It's a shame you never had me deliver your paper. I delivered 250 papers every day from ages 11-17. I did this between 1am and 5am. I also collected on Friday and Saturday. If you didn't pay for your paper after two weeks, I cut you off until you paid up. You got nowhere by calling the paper because they backed me up and they wouldn't give you another person to deliver the paper.
I also lived about 90 minutes from NYC by train, so I got huge tips for having the paper there before people had to leave for work. They were happy to have their paper on the train and I got gobs of money to save for college. I also got big tips for leaving the paper in specific locations. I had one guy leave his house unlocked so I could put the paper on the kitchen table. When he got up in the morning, he could grab his coffee and read the paper. He gave me a $3 tip every week and this was back in the mid-80's. When I was in Syracuse at the state fair playing with my high school marching band, this guy ran into me. I had no idea he was going to be there. He gave me $20 on the spot and told me to have a good time.
Most of these people were pissed when I told them I was leaving for college. They had gotten used to good service. Today, at 38, no one delivers properly. Even the 40-something woman who delivers to my elementary school can't remember to get the paper there every day. After all the years of hard work I put in, I won't buy the paper in my town. The service is shitty, just as you said, and I can just read it online for free.
I can see your point, but until we return to a policy of creating "smart kid" classes and "not-so-smart kid" classes, instead of the enforced homogeneous classes we have nowadays, it is unlikely that teachers will be able to cope with students that move at such different speeds. They try all kinds of strategies, like pairing the smart kids together into challenging reading groups, or assigning targeted homework, but 80% of the day is done together with everyone. As much as I hate Direct Instruction, it does separate kids according to ability. At least in my school district it does. The only part that sucks is when you are forced to put a kid back into a lower group, they are upset for several days because they know what's happening. The two kids I know of that got sent back were okay after about a week because they were finally getting answers right and understanding the material instead of constantly looming on failure and struggling to keep up with everyone else.
We don't use DI for math, and I see this exact problem every time there is a math test. The smarter kids race each other to see who can finish first. Fortunately, the test is supposed to take 40 minutes and the teacher in my classroom (I'm just a para) will not let anyone hand their tests in before 25 minutes is up. She walks around and forces them to check and recheck. Unfortunately, not all teachers do this in my school.
I'm not so sure that just because the facts are easily accessible, they make us smarter because we don't have to memorize them.
If we don't know what the actual facts are, because we didn't memorize them, then how can we know that the "facts" we use are actually accurate?
This means that we might actually become stupider because we are relying on third parties to do the hard work for us.
People are naturally lazy and, this only makes it easier for them to be lazy and blame someone else when they get their facts wrong. Keep in mind, not all people fit this mold and will actually try to interpret the data they've found, but I think the majority will just become dumber because they'll be waiting for someone else to figure it out for them (think Idiocracy).
Math A and B came around after I graduated from High School. Before that it was called Integrated Math I and Integrated Math II. It's still what you did as A and B, however, I learned Integrated Math I in 9th grade and Integrated Math II in 10th grade. 11th grade was Trig and 12th grade was Calculus ( or maybe it was calculus then trig).
It seems to me that they've taken two years of math in New York and stretched it into 3 years. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because I agree, trying to pick up where you left off in math two months later is a bit difficult.
Having short tests throughout the year does not work. I work in an elementary school in the USA where this is done. What happens is that these tests are mandated by the state and half of them must be done online. The tests are given out of order from the curriculum so you are constantly just teaching the kids a snippet of information here and there so they can pass their tests. Very little quality work gets done because of this.
The worst part is that they use several different (4 iirc) testing methods to decide how well the kids are doing. All this testing is a nightmare. The only class where work could actually get done somewhat normally was in math, where they were tested every ten lessons.
Keep in mind, this was all created by experts in their areas of expertise and are supposed to know what's happening. The teachers in our school district have no say over what is and isn't taught. Most of it is direct instruction (which my 86 year old grandma could show up tomorrow and teach), which is horrible. We also use Saxon Math, which leaves the teachers with little to no input on their students' education.
Everything is all decided elsewhere and the students just take test after test from September until April, 3-4 times a month. The kids hate it. The teachers hate it. Administration loves it.
When I started flying back in 1984, they did something very similar to this. First, the people with children and who needed help got on. Then, the first class passengers. Then, they called out 3-5 row numbers at a time (depending on the size of the plane. If they called rows 30-33 and you got in line and were in row 15, they made you get out of line and wait. I don't exactly recall when this all changed but now, instead of calling row numbers, after first class boards, they just say, "now boarding all rows," which ends up being a clusterfuck every single time.
Even if there was one or two guys that were late, it still was more orderly than it is today and people would chastise the late arrivals because you could see who they were right away.
While you may think teachers have all summer off, most of the ones I work with spend that time participating in conferences to keep up to date and attending workshops in order to retain their licenses.
I don't know of a single teacher who has free health care or other "benefits" that make teaching better in the long run. In our school district, health insurance is $409 for single, $1200 for family, per month. That certainly isn't free health care in my book.
These teachers are also at work before 7am and leave around 6pm every day. I admit, there is an occasional Friday where they just can't take it and leave at 4pm on Friday, but you know what? They're spending Sunday afternoons back in school to do what they didn't do on Friday. Sometimes, they are there on Sundays, even if they stayed on Fridays. They also spend numerous weeknights and weekends coaching and/or helping out at sporting events, such as working concessions, being ticket takers, etc. This is all volunteer work, however, so they are giving up their free time for their students.
I invite you to spend a week in a teacher's shoes and decide if you want to spend 30 years in a profession where you are constantly told that your job is super easy, get berated by parents and students, and have to put up with administrative bullshit that is beyond your control. Teachers who stay in the profession do so because they love what they do and they genuinely enjoy being able to educate another human being.
I've got to agree with you on that one. The smaller stores around here also try to rip you off far worse than the big box store and, when they're out of business a few years, who do you go to then? That said, I usually buy my parts online from places like Fry's or New Egg.
I don't know why this problem keeps turning up. I've returned several things before to Best Buy because they were damaged. Each time, they opened the package to verify what I had said was true. And, at least in New York, I've never been able to return or exchange anything without my driver's license, so there's no way I can just make up a fake name.
Granted, this guy should have been able to make the return but I never make a large purchase from anyone without checking the contents first. You just never know these days.
When I flew to Tanzania from the USA in 2005 I was told that all international flights from the USA to third world countries require a paper ticket. I don't know if it's changed since then but that's what the people at the ticket counter told us then.
Not all hospitals have indigent funds and those that do have strict guidelines. Three years ago, I was in the hospital for several days and was denied indigent funds. I couldn't afford health insurance (unless I wanted to eliminate food from my budget). Apparently, making $20k per year for two people was too much for the hospital and I was told I'd haven't to pay my $10k hospital bill. Just because the hospital has an indigent fund doesn't mean they are going to help you. They don't want to give out money any more than insurance companies do.
Of course, this may vary with whatever state you're living in because different states, different cities, and different hospitals have different rules.
you know, that just make phone calls anymore? I just want a phone that makes clear phone calls and isn't so dainty that it splits apart when I accidentally drop it.
I don't own a cell phone either and don't plan on it. I leave my house to get away from people. Taking a phone with me would prevent this from happening. A cell phone is not cheaper where I live. I've done the math and a it's actually about $5 more a month where I live. I have an answering machine and no need for voice mail. I don't have a use for caller ID either.
As for ipod killers, I have my Creative Zen since before the ipod even existed. It works great and does what I want. If/when it breaks, I'll go back to Creative. I have no need for an ipod, nor its zillion accessories. I have my mp3 player with a case and headphones. I don't want, or need, to plug it into another fifty devices or have interchangable covers or any of the other things you can attach to it. I also don't care what it looks like. I care about how it works and if it gets the job done. I want to listen to music on a reliable player. My Zen does that.
Some people have just grown so accustomed to being constantly connected that they just can't understand that there are other people out there that don't need/want what's the latest gadget, nor do they want to be connected to the world 24/7.
Yes, I'm over 30 (36 to be exact) and I don't have a cell phone. I don't have a need for it. Landline quality is better and it's always there, working when it needs to be. When I leave my house, it's to run errands or to get away from it all. If I have a cell phone to take with me, then I'm not getting away from anyone or anything.
My landline can adjust the volume, work up to 100 feet away from its base, and, if the power goes out, I have another phone jacked in that requires no power for it to work. While many people enjoy cell phones, I've found that I don't have a need to be constantly attached to a communication device. I prefer to enjoy being away from home and not being bothered by life's interruptions.
It's a nice try to ban texting while driving and we can see what happens when you do it (look at NJ Gov. Corzine) but it's not going to work. Using your cell phone at all is illegal here in NY and I lost count long ago on the number of people who use their phones while driving. They dial, text, and talk.
Also, Josh Hancock of the St. Louis Cardinals ended up dead a few weeks ago because he was drunk and using his cell phone while driving. That should be enough to put people off using their phones while driving but we all know it won't.
What will happen is what happened in New York. The first couple of months, lots of people will get tickets. Then, it will die down. Then, you will spend all your time cursing at people in your car while they continue to break the law and text away.
There are several EPL games every week on cable on the FOX Soccer Channel. On Saturdays you can catch one game live and one game delayed (usually aired after the live game). They also have pay-per-view games. You can also catch UEFA games and FA Cup games. It was great this year that I got to see two Preston North End games. They show games on Sundays, sometimes live, but often they are Saturday's games. If you pay attention, you can also grab the occasional Wednesday game as well.
I'm not going to point you to them but I belong to three different private torrent sites that have the games and, if you look around a few days after the games, most of the public torrent sites have the games as well.
I've seen 4 Blackburn Rovers games this year just on the FOX Soccer Channel. Yesterday I watched West Ham vs. Bolton Live, followed by Aston Villa vs. Sheffield United, then Everton vs Portsmouth which I believe were tape delayed. Today, you can see Arsenal vs. Chelsea and on Monday Charleton vs. Tottenham.
This isn't even getting into the Italian games that they air, but I don't follow Italian football as closely as the EPL. The games are out there. I just think you have to look a little bit harder. Saying the games are rarely available on cable is a bit disingenuous when you can see anywhere from 3-6 games on a weekend.
I'm not trying to start any additional arguments and I haven't read all the relevant articles but how does this survey compare to teachers who only get paid 10 months of the year? There are many schools that only pay for the actual school year. You want money over the summer you have to save all year or get a summer job. Just curious.
I have several friends in The Netherlands who also won't come and visit me anymore. We used to see each other once a year, taking turns as to who would do the traveling. I can't say as I really blame them either. Thanks Mr. Bush for screwing up my friendships.
I hate to tell you this but if Paris, Berlin, Rome, Prague, etc., want to look in your bags they will smash your locks as well.
And, despite what you think, there is a whole lot more to America than just McDonalds. It's not the fault of the USA that you can't think past what you see on television as American culture. There's a lot of history in America, just not as much as in Europe. Don't fault America because she is a young country, there is much to see and do and, if you can get past your misconceptions you'd see some of the wonder that Europeans often dismiss and miss out on.
I still use Win2k. It's not dead for me. Yes, I want to use it. Everything I run works on it. It's on 24/7 with a reboot every 4-5 weeks. I don't play games on the computer so I don't need the latest, greatest thing. I paid for my license, am not a paranoid weirdo and don't have a problem with my computer looking the way it does instead of some Fisher Price/Playskool, created by a two-year old GUI. I have XP on my laptop. It too has the classic look.
When the time comes that, what I do can no longer work on Win2k, I'll be moving to Linux. That, however, may be a long time away since I do now what I did in 1993 with my computer, with the exception of videos. I don't need some fancy aero glass to make me feel better. I just need a machine that works.
BTW, my car is 6 years old. I bought it brand new. It works flawlessly, with only minor adjustments from time to time. Should I get with the times and throw it out too?
The problem with this system is that it's going to be abused, mostly by the administrators. I've seen it happen in my husband's school. If the head of the department and/or principal don't like you, they give you all the craptacular students on purpose. This is their way of getting rid of you because your tests scores will suffer. They play favorites more than I've ever seen any other job do in my life.
How about we also take care of the problem that a little over 3/4 of teachers leave the profession within five years because they are sick of all the bullshit. They're sick of working 7.5 hours at work and bringing home another 4 hours work each night as well as spending their weekends grading papers for less money than other people who have master's degrees. Sure, they get the summers off but after working 60-70 hours per week, don't you want some time off? They also quit because they actually thought they'd get a chance to actually teach instead of being pigeon-holed into rote behavior, turning out clones instead of thinking people. They also hate having to deal with parents who constantly say their kid is Einstein and get pissed off when their kid fails. Not my kid. He wouldn't do that. And, last but not least, they hate that they put in honest grades but the school requires a certain percentage passing and failing so grades magically get changed.
If you think the magical grade changes won't happen for the favorite teachers by administrators, you're sorely mistaken. This program isn't going to solve the problem. It's going to make things worse. While I agree that the American education system is very broken, this isn't the way to fix it. You need to start by disciplining students again and telling parents to f-off when they whine about their kid 24/7. You also need to stop with the hand holding and giving a quarter of the students magic "undefined" learning disabilities. How about you cut the damned sugar out of your kid's diet so he can actually sit in class and pay attention. How about you actually make your kid do their homework and study. How about disciplining your child at home and teaching him that disrespectful and disruptive behavior in school is counterproductive to everyone. While you're at it, try taking responsibility for your own child and stop making the school their surrogate parent.
Lastly, force your school to remove inclusion. It does not work. Inclusion prevents slower kids from getting the help that they need and keeps the smarter students bored out of their minds. Return to the days when we were all seperated by our abilities, instead of this PC nonsense. I'm sorry but, maybe your kid isn't smart enough to go to college. Deal with it. Maybe he doesn't want to go to college. There's nothing wrong with tech/trade schools. The world needs carpenters, plumbers, automechanics, etc. They are very good careers but, in today's system, everyone is steered away from these jobs. The kids that want to do these things, end up dropping out and stumbling upon them later on.
Make it so that instead of just dropping letters, you can drop letters without postage and small to midsize packages.
The reason you can't just drop off a package at the post office and be charged later is 1) how do we know the return address is correct and 2) how do we know you didn't put a bomb in the package?
Seriously, when I worked at the post office, even if you had one of those pre-printed labels on your box, you had to wait in line to drop it off. If a package was left alone, we had to call the police and shut down until it could be determined there was no danger. And this was in 1998.
I live an hour from NYC. I do not work there. I work in the city I live in. I work from home but my husband works at the local high school. There is a bus system here but it doesn't go to his school or anywhere near it. The closest stop he could get, if he were to take the bus, is 1/4 mile from our home and it goes in the opposite direction from his school. His job is 7 miles away. There are no apartments near the school (we live in the closest one to the school). Homes that are closer to his job start at $450,000, with many of them in the mid-$500,000s. We don't have land. We don't have a large house. There are 30-35 children in the classrooms (which is the state average and several schools in NYC have less than that). We did not move here for the choice of the suburbs. We moved because it was supposed to be a better place to live. In many respects, we have the same problems of NYC, just with more greenery. Hopefully, we'll be moving again next summer and away from the overpriced State of NY.
Technology at Rhodes is a priority. From preschool through 8th grade, students are exposed to technology in the classroom as well as the labs.
If this outdated technology is such a high priority, I'd hate too see the rest of their curriculum.
Exemplary Use of Technology
1993 - 1997 - 1999 - 2002
and that's obviously where they stopped trying
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It's a shame you never had me deliver your paper. I delivered 250 papers every day from ages 11-17. I did this between 1am and 5am. I also collected on Friday and Saturday. If you didn't pay for your paper after two weeks, I cut you off until you paid up. You got nowhere by calling the paper because they backed me up and they wouldn't give you another person to deliver the paper.
I also lived about 90 minutes from NYC by train, so I got huge tips for having the paper there before people had to leave for work. They were happy to have their paper on the train and I got gobs of money to save for college. I also got big tips for leaving the paper in specific locations. I had one guy leave his house unlocked so I could put the paper on the kitchen table. When he got up in the morning, he could grab his coffee and read the paper. He gave me a $3 tip every week and this was back in the mid-80's. When I was in Syracuse at the state fair playing with my high school marching band, this guy ran into me. I had no idea he was going to be there. He gave me $20 on the spot and told me to have a good time.
Most of these people were pissed when I told them I was leaving for college. They had gotten used to good service. Today, at 38, no one delivers properly. Even the 40-something woman who delivers to my elementary school can't remember to get the paper there every day. After all the years of hard work I put in, I won't buy the paper in my town. The service is shitty, just as you said, and I can just read it online for free.
We don't use DI for math, and I see this exact problem every time there is a math test. The smarter kids race each other to see who can finish first. Fortunately, the test is supposed to take 40 minutes and the teacher in my classroom (I'm just a para) will not let anyone hand their tests in before 25 minutes is up. She walks around and forces them to check and recheck. Unfortunately, not all teachers do this in my school.
I'm not so sure that just because the facts are easily accessible, they make us smarter because we don't have to memorize them.
If we don't know what the actual facts are, because we didn't memorize them, then how can we know that the "facts" we use are actually accurate?
This means that we might actually become stupider because we are relying on third parties to do the hard work for us.
People are naturally lazy and, this only makes it easier for them to be lazy and blame someone else when they get their facts wrong. Keep in mind, not all people fit this mold and will actually try to interpret the data they've found, but I think the majority will just become dumber because they'll be waiting for someone else to figure it out for them (think Idiocracy).
Math A and B came around after I graduated from High School. Before that it was called Integrated Math I and Integrated Math II. It's still what you did as A and B, however, I learned Integrated Math I in 9th grade and Integrated Math II in 10th grade. 11th grade was Trig and 12th grade was Calculus ( or maybe it was calculus then trig).
It seems to me that they've taken two years of math in New York and stretched it into 3 years. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because I agree, trying to pick up where you left off in math two months later is a bit difficult.
Having short tests throughout the year does not work. I work in an elementary school in the USA where this is done. What happens is that these tests are mandated by the state and half of them must be done online. The tests are given out of order from the curriculum so you are constantly just teaching the kids a snippet of information here and there so they can pass their tests. Very little quality work gets done because of this.
The worst part is that they use several different (4 iirc) testing methods to decide how well the kids are doing. All this testing is a nightmare. The only class where work could actually get done somewhat normally was in math, where they were tested every ten lessons.
Keep in mind, this was all created by experts in their areas of expertise and are supposed to know what's happening. The teachers in our school district have no say over what is and isn't taught. Most of it is direct instruction (which my 86 year old grandma could show up tomorrow and teach), which is horrible. We also use Saxon Math, which leaves the teachers with little to no input on their students' education.
Everything is all decided elsewhere and the students just take test after test from September until April, 3-4 times a month. The kids hate it. The teachers hate it. Administration loves it.
When I started flying back in 1984, they did something very similar to this. First, the people with children and who needed help got on. Then, the first class passengers. Then, they called out 3-5 row numbers at a time (depending on the size of the plane. If they called rows 30-33 and you got in line and were in row 15, they made you get out of line and wait. I don't exactly recall when this all changed but now, instead of calling row numbers, after first class boards, they just say, "now boarding all rows," which ends up being a clusterfuck every single time.
Even if there was one or two guys that were late, it still was more orderly than it is today and people would chastise the late arrivals because you could see who they were right away.
While you may think teachers have all summer off, most of the ones I work with spend that time participating in conferences to keep up to date and attending workshops in order to retain their licenses.
I don't know of a single teacher who has free health care or other "benefits" that make teaching better in the long run. In our school district, health insurance is $409 for single, $1200 for family, per month. That certainly isn't free health care in my book.
These teachers are also at work before 7am and leave around 6pm every day. I admit, there is an occasional Friday where they just can't take it and leave at 4pm on Friday, but you know what? They're spending Sunday afternoons back in school to do what they didn't do on Friday. Sometimes, they are there on Sundays, even if they stayed on Fridays. They also spend numerous weeknights and weekends coaching and/or helping out at sporting events, such as working concessions, being ticket takers, etc. This is all volunteer work, however, so they are giving up their free time for their students.
I invite you to spend a week in a teacher's shoes and decide if you want to spend 30 years in a profession where you are constantly told that your job is super easy, get berated by parents and students, and have to put up with administrative bullshit that is beyond your control. Teachers who stay in the profession do so because they love what they do and they genuinely enjoy being able to educate another human being.
I've got to agree with you on that one. The smaller stores around here also try to rip you off far worse than the big box store and, when they're out of business a few years, who do you go to then? That said, I usually buy my parts online from places like Fry's or New Egg.
I don't know why this problem keeps turning up. I've returned several things before to Best Buy because they were damaged. Each time, they opened the package to verify what I had said was true. And, at least in New York, I've never been able to return or exchange anything without my driver's license, so there's no way I can just make up a fake name.
Granted, this guy should have been able to make the return but I never make a large purchase from anyone without checking the contents first. You just never know these days.
When I flew to Tanzania from the USA in 2005 I was told that all international flights from the USA to third world countries require a paper ticket. I don't know if it's changed since then but that's what the people at the ticket counter told us then.
Not all hospitals have indigent funds and those that do have strict guidelines. Three years ago, I was in the hospital for several days and was denied indigent funds. I couldn't afford health insurance (unless I wanted to eliminate food from my budget). Apparently, making $20k per year for two people was too much for the hospital and I was told I'd haven't to pay my $10k hospital bill. Just because the hospital has an indigent fund doesn't mean they are going to help you. They don't want to give out money any more than insurance companies do.
Of course, this may vary with whatever state you're living in because different states, different cities, and different hospitals have different rules.
you know, that just make phone calls anymore? I just want a phone that makes clear phone calls and isn't so dainty that it splits apart when I accidentally drop it.
I don't own a cell phone either and don't plan on it. I leave my house to get away from people. Taking a phone with me would prevent this from happening. A cell phone is not cheaper where I live. I've done the math and a it's actually about $5 more a month where I live. I have an answering machine and no need for voice mail. I don't have a use for caller ID either.
As for ipod killers, I have my Creative Zen since before the ipod even existed. It works great and does what I want. If/when it breaks, I'll go back to Creative. I have no need for an ipod, nor its zillion accessories. I have my mp3 player with a case and headphones. I don't want, or need, to plug it into another fifty devices or have interchangable covers or any of the other things you can attach to it. I also don't care what it looks like. I care about how it works and if it gets the job done. I want to listen to music on a reliable player. My Zen does that.
Some people have just grown so accustomed to being constantly connected that they just can't understand that there are other people out there that don't need/want what's the latest gadget, nor do they want to be connected to the world 24/7.
Yes, I'm over 30 (36 to be exact) and I don't have a cell phone. I don't have a need for it. Landline quality is better and it's always there, working when it needs to be. When I leave my house, it's to run errands or to get away from it all. If I have a cell phone to take with me, then I'm not getting away from anyone or anything.
My landline can adjust the volume, work up to 100 feet away from its base, and, if the power goes out, I have another phone jacked in that requires no power for it to work. While many people enjoy cell phones, I've found that I don't have a need to be constantly attached to a communication device. I prefer to enjoy being away from home and not being bothered by life's interruptions.
It's a nice try to ban texting while driving and we can see what happens when you do it (look at NJ Gov. Corzine) but it's not going to work. Using your cell phone at all is illegal here in NY and I lost count long ago on the number of people who use their phones while driving. They dial, text, and talk.
Also, Josh Hancock of the St. Louis Cardinals ended up dead a few weeks ago because he was drunk and using his cell phone while driving. That should be enough to put people off using their phones while driving but we all know it won't.
What will happen is what happened in New York. The first couple of months, lots of people will get tickets. Then, it will die down. Then, you will spend all your time cursing at people in your car while they continue to break the law and text away.
There are several EPL games every week on cable on the FOX Soccer Channel. On Saturdays you can catch one game live and one game delayed (usually aired after the live game). They also have pay-per-view games. You can also catch UEFA games and FA Cup games. It was great this year that I got to see two Preston North End games. They show games on Sundays, sometimes live, but often they are Saturday's games. If you pay attention, you can also grab the occasional Wednesday game as well. I'm not going to point you to them but I belong to three different private torrent sites that have the games and, if you look around a few days after the games, most of the public torrent sites have the games as well. I've seen 4 Blackburn Rovers games this year just on the FOX Soccer Channel. Yesterday I watched West Ham vs. Bolton Live, followed by Aston Villa vs. Sheffield United, then Everton vs Portsmouth which I believe were tape delayed. Today, you can see Arsenal vs. Chelsea and on Monday Charleton vs. Tottenham. This isn't even getting into the Italian games that they air, but I don't follow Italian football as closely as the EPL. The games are out there. I just think you have to look a little bit harder. Saying the games are rarely available on cable is a bit disingenuous when you can see anywhere from 3-6 games on a weekend.
I'm not trying to start any additional arguments and I haven't read all the relevant articles but how does this survey compare to teachers who only get paid 10 months of the year? There are many schools that only pay for the actual school year. You want money over the summer you have to save all year or get a summer job. Just curious.
I have several friends in The Netherlands who also won't come and visit me anymore. We used to see each other once a year, taking turns as to who would do the traveling. I can't say as I really blame them either. Thanks Mr. Bush for screwing up my friendships.
I hate to tell you this but if Paris, Berlin, Rome, Prague, etc., want to look in your bags they will smash your locks as well. And, despite what you think, there is a whole lot more to America than just McDonalds. It's not the fault of the USA that you can't think past what you see on television as American culture. There's a lot of history in America, just not as much as in Europe. Don't fault America because she is a young country, there is much to see and do and, if you can get past your misconceptions you'd see some of the wonder that Europeans often dismiss and miss out on.
I still use Win2k. It's not dead for me. Yes, I want to use it. Everything I run works on it. It's on 24/7 with a reboot every 4-5 weeks. I don't play games on the computer so I don't need the latest, greatest thing. I paid for my license, am not a paranoid weirdo and don't have a problem with my computer looking the way it does instead of some Fisher Price/Playskool, created by a two-year old GUI. I have XP on my laptop. It too has the classic look. When the time comes that, what I do can no longer work on Win2k, I'll be moving to Linux. That, however, may be a long time away since I do now what I did in 1993 with my computer, with the exception of videos. I don't need some fancy aero glass to make me feel better. I just need a machine that works. BTW, my car is 6 years old. I bought it brand new. It works flawlessly, with only minor adjustments from time to time. Should I get with the times and throw it out too?
The problem with this system is that it's going to be abused, mostly by the administrators. I've seen it happen in my husband's school. If the head of the department and/or principal don't like you, they give you all the craptacular students on purpose. This is their way of getting rid of you because your tests scores will suffer. They play favorites more than I've ever seen any other job do in my life. How about we also take care of the problem that a little over 3/4 of teachers leave the profession within five years because they are sick of all the bullshit. They're sick of working 7.5 hours at work and bringing home another 4 hours work each night as well as spending their weekends grading papers for less money than other people who have master's degrees. Sure, they get the summers off but after working 60-70 hours per week, don't you want some time off? They also quit because they actually thought they'd get a chance to actually teach instead of being pigeon-holed into rote behavior, turning out clones instead of thinking people. They also hate having to deal with parents who constantly say their kid is Einstein and get pissed off when their kid fails. Not my kid. He wouldn't do that. And, last but not least, they hate that they put in honest grades but the school requires a certain percentage passing and failing so grades magically get changed. If you think the magical grade changes won't happen for the favorite teachers by administrators, you're sorely mistaken. This program isn't going to solve the problem. It's going to make things worse. While I agree that the American education system is very broken, this isn't the way to fix it. You need to start by disciplining students again and telling parents to f-off when they whine about their kid 24/7. You also need to stop with the hand holding and giving a quarter of the students magic "undefined" learning disabilities. How about you cut the damned sugar out of your kid's diet so he can actually sit in class and pay attention. How about you actually make your kid do their homework and study. How about disciplining your child at home and teaching him that disrespectful and disruptive behavior in school is counterproductive to everyone. While you're at it, try taking responsibility for your own child and stop making the school their surrogate parent. Lastly, force your school to remove inclusion. It does not work. Inclusion prevents slower kids from getting the help that they need and keeps the smarter students bored out of their minds. Return to the days when we were all seperated by our abilities, instead of this PC nonsense. I'm sorry but, maybe your kid isn't smart enough to go to college. Deal with it. Maybe he doesn't want to go to college. There's nothing wrong with tech/trade schools. The world needs carpenters, plumbers, automechanics, etc. They are very good careers but, in today's system, everyone is steered away from these jobs. The kids that want to do these things, end up dropping out and stumbling upon them later on.
mmmmmmmm bacon
Make it so that instead of just dropping letters, you can drop letters without postage and small to midsize packages.
The reason you can't just drop off a package at the post office and be charged later is 1) how do we know the return address is correct and 2) how do we know you didn't put a bomb in the package?
Seriously, when I worked at the post office, even if you had one of those pre-printed labels on your box, you had to wait in line to drop it off. If a package was left alone, we had to call the police and shut down until it could be determined there was no danger. And this was in 1998.
I live an hour from NYC. I do not work there. I work in the city I live in. I work from home but my husband works at the local high school. There is a bus system here but it doesn't go to his school or anywhere near it. The closest stop he could get, if he were to take the bus, is 1/4 mile from our home and it goes in the opposite direction from his school. His job is 7 miles away. There are no apartments near the school (we live in the closest one to the school). Homes that are closer to his job start at $450,000, with many of them in the mid-$500,000s. We don't have land. We don't have a large house. There are 30-35 children in the classrooms (which is the state average and several schools in NYC have less than that). We did not move here for the choice of the suburbs. We moved because it was supposed to be a better place to live. In many respects, we have the same problems of NYC, just with more greenery. Hopefully, we'll be moving again next summer and away from the overpriced State of NY.
Technology at Rhodes is a priority. From preschool through 8th grade, students are exposed to technology in the classroom as well as the labs.
If this outdated technology is such a high priority, I'd hate too see the rest of their curriculum.
Exemplary Use of Technology 1993 - 1997 - 1999 - 2002
and that's obviously where they stopped trying