grade science project. Damned thing worked, too. Consisted of a metal cooking tray, painted flat black, on which sat a one gallon cider jug with the top and bottom cut off to make a cylinder. There was a copper band (maybe two) around the inside of the jug. A spark coil from a Model A Ford was connected to the copper, and the spark coil was connected to a battery. Put a radium clock hand on the cooking tray (which sat on a slab of dry ice), turn off the lights, shine a projector into the glass, and you could clearly see the trails given off by the radium on the clock hand. And it turns into a lie about Harry...... Next he developed the 100 mile per gallon carb, and that was on his way to curing cancer!!! LOL! Well, some of us were and are smart and some of us were and are not smart. I'm in the former group and you're in the latter. If you can think of why my description of a simple cloud chamber would not work, you just go ahead and post your reasons. Otherwise, you should stick to what you know...stacking crates in a warehouse, shoveling **** out of a barn, and living vicariously through the dangerous sport in which you have shoved your daughter. Wow, we've caught Harry in yet another lie!! And a big one at that. You can always tell by how hard he huffs and puffs when he calls names and insults like a little kid! |
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