Nope, all my teachers are freaking AWESOME. They almost make school worth going to every weekday.
This is truly sad.
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My cousin had a teacher who, in the weekly newsletter for the parents, wrote "We visited she, and we all told she how much we liked she." (Well, she wrote it in Swedish, this being Sweden, I just translated it now.) This was not some immigrant who was doing her best to learn the language but still made the kind of mistakes you're bound to make when you're new to a language. No, this was somebody who'd lived here in Sweden all her life and was just a moron. When my aunt pointed this obvious mistake out, the teacher said that it's supposed to be written like that. Which was clearly just an excuse to hide that she is incompetent.
Firstly, what's an ATC? I'm not asking because I'm stupid, just to be clear, but I'm guessing it's just called a different thing here. I have the AST's, maybe it's the same as that?Old Trailmix said:
Anyway, my school has a strange habit of hiring teachers who are genuinely good at their jobs but believe that if the student isn't intelligent to begin with then it's a lost cause.
For example, there are 5 different levels of maths at my school: general, applications, methods, specialist and specialist core. If you are in either general or aps then you can kiss your maths education goodbye. On the tests (I'm in applications) there are constantly spelling mistakes, punctuation missing and sometimes the questions don't actually equal the thing it says it does, so the teachers mark the correct answer wrong because their answer sheet says it's wrong when it isn't.
So...that doesn't make my teachers stupid, maybe it just makes them...lazy? Because they don't want to put work into teaching kids who may not take the subject as seriously? (The same thing happens in languages too.)
All through high school I had stupid teachers but now that I'm in college (year 12 now) it's better. :]
(Long post is long, sorry.)
I totally had some cases like that xD And for me, having been a literate and intelligent kid (if you'll excuse the obvious pat on the back), the biggest problem was not their incompetence as teachers, but not being able to tell them they're wrong. And I can understand that. They've just been through several years of university etc. and then there's this snotty little brat who tells you you're wrong. Still, if you're wrong, you are, no matter who tells you; and if a child can point it out, it has to be something obvious.
Happy to be in university now, not only do I have (mostly) competent professors, but when something is wrong with their lecture, we can tell them, and they'll acknowledge it. Just the other day one of the slides from a PowerPoint Presentation had an obvious flaw (was about the game theory) and, after being pointed to it, our prof said: "I've been working with this sheet for 3 years now, never picked that up."
Now we're all happy, the students for learning correct stuff, and the prof for not going around preaching false information. (Come to think of it, it's also much more embarrassing to have a flaw pointed out by "an adult" in contrast to by "a kid".)
Happy to be in university now, not only do I have (mostly) competent professors, but when something is wrong with their lecture, we can tell them, and they'll acknowledge it. Just the other day one of the slides from a PowerPoint Presentation had an obvious flaw (was about the game theory) and, after being pointed to it, our prof said: "I've been working with this sheet for 3 years now, never picked that up."
Now we're all happy, the students for learning correct stuff, and the prof for not going around preaching false information. (Come to think of it, it's also much more embarrassing to have a flaw pointed out by "an adult" in contrast to by "a kid".)
I've just gotten into ninth grade, and the kids act less mature than my pre-school. So, yeah I'm already sick of this shit.
I'd say that attacking pseudoscience is perfectly fine, especially in the context that there has been quite a lot of (unwarranted) debate on top topic of creationism vs. actual science. Whatever your religious beliefs are don't matter so long as you keep them to yourself, but if you (not -you-Zeeky_Santos said:
) are going to make a claim such as "the universe is 6,000 years old" and want it taught in schools, you need to provide enough evidence to sway the academic world FIRST./rant
As for schools, in what I suppose would be you yanks' 10th grade, the very first thing my English teacher wrote on the whiteboard was: "My name are Åsa".
Well, in High School I knew more about Middle Eastern, Asian, and culture than any of my history teachers. As well as having to explain to my U.S. History teacher that there were other countries other than America that participated in the D-Day invasion. There was also a fun day when I had a debate with the same teacher that the P-51 Mustang wasn't the best plane flown in WWII.