Do trains have steering wheels? (1772 hits)
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Submitted by Redskieslookfake (View user info) at 2009-02-22 11:02:40 EST
I guess we all reach a time when we have to move on with our lives.
I don't like my job. When you're in education that's a bit of a problem. I think, like medicine, people should only do that job if they really want to otherwise the patients, or students, can tell.
I think I'm good at my job, something the inspectors pick up on. I score well. Good use of humour in the classroom to make a point. Excellent communication with the students.
Inspection is an interesting topic for people working in the education system. Does a grade one on a teaching assessment mean you're a good teacher? One of my colleagues is regarded as nothing special with regards to his teaching, but manages to get a grade one every year bar this one. This year, he was outraged to find, they inspected him twice which meant he couldn't use the same damn lesson plan he'd used every other year, the one which ticked all of the things the inspectors wanted to see.
I don't put on a show for an inspection. When the inspector walks into my classroom they see exactly what I'd be teaching any other week. Part of this at least is because I'm cynical about the whole process. They give you warning, they tell you which session you're going to be observed in and, if you were really bothered, you'd prep your students, perhaps by running over some of the session in an earlier lesson.
I don't get a thrill out of teaching I'm afraid. I know you're supposed to, but I don't. I just want to do my job and go home and not think about it any more and this bothers me.
I think I'd like a job where I am genuinely interested in what's going to happen every day. At the moment I'm so bored with the monotony and routine that only a fairly emo like pondering of what's happening to the education system keeps my attention at all.
Educators don't care any more. They might care for the first two or three years, but after that it starts getting worn away by the bureaucracy. Instead of writing new projects every year, they start recycling ones. Every year now I get to see the same clichéd work coming from students, and it's not even their fault. "It'll do" has become the mantra of my colleagues. They just want to get by and not have their heads on the chopping board for daring to do something differently, or to dare to fail a student because their work is shite.
I think it depends a great deal on the intake of students that you get. If you have 30 bright students I think you're more inclined to try something more challenging, to see what they can do. If you have a general mix, you'll tend to go towards the lowest common denominator.
The students we have now seem to be worse and worse every year in terms of attitude and what they can get away with.
"It'll do."
Staff take in the work, grimace and then shrug. Pass it otherwise you're going to have to explain why your students are failing. Why you as an educator aren't doing enough to get your students through. Why are you setting them up to fail?
I can count on one hand the number of colleagues I actually respect and think do a good job but every day the number goes down.
One lecturer who has now left was a real character. We'll call him Dave. Dave had a cane, beret, twiddly moustache, the works! He taught 3D Design and one of the very first projects he set was model making. The students would be told to make a building out of card (using no glue incidentally) and to bring it in for Monday morning.
The students would wander in on Monday morning and Dave would walk around looking at the work, before lifting his cane up and smashing every last one to bits while screaming in rage. "What the fuck is this shite? Who do you think you are wasting my time with this? Get out all of you, by tomorrow morning I want all of these redone and done properly! 9 o fucking clock! All of you otherwise you're off my fucking course!
The students would wake from their doze and move immediately into terror. Pants wetting terror.
Next morning at 9 o clock most of the class would be there having had a sleepless night working and reworking their models. Dave would sit at the front of the classroom, glowering, not saying a word.
9.05 and another student would walk in looking nervous and sit their model down. Still not a word from Dave.
9.15 and another student would walk in, wondering why it was utterly silent, before catching sight of Dave sitting there, glowering, chewing on his moustache.
9.20 and the last student walks in to be met by Dave who had leapt off his chair and was waving his cane around bellowing "What time do you call this you little gobshite? We've been waiting 20 fucking minutes for youse! Sit down and shut up."
He'd walk around the models, tapping his cane on the floor while the students sat in terror before finally, grumpily, announcing that they were reasonable and that he didn't expect any of the work to ever fall below this standard.
Dave used to get wonderful results before they got rid of him because he spoke his mind once too often in front of management.
And that's one of the reasons I've decided it's time to move on.
Oh, a nineteen year old student thought trains had steering wheels too. She'll be getting her degree soon. It'll do? Fuck that.
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:56:35 EST (#)
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And someone who lives in a lighthouse now.
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My friend lives in a windmill.
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Yeah, and his name is Don something. . .
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Hey old chum!
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-03-17 14:05:32 EDT (#)
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Submitted by scary_sammy (user info) at 2009-03-13 13:07:08 GMT (#)
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You're still a fucking nonce red, you know that?
Gonna bring out your alters to bump your account up again! LOL
'I don't care about rating' LOL
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Dear Hercule Poirot Beano.
You are a rubbish detective.
Submitted by scary_sammy (user info) at 2009-03-13 09:07:08 EDT (#)
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You're still a fucking nonce red, you know that?
Gonna bring out your alters to bump your account up again! LOL
'I don't care about rating' LOL
Submitted by Otter (user info) at 2009-02-24 13:28:25 EST (#)
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The title of the post reminds me of a story.
My mom's boyfriend retired from 40 years at Union Pacific a couple years ago. When a crew's shift is over, they stop the train where it is and are met by the relief crew. On one particular crew change, they happened to be close to a public parking lot. As they headed to the crew van that would take them home, a woman approached and asked him if trains had steering wheels. She though that engineers were very talented in that they can steer the train well enough to balance it on those two narrow rails.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 09:29:19 EST (#)
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Awww, for a moment I thought you were friends with Jonathan Creek or, even more excitingly, Mr Majeeka!
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-02-24 09:25:37 EST (#)
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Nope. She's a hippie.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 09:15:39 EST (#)
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And someone who lives in a lighthouse now.
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My friend lives in a windmill.
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Is he also a magician? with a mockney accent?
Submitted by Dervel (user info) at 2009-02-24 09:13:51 EST (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:35:40 EST (#)
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You should become an engineer. It is soul destroying work but it is Meaningful and well paid.
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Being an engineer is great. We get to say flange and nipple and bastard and not get told off by our Mums.
Redskies isn't allowed to move down South, no matter how shiny his shoes.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-02-24 09:04:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:56:35 EST (#)
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And someone who lives in a lighthouse now.
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My friend lives in a windmill.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:58:19 EST (#)
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you are making it all up
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:56:35 EST (#)
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http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/index.htm
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I know someone who worked as a lighthouse keeper actually.
And someone who lives in a lighthouse now.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:51:16 EST (#)
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Lighthouses don't exist?
What are you blithering about?
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:49:48 EST (#)
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lighthouse keepers dont exist. lighthouses dont exist.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:47:38 EST (#)
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No wait, computers do it now.
*weeps*
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:46:53 EST (#)
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It's not a badly paid job actually.
*strokes chin*
Smell of the sea and whatnot.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:45:36 EST (#)
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Being a lighthouse keeper would be awesome. The only thing that would be better would be to be a lighthouse keeper with a telescope.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:37:17 EST (#)
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I take no guidance from Hi Fidelity.
I'm hoping to become a lighthouse keeper.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:35:40 EST (#)
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I do hope you aren't coming south to persue the dream of working in a record shop. I have known several who have gone that route and it has ended badly for all of them.
You should become an engineer. It is soul destroying work but it is Meaningful and well paid.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:32:14 EST (#)
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notably, polishing your trainers looks wrong.
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Art. With computers
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Media Studies.
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Why not just call me an idiot and get it over with Berty?
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I am wounded. We are men of culture, of substance! As such we make snide comments which are dripping with wit.
Now come along, what is all this misery about? Are you lamenting being mired in the public sector? You should quit.
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Watch this space. Just hoping the South will accept me as one of their own. I've started to polish my shoes in anticipation.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:30:19 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-23 14:28:39 EST (#)
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Art. With computers
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Media Studies.
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Why not just call me an idiot and get it over with Berty?
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I am wounded. We are men of culture, of substance! As such we make snide comments which are dripping with wit.
Now come along, what is all this misery about? Are you lamenting being mired in the public sector? You should quit.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:17:04 EST (#)
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*grumbles*
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Art. With computers
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Media Studies.
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Why not just call me an idiot and get it over with Berty?
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-02-24 04:12:12 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-23 14:28:39 EST (#)
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Art. With computers
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Media Studies.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-02-23 21:32:29 EST (#)
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It's a shame that you are not passionate about teaching - I imagine you make an excellent teacher and in an "It'll do" world - it sucks to lose one of those.
But if ya ain't happy... it's time to move on.
Grandpa Berg said to me one summer "Robbie, when you grow up, find a job you love to do - and you will never have to work again."
I thought that made pretty good sense.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2009-02-23 19:47:37 EST (#)
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Blame it on the parents. They are the indulgent fucksticks responsible for rearing a bunch of namby pamby, whiny bitches who feel entitled to grades they didn't work for, who fuck around and fuck up all the time because they know they can get away with it. Jesus fuck people, remember when you used to bring home a bad grade and it was YOUR FAULT? Or when you cut up in class and were justifiably punished because it was YOUR FAULT? Not the teacher's fault, not the professor's fault, not the administrator's fault, but YOURS? I tell you what children are, they are little fucking animals, little grabby handed monkeys and what happens if you indulge your monkey and don't properly train it? It rips someone's face off, that's what. Take one step up from that on the evolutionary ladder and what do you get? The human child. And what do we have raising them? More fucking monkeys.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2009-02-23 19:07:13 EST (#)
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I enjoyed the post, the -2 is to express my annoyance with your picking up and leaving. As a student, I prefer instructors who are willing to challenge the class and hold us to what at least seems like a high standard...I'm finding out that even when a course starts off that way, enough incessant complaining from the majority of students and/or their lack of cooperation with the instructor seems to lead to a progressive "watering down" of the course by the instructor.
Why not be super awesome like Dave (I think his name was, mustache guy) and see where it takes you? I would imagine it could end up being much more entertaining than moving from one field to the next, especially if every new job is simply going to devolve into a situation just like the one you're in now (which seems very possible)...once the novelty of a change of scenery wears off.
Submitted by Lib (user info) at 2009-02-23 18:43:07 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-23 14:28:39 EST (#)
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Oh you teach Porn.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2009-02-23 18:26:10 EST (#)
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I've heard this before. Actually, I've been hearing it for at least ten years and I'm still young. The thing about it is, we NEED good teachers. It's a sad sad world when the good ones are forced out; mediocrity should never be celebrated.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-23 14:28:39 EST (#)
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Art. With computers
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2009-02-23 13:37:56 EST (#)
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What kind of teaching do you do?
I need to know how to move objects with my brain and how to win a fight against 6 angry soccer hooligans at the same time. Right now I can only win against 5 and it is fairly embarrassing.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-02-23 13:01:28 EST (#)
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You should be grateful that you don't work in the US "educational" "system". Those are in quotes, because I'm convinced there's nothing educational nor systemic about it. It's really just daycare now.
But you had an excellent point about "people should only do that job if they really want to."
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-23 12:40:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2009-02-23 17:32:27 GMT (#)
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So, given the fact that you are unemployable what the fuck are you gonna do?
-Dave
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Public transport. I've stopped washing already and soon I'll be indistinguishable!
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2009-02-23 12:32:27 EST (#)
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So, given the fact that you are unemployable what the fuck are you gonna do?
-Dave
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2009-02-23 12:01:32 EST (#)
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It's a truely thankless job, isn't it.
I guess in higher ed it might be better, but secondary is full of shits. Every single one is a shit.
Submitted by U927 (user info) at 2009-02-23 11:30:38 EST (#)
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Not only do the educators suffer, but the actual bright students who go to those classes find themselves quickly hating being there due to the sheer retardation of all their classmates, as well as the instructor's complete lack of care for any quality work.
Holy fuck do I hate working in groups here in community college. It makes me want to stab myself in the face with a sharpened banana.
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-02-23 11:24:00 EST (#)
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Submitted by rubbermaid (user info) at 2009-02-23 09:03:53 EST (#)
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Got through the first sentence and wasn't intrigued. I bet this is as good as LittleMonster says it is but reading rainbow with Levar Burton just came on in my head and everyone knows that Reading Rainbow with LEvar Burton > Redskies post.
Sorry.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-02-23 08:58:36 EST (#)
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Shame you didn't read it sico. It really wasn't shit at all.
Very good infact. Mellow out a bit.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-23 08:45:32 EST (#)
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You're my favourite office monkey Sico. Why, just the thought of you carrying a stapler around for the people you work for amuses me. How goes the junior chemistry set hmmmmm?
Submitted by rubbermaid (user info) at 2009-02-23 08:24:08 EST (#)
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I didn't have to read this to know it is shit.
So, how was it?
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-02-23 04:21:52 EST (#)
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There are people working on cybernetics which will enable learning to be done in a different way. It won't be matrix stylee of course, mores the pity, but it will enable ideas to be communicated in radically new ways. Ultimately this will result in teachers emphasising more on the areas of "structured activity" (that is 'play' to me and you) for students with the goal of influencing behaviour.
It will be a grand day when this technology is available. Mankind shall stride into a new era of awesome.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-02-23 04:19:11 EST (#)
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My father was a lecturer and he said the same thing about his students; that they were all morons.
It is standardised testing/teaching, a neccesary evil when it comes to generating training/education on a mass scale in a form which is recognised by business in any way. The problem is that it stifles creativity and fails to put in place those vital behaviours which are neccesary for people to truly distinguish themselves.
Honestly, the government have it all arse backwards. They need to be pushing people to University, yes, but they need to be getting students engaged and enthusiastic about learning. The problem is though; if you have 500,000 teachers, how do you tell which ones are good?
The people demand that the government ensure 'quality' but the only way the government can ensure 'quality' is to render education a quantative, rather than a quality, excercise.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-22 17:52:13 EST (#)
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I know this. I despaired at that very point.
Submitted by Banjo (user info) at 2009-02-22 17:45:51 EST (#)
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erm, they run on rails, why would they have steering wheels?
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2009-02-22 17:35:21 EST (#)
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I will read this tomorrow.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2009-02-22 15:02:06 EST (#)
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sucks to be you
Submitted by cheerios (user info) at 2009-02-22 15:01:54 EST (#)
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time to destroy this +2 streak. this post was nothing special, but it wasn't total shit either.
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:46:23 EST (#)
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Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:09:03 EST (#)
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I'm bored too. Burn your gown and laser pointer and let's go be cowboys. Shoot some beer cans and shit and look cool for the ladies.
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Can I come?
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Only if you wear one of these:
http://goldcountrycostumes.com/OldWestSaloonGirlsSoiledDoves.htm
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I'd look Splendid in that.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:44:28 EST (#)
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I'm in lungfish.
I'm wearing hiking boots with it though
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:42:07 EST (#)
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The world needs more Dave's, and then maybe we wouldn't be surrounded by the viscous scum of humanity that seems to thrive of the neglect of the educational system.
On a side note, "it'll do" was kind of a mantra for me when I worked in life insurance. I left that job after some......'incidents', shall we say. Now, I want nothing more than to go back into that industry and actually do a good job, rather than fighting my way through each day, pausing only to laugh at people's damning medical reports.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:41:52 EST (#)
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Or "wear." The choice is yours.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:41:25 EST (#)
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Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:11:29 EST (#)
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Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:09:03 EST (#)
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I'm bored too. Burn your gown and laser pointer and let's go be cowboys. Shoot some beer cans and shit and look cool for the ladies.
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Can I come?
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Only if you where one of these:
http://goldcountrycostumes.com/OldWestSaloonGirlsSoiledDoves.htm
Submitted by billrhine (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:31:56 EST (#)
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In the pre-dawn of history, when I graduated high school, the majority of colleges wanted a minimum of a B average for admission. There was, however, one school that would accept an applicant with a C-minus average: University of Northern Colorado in Greely, AKA as 'teachers college'. The problem with that is that it creates a snowball effect, with the slackers becoming teachers who create more slackers. Some may have been great teachers, but you see my point. Pay no attention to the fact that James A. Michener graduated from there. Always an exception.
I know a few teachers today, and none of them express themselves in writing as well as you do. I hope you can find what you need to remain in teaching, because I'll bet you're damn good at it.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:12:45 EST (#)
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Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-02-22 19:11:29 GMT (#)
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Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:09:03 EST (#)
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I'm bored too. Burn your gown and laser pointer and let's go be cowboys. Shoot some beer cans and shit and look cool for the ladies.
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Can I come?
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Of course!
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:12:27 EST (#)
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Also, many of our former students return as lecturers within a few years. Young staff = cheap staff. Can you have someone who has never worked in the industry come back and teach a vocational qualification?
One department for instance is full of ex students, because there aren't any jobs out there, and then they come back and teach exactly the skills that made them so wonderfully unemployable. Fucked up. The whole thing.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:11:29 EST (#)
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Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:09:03 EST (#)
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I'm bored too. Burn your gown and laser pointer and let's go be cowboys. Shoot some beer cans and shit and look cool for the ladies.
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Can I come?
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:10:05 EST (#)
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The institution I work at doesn't have that luxury. Anyone who pays can study. I'm not against that per se, but I think people should have learnt the material at one level before rising to the next.
When you pass students again and again without them having learnt, you truly are setting them up to fail. Students who can't spell, or much more importantly, think and then we send them out as trained professionals? Bollocks to that.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:09:03 EST (#)
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I'm bored too. Burn your gown and laser pointer and let's go be cowboys. Shoot some beer cans and shit and look cool for the ladies.
Submitted by billrhine (user info) at 2009-02-22 14:05:00 EST (#)
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"Staff take in the work, grimace and then shrug. Pass it otherwise you're going to have to explain why your students are failing. Why you as an educator aren't doing enough to get your students through. Why are you setting them up to fail?"
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That is exactly why the educational system is shit. Add that to what you said about teachers who no longer care and you're batting a thousand. What are the chances you could teach an advanced class, one full of extra bright kids? Maybe that would give you the incentive to continue. The world needs good teachers.
Submitted by experima (user info) at 2009-02-22 13:53:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2009-02-22 11:49:18 EST (#)
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I'm taking a class right now called Foundations of American Education. My professor has his doctorate, along with multiple masters degrees, he's taught every grade level from preschool through college, designed preschools, been involved with administration, counseled, etc over 40 years. He's a really smart man who still manages to actually give a shit. The content of this class is eye opening. I gave little thought to things like school finance, politics, and all the bureaucracy and red tape involved with the system. It's terrible that the people who should be focused on educating our children have to deal with all of it on a daily basis. It really compromises the quality of education. When I left class on the very first night, I came away fairly disillusioned about the true nature of how difficult it can be to do everything from getting a decent job, to staying alive in the classroom given the dire state of many city schools in my area. It's a sad state of affairs. I know there are differences between primary and secondary ed and between US and UK, but at any rate, I think it's important that you realize it isn't for you, and that you don't make the students pay the price for you staying where you don't want to be- if only every dissatisfied educator did the same I think the world would be a better place.
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2009-02-22 11:10:36 EST (#)
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The moment you get "It'll do" in medicine you need a new job!
I think you're making the right call. Time to do something you enjoy, you might find in the future you want to go back to teaching.
I reckon you should take 999 calls. I've heard your voice, it would be funny as fuck!
"gerraweey n shite!"
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2009-02-22 11:09:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I had a professor like dave when I was in school. I hated him then but i love him now.