Comments on: The return of More-On Trivia

By: Matt Driscoll

Matt Driscoll — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:41:00 +0000

And what about the children who come from broken homes? What about the kids whose parents are absent physically or emotionally? And what teacher in their right mind would “chastize” a child who reads at a higher level than expected? You both have very misguided views on education and I think if you ever spent time as a teacher you would completely rethink your ideas on education.

By: landofaahs

landofaahs — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:35:00 +0000

LOL. Not really, it is being developed even as we speak in Japan and to some extnet here in the good old us of a. It is much more realistic in the earlier grades, only when you get into the more complicated dubject areas of higher learning to you develope more problems, most of which can be overcome although a few hours of personal teaching until college. Even that is going to fall in the future. Stop being so regressive and embrace the future dude. The world is changing in the midst of your antiquated liberal thinking.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:27:00 +0000

Motivation comes from parents and from within. Educators are not necessarily motivators — though they assist. My experience is that educators hindered motivation by progressive “methods” and personally chastising someone, publicly, in front of the students in fifth grade for reading above their level and to immediately stop that activity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:18:00 +0000

Offer all the excuses you like, my experience is that primary education teachers are undereducated, led by a system that has become increasingly focused on “goals” rather than education and filled with students that could care less about education. Throwing money at the Teacher’s Union cannot fix these problems.

“Educators”, putting in long hours, disciplining unruly students, being mindful of lawsuits and pay do not make great students. I had an education that, by today’s “standards” was unfit, brutal and in buildings that should have been condemned. I was always at odds with my “teachers” who didn’t know the basics of what they were “teaching” — generic “educators” who were shuffled from subject to subject and knew something about presenting class materials.

People argue that “things have changed”, that we’ve progressed from the stone age. No we haven’t — the only change is that it has just gotten more expensive to produce uneducated children. The proof is in quizzing the general population.

By: Matt Driscoll

Matt Driscoll — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:56:00 +0000

This is the stupidest idea I have ever heard in my life. I honestly do not even want to dignify this with a response but I will. Again as with Tonybigs your ideas and thinking are so antiquated. Computer generated teachers?? What does that even mean? Do you have any idea how unpractical that is? Teachers have to adapt to all learning differences. Computers are not able to do this. Teachers need to personally motivate students. Computers cannot do that either.

By: Matt Driscoll

Matt Driscoll — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:05:00 +0000

Yea let’s keep demonizing teachers. That a great way to improve education. Ideas like yours are why America is falling behind the rest of the world in education and progressive countries like Finland and Canada keep outscoring everyone. Your mentality is so beyond frustrating because your American exceptionalism blinds you to obvious models that work i.e. Finland, the Netherlands, and Canada. If American wants to be the greatest again it needs to wise up and start respecting teachers the way these countries do. And please save your “if you don’t like it you can get out” rhetoric. We need to realize what methods work instead of thinking we as a country have the right answers all of the time. Teachers work long hours, deal with all types of children with different learning requirements, and are vastly underpaid.

By: Laurencia

Laurencia — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:09:00 +0000

AAARRRRGGGGGggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! I knew better than to watch!!! Gads, do leftists want to tell me again how intelligent people who vote for pathological liars are????

By: Della Creighton

Della Creighton — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:21:00 +0000

Off the wall is the new reality get used to it Conspiracy is know reality not only in your science fiction section any more!

By: BentGhazi

BentGhazi — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:41:00 +0000

Oh just shut the hell up and go away already. You are boring and no one is an expert in the area of flushing your own life and career down the gutter than you – you come here everyday and do it in front of the decent people here who are too nice to tell you to piss off. I will do it for them because I never said I was nice, and you definitely need to be told. Daily.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 21:08:00 +0000

That’s not true at all, fat people in general, eat everything in sight, mostly, junk and fast-foods – example, I saw a woman the other day parked – of all places – in handy-capped – stuffing her fat face, with a triple-decked ice-cream-cone – and it was 35 degrees outside. No one eats ice cream in those frigid temperatures – not thin people anyway. It is thought to be ok if a fat person sarcastically jokes about a thin person being anorexic, but don’t dare tell a fat person they have an eating disorder….