See this?

[agilebrit]

THIS, my friends, is a major reason that Da Boy will not be educated in a Utah public school. This sign stared us in the face whenever we ventured out our door and headed south.

What's wrong with this picture?


Okay, you spent money on the sign and probably didn't want to spend more--although, since it was the painter's error, it should have been fixed for free. But seriously, people. Way to make me bang my head on my steering wheel for nearly a year. If anyone wants to post this to mock_the_stupid, feel free to hotlink. I would, but I'm lazy and not a member.

In other news...

Meh, there is no other news. I've scribbled 55 words today, about 300 yesterday, and I've moved the plot on my CYA fic forward about a half-inch. I've made a couple more sick and wrong Jayne/Zoe icons, which I'll post in another entry, along with a bunch of closed icontest icons. I got first place at illyria_still a couple of weeks ago! Whee! First time ever. Shiny.

Comments

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Heeheehee. The level of dumbness boggles.
I read a quote by David Beckham (the soccer star) explaining why he didn't like helping his kid with his homework: the stuff they learn today is harder that what I was teached... Heh.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Ugh. The stuff they learn today is so dumbed down from what I was taught. It's sad. It's like the teachers don't even care about spelling and grammar because that stuff "stifles creativity." Bull shnookies.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

I've had long discussions/arguements with my friend Jeanne, who taught primary school (grades 1 to 4) for years. I think that knowing the basic rules of spelling and grammar enhances creativity, she sort of agrees/disagrees, but the schools seem to think kids' egos are way too fragile to be told that they aren't right all the time.
Double bull shnookies.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

It's insane. I survived having red ink on my papers, and look at me, all writer-y and stuff. The problem is that if you stroke the fragile little egos when they're in school, when they get out into the real world, bosses actually care about stuff like spelling and grammar, because having employees who can't spell makes the BOSS look like a moron. Does the Boss want to look like a moron? NO.

The schools aren't doing kids any favors by letting them think that 2+2=5.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Totally agree. Children are tougher than we give them credit for. I'm thinking of a news story about a little boy in a grade 2 class in Prince George who decided he wanted to participate in the school spelling bee, which was for the grade 4 & 5 kids. He says he studied really really hard, and he totally blew the field away. Almost won the match, and was defeated by the final word. Just shows that kids can learn spelling and such if they have the encouragement and motivation.

[hitchhiker-42.livejournal.com]

*butting in*
You know what's really sad? Before my English class, there is a math class. One day, as we were coming in, the math professor was still packing up and hadn't yet erased the board. On it we found such basic questions as: "What is the reciprocal of 1/3?" Now, lest you think that this is the normal state of affairs for a high school, and wonder why I'm complaining, let me assure you that this is at a college. That's right, they didn't learn math in high school, so now they have to pay at least $150 to learn it in college, for a class that won't even transfer because it is remedial. Even worse, my college assumes that everyone will have to take a remedial course, causing there to be more sections of remedial classes than there are of College Algebra, the lowest college level math course.

Huzzah for homeschooling, that's all I can say.

*butting out*

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

*admitting to be math challenged*
sadly, I sucked at math in school. My fault, not theirs, I think.

[crayonbreakygal.livejournal.com]

What the? Someone was slap happy with the Y.

Congrats on the first place. Very shiny.

[blackandwhite02.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* There are no words. (And if there were, should they be misspelled?)

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

*Shakes her head*

Our local public schools were teaching the whole language method of reading when it was time to send our children to school. In second grade, the teacher would read a small book to the class Monday through Thursday, and on Friday the children would "read" it. We found a private Christian school that had a strong program of phonics. Our children were reading by Thanksgiving in their kindergarten year. For our children's education, it was the smartest thing we did. Their reading skills were vastly superior to their public school counterparts. After they had the basics of reading and math, we switched them to public school.

This is not a smear against public school. It is an indictment against constantly trying unproved methods of teaching on children. I have family members who are teachers, and I would never want their jobs. Teaching isn't teaching anymore. It is politics, bureaucratic red tape, dealing with unreasonable children without support of parents, dealing with unreasonable parents without support of administration, and attempting to do a job that receives little respect.