For your first two questions- read up on social contracts. Might also help to read up on the 5 wthical states.
The Sally example is misunderstood it seems. Say Sally's parents are sent several progress reports that Sally is not doing her work and is in danger of failing. Where does the parents get off yelling at the Teacher for daring to fail thier darling?
It is not critical thinking that is the problem. It is the courteousness that is.
Single parents and parents struggling to make ends meet do NOT have home schooling or private schooling as options.
Why should I, as a single person with no children, be required to pay taxes to support schools I do not use?
How in the world do you reconcile those two statements? I know, you can't. But presuming you are not a troll, I would advise you to read up on social contract theory.
Actually, I was a substitute. Though several family members are currently teachers.
I have seen trends first hand of kids becoming more disrepectful. The current culture amongst kids is that it is cool to be stupid. It is undesirable to be educated or cultured. Parents are telling thier kids that they do not need to be responsible for thier actions. Kids play the racism or sexism cards at the drop of a hat.
And as for abuse, what should kids do if parents abuse them? More kids are abused by family members than any other group.
My suggestion to you, if you don't like teachers attitudes, then homeschool your brats.
Those repetive exercises do more than reinforce the subject matter. They teach discipline and study skills. Trust me. Not to brag, but I was one of those gifted students. Not learning how to study did not help when I got to college.
It is another topic entirely about the grouping of gifted, average, and dumb in the classroom. The gifted kids need to be challenged. That is not going to happen if one needs to teach to the slowst student in the room and the room contains kids that are below average.
A teacher holds at least a Bachelor Degree. In most states, a teacher must also pass certification. They have already earned respect just by being a teacher. They have earned respect by choosing to teach the next generation. A teacher should be respected by default. Some professions get repect automatically, Policemen, Firemen, Doctors, and Teachers deserve respect just by choosing thier profession.
No. For a student-teacher relationship, the default attitude should be respect. Respect can be lost, but the default is that it should be given.
If your daughter does not do her school work, who is at fault? I would say she is. If a teacher assigns a book report, and you say she does not need to do it because the theacher is an idiot; then you are just being a bad parent.
We see a child misbehaving in public, we morally have the responsibility to step and tell the child that they are doing wrong. We morally have the responsibility to be good role models in public.
If a kid throws a tantrum in public and the parents are correcting the child, then yes, we don't need to get involved. If instead say that a child is in the grocery and knocking stuff off the shelves, and the parents do nothing. We have a responsibility to scold that child (and the parents).
We are a society, and as a society we have a right and resposibility to instill what we consider tolerable and intolerable behavior, particularly the younger members of society.
When a kid is in fifth grade, that is not the time to be questioning authority. Questioning authority at that age is just being disrepectful to your elders.
Teachers can not actually teach, they can only present material. If the kids do not want to learn, then they will not. Your attitude teaches your child to be a selfish prick that needs to be spoon fed. Have you actually taught in a classroom setting in the last decade? I have.
Kids need to respect thier teachers. Kids need to do the work. And parents have to back up the schools in making the children accountable for what they do and don't do. If you feel that a teacher is only doing a mediocre job, then explain your concerns privately either to the school administrators or the teacher. If necessary, teach your kids what you feel they are missing in school. Don't tear down the teacher in front of your kids, that will only do the teacher and your kids a disservice.
Home schooling and and private schooling are always options. Taxes pay for more than just schools and it is good that you should be responsible for more than just your own children. And as a society, we do have the right to tell you how to raise your children. It is not just the family that raises the children, but the whole village.
Besides, it is more likely the parents undermining the schoold system. Parents come in bitching about little Sally getting an F even though she did no work. If parents backed up schools, then we would have better kids in society. Instead, we have parents teaching kids not to respect authority.
There is a time to question authority, but that time is not when you should be learning to read and write.
It was a blind listening test. Each track was listened to on the same hardware. This was more of a real world test than testing these in a clean room. If you don't know which track was in which format, it hardly matters over equipement settings. I find it doubtful someone was actually monkeying around with thier sound settings between tracks.
Actually, it is our moral responsibiity to not obey laws that we feel are wrong.
Copyright is a legal fiction that is in part a social contract. A content producer is granted a monopoly on his work for a limited time and in return the public gets the work for free after the monopoly expires. The content producers no longer have to uphold thier end of the bargain any more. If I can reasonably expect to die before any given copyright expires, then for all intents, that work has a copyright for forever to me. Why should I uphold my end of the contract if the other party is not?
Apparently no. Orkut founded Affinity, ya know- created, formed, built, do ya need more synomyns? Now, there might have been some sort of contract signed when he left (or more likely forced to leave), but how legally binding that contract is...
Orkut was apparently a founder of Affinity, so Affinity has even shakier ground proving that they solely own this code.
While this is just a guess, I expect that Orkut came up with the idea for this social networking and wrote most of the code. He got together with some other partners and formed a company to sell the product. Then later there was a falling out with his partners and Orkut moved onto Google. Affinity is goign to need to provide some iron-clad contracts showing that they are Morally and Legally in the right on this.
Still works. Give the ISPs incentive to turn off the accounts of fools that let thier pcs become infected. The ISPs can partner with some Antivirus vendor to give out free copies (plenty of them have free versions anyway) of the Antivirus.
Manual is only more efficient if one know how to drive a manual transmission. And I am not talking just knowing how to shift. Knowing that one can upshift when cruising at a constant speed. I had a Hyundai, that would get over 40 mpg doing city driving.
They are, but seldom, and one has no contextfor the moderation so most meta mods don't do anything about it. I personally tend to rate any negative mod unfair just for that reason.
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For your first two questions- read up on social contracts. Might also help to read up on the 5 wthical states.
The Sally example is misunderstood it seems. Say Sally's parents are sent several progress reports that Sally is not doing her work and is in danger of failing. Where does the parents get off yelling at the Teacher for daring to fail thier darling?
It is not critical thinking that is the problem. It is the courteousness that is.
How hypocritical.
Single parents and parents struggling to make ends meet do NOT have home schooling or private schooling as options.
Why should I, as a single person with no children, be required to pay taxes to support schools I do not use?
How in the world do you reconcile those two statements? I know, you can't. But presuming you are not a troll, I would advise you to read up on social contract theory.
Freedom of speech. I have every right to express my beliefs. In fact, I have an ethical obligation to express them.
While I am pro-choice, I fully support anti-abortion groups to express thier opinion.
Actually, I was a substitute. Though several family members are currently teachers.
I have seen trends first hand of kids becoming more disrepectful. The current culture amongst kids is that it is cool to be stupid. It is undesirable to be educated or cultured. Parents are telling thier kids that they do not need to be responsible for thier actions. Kids play the racism or sexism cards at the drop of a hat.
And as for abuse, what should kids do if parents abuse them? More kids are abused by family members than any other group.
My suggestion to you, if you don't like teachers attitudes, then homeschool your brats.
Those repetive exercises do more than reinforce the subject matter. They teach discipline and study skills. Trust me. Not to brag, but I was one of those gifted students. Not learning how to study did not help when I got to college.
It is another topic entirely about the grouping of gifted, average, and dumb in the classroom. The gifted kids need to be challenged. That is not going to happen if one needs to teach to the slowst student in the room and the room contains kids that are below average.
You need to patent that. :-P
Ya think I'm kiddin'.
You missed my point. The parents are saying that little Sally deserves to pass even if she does nothing, because it must be the teachers fault.
A teacher holds at least a Bachelor Degree. In most states, a teacher must also pass certification. They have already earned respect just by being a teacher. They have earned respect by choosing to teach the next generation. A teacher should be respected by default. Some professions get repect automatically, Policemen, Firemen, Doctors, and Teachers deserve respect just by choosing thier profession.
No. For a student-teacher relationship, the default attitude should be respect. Respect can be lost, but the default is that it should be given.
If your daughter does not do her school work, who is at fault? I would say she is. If a teacher assigns a book report, and you say she does not need to do it because the theacher is an idiot; then you are just being a bad parent.
Pick an application and you can get a more definate answer.
So you are a troll, and with qualifiers, the answer is yes.
We see a child misbehaving in public, we morally have the responsibility to step and tell the child that they are doing wrong. We morally have the responsibility to be good role models in public.
If a kid throws a tantrum in public and the parents are correcting the child, then yes, we don't need to get involved. If instead say that a child is in the grocery and knocking stuff off the shelves, and the parents do nothing. We have a responsibility to scold that child (and the parents).
We are a society, and as a society we have a right and resposibility to instill what we consider tolerable and intolerable behavior, particularly the younger members of society.
So. The tune was first written in the 1800's. I believe the lyrics were written in the 1920's. Why should such a thing be copyrighted anymore?
When a kid is in fifth grade, that is not the time to be questioning authority. Questioning authority at that age is just being disrepectful to your elders.
Teachers can not actually teach, they can only present material. If the kids do not want to learn, then they will not. Your attitude teaches your child to be a selfish prick that needs to be spoon fed. Have you actually taught in a classroom setting in the last decade? I have.
Kids need to respect thier teachers. Kids need to do the work. And parents have to back up the schools in making the children accountable for what they do and don't do. If you feel that a teacher is only doing a mediocre job, then explain your concerns privately either to the school administrators or the teacher. If necessary, teach your kids what you feel they are missing in school. Don't tear down the teacher in front of your kids, that will only do the teacher and your kids a disservice.
Home schooling and and private schooling are always options. Taxes pay for more than just schools and it is good that you should be responsible for more than just your own children. And as a society, we do have the right to tell you how to raise your children. It is not just the family that raises the children, but the whole village.
Besides, it is more likely the parents undermining the schoold system. Parents come in bitching about little Sally getting an F even though she did no work. If parents backed up schools, then we would have better kids in society. Instead, we have parents teaching kids not to respect authority.
There is a time to question authority, but that time is not when you should be learning to read and write.
It was a blind listening test. Each track was listened to on the same hardware. This was more of a real world test than testing these in a clean room. If you don't know which track was in which format, it hardly matters over equipement settings. I find it doubtful someone was actually monkeying around with thier sound settings between tracks.
Actually, it is our moral responsibiity to not obey laws that we feel are wrong.
Copyright is a legal fiction that is in part a social contract. A content producer is granted a monopoly on his work for a limited time and in return the public gets the work for free after the monopoly expires. The content producers no longer have to uphold thier end of the bargain any more. If I can reasonably expect to die before any given copyright expires, then for all intents, that work has a copyright for forever to me. Why should I uphold my end of the contract if the other party is not?
You forgot some- Sing a song in a public place
Copyright violation (Hence singing Happy Birthday with wierd lyrics in restaurants)
Actually, I find the articles in Smithsonian, to be quite good. I also like National Geographic. The pics of far off places is cool too.
Apparently no. Orkut founded Affinity, ya know- created, formed, built, do ya need more synomyns?
Now, there might have been some sort of contract signed when he left (or more likely forced to leave), but how legally binding that contract is...
Orkut was apparently a founder of Affinity, so Affinity has even shakier ground proving that they solely own this code.
While this is just a guess, I expect that Orkut came up with the idea for this social networking and wrote most of the code. He got together with some other partners and formed a company to sell the product. Then later there was a falling out with his partners and Orkut moved onto Google. Affinity is goign to need to provide some iron-clad contracts showing that they are Morally and Legally in the right on this.
Well, apparently Orkut founded Affinity, so the whole ownership things gets even more tangled.
Still works. Give the ISPs incentive to turn off the accounts of fools that let thier pcs become infected. The ISPs can partner with some Antivirus vendor to give out free copies (plenty of them have free versions anyway) of the Antivirus.
Manual is only more efficient if one know how to drive a manual transmission. And I am not talking just knowing how to shift. Knowing that one can upshift when cruising at a constant speed. I had a Hyundai, that would get over 40 mpg doing city driving.
If you want to get technical, Spidey has fought every Marvell villain. He has fought Dr Doom, Sentinels, Galactus, and most of the heroes.
BTW, it is the Lizard, not LizardMan. But the Lizard is almost definately to be in the third. Most likely Venom will never play a role.
For the special effects, Hydro or Sandman would be good choices.
They are, but seldom, and one has no contextfor the moderation so most meta mods don't do anything about it. I personally tend to rate any negative mod unfair just for that reason.