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[Merle]

I meant more challenging material, but I guess it’s not really fair to assume that my high school should have taught dif eq

Not that diff eq shouldn’t be available! I would’ve tried to take advantage of that had it been available to me. My main beef is with memorization and sorting education into subcategories, etc. None of that makes any sense. More math (that I didn’t use day to day) made me a better employee. Poetry made me a better employee. Not all of this is measurable like we would like it to be

They should leverage the size of a district to offer different programs at different schools that kids can apply to. Instead of having 10 schools in a 20 mile radius teach the exact same thing

What we don’t need is more inequality of education, which is what that is. Kids need to be taught to learn so that they can explore and learn about those jobs they might love on their own.

 

[CF]

Man who needs to have an election. They should just put us in charge of the country. We’ve got it all figured out.

 

[AB19]

Man who needs to have an election. They should just put us in charge of the country. We’ve got it all figured out.

As long as I don’t have to go back to the mines

 

[Peter Gibbons]

Except most kids come out with no fucking clue and go to college for some Bullshit like communications

I mean okay, how many people do you know that are working in fields that have nothing to do with thier college degree, much less what they thought they would be doing in high school? After reading your comments after this, I'm once again left feeling like you hear feel good catch phrases and decide thats your group without really understanding the topic at hand, which leads us back to introspection, critical thinking and independent thought which we need so dearly in our schools.

Man who needs to have an election. They should just put us in charge of the country. We’ve got it all figured out.

What a shitshow thay would be.

 

[radarserviceterminated]

All of these comments depend on the idea that the only way for education to enrich your life is for it to determine your job. Education is a lot more than that.

Making high school a more challenging version of the memorization game that it is won’t teach you how to learn the information. And plenty of people don’t have the support system to make it through high school as it

Not that diff eq shouldn’t be available! I would’ve tried to take advantage of that had it been available to me. My main beef is with memorization and sorting education into subcategories, etc. None of that makes any sense. More math (that I didn’t use day to day) made me a better employee. Poetry made me a better employee. Not all of this is measurable like we would like it to be

What we don’t need is more inequality of education, which is what that is. Kids need to be taught to learn so that they can explore and learn about those jobs they might love on their own.

The inequality and lack of exposure to as many disciplines as possible is what bothers me. I feel like high school would be the more opportune and effective time for introductory courses to as many things as possible instead of the first two years of a college degree. Especially when most people go to public high schools versus the insane price of college tuition.

 

[Phillyman2633]

Man who needs to have an election. They should just put us in charge of the country. We’ve got it all figured out.

I nominate myself as VP of DP

 

[Peter Gibbons]

The inequality and lack of exposure to as many disciplines as possible is what bothers me. I feel like high school would be the more opportune and effective time for introductory courses to as many things as possible instead of the first two years of a college degree. Especially when most people go to public high schools versus the insane price of college tuition.

See again, without the ability to be introspective and really think hard and logically about it what good does an intro course do?

Like ya I'd love an intro to fishing course for class credit in high school and cool, maybe I decide I want to be an expert bluegill guide on my local hometown pond. Guess what? The job market for that is shit, maybe if I had the ability to reason that out I'd focus on biology, environmental studies or wildlife management instead, as those are things that someone with the ability to think critically and have a little empathy for the world around them thru education would do instead, and arguably make the world a better place for it instead of failing at being a bluegill fisherman and ending up working at Walmart.

I know that's an extreme and asinine example, but it applies nonetheless.

I nominate myself as VP of DP

First order of business is a small scale Eifel tower monument to honor the French for their gift of the statue of liberty.

 

[Mr.Tickles]

To be fair high school should also be more challenging, because not having to study in high school fucked me in college

I’d agree with that. Although my school did have plenty of more challenging courses if someone was inclined to go that route. Everything at mine was tailored to be better prepared for going to college.

 

[Peter Gibbons]

I’d agree with that. Although my school did have plenty of more challenging courses if someone was inclined to go that route. Everything at mine was tailored to be better prepared for going to college.

Mine was absolutely geared towards passing standardized testing so the school could get funding, so much so that we had student assemblies to explain that to us.

 

[Horny4Vectors]

Kids learn all about the benefits of college in high school and are pushed to go to college taking out thousands in debt. High schoolers should be pushed to the trades just as much as they are pushed towards college.

Boom. I told my kids “find a trade or join the military. Daddy put up with too much bullshit to pay for schooling you don’t need.” I’m buying a big ass sport fishing boat and moving to the Keys the day I’m eligible

 

[CF]

TRUE

I’d have expected to be disappointed with a 10,000th post like this but after spending this much time here disappointment is a state of being.

 

[Mr.Tickles]

Mine was absolutely geared towards passing standardized testing so the school could get funding, so much so that we had student assemblies to explain that to us.

Yup, lots of pushing on the standardized testing as well at mine sadly.

Boom. I told my kids “find a trade or join the military. Daddy put up with too much bullshit to pay for schooling you don’t need.” I’m buying a big ass sport fishing boat and moving to the Keys the day I’m eligible

We just har our first and theres no way he’s getting a blank check to go to college just to go. Maybe if he has proven he’s got the drive and wants to do something like engineering. Absolutely gonna push trades and military as well as good options.

 

[Balls2/H]

I nominate myself as VP of DP

This is the government. You’re not going to get a job you have extensive experience in

 

[Super Salt]

I am leaving the country with immediate effect and moving to Russia where my President will be Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. I have been an US Citizen for 69 years but I have never seen an election this rigged. BIDEN WILL NEVER BE MY PRESIDENT!!!

 

[DankVectorz]

the biggest problem with public education today is that it’s funded by property taxes. So babsically schools in well off neighborhoods are well off and schools in poor neighborhoods are poor. Public schools should be funded much more equitably throughout the state. There is no good reason one school is buying their students iPads and another 2 towns over can’t buy their teachers pens. This also just helped perpetuate the cycle of poverty and makes it that much harder to break out of it.

And for what it’s worth I went to an automotive trade school after I dropped out of Arizona State. It was also a waste of money. Shit was so out of date. I learned more in my first 3 months working at Ford than I did in 16 months of trade school. I went to Lincoln Tech, which I don’t recommend, but I have heard good things from my friends who went to WyoTech.

 

[Peter Gibbons]

the biggest problem with public education today is that it’s funded by property taxes. So babsically schools in well off neighborhoods are well off and schools in poor neighborhoods are poor. Public schools should be funded much more equitably throughout the state. There is no good reason one school is buying their students iPads and another 2 towns over can’t buy their teachers pens.

I'd say thats one problem, and a big one, but not the biggest one. You don't need ipads to teach kids to think. We went to the moon with slide rules and grease pencils.

I know that's not what you are saying (and think bringing tech into schools is good in modern society) but you can buy all the ipads in the world and not change a thing about preparing kids for the real world.

 

[Merle]

Thanks, Lindsey!

 

[32andBelow]

Go to loser dot com in your web browser

LOL PWN3D

 

[DankVectorz]

Uh oh, found some fraud in PA!

Officials: Postal worker recants ballot-tampering claims

A Pennsylvania postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities admitted to U.S. Postal Service investigators that he fabricated the allegations, according to three officials briefed on the investigation and a...

www.seattletimes.com

 

[SharkBait]

Uh oh, found some fraud in PA!

Officials: Postal worker recants ballot-tampering claims

A Pennsylvania postal worker whose claims have been cited by top Republicans as potential evidence of widespread voting irregularities admitted to U.S. Postal Service investigators that he fabricated the allegations, according to three officials briefed on the investigation and a...

www.seattletimes.com

interesting, he said he never recanted