I've got a 'school' rant.

[RICHARD]

Might want to think about the anonymous note, RICHARD...

These poor stupid kids will go out expecting to get jobs and will be fired quickly at the very least...and their lack of math skills etc will reflect badly on the school!

JMO

You know....

The saddest thing is the way that kids are being short changed when it comes to education today.

Do you remember Pee Chee folders and the multiplication table printed on the inside?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee_Chee_folder

Oh my dear lord....I loved them, especially putting polka dots on the tennis gal's shorts or putting cartoon bubbles with stupid sayings over the other athletes!

Anyway, I thought the MTs were for stupid kids!

I remember teachers 'grading on the curve'....Wait a second, you HAVE to balance out the achievers against the people that didn't care about an education?

As much as I want to say that you are correct about the 'stupid kids'?

Think about all the stupid lawsuits that are filed when people are canned for being stupid on the job?

This goes back to the 'certificate/diploma/online school' way of promoting people thru the ranks.

"THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO EVERYONE WHO HAS TAKEN AN ONLINE COURSE OR GONE TO A TRADE SCHOOL!"

Most of the people I have seen come out of the computer/online schools are meatheads.

My last two bosses were twenty something idiots who had no idea of which orifice to wipe after a bowel movement.

They were smart, but had no people or communication skills.
They knew how to get their arses out of the fire, but left the drones to fight it out on their own.

Even sadder? The bosses that were totally enamoured about a sheepskin from a school that allows you sit in front of a computer screen to teach you how to deal with real life situations.


The best people for the job?

The Middies!

The people who have one foot in the old ways and have embraced the tech needed to succeed in the new ways.

[wombat2u2004]

But those younger ones who come to class with a hangover and just want to mess around all day are just a bunch of cretins. It doesn't matter a hoot about the teacher making allowances for them in their final marks etc etc.
A piece of paper may get a kid a job, but how long before the employer realises that the piece of paper means Jack when the kid can't do the job properly ???

The proof of the pudding old mate, is in the finished product......whether you can do the job properly or not. Any employer will tell you that.
I was a Master Builder before I retired, and I got there by hard work and study and applying myself properly to my work. I knew when my brickies were no good.....knew within 5 minutes of them being on site.....never cared what their qualifications were or what their bits of paper entitled them to do.
If they were no good, then they were booted off the site.

They run and cry away to the union......so what ??? What could the union do to me ??? Nothing !!!! So I'd lay the bricks myself.
If you are good at what you do, then anyone will hire you.

[RICHARD]

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_14414136

My heart breaks when I read stuff like this.....


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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain," said our second president, John Adams.

Give them a cell phone and they'll get along just fine?


I laugh when I see a KGB (info service) commercial.

Are ya too lazy to look up a book entry or even go on the internet to find out the answer to your question?

Nope, pay .99 and we'll answer it for you!

http://542542.com/about

No thinking involved.

[RICHARD]

I forgot to post this.....

I "dropped a line" to the school.


I went to get a schedule to see what was offered over the summer session and went by the area where my classes were held.

The area where the projects were left was cleaned up and swept down.

I don't know about what happened with anything else, but someone got the message.