Amazingly enough the slashdot story was the second one listed. I actually got to this story by a link from google news and then proceeded to take the link back to google news. Don't you just love circular links
The thing that really gets me about his steady destruction of our Education system, is that when I was at home in MN over spring break and there was talk of putting some schools on 4 day weeks (to save the money of heating and lighting the schools on Friday) he came up with the brilliant idea that cutting teacher salaries would only be logical, because "that sounds like a 3 day weekend to me". Yes a three day weekend...AFTER 4 10 HOUR DAYS. Maybe I'm confused and not nearly as in touch with the REAL world as my governor but I could have sworn I could go get a job on a factory floor and get overtime for working at 10 hour day. But when its a teacher they should get LESS money. I certainly hope this isn't the sort of math and logic thats coming out of the schools, because honestly I would wager that most middle school students could figure out the problem with that.
Firstly while they are only teaching classes for lets say 7 hours a day they are there helping students and getting things organized well beyond that. My father is a teacher and he and most of the other teachers go in an hour or more before school and stay at LEAST an hour after, often 2 or more. Plus they put in a hell of a lot of time preparing for classes and correcting test, homework, etc. When I get a job I should sure as hell hope that my employer feels it neccessary to pay me for the time I spend looking into the best way to design something or heaven forbid Checking my calculations. Secondly, the "Extra pay" teachers get for extracurriculars is just a little bit above jack squat. My dad coaches the Math Team which consists of an average of about 8-10 hours of extra time per week for half to 2/3 of the year. And for all this he gets a whopping $50, wow I think I should change professions with giant bonuses like that.
The point of the whole "Think Different" campaign obviously wasn't to so people who used Apple computers, thats not even thinking different thats what everyone else tries to do (Look at me, I'm a big famous movie star and even though I don't know a thing about this product, I'll endorse it because they're paying me). The point was that those were all people who THOUGH DIFFERENT, and were not bound by societal norms.
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Amazingly enough the slashdot story was the second one listed. I actually got to this story by a link from google news and then proceeded to take the link back to google news. Don't you just love circular links
The thing that really gets me about his steady destruction of our Education system, is that when I was at home in MN over spring break and there was talk of putting some schools on 4 day weeks (to save the money of heating and lighting the schools on Friday) he came up with the brilliant idea that cutting teacher salaries would only be logical, because "that sounds like a 3 day weekend to me". Yes a three day weekend...AFTER 4 10 HOUR DAYS. Maybe I'm confused and not nearly as in touch with the REAL world as my governor but I could have sworn I could go get a job on a factory floor and get overtime for working at 10 hour day. But when its a teacher they should get LESS money. I certainly hope this isn't the sort of math and logic thats coming out of the schools, because honestly I would wager that most middle school students could figure out the problem with that.
Firstly while they are only teaching classes for lets say 7 hours a day they are there helping students and getting things organized well beyond that. My father is a teacher and he and most of the other teachers go in an hour or more before school and stay at LEAST an hour after, often 2 or more. Plus they put in a hell of a lot of time preparing for classes and correcting test, homework, etc. When I get a job I should sure as hell hope that my employer feels it neccessary to pay me for the time I spend looking into the best way to design something or heaven forbid Checking my calculations. Secondly, the "Extra pay" teachers get for extracurriculars is just a little bit above jack squat. My dad coaches the Math Team which consists of an average of about 8-10 hours of extra time per week for half to 2/3 of the year. And for all this he gets a whopping $50, wow I think I should change professions with giant bonuses like that.
The point of the whole "Think Different" campaign obviously wasn't to so people who used Apple computers, thats not even thinking different thats what everyone else tries to do (Look at me, I'm a big famous movie star and even though I don't know a thing about this product, I'll endorse it because they're paying me). The point was that those were all people who THOUGH DIFFERENT, and were not bound by societal norms.