Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Wafflajizzles

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 ... 52
1
this is the forums. we have a habit of arguing over dumb things.

I'd say this one requires a little more critical thinking than most arguments on here.

2
Off Topic / Re: Is the above user's avatar cute?
« on: September 10, 2012, 01:15:06 AM »
nop

3
Like I said, I learned to read and write from my parents. I distinctly remember that all I used to do in school was play games and read books.

Have fun writing a college essay while implementing your 5th grade techniques, I'll stick to using a format that doesn't involve a three inch margin and 20 point font.

If your parents sent you to a public school, you probably learned your mainstay of reading and writing there, and your parents assisted you greatly with schoolwork and/or gave you books to read in your free time.

To lend absolutely zero credit to gradeschool for ANYTHING that you've learned is bullstuff. It is a necessary part of education, and if it does not teach you vast amounts of information, it prepares you for what more difficult schools will be like and teaches you valuable starter skills and basic, essential knowledge.

4
Ok, call bullstuff when I tell you that you're wrong. Elementary school could be replaced with a week course on math and the alphabet song and a 5 year long episode of spongebob.

You must be seriously loving handicapped.

They don't put you through 5 years of grade school so you can scratch your ass and sniff your thumb. It is very easy to guess from experience and common sense that one week, nor one month, nor one year even is enough to to each you all of the critical basic skills that you learned in grade school.

of loving course it all seems like easy stuff now when you can think (atleast somewhat) like an adult, but back when you were writing about your favorite food for essays and drawing pictures I bet you the though of 7x7 made you stuff your pants.

Grade school courses are paced accordingly with the minds of the students. To level the amount of information you learned in grade school with the amount of information you learned in high school is like trying to compare a Honda accord to a formula one car. Unless you scale to comparison, it's pointless.

5
well tbh, i go to a catholic school full of wealthy white people and we have no trouble.

it's highly selective with incredibly strict rules, so they can put 40-45 kids in one classroom and nobody will forget around.  if you forget around, they force you to come after class for "clean up," which is physical labor in which you crawl on the floor picking up trash around the classroom, like pieces of paper, pens, pencils, etc.  if you are a repeat offender, you get detention for talking.  ask Jackbluejack or Rocknrollwill, they both go to my school as well.

I have no idea how to fix this, with the economy the way it is and the teachers being paid so excessively the school has very little budget left, and those in power of the budget within the school dont care because they're the ones being highly paid.  additionally, with our youthful population getting larger and larger, i think we are going to have to figure out ways to deal with larger classes.  i think the first thing that needs to be done is a comprehensive transition to e-books, completely drop the idea of paying book by book for students' schoolbooks.

As for the goofing around and physical labor thingy, i'm very sure humiliating a student in that manner in front of a class has some sort of legal restriction.

Ebooks are a wonderful idea and I fully support the transition to electronic means of teaching and reading, but a blanket solution isn't really possible for most school districts. Unfortunately, as much as we like to ignore it, highschools and middle schools are absolutely filled to the brim with scumbags and starfishs who would sell their tax-payed for iPad or E-reader for a quick buck. Holding students to an "honor" system won't work- while i'm sure a huge deal of students wouldn't forget up and break the rules, the overall level of maturity for the american tween and highschool group is too low to give something as valuable as laptops and Ipads for personal use.

A more progressive way forward would be to gradually give students more freedom and technology as they demonstrated themselves capable and responsible of handling them. If someone shows that he isn't an starfish and won't just forget off 24/7 on his device, then throw him a bone and hand him one- otherwise, stick to books and pencils for the rest of the students.

6
Off Topic / Re: Hot Anime Girls - あ! It must be Fluff Fluff Time!
« on: September 10, 2012, 12:04:31 AM »
please just rename this to the softcore hentai thread already

7
while i understand your point, i still dont think teachers should be paid as much as most americans working corporate jobs that go 9-5 5 days a week all year.  teaching is a really easy job, there's no denying it.

The main issue this time around is the removal of class caps- this effectively means that they can cram as many kids into a room as they feel like, as long as the door shuts behind them. Not only will this drop the standard of education, because, I mean come on, 30 kids is enough already, but 40 or 50? How in the love of forget does a teacher give enough attention and answer enough questions for 50 kids in 50 minutes of class time? Giving attention to every student in a class would mean only one minute per student- that stuff's bad. As a result, educational quality would also drop.

Despite the pay, you should see the state of CPS highscools. Some of the rooms look like utter stuff. As an education budget, teachers are given very limited funds, and there are quite a few who pay out of pocket for necessary supplies. Our Calculus teacher is paying for toolsets for us at his expense because there was no room in the school budget for a classroom set.

There isn't even enough money for enough books for stuff's sake. A lot of our classes we only work in-room because our teachers only have enough books for 30 kids.


Maybe it isn't as bad elsewhere (my suburban school was boss and we had chromebooks instead of normal books) but the chicago public school system is underfunded, and it is very, very apparent.

8
I learned to read and write from my parents more than my teachers. I have runescape to thank for my typing skills.

I can smell the bullstuff from this for miles

D--D-D-D-D-D-D-DOUBLE POST

9
jesus christ kid

doctors aren't made by teachers.  those who have the ambition and passion to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc are the ones who do it of their own accord.  professors are the ones who give students the skills necessary to realize their goals.

a professor is quite different from "mr. douchebag, my 10th grade algebra teacher"

*rams face in desk*

The general point he's trying to shove across is that without the skills and knowledge learned in all grades of school, there would be no doctors, or engineers, or architects, or insert generic important job here. Our education system works very well, but it's still far, far stufftier then education systems everywhere else in the world. To say that we could do the same or better with less and not more is total garbage.

10
What about the ability to read?
The ability to write?
The ability (rhyming) to type?

+1

Of course, gradeschool was loving boring and trying, but as much as you'd like to play it down, you'd be bounds behind the rest of the population if you didn't attend it. Everything they did there had a point, and probably helped you (maybe without you even knowing it) do the much more complex stuff you do today.

I'm only 16 man, and I admit this stuff is important.

11
Off Topic / Re: How to Ruin a Mans Life over $13
« on: September 09, 2012, 11:45:57 PM »
I'm not sure if you're serious or just uneducated. You are aware that there's more to human society than the law, right? I hope you're well aware that you've got no grounds to call me ignorant simply because I want men and women to stand equal in social status, as well as every other aspect of the world. And currently there is unsatisfactory equality in that regard. One point that always aggravates me is that the image of a man who is capable of getting a lot of women is something to be respected, or envious of. But should a woman sleep with a lot of men, she is a slut, or a whore, or a maneater, or some degenerate skank. This type of thinking is indeed very loveist, not to mention incorrect. Anyone who feels that engaging in casual relations is immoral or something to be ashamed of is obviously trapped in the Dark Ages.

And they're not even completely equal under the law. America is trying to stuff their legislation into women's vaginas in an attempt to regulate what she can and can't do with her body. On top of that people are also trying to completely outlaw birth control (ignoring the other beneficial effects it has beyond stopping pregnancy), putting women at risk. The 'War on Women' is indeed a very accurate term to describe what is currently transpiring in our country's government.

Here's a better way to show how misguided your argument is:Since the 1960s activism for Blacks has been useless in the United States. Black people are considered equal to white people in the law. If an activist's main focus is getting equal rights for Blacks in areas of the world where racism is a real problem, I'm cool with that. But most activists who say that things need to be "more" equal in the Western World are ignorant.

The thing about getting a lot of women is that it works both ways- If you get an excessive amount of women, there is a good chance that you suck at everything else and your only purpose on this earth is to pointlessly forget yourself into oblivion.

12
oh, stuff

:(

Now you'll have to do all your Calculus and Geometry ANYWAYS!
MUHAHAHAHAHAHFGASUHFawg9etygh f

13
>implying elementary school teachers make doctors
>implying elementary school teachers do anything
>implying anything in elementary school is useful.

i learned four things in elementary school that i still use. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Elementary school is just daycare with some work thrown in, the only useful teachers are high school science/math/history/english teachers and college professors.

Everything does it's part. If your dumb small gradeschool ass didn't learn any of the above mentioned skills you'd probably be shoveling stuff out of gutters instead of cohesively replying on an internet forum.

You can't loving sprint from from 2+2 to Algebra. Not how it works.

14
i hate how powerful teachers' unions have become

like jesus christ, they're teachers, not doctors.  they aren't supposed to choose their own salary

There are quite a bit of issues with their contracts outstanding though, it isn't just about pay.
They are essentially being forced to work an extra hour for free after mayor Emanuel pushed that through last couple o years, aswell as the removal of classroom size caps, which could mean that instead of 20-30 kids in a class it could be up to 40-50.

15
OMG PLEASE LET THIS APPLY TO ME

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLESAEEAG;NGHSHJLSDFM,J /YLK

Are you in a CPS controlled school?

Otherwise, NOP

(I am though, tee-hee)

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 ... 52