tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post6169540917291915335..comments2023-10-23T09:23:22.051-04:00Comments on Your Schools: Lucrative majors and governor prepUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-64940238212409766222013-02-04T13:46:27.047-05:002013-02-04T13:46:27.047-05:00We seem to have enough $ to pay football coaches.We seem to have enough $ to pay football coaches.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-11172577671602146922013-02-04T13:43:35.978-05:002013-02-04T13:43:35.978-05:00Some products are being designed right now in Indi...Some products are being designed right now in India and China because we don't have enough engineers in the USA. Parts are being machined today in China and South Korea because we don't have enough people with the math and comprehension skills to do the machining here in the USA. In "The World is Flat" the author points out that for every 1 engineer we graduate 10 lawyers & in China for every lawyer they graduate 10 engineers. We need people with all skill levels, but gosh people, it doesn't mean you hate teachers to point out we are drastically out of balance and it is hurting our worldwide competitiveness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-17341570010692733802013-02-03T22:56:05.042-05:002013-02-03T22:56:05.042-05:00The United States of America decided my great-grea...The United States of America decided my great-great grandmother was "highly qualified" to teach but way too flakey to vote. <br /><br />On behalf of my great-great grandmother, I would like to thank CMS for choosing 22 "highly qualified" people (who have never taught a day in their lives) to lead the system's latest and greatest task-foreces because teachers are WAY too special to be able to think, speak, or lead for themselves.<br /><br />AliciaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-64091321154348011312013-02-03T22:31:12.389-05:002013-02-03T22:31:12.389-05:00Leora. Not Lenora. My great-great grandmother wa...Leora. Not Lenora. My great-great grandmother was Leora. She could teach but she wasn't allowed to vote.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-76161586674884891002013-02-03T22:29:27.493-05:002013-02-03T22:29:27.493-05:00Oops!
Lenora's HUSBAND (MR. Shoemaker) was a ...Oops!<br /><br />Lenora's HUSBAND (MR. Shoemaker) was a good Republican. Lenora was deemed too flakey to vote.<br /><br />AliciaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-3073077534038804252013-02-03T22:24:50.954-05:002013-02-03T22:24:50.954-05:00My great-GREAT grandmother: Leora Shoemaker
Leor...My great-GREAT grandmother: Leora Shoemaker<br /><br />Leora attended the Preparatory School of Swarthmore College 1877 - 1880 and Wertchester Normal School (now Westchester University of PA). She was "a teacher of much success" before marriage in 1883.<br /><br />Leora Shoemaker was a good Republican.<br /><br />AliciaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-16555747217313853492013-02-03T21:59:17.130-05:002013-02-03T21:59:17.130-05:00Compare and Contrast:
Did you know that no two sn...Compare and Contrast:<br /><br />Did you know that no two snowflakes are the same? Isn't life wonderful?!<br /><br />*Alicia<br />*(artistically "gifted"! according to the state of CT)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-14619905503852614872013-02-03T21:34:04.174-05:002013-02-03T21:34:04.174-05:00My grandmother's flakey generation (with a 2-y...My grandmother's flakey generation (with a 2-year college degree) taught the generation that landed on the moon. My great-grandmother taught the generation before this. <br /><br />Call me flakey! <br /><br />Alicia<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-50287275510523491862013-02-03T20:56:24.955-05:002013-02-03T20:56:24.955-05:00Alicia
Have you found a real job yet?
You are a ...Alicia<br /><br />Have you found a real job yet?<br /><br />You are a FLAKEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-87980342652618772572013-02-03T19:16:35.115-05:002013-02-03T19:16:35.115-05:00You know what?
God help us all when America'...You know what? <br /><br />God help us all when America's higher-education system reaches a point where the average 20-year-old can't take Persian tile making while majoring in business and stops believing they can save the world teaching 3rd grade.<br /><br />Alicia DurandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-48390188638012468842013-02-03T19:04:45.891-05:002013-02-03T19:04:45.891-05:00Historically speaking, people who chose to become ...Historically speaking, people who chose to become teachers generally fall into one of two categories:<br /><br />1. First person in their family to attend college.<br /><br />2. Have a parent/grandparent who was a school teacher or a school administrator.<br /><br />Teaching used to be considered a highly respectable field of endeavor for families sending their first child off to college. I think this is far less true today. <br /><br />As with military service, teaching also tends to run in families. I think this is becoming far less common also. <br /><br />I don't know who is choosing to major in education today but I suspect the general profile is different then previous generations. Based on the severe shortage of African-American teachers, it appears young African-Americans aren't choosing to major in education. <br /><br />Shamash, <br /><br />I agree that the reason teachers aren't paid well is due to the fact that teaching has historically been a female profession. <br /><br />* Interesting historical note; school systems used to prohibit women from teaching once they became pregnant. My grandmother, who was a school teacher, was born when women weren't allowed to vote. My grandmother would have been allowed to teach North Carolina's last 5 governors but she would have have been legally prohibited from voting for any of them. <br /><br />However, I vehemently disagree that "THE BEST" aren't choosing to become teachers anymore. At age 50, I'm sitting in classes with remarkably capable, intelligent, passionate and talented young people who want to become K-5 teachers. They tend to be idealistic to the point I often think of them as lambs being lead to the slaughterhouse but to suggest they aren't fully capable of teaching future generations of American children is ludicrous. How many chose to STAY in the teaching profession after they've survived their first 1 - 5 years on the job is another story. <br /><br />Alicia<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-71217328350816001922013-02-01T16:47:34.371-05:002013-02-01T16:47:34.371-05:00I agree that a lot of the for-profit colleges have...I agree that a lot of the for-profit colleges have caused troubles in the student loan realm. And I also think many non-profit colleges and universities (private and public) are rather overpriced. <br /><br />The Davidson model where no student graduates indebted in something I hope spreads much wider in the coming years.<br /><br />To that end, I don't consider any degree to be worthless, but I'll agree that students shouldn't go into huge debt just to obtain the degree they want.<br /><br />A high school diploma should require at least 2 semesters in practical economics and finance - call it financial literacy.Jeff Wisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-40710409282880518902013-02-01T16:02:09.378-05:002013-02-01T16:02:09.378-05:00Missouri and Jeff,
Don't you guys think that ...Missouri and Jeff,<br /><br />Don't you guys think that some of those bogus "for profit" schools out there are just as big of a drain on our society?<br /><br />After all, they get loans, too, and don't always prepare people for "real world" jobs, either.<br /><br />I think I could make an argument for not letting young people choose those schools.<br /><br />People used to joke about getting their degrees off matchbook covers.<br /><br />I don't see many of these "for-profit" school degrees as any better.<br /><br />There are other ways they can learn responsibility besides going into excessive debt to get a worthless degree.<br /><br />Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-70098224897505822052013-02-01T15:35:15.226-05:002013-02-01T15:35:15.226-05:00Morrison and the BOE
FALSE PROPHETSMorrison and the BOE<br /><br />FALSE PROPHETSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-69753718500726917222013-02-01T09:30:38.521-05:002013-02-01T09:30:38.521-05:00Missouri,
I fail to see the sense in dictating wh...Missouri,<br /><br />I fail to see the sense in dictating what free citizens are allowed to study in colleges they choose to attend. But I don't fail to see the irony of so-called limited or small government cheerleaders turning around and telling students what classes they can and cannot take.<br /><br />If we want to promote self-responsibility with our students why in the world would we take big decisions like higher education out of their hands?<br /><br />Jeff Wisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-50227317981620715542013-01-31T23:06:07.629-05:002013-01-31T23:06:07.629-05:00In the last dozen years or more, the federal gover...In the last dozen years or more, the federal government, liberal elitists, newspaper editorial boards, community organizers and on and on have fought for pushing our public education system to its lowest common denominator for the sake of the "moral" justice that any achievement gap is to be eliminated.<br /><br />The problem however as they have pushed out the sciences, the social studies, etc. where it was commonly believed one race was better than the other, the 3 R's still could not be perverted for this political correctness purpose. Thus overall educational sophistication of the middle class white children has decreased. The salvation for America's greatness lays with the education of children outside of America's public schools until the federal government is purged from its unconstitutional intrusion. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-15128369045771978172013-01-31T22:19:23.964-05:002013-01-31T22:19:23.964-05:00I fail to see the sense in allowing a person to at...I fail to see the sense in allowing a person to attend college, come out with a ton of debt and be unable to get a job that could ever pay back that debt. This is the next monetary disaster in this country. This is the next group you'd hope would buy homes that would help energize this economy but they will be unable to qualify. Missourinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-41529049246128325142013-01-31T21:20:42.688-05:002013-01-31T21:20:42.688-05:00Shamash,
Ha - I bet we agree on a lot more than w...Shamash,<br /><br />Ha - I bet we agree on a lot more than we might think off the top of our heads.<br /><br />But you had to bring up CERN....pretty much every time I read an article about some intriguing find or result they got, I think about what might have been here in the US, if only we had made the investment. <br /><br />Jeff Wisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-72751229746001176722013-01-31T18:23:00.498-05:002013-01-31T18:23:00.498-05:00Thanks ANN for bringing up the point I made in the...Thanks ANN for bringing up the point I made in the last Blog.<br /><br />"Why would anyone teach someone to become a teacher"<br /><br />What about the teacher leaving to become a truck driver?<br /><br />CUAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-1288626350133559662013-01-31T18:01:11.919-05:002013-01-31T18:01:11.919-05:00sigh...sigh...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-35646196422427903372013-01-31T14:52:27.413-05:002013-01-31T14:52:27.413-05:00Hey Jeff, I agree.
How about that...
Not just f...Hey Jeff, I agree.<br /><br />How about that...<br /><br /><br />Not just for the liberal arts, but for "pure" science as well.<br /><br />It seems that we are willing to give this up, though, to the Europeans and Asians as we did with the Supercollider project.<br /><br />CERN, Cern, cern....<br /><br />People tend to forget, though, that sometimes the spinoffs from "pure" research are often practical.<br /><br />Like "The Web" which was basically born at CERN.<br /><br />Sometimes it pays to let smart people play...<br /><br />Anon 1:35,<br /><br />I worked in China as a teacher for less than 32K.<br /><br />But, of course, I had a lot of "status" to make up for it...<br /><br />I don't think I'd survive my first review in this politically correct environment, though.<br /><br />Even if I just taught math.<br /><br />I'm sure I'd manage to do something "culturally insensitive" using Arabic numerals.<br /><br />Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-77839604430812094432013-01-31T13:35:52.001-05:002013-01-31T13:35:52.001-05:00If being a teacher paid at least 45k I would take ...If being a teacher paid at least 45k I would take a 66% pay cut to do it - but right now I can't live on 32k. I would like to give something back to the community by being a teacher but I can't live on 32kAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-52143887137052012172013-01-31T12:43:53.414-05:002013-01-31T12:43:53.414-05:00If you think the purpose of public education is to...If you think the purpose of public education is to be trained for a job, then we've got some problems.<br /><br />To think college is a job factory is selling the country and our people short. <br /><br />Colleges should offer classes in just about everything. It should be a free market, if not enough people take particular classes, those classes get cut - pretty simple.<br /><br />This is already starting to happen with the Massive Open Online Courses that are proliferating right now. So even without the Governor's pandering comments, higher education is undergoing major changes to its structure.<br /><br />But to think that college is solely about focusing on job skills is so incredibly short-sighted and sad, not to mention boring. Talk about taking a sledgehammer to a nail.<br /><br />Jeff Wisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-19052612912753492552013-01-31T11:49:25.164-05:002013-01-31T11:49:25.164-05:00I think our thinking can be offshored, too.
We...I think our thinking can be offshored, too.<br /><br />We're doing it all the time.<br /><br />In fact, the world can do quite well without our intellectual input NOW (except for weapons, of course).<br /><br />And don't be surprised to find that the higher institutes of learning are in Asian countries by the last half of this century.<br /><br />After all, this isn't the 1950's anymore. <br /><br />The rest of the world has caught up with us in many ways.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020455191286536580.post-65409441101549243822013-01-31T11:44:08.170-05:002013-01-31T11:44:08.170-05:00It's almost comical, but I always like to go b...It's almost comical, but I always like to go back to these tired old cliches when life is getting me down (and the Super Bowl season looms).<br /><br />I found this while Googling the Roman Colosseum (just for some good pre-game gladiatorial action):<br /><br />THE MAJOR CAUSES FOR THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE...<br /><br />Antagonism between the Senate and the Emperor<br /><br />Decline in Morals<br /><br />Political Corruption and the Praetorian Guard<br /><br />Fast expansion of the Empire<br /><br />Constant Wars and Heavy Military Spending<br /><br />Barbarian Knowledge of Roman Military Tactics<br /><br />Failing Economy<br /><br />Unemployment of the Working Classes (The Plebs)<br /><br />The 'Mob' and the cost of the 'Games'<br /><br />Decline in Ethics and Values<br /><br />Slave Labor<br /><br />Natural Disasters<br /><br />Christianity<br /><br /><br />http://www.roman-colosseum.info/roman-empire/causes-for-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire.htm<br /><br />------------<br /><br />So, What are we missing?<br /><br />For the life of me, I can't think of a thing.<br /><br />Oh, yeah, maybe "slave labor". <br /><br />Or maybe not...<br /><br />But I'm sure there are at least 200other reasons Rome fell.<br /><br />Not that we need to think about those things today.<br /><br />Only someone with a liberal arts degree would care anyway.<br /><br />Party on, Garth...Shamashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06886687970259841873noreply@blogger.com