It's the conservative anti-intellectual thing, I think. In Texas any uneducated asshole can put in his two cents about educational standards, and he's given equal weight with trained, experienced teachers.
Also, last month there was a Facebook meme going around that MLK, Jr. was a Republican and isn't the GOP awesome for always championing liberties, etc., you get the idea.
The purveyors of this meme shut up rather quickly when it was pointed out that MLK was a liberal & as such would be unwelcome in the current GOP.
My mind threatens to break every time I try to understand where these people are coming from.
3.1 came with my first x86 computer. Besides, it was easier for my family members to pick up on than the DOS prompt, and the computer came with a Win16 version of MS Works and some other worthwhile apps.
I was coming from an 8-bit Apple// background, so (despite the horrid instability), the whole shebang was quite an upgrade.
Sounds like you've got a problem with authority yourself, boy.
I'm not saying that authority should be automatically respected - I'm commenting how idiots like yourselves have a chip on your shoulders about people who are in charge.
Fine, but getting stuck in a room with a bunch of other people, getting paid to do/nothing/ all day, is not my idea of fun. Do you suppose the hundred-odd other people there are going to sit quietly and let you go about your self-training? No. The average person is more sociable than you or I, and I find it difficult to concentrate on anything when others are talking nearby. Loud music via earbud is Right Out, because I value my hearing.
Then you're expected to dress professionally, because you're technically going to work. There's the commute for something you could just as easily do at home. You'll be thinking about all the wasted time while you were training to be a teacher. That's got to be soul-crushing.
Besides, these people presumably haven't quit because they hope to resume teaching someday, instead of embarking on a whole new career. They/want/ to do something else besides sit on their asses all day. They/want/ to make a difference in kids' lives, or they'd damn well have picked a better-paying, more-respected job.
Pretty much. I suspect that Kohath, like my 10-years-younger self, hasn't yet learnt self-respect; that is necessary before you can really grok respecting other people.
Oh, yes. One year my wife was on something like five committees and the fuckwits running them all decided to have a meeting once a week after school for the last 2-3 weeks of the school year. That was her entire/week/ shot.
I made her give up a couple of the committees after that because of the stress it was causing her. Her building had a couple FNGs that those committee assignments could go to anyway.
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This is the adult table, kid. Run along.
You're a moron. Where did I mention that?
It's funny seeing how conservatives react to this, as if it's some sort of game of revenge.
Pretty schoolyard of them, isn't it?
Well, see, then the tax system should be set up to keep the poor in their condition, the better that they may be blessed.
Funnily enough, that's the sort of thing the Bolsheviks did when the Mensheviks tried to have calm, rational meetings with them.
Before the Mensheviks were shipped off to the Gulag or purged, I mean.
You sure those liberals aren't just twitting the evangelicals?
Because the English and the Dutch didn't want the Pilgrims, who were troublemaking Puritans.
Really, Europe owes us a debt because we took in most of their religious nutters.
It's the conservative anti-intellectual thing, I think. In Texas any uneducated asshole can put in his two cents about educational standards, and he's given equal weight with trained, experienced teachers.
Also, last month there was a Facebook meme going around that MLK, Jr. was a Republican and isn't the GOP awesome for always championing liberties, etc., you get the idea.
The purveyors of this meme shut up rather quickly when it was pointed out that MLK was a liberal & as such would be unwelcome in the current GOP.
My mind threatens to break every time I try to understand where these people are coming from.
Wrong. A cursory Wackypedia search says that the .380 ACP was designed by John Browning in 1908.
Did you check for discontinued models too? .380 ACP is an older round, so it's possible this was an older-model S&W.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.1x
3.1 came with my first x86 computer. Besides, it was easier for my family members to pick up on than the DOS prompt, and the computer came with a Win16 version of MS Works and some other worthwhile apps.
I was coming from an 8-bit Apple // background, so (despite the horrid instability), the whole shebang was quite an upgrade.
Also Windows 2.1, which came in standard and 386 flavors.
You clearly lack the intelligence for a little self-reflection about why you have a problem with authority, and you choose to mask it with hostility.
I've given my own case of it thought, and concluded that I was wrong to have a blanket case of it.
Sounds like you've got a problem with authority yourself, boy.
I'm not saying that authority should be automatically respected - I'm commenting how idiots like yourselves have a chip on your shoulders about people who are in charge.
Aaahhh, you're a conservatard. That explains it.
Carry on.
Fine, but getting stuck in a room with a bunch of other people, getting paid to do /nothing/ all day, is not my idea of fun. Do you suppose the hundred-odd other people there are going to sit quietly and let you go about your self-training? No. The average person is more sociable than you or I, and I find it difficult to concentrate on anything when others are talking nearby. Loud music via earbud is Right Out, because I value my hearing.
Then you're expected to dress professionally, because you're technically going to work. There's the commute for something you could just as easily do at home. You'll be thinking about all the wasted time while you were training to be a teacher. That's got to be soul-crushing.
Besides, these people presumably haven't quit because they hope to resume teaching someday, instead of embarking on a whole new career. They /want/ to do something else besides sit on their asses all day. They /want/ to make a difference in kids' lives, or they'd damn well have picked a better-paying, more-respected job.
Pretty much. I suspect that Kohath, like my 10-years-younger self, hasn't yet learnt self-respect; that is necessary before you can really grok respecting other people.
Kill yourself.
Let me guess: you're a Republican. Same sort of rhetoric, anyway.
No, I'm saying you're a jackass because of your tone, and your most recent post reinforces that vibe.
You clearly have no ambitions in life. Those of us who want to do something with ourselves think otherwise.
Perhaps the teachers you know personally don't care as much, are content to rely on premade Scantron tests, etc.
Could also be that you're a jackass. I'm pretty sure that's a factor.
Oh, yes. One year my wife was on something like five committees and the fuckwits running them all decided to have a meeting once a week after school for the last 2-3 weeks of the school year. That was her entire /week/ shot.
I made her give up a couple of the committees after that because of the stress it was causing her. Her building had a couple FNGs that those committee assignments could go to anyway.
Empty platitudes. You're not putting any thought into this.