Idealistic, like the rest of the show, but it still incapsulates my view on education pretty well.
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i agree with the op, in britan the public school system is a load of bullshit designed to shit out sub-standerd childeren with a poor education, i'm one of the lucky ones cause i got into a grammer school and we have way to much homework. plus alot of chools want more, our deputy head told us the results of a survey sent round about his kids school one assembly, and apparently only two people said they set to much. and in his words: "me and my wife know who they are,"
but then again if education was meantto let you acheive your potential then schools would be differant,
but then again if education was meantto let you acheive your potential then schools would be differant,
Judging by your grammar, spelling, and sentence structure, you could have used a little extra time in school.
What he is likely considering, is turning the school year into something similar to that of Japan or Australia: School throughout the year, but with more shorter breaks, instead of few long ones.
What he is likely considering, is turning the school year into something similar to that of Japan or Australia: School throughout the year, but with more shorter breaks, instead of few long ones.
bushwhacker2k said:
I can't speak for the states but 90-100 hour weeks with time spent in school and doing homework isn't what I would call "uncommon" for me. Depends on teachers though some what though. I'm unlucky enough to have a math teacher who just loves the idea of teaching by rote and English teacher who has decided that we would benefit from copying a 4000 page dictionary by the end of term on the usual homework which is on top of the classwork.
Hmm... I've heard its the first 20 mins and the last 20 mins, basically you forget the middle part entirely xD Good times...Levski7 said:
this is a forum, so why woulds i pays attentions to teh thingsorz of englishes?Rolling Thunder said:
Bad move buddy. Meta has some... Issues. I am pretty sure you just drank special Kool-Aid.Rolling Thunder said:
On Topic: I don't really give a rip, the government is a big heaping pile of inefficient bureaucracy headed by a guy I wouldn't trust to watch my cat over the weekend. At least not as long as his flunkies are around him. Seriously shit stinks, and it does not look like it is going to get better, we are just doomed to repeat the mistakes we have already made before. Sad thing is few people actually recognize what I am talking about as mistakes. Oh hay, maybe Obama will get lucky and everything will fix itself and then he to can take credit for it.
Oh yeah, I don't give a rip because I am long out of school.
Ahhhh, I loved breezing through high school. Maybe it was just my school, but the last four years of my public school life was a fucking joke. My friends and I used to race each other through the standardized test because they were so insultingly easy. I almost felt a little dumber after taking them. The U.S. public school system is doomed and there is no way to stop it.
As for me, I'm learning Japanese.
After that's done, I'm moving to Japan to attend college there.
As for me, I'm learning Japanese.
After that's done, I'm moving to Japan to attend college there.
Now, first of all, I think you're over-reacting. I'm an American, too, and I'm doin' homework just like everyone else. However, I think that what Obama is REALLY aiming to say, here, is not that we need to work ourselves like dogs, but that we simply need to have more kids buckle down and really FOCUS on their educations. I know kids who just don't give a shit, and i'm sure you do too, and that's a really poisonous attitude to have. I think that's what Obama's talking about.shadowstriker86 said:
Also, I find it a little juvenile that you go from perfectly acceptable indignation and an intelligent argument to a petty "I know you are but what am I"-level argument about the quality of our president's education.
Ooh Ooh, do you know what the really only valuable thing you learn in high school is? Social skills. Those are quite useful in a job. Honestly school is mostly so that adults don't have to deal with kids all day. If we went to school to only learn what was academically necessary (I need to take ceramics [i/]why[/i]?) we'd be out in a few hours, and maybe the classes that actually do help you are taught by shitty teacher who are there due to tenure. So yeah more school is really not going to get you anything.
No politician can fix the school system. You need a teacher to do that. The job requires experience in the field and inside knowledge of what's going on. Politicians don't have that. Unfortunately, the teachers are all to busy teaching to sell their souls and go into politics.
School isn't an "encouraging academic environment". It's a demeaning, dreary place where teachers talk to you like your a dog and you are surrounded mostly by people you hate. The only class I every learned anything in was math, where the teacher had some concept of mutual respect, and most people were still to asleep to make noise or annoy me otherwise.Proteus214 said:
Let's put it this way. When I first started high school they were doing 35min classes...what sort of information can be taught/learnt in 35mins? And how much can teachers teach you in those 35mins? They extended lessons to 1hr periods, keeping regular school hours with a 15min morning recess and a 1hr lunch recess. Less school books to carry to school each day also (no lockers). Homework stayed the same which would roughly take a couple of hours to do (should you actually do it.) Oh, I've also been out of school 7 years now and can honestly say, FUCK I wish I could go back.