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Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-06-03 17:27
Quote from Claudia;879319:
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I would never want to be a teacher. It's one of the hardest and least-respected jobs ever.
Couldn't agree more. It's one of the hardest part of the job. Having to deal with a fucked up system and a fucked up board. It's due to things like this, that good teachers who care are rare/hard to find.
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Claudia wrote on 2012-06-03 17:30
Yeah. I'm glad that most of my teachers care; as my history teacher this year says when she's angry with us, "it's too bad that I care too much about you guys to see you fail," when half the class is being rude and disrespectful.
Couldn't put up with that, yo.
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paladin wrote on 2012-06-03 18:37
No idea about Canada
But the Us has a policy called no child left behind
If state schools do good more money,do bad no money
So schools will go to extreme lengths to secure that extra budget money
I have no idea how it is up north
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-06-03 19:15
relevant parent attitude towards teachers in U.S.
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pkMaster wrote on 2012-06-03 19:20
It sound to me that both are pretty short sighted policies. Why does the education system feel the need to artificially inflate grades when it really doesn't matter all that much. If high grades were even a decent indicator of intelligence, then half of the students that I've meet would be pretty dam smart, which couldn't be further from the truth.
I just met a CalTech student a few days ago who couldn't program to save his life despite having a masters degree in conputer science. Although its no wonder a majority of the students come out of college completely unprepared with all the silly compulsary classes students are forced to take. On my final year of college, I had to drop a bunch of my computer engineering classes for number of off beat classes that were "compulsary" because apparently arts class is WAY more important to a computer science major than high level cs classes. *facepalm*
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Kueh wrote on 2012-06-03 20:10
While I don't agree, or even understand the no-zero policy, the fact remains that the teacher was told not to do something, and he did it anyway.
Maybe he was right, maybe he was wrong. Who cares? He was given a job with a set of instructions and he failed to abide by them. If he wants to pull a civil disobedience and let himself get fired to make a moral standpoint, then that's his business. But he's making all kinds of preachy statements about what he did was the right thing to do, so he's gonna do it anyway even though he was told not to, which ends up sounding to me like my bratty little sister. He feels entitled to break the rules because he thinks he has good reasons to.
Also, lol at everyone who didn't even read that it happened in edmonton and assumed it was in america.
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Rin wrote on 2012-06-04 14:28
Scared of zeroes.
That should be a slogan somewhere.
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whocares8128 wrote on 2012-06-04 14:49
Quote from Kueh;879467:
While I don't agree, or even understand the no-zero policy, the fact remains that the teacher was told not to do something, and he did it anyway.
Maybe he was right, maybe he was wrong. Who cares? He was given a job with a set of instructions and he failed to abide by them. If he wants to pull a civil disobedience and let himself get fired to make a moral standpoint, then that's his business. But he's making all kinds of preachy statements about what he did was the right thing to do, so he's gonna do it anyway even though he was told not to, which ends up sounding to me like my bratty little sister. He feels entitled to break the rules because he thinks he has good reasons to.
Perhaps you've heard of this country called the United States of America (before it had formed), or people like Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, Jr.
They all seemed to think that breaking the rules was okay too, with good reason, but heaven forbid they get all "preachy" about it.
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