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Award of the Year
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:33 am
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:33 am
The contest is over 
This coulda went on the OT but since it's politically incorrect so it belongs here.
MSN
This coulda went on the OT but since it's politically incorrect so it belongs here.
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Student Given 'ADD Award' By Teacher
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The paper reads “Most likely to be distracted by…look something shiny!” with a zombie holding a balloon. The zombie is also holding a gold ribbon that says “good work.”
MSN
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Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:52 am to Wtodd
First line of the article:
Education is not suppose to be a safe environment. Education is suppose to prepare you for the world. The world is not safe. It's infinitely better to be forced to confront this reality in the world of education where the cost of failure is exceedingly low than in the world that is the workforce where the cost of failure is exceedingly high.
quote:I think well over half of the problems with the US education system can be traced back to this fallacious mindset.
We hope the school will learn that they need to be more sensitive to what students are dealing with and not make fun of them in what is supposed to be a safe environment.
Education is not suppose to be a safe environment. Education is suppose to prepare you for the world. The world is not safe. It's infinitely better to be forced to confront this reality in the world of education where the cost of failure is exceedingly low than in the world that is the workforce where the cost of failure is exceedingly high.
This post was edited on 6/29/18 at 9:54 am
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:58 am to funnystuff
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Education is suppose to prepare you for the world.
Agree but this mindset died 30 yrs ago.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 9:59 am to Wtodd
Well...it is not preparing them. Not even close.
We all see it every day.
We all see it every day.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:00 am to Wtodd
That's the problem. Rather than brushing it off, let's contribute to bringing it back. Mindsets constantly change, we don't need to resign ourselves to accepting counterproductive ones.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:01 am to funnystuff
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Education is not suppose to be a safe environment. Education is suppose to prepare you for the world.
You edited, and still got it wrong.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:03 am to funnystuff
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we don't need to resign ourselves to accepting counterproductive ones
Truth
We as voters need to make sure the people that are on elected school boards are the "old school" types. We need to make sure that our Governors are of the mindset of setting our kids up for success, not to receive participation trophies.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:11 am to deeprig9
That's not the part I edited. And I don't believe that I am.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:14 am to Wtodd
Example #200,000,001 that the Left has no sense of humor.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:15 am to funnystuff
quote:wrong. "Education" is daycare.
Education is suppose to prepare you for the world.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:20 am to Wtodd
Agreed, with a caveat on "old school" types. I 100% agree with the old school characterization as it pertains to the mindsets you laid out:
quote:Just want to make sure that "old school" mindsets don't extend to "old school" subjects. Our current schooling system was designed to prepare a massive workforce of manufacturers and clerks, folks who were content doing repetitive tasks for hours on end. Our new economy requires more abstract thought, modern skills, and critical evaluation. We definitely have the opportunity to find better ways to promote these skills at an earlier level.
mindset of setting our kids up for success, not to receive participation trophies.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:22 am to airfernando
I didn't say that education does prepare you for the world. I said that education should prepare you for the world. Are you asserting that education should simply be daycare?
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:25 am to funnystuff
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Just want to make sure that "old school" mindsets don't extend to "old school" subjects
Wasn't my intent BUT some old school subjects should still be taught like.....IDK.....just throwin' this out there.....math for example....I think we need to go back to when 2+2 was 4, not Dylan has 2 moms.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:32 am to Wtodd
Absolutely, that's not at all the type of thing I meant to push back on. My bad, I see I left that vague.
I'd go a step further and say that math-related education is one area that badly needs to be expanded. I'm a big advocate that statistics needs to be a required High School course at this point for example. Definitely not advocating for gender studies in early education or any nonsense like that. More computing and coding classes on the other hand, every high school in the country could use more of them. Even a number of junior high schools could likely handle them at this point.
I'd go a step further and say that math-related education is one area that badly needs to be expanded. I'm a big advocate that statistics needs to be a required High School course at this point for example. Definitely not advocating for gender studies in early education or any nonsense like that. More computing and coding classes on the other hand, every high school in the country could use more of them. Even a number of junior high schools could likely handle them at this point.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:35 am to Wtodd
My wife has a brother that is several years younger than her. When he was in elementary school, there was an issue with a teacher. There was an email that went from my mother in law to the teacher that was forwarded on to the principal and assistant principal.
The principal hit reply all and made the most inappropriate comment about my mother in law you could imagine. It had nothing to do with the situation, it was a personal attack.
My mother in law had every right to cause a stir and make a news story out of it, and she would have been justified. But she didn't. She accepted the principal's apology - got the original situation taken care of with full satisfaction, and never mentioned it again.
Sometimes people make mistakes. It was stupid to give an award like this. But I like to think it wasn't malicious - it was probably more of an inside joke that got taken too far. The teacher should learn from this mistake and move on. The parent should keep private matters private. That's one of the worst things social media has brought - too many people think they should run to social media with every little thing.
The principal hit reply all and made the most inappropriate comment about my mother in law you could imagine. It had nothing to do with the situation, it was a personal attack.
My mother in law had every right to cause a stir and make a news story out of it, and she would have been justified. But she didn't. She accepted the principal's apology - got the original situation taken care of with full satisfaction, and never mentioned it again.
Sometimes people make mistakes. It was stupid to give an award like this. But I like to think it wasn't malicious - it was probably more of an inside joke that got taken too far. The teacher should learn from this mistake and move on. The parent should keep private matters private. That's one of the worst things social media has brought - too many people think they should run to social media with every little thing.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:39 am to funnystuff
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I'd go a step further and say that math-related education is one area that badly needs to be expanded
IMO the #1 old school subject that needs to be taught is history....AS IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED....not the revisionist shite that's been taught for the past 30 yrs.
Don't know about stats (I hate stats but love math)...personal finances would be near the top of my list.
This post was edited on 6/29/18 at 10:41 am
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:40 am to Wtodd
I don't remember knowing anyone with ADD when I was young. 
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:42 am to SCwTiger
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I don't remember knowing anyone with ADD when I was young.
Because you didn't. It's way over diagnosed. Especially in boys.
Talk too much in 1st grade class: ADD
Get a little rowdy at lunch: ADD
Tired after recess: ADD.
Posted on 6/29/18 at 10:47 am to anc
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Because you didn't. It's way over diagnosed. Especially in boys
Fact.Fact.Fact
Everyone should check out France's % of kids diagnosed with ADD vs. the US; the US is 6 times higher.......the answer? Follow the money to Big Pharma
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