Are you really this stupid, or are you all just messing with me?
If it really is the former, and not the latter, I must say that I'm extremely confused. How on earth did you get all this way? All the way to the last year of high school? And beyond that, how can I help you out so that humanity isn't screwed?
I'm not mad at you, I'm really not. I do care, but it's really hard when you're vacant ALL THE TIME and seem to have no desire to better yourself even a little bit. If I'm going to get pissed off at anyone I suppose I should get angry with the people who "pushed" you through to me. Then again, if I don't "push" you through to someone else you'll just end up back with me. I don't think that would really please either one of us. Hmmmm... seems like it's time for some "what colour is the green square?" tests.
It is also time for me to go listen to the Fratellis and drift into a happy "rockin' out" stupor. They are my new OKGO and the kiddies can't take that away from me.
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5 comments:
Having seen the sorts of things my Mom's students hand in, I think you might want to step back and have them identify what a square is first because you go up to colours. That shit could be a little too advanced for idiots that think potatoes are a dairy product.
Sherry: Are they going to start doing standardized testing in the universities? Do you think that would help?
Our whole school system is screwed up as far as I can tell You are totally right that teachers are pushing students through. It just ends up always being someone else's problem.
Yikes - how do you cope with this? Sounds stressful.
Just give them a printout with the dictionary.com url on it and consider your job done. (And doner!)
There is so a thesaurus on that site too! Oh man, useful!
But don't get them to use wikipedia as a source for their essays on comic book heroes, because idiots have been feeding wiki bad information about Earth X and I totally have to keep going back and correcting it.
Some people don't understand that sometimes you really think they have to be kidding. Actual conversation with my grade eight: "You really think "it" is ALWAYS capitalized? You think "it" is spelled with a capital I no matter where in the sentence it is? Come on. Really?" Did I think he was messing with me? Heck yeah! Was he? NO!! He wasn't!! And this is one of my SMART KIDS!!! My life is a pile of femented poo. (I got an LTO where I teach grade eight English 3 mornings a week and it's AWESOME!!) I miss you. We should get together for nachos and unspecified other stuff. (I really don't know what the other stuff would be but I know it will be awesome because it's will you. AWESOMETOWN!!)
So I have my adult trainees do a very very short research project. I ask them to cite at least three sources. On two of the submissions I got three different wikipedia citations. One of my "students" just printed off a website and handed that in. I am sad for the future.
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