re: Schools and teachers are a Joke

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Our education system is outdated. We are applying essentially 18th century learning tactics in a world where we have supercomputers in our hands

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This shite ^ right here!

On another note, as someone who has had parents, grandparents, relatives, former spouses, and daughters-in-law in teaching, I find one trait and one thing that seems to be the problem. The system itself.
When my kids were younger, they brought home daily notes telling me to do shite in the most disorganized, haphazardly manner. The Who, What, When, Where, Why was just buried in the minutiae of gobbledygook false praise for the teachers and students. It would be things like “tomorrow is T-shirt day, but no long T-shirts, but Wednesday they can have free dress if they bring $1. But the T-shirt day is a canned good. Monday is movie day bring 2.50 for that, and Friday is your day for snacks or you can send $10 by last Thursday. And they get out early Friday and that is the day for the field trip so bring $2 or they will be watching the movie with the poor children”

The system has them teaching for a Test that doesn’t teach them shite. None of my kids brought or bring homework home. They’ve had varied grades. The 2 smart ones never bring a book home and made all A’s. The lesser student was like WWIII just to get them to actually read a book let alone study. Some can work the system, but some kids don’t fit into the square holes if they are a triangle. But hey, the less smarter kid was real good at sports, so there’s that.