Here are some things you can do with your daughter - things I did with my dad when I was young. I remember these times a whole lot better than getting shipped off: * Play baseball, with invisible players on the other bases * Play basketball, climbing up on Dad's shoulders to slam dunk * Make stuff in the work room - my household fixing skills are much better than my fiance's because of this. * Put together puzzles * Make crafts * Coding - yes, this was BASIC and all we did was multicolored varieties of filling the screen with "Hello, world" - but it was fun * Board games - there's a reason they rhyme with bored * Read books together
If you're running out of things to do with your daughter, just imagine what you would have done with a son, and do it anyway.
I am a new teacher. Like any job, experience helps, and keeping our talented veteran teachers is getting harder and harder with students with parents like you.
In most places you don't need your degree to be in education or the field you plan to teach in order to be a teacher. You can get the job without the education, and you don't get rewarded for having it because everybody is paid the same (thanks, teacher's union!), so it's an uneducated position.... That makes teaching an *unskilled* position (I am not saying all teachers are unskilled, so hold off those flames... I'm saying you can become a teacher with no skill whatsoever). Why should it pay like a skilled position without the reqs?
This is utter bull. Have you heard of No Child Left Behind? There are so many requirements and qualifications you have to meet that even with my diploma from fucking MIT I can't teach science without paying hundreds of dollars to take qualifying exams. Also, additional college credits and degrees raise you on the pay scale - it's not simply determined by how many years you have put in.
In most places you, as a teacher, are not held accountable for the success of your students. You're not required to do your job well, and since nobody knows you suck, there's no consequence for failure.
Teaching is a hard enough job when you do it well. If you are a failure, you know it every day and you spend your nights sleepless, trying to think of some way to do better.
Imagine how much less our education system would cost us if we only had *good* teachers, and we paid them *very well*. Yes, I said *less*.
Sounds like you're applying "The Mythical Man-Month" outside of coding. Let's say we follow your idea. Let's get rid of four adequate upper elementary teachers. Here in California, we've got class sizes around 30 at that age. Replace those four teachers with one of your highly paid "good" teachers, at twice the salary (starting salaries are $39K... so $78K which is more livable in Silicon Valley but not wealthy by any means) but four times the number of kids. Sure, you've cut salaries in half, but one teacher can't teach 120 students all day long as well as four. Individual time with the teacher is crucial, particularly for students who are behind.
The qualifications for substitute teachers in many areas are pretty easy, around here all you need is a college degree and a three hour high school difficulty exam. Why don't you get your sub permit and see just how hard teaching is before you talk like you know something about it?
Tabs are a power user feature, and the people who want them are capable of going into the preferences and turning them on. It's like how extra features are available for people who know how to contextual-click or have a dual-button mouse, but that single click is capable of running the system.
My mother, on the other hand, would be on the phone with AppleCare for two hours if she had links opening somewhere she didn't expect them. (She only unzipped a file 20 times because she didn't see it had opened onto her desktop...)
women made up 41% of the I.T workforce in 1996. That number dropped to 35% by 2002
In 1996, IT wasn't the hot sector it was about to become. People who worked in the field were genuinely interested in their work and doing it because they loved it. Between then and 2002, we had the dot-com boom, and a lot of get-rich-quick people who did IT for the big bucks. Sure, many of them got fired after the bust, but many stuck around until 2002 as well.
All these data say is more men than women entered the field during lucrative times. Whoop-dee-doo. No one necessarily has left.
This is absolutely true. As a woman who was a member of one of the first post-Krueger classes, I was quite saddened to hear about the "good old days" before Krueger did that to himself - we often forget he was an adult and chose to put himself in that situation.
I would often attribute the death of MIT culture not only to him breaking down the strong Greek system at MIT (I was a sister, admittedly, but most houses were nothing like Animal House) so alumni donations would go to the institute instead of frats, but also because Vest was the first president to not be an MIT graduate. That was what worried me most about Hockfield's appointment - she wasn't an MIT alumna, and she won't understand that MIT isn't just another Ivy wannabe.
With MIT as just another school on the list of the top ten, freshman classes have become more and more standard, less geeky. I fear that someday humanities majors like myself may not be the tiny majority we were. But hopefully Dr Hockfield can bring back the geeks.
If you take a look at the budget for NASA, they do cut some aspects of the ISS.
The cost growth is offset in part by redirecting funding from remaining U.S. elements (particularly high-risk elements including the Habitation Module, Crew Return Vehicle, and Propulsion Module).
That's right... we don't want those astronauts (whose education and training also cost a pretty penny) in a safe place to live, and in case there's something wrong with it, we don't want to give them a safe ride home.
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Here are some things you can do with your daughter - things I did with my dad when I was young. I remember these times a whole lot better than getting shipped off:
* Play baseball, with invisible players on the other bases
* Play basketball, climbing up on Dad's shoulders to slam dunk
* Make stuff in the work room - my household fixing skills are much better than my fiance's because of this.
* Put together puzzles
* Make crafts
* Coding - yes, this was BASIC and all we did was multicolored varieties of filling the screen with "Hello, world" - but it was fun
* Board games - there's a reason they rhyme with bored
* Read books together
If you're running out of things to do with your daughter, just imagine what you would have done with a son, and do it anyway.
I am a new teacher. Like any job, experience helps, and keeping our talented veteran teachers is getting harder and harder with students with parents like you.
... That makes teaching an *unskilled* position (I am not saying all teachers are unskilled, so hold off those flames... I'm saying you can become a teacher with no skill whatsoever). Why should it pay like a skilled position without the reqs?
In most places you don't need your degree to be in education or the field you plan to teach in order to be a teacher. You can get the job without the education, and you don't get rewarded for having it because everybody is paid the same (thanks, teacher's union!), so it's an uneducated position.
This is utter bull. Have you heard of No Child Left Behind? There are so many requirements and qualifications you have to meet that even with my diploma from fucking MIT I can't teach science without paying hundreds of dollars to take qualifying exams. Also, additional college credits and degrees raise you on the pay scale - it's not simply determined by how many years you have put in.
In most places you, as a teacher, are not held accountable for the success of your students. You're not required to do your job well, and since nobody knows you suck, there's no consequence for failure.
Teaching is a hard enough job when you do it well. If you are a failure, you know it every day and you spend your nights sleepless, trying to think of some way to do better.
Imagine how much less our education system would cost us if we only had *good* teachers, and we paid them *very well*. Yes, I said *less*.
Sounds like you're applying "The Mythical Man-Month" outside of coding. Let's say we follow your idea. Let's get rid of four adequate upper elementary teachers. Here in California, we've got class sizes around 30 at that age. Replace those four teachers with one of your highly paid "good" teachers, at twice the salary (starting salaries are $39K... so $78K which is more livable in Silicon Valley but not wealthy by any means) but four times the number of kids. Sure, you've cut salaries in half, but one teacher can't teach 120 students all day long as well as four. Individual time with the teacher is crucial, particularly for students who are behind.
The qualifications for substitute teachers in many areas are pretty easy, around here all you need is a college degree and a three hour high school difficulty exam. Why don't you get your sub permit and see just how hard teaching is before you talk like you know something about it?
Tabs are a power user feature, and the people who want them are capable of going into the preferences and turning them on. It's like how extra features are available for people who know how to contextual-click or have a dual-button mouse, but that single click is capable of running the system.
My mother, on the other hand, would be on the phone with AppleCare for two hours if she had links opening somewhere she didn't expect them. (She only unzipped a file 20 times because she didn't see it had opened onto her desktop...)
Easy. He's not from Minnesota, he's from New York.
Bloody carpetbagger.
Everyone gets more respect than me.
women made up 41% of the I.T workforce in 1996. That number dropped to 35% by 2002
In 1996, IT wasn't the hot sector it was about to become. People who worked in the field were genuinely interested in their work and doing it because they loved it. Between then and 2002, we had the dot-com boom, and a lot of get-rich-quick people who did IT for the big bucks. Sure, many of them got fired after the bust, but many stuck around until 2002 as well.
All these data say is more men than women entered the field during lucrative times. Whoop-dee-doo. No one necessarily has left.
he trashed the culture of the place
This is absolutely true. As a woman who was a member of one of the first post-Krueger classes, I was quite saddened to hear about the "good old days" before Krueger did that to himself - we often forget he was an adult and chose to put himself in that situation.
I would often attribute the death of MIT culture not only to him breaking down the strong Greek system at MIT (I was a sister, admittedly, but most houses were nothing like Animal House) so alumni donations would go to the institute instead of frats, but also because Vest was the first president to not be an MIT graduate. That was what worried me most about Hockfield's appointment - she wasn't an MIT alumna, and she won't understand that MIT isn't just another Ivy wannabe.
With MIT as just another school on the list of the top ten, freshman classes have become more and more standard, less geeky. I fear that someday humanities majors like myself may not be the tiny majority we were. But hopefully Dr Hockfield can bring back the geeks.
If you take a look at the budget for NASA, they do cut some aspects of the ISS.
The cost growth is offset in part by redirecting funding from remaining U.S. elements (particularly high-risk elements including the Habitation Module, Crew Return Vehicle, and Propulsion Module).
That's right... we don't want those astronauts (whose education and training also cost a pretty penny) in a safe place to live, and in case there's something wrong with it, we don't want to give them a safe ride home.
p.s. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/usbudget/blueprint/ budtoc.html is the location of the index of the budget documents. George W must be afraid of those evil index.htm(l) files...