Off Topic: Are you saying that we cannot expect our government employees to have good decision making skills and professionalism with only 12 years of training? I'm not saying I disagree with you. It's just that nobody makes your point when the topic is education.
Bingo! I would feel perfectly safe if they had no security gate at all. A random guy sitting next to me with a handgun in his lap worries me far less than a government official with orders to rape me and my child if we don't let them take naked photos of us.
Heck, even if I was going to be worried about a no security airline, it isn't a 'terrorist' I would be worried about. It is the control freak that thinks he should dictate the behavior of every other person on the plane because he decided that public transportation was a better place to sleep than his bed, and that it is more convenient to him to throw a temper tantrum about someone behind him talking than it is to put in a $0.30 pair of earplugs.
One armed cop and no screening of passengers at all would be dramatically safer than what we have now.
Given the money they are spending, simply requiring all new aircraft to have a separate external doors for the passengers and the pilots would basically make hijacking impossible. Sure, you would need an extra bathroom for the pilots, but the trade off would be that you wouldn't need any more security than that of a bus.
Can you even look people up in the phone book anymore? I guess if you live in a small town, it might work, but I have never successfully looked up a residential number in the white pages. It might be better than just dialing 555-0001, 555-0002,555-0003... but when faced with 150 "Johnson"s in the phone book, it seems pretty rude to just start dialing all of them to find your friends number. That is if they didn't do the very common thing and have the number not listed.
At no point did I say they were robots. That statement is proof that you are an enabler. The teacher in question was caught lying. There is no question in that. Your response to someone calling them out is to attack the person that calls the liar out.
By refusing to have honest conversations about public education, this teach in fact IS sabotaging public education. Public education is broken. Badly broken. The problem starts with the parents, includes the teachers, the teachers unions, the school boards, the state governments, and the Federal Government. Each of these entities spend their time pointing fingers at the other levels of education.
You make a perfect example of the person that sees public education as the sacred cow. Why would you defend a known liar in their argument, and why would you attack the person that calls them out?
You should realize that YOU Godwined the discussion. YOU are the one that put forth the "I was only following orders" defense. We have already established that "I was following orders" is not a defense for having committed crimes. It was established during trials for Nazi war crimes. Yes, it is true that killing someone is worse than raping them (usually), but that does not make the US governments actions any less of a crime.
Calling out 'Godwins Law' was supposed to point out how ridiculous it is for someone to be accused of being like a Nazi for things like enjoying Star Trek Voyager, or thinking that Big Endian processors are better than Little Endian processors. It was not in any way intended to be an argument used to defend the literal raping of the population.
Not looking to cause a flame war but the answer is a Mac. The security on it makes sense and most of this malware just won't run (because its for Windows), and the stuff that could can't run by itself. You actually would have to install it and enter your password for it to work.
As someone who has switched their parents to a mac I can tell you that its much easier to support as well. And they can call apple support and get helped through lots of issues.
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*Please note, I have indicated that macs are good for this purpose, I didn't say that it was the be all end all better then anything else solution. Above all l am not suggesting that you stop using whatever you are using.
This article is talking about malware that is installed by the user, so the Mac is no help there. They are talking about situations where the malware writers have even set up helpdesks to help the users install the malware.
Macs are perfectly fine computers. Overrated, but perfectly fine. They are not any better at solving this particular problem than any other computer that has ever been on the market.
So, are you claiming that the IT guy didn't know that Macs existed? In 2006? Really? I'm not sure your story says what you think it does. Because the only logical take away from it would be that the IT guy got fired.
I don't know... I think that using a green plus symbol to indicate a screen will be shrinking, and a garbage can to indicate that you want to take that prescious data out of your computer to keep it safe is pretty darn "creative".
It seems like I am hammering him because he keeps insisting that his lies are true. Again, if there are only 5 minutes between classes, he is still a liar. Whether you think he is a poor victim being abused or not, he is still a liar. He claimed that he is required to stand from 8:30 to 4:20. With only the meeting being sitting time. We know that to be untrue. Teachers are notorious for exaggerating poor working conditions. Then, because public education is a sacred cow, people come in and defend their lies.
Are you also going to defend his claim that if another teacher didn't work 12 hours a day, that it means they are lazy and that most of their students cannot have understood the material?
This guy is a liar. He is a detriment to your public education system. Until the lies get called out, we cannot have honest discussions about public education. Until we can have honest discussions about public education, we cannot fix it massive failures.
While you may feel like you are being nice by defending a teacher, even though you know for a fact that he is lying, you are not. You are acting as an enabler.
Wow. I find it dubious that there is only five minutes between classes. I have yet to see a single high school that does not have 10 minutes between classes. Unless you are in an incredibly tiny school, where getting from a desk in one class to a desk in another is unusually fast, it is unlikely One of the High Schools I attended was quite small, and even in a small school, it can be a rush to get out of one class and into another in 10 minutes. If there are only 5 minutes between classes, your school district should be seriously concerned about the trampling deaths that would no undoubtedly occur.
Now, I cannot verify whether every single teacher is required to stand in the halls between classes, even if that sounds dubious, but you certainly get a lunch break, and you commented that you have a planning period. You claim that this is taken up with meetings. Certainly, you are not required to stand through all those meetings.
So, even if the dubious claim that you must stand in the hall during a dubiously short time between classes, lunch to sit. Thus, you are obviously lying about "start teaching at 9 and stand straight through to 4:20". So, after lying, you got called out on your lies, and the way you respond is to continue to lie.
Calling me a troll does not make you any less of a liar. Of course, your response consisting of an obvious lie, and a claim that you could lie just as much about the other points, does reaffirm the claim against you.
As for the level of padding, even some (certainly not all) of the people the medical community labels obese (particularly when the over simplified height-weight charts are used as the only criterion) are in fact, quite healthy.
That is funny, I just responded to the previous post that I am one of those people. I have been accused of painting on my abs at the same weight and boy fat ratio as I have been called 'obese'. Mind you, the lighting was just right for my stomach muscles to stand out that well, but still, it is ridiculous to think that just having the light come from the right direction could make someone who is 'obese' look like they painted on abs. Heck, the entire time that Arnold Schwarzenegger was Mr. Universe, he would have been considered 'obese'.
Meanwhile a number of people in the normal category are actually underweight.
I would take it one step farther and would also say that many people in the normal category are actually overweight.
The obsession with weight is incredibly unhealthy, and unhelpful in getting people fit. Body fat content, while still not perfect, would be a vast improvement over a scale and ruler. It amazes me that hydrostatic weighing isn't more popular. I have to drive 2 hours to get hydrostatically weighed. There is no excuse for any gym of reasonable size to not have the equipment, yet non-seem to have it.
Well, I have had physicians call me obese, and suggest I lose more weight than what I have in body fat to get into the 'normal' range. I get regularly hyrdostatically weighed, and I currently have enough lean body mass that even if I had 0% body fat, I would be "over weight" per the government, medical, and insurance industries. The only reason that I have as little lean body mass as I do is because I DON'T work out. I build muscle extremely fast. Now, I am carrying about 20 lbs. of extra body fat that I could lose, and I could squeak in at only being 'overweight'. If I exercised, it is unlikely that I could survive getting down to the 'over weight' range.
If I ate a pork chop, salad, baked potato, and a 12oz glass of unsweetened ice tea, I would pack on fat like there was no tomorrow. Now, if I ate a porkchop, a couple of sides of bacon, a few eggs, and a 12oz glass of unsweetened ice tea, THEN I would lose weight. Unfortunately, I hate ice tea, and I end up eating salads and bread.
I agree that low quality calories are a serious problem, but until they stop being recommended by the government, health, and insurance industries, that is unlikely to change. Excessive portion sizes are more of a symptom than the problem. When your body doesn't get what it needs, you tend to get cravings. You just are not satisfied, so you keep eating.
People like you are enablers. EVERY teacher claims that they work 12 hours a day 12 months a year. Anyone that has personally known a teacher knows that to be a total fabrication.
The lesson plans are one of the big lies. There is no excuse for lesson plans to be taking hours a day. High school level mathematics is not a new field. How to teach it is pretty much a solved problem. For lesson plans to take any significant amount of time, we would have to believe that no math teacher to date has published his lesson plans, and that this teacher is having to create the field of teaching mathematics from scratch. Hardly a believable scenario. Particularly given that a quick Google search shows a ton of lesson plans freely published.
The fancy little 'teachers assistants' that you are deriding are students. I'm pretty sure that even in inner city schools they have students.
I would like to know where you are finding schools with 40+ kids in the classroom, because a quick search on Google only finds a couple of references where the school said that they had higher than expected enrollment, and would add a teachers over the following couple of weeks to bring that number down. Please provide a reference to these 40+ kid classrooms. Better yet would be for this teacher to tell us what school he teaches at if this is true so that we can verify it.
While teachers that go the extra mile should be commended, EVERY teacher makes this claim, and it is clear that the vast majority of them are lying. In fact, looking at this teacher's response, we can see that he lies about his work.
I am not being a dick. Our education system is severely broken. People like this teacher are sabatoging the system. Will he get paid more for doing the extra work? No. He will get paid more for CLAIMING he did the extra work. Anyone who can do basic math can find that teacher are paid a pretty decent wage. They are in the top half of all earners by the year in most state, and are in the to 75% in most states by the hour. Yet, all we hear about is how horrible they are treated, and how they are massively under paid.
The unwillingness to have honest discussions about our public education system is dooming it to continued failure. People like you who think calling out the lies is being a "dick" are enablers. YOU are a major part of why our public education fails.
Being at the worst school in the district means that I am in at 7:30 to _actively_ tutor, have meetings with other teachers to align instruction, start teaching at 9 and stand straight through to 4:20 (except for my planning period, which is taken up by meetings)
First paragraph and you are already lying. You do not "stand" straight through until 4:20. Your school will have 6 periods give or take one. Unless your school has developed transportation (which seems unlikely given you are the "worst in the district"), there will be at least 10 minutes between each of those periods. There is also a lunch hour. That means that you have at least 1.5 hours during the school day that you could sit down. You don't convince people of your 'unique' situation by starting your first paragraph with a lie that is so obvious.
Being a math teacher requires that you are either incompetent, or have at least a rudimentary understanding of how numbers work. Your statement of "worst school in the district" is either a lie, irrelevant, or an indication of gross incompetence. "worst school in the district" could be "worst" as in, your wife wanted a three way, and she brought home the worst homeless guy with open sores in town for it. Or, it could be that she brought home the "worst" super hot disease free female model from the international fashion show her friend invited her too.
The bell curve is one of those tools that incompetent teachers (as well as other educational "professionals") use.
tutor more after school (and again a full day on Saturday), answer the forty e-mails I got but was unable to read during the day, then leave at 7:30. Planning generally happens at home.
It's funny how every teacher makes the same claim that you do. That they are spending huge amounts of time 'tutoring'. Maybe you are that one teacher that isn't lying about that, but given that you have already been caught lying, it seems unlikely. As for 40 emails a day. I call BS. There is no way that the administration is sending 40 emails a day, if other teachers claims are true, and like you spend all day lecturing, then they are not coming from other teachers. If they are coming from parents, you would have to be claiming that you get emails from nearly 20% of your students EVERY DAY. That astounding level of parental involvement flies directly in the (vague) claim that your school is the worst in the district. So, while I cannot prove you are lying like I could earlier, you are making an extraordinary claim that you get 40 school related emails a day. You will need to offer a better explanation than that if you want to get anyone who is half way intelligent to believe that.
1) Your math teacher was lazy and most of the students who left his/her class never "got" math.
That is an ad hominem attack. You call the math teacher lazy because they don't work 12 hours a day? That is what incompetent people say when they are confronted. They claim that the longer it takes the better they must be. And how did you come to the conclusion that most of the students who left his/her class never “got” math? Ahhh... You made it up. That is how you defend accusations that you are incompetent? You make stuff up and you lie. You should be ashamed of yourself for even writing that sentence.
2) You didn't go to a high school where 95% of students were on free lunch,
That isn't much of a metric these days. Shifting the feeding of kids to the state has been an on going effort in both social engineering as well as increasing revenue to the schools. It is common to see advice being given by government agencies on how to enlarge your free lunch programs. I have known plenty of middle class families living in nice homes they own, and that can afford to take vacations as well as have their fancy overpriced daily coffee ge
"128MHZ for a rugged CPU for automotive use is a good thing, but clock speed is just one of many factors. TFA was a tad light on information and worded as an ad (which is to be expected from GM's press website), but other than just mentioning vague details and the fact that Freescale made it, this doesn't really mean much without factoring in other details.
Will this mean the 2011 Regal will be leaps and bounds over the 2010? Yes. How much is debatable.
Will this matter in the total scheme of automotive technology? Not really. ECMs have been improving each year, so the 2011 Regal may have a bump in the control CPU's clock speed, but perhaps some other car maker would have a different architecture in place (multiple modules controlling different functions such as PATS/antitheft, O2 sensor, fuel sensor [1], etc.)
Will other car companies have improvements in their technology? Assuredly. Ford has some new engines going in the mainstream line of vehicles. Other vehicle makers may be bringing diesels to the US.
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128MHZ for a rugged CPU for automotive use is a good thing, but clock speed is just one of many factors. TFA was a tad light on information and worded as an ad (which is to be expected from GM's press website), but other than just mentioning vague details and the fact that Freescale made it, this doesn't really mean much without factoring in other details.
Will this mean the 2011 Regal will be leaps and bounds over the 2010? Yes. How much is debatable.
Will this matter in the total scheme of automotive technology? Not really. ECMs have been improving each year, so the 2011 Regal may have a bump in the control CPU's clock speed, but perhaps some other car maker would have a different architecture in place (multiple modules controlling different functions such as PATS/antitheft, O2 sensor, fuel sensor [1], etc.)
Will other car companies have improvements in their technology? Assuredly. Ford has some new engines going in the mainstream line of vehicles. Other vehicle makers may be bringing diesels to the US."
Not to mention that if he is working 7:30am to 7:30pm, there is a competency issue involved. It's not like he is claiming to be teaching creative writing where there are pages upon pages of text to read. It is math. School is in for 6-7 hours a day. That includes breaks and lunch. He is claiming that it takes him 5 to 6 hours each day to grade papers and prepare for the next day. That is with giving him the benefit of the doubt that he spends the entire class every day actively interacting with the students (as opposed to assigning them work and doing prep while they work), he has no teachers aids, and he has classes every period during the school day.
When I went to school, classes ran for 5 hours, with an hour lunch. Most teachers had students working as 'assistants' for doing grunt paper grading (which is particularly well suited to math), and 2 of the 6 periods each day the teachers had no class so that they could do the things every teacher claims they do all night and all summer.
So, even if we give him the benefit of the doubt that he does not have it as well as virtually every teacher I had in school, we still have to question his competency in not being able to complete his work in a reasonable amount of time.
That's why we need a good alien invasion, or robot revolt. Give people an enemy that looks more different than their current enemy and they will be pals in no time.
To be fair, in the movie, it is the power source that makes Ironman work at all. Give the energy requirements that the Ironman suit would need, I think it is safe to say that the power source is more impressive than the computers AI.
Even worse, he hacked a private account, that as far as I understand it, would be illegal for her to use for any government business. The only way that any kind of 'National Security' could be attached to it would be if you have already have accepted that she was committing crimes herself. So, how much time did she get? Oh, yeah....
Funny, one of the reasons I stick with T-Mobile is because they don't force me to. Month-to-month, good 3g speeds, unlimited internet, unlocked phone, and they give me a discount to bring my own phone.
Instead of hiding the cost of the phone in the service plan, they just charge you for the plan, and give you a 22 month interest free loan on the phone. For people that want a new phone on the 2 year schedule, there is no difference. For those that want to upgrade early, they can pay off the old phone and buy the new at any time. For those that upgrade less often, they get a discount at the end of the loan.
I don't know if that is true or not. I did a month long road trip around the country this summer, and I got suprisingly good coverage from T-Mobile. Death Valley, Wyoming, North Dakota, Yellowstone and Yosemite all had no service. Pretty much everywhere else I got at least edge, and most places I got 3G. We were mostly on and around the freeways though. You also have to keep in mind that T-Mobile has a roaming agreement with AT&T. So, you will get voice and Edge anywhere that AT&T does.
Prior to T-Mobile, I was with Verizon, and I surprisingly found that locally I have gotten a little better coverage with a little lower quality with T-Mobile compared to Verizon. My travel generally runs from Santa Rosa, CA to Pittsburgh, CA
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Yes, I agree that money is a major, if not the major component of this.
Off Topic: Are you saying that we cannot expect our government employees to have good decision making skills and professionalism with only 12 years of training? I'm not saying I disagree with you. It's just that nobody makes your point when the topic is education.
Bingo! I would feel perfectly safe if they had no security gate at all. A random guy sitting next to me with a handgun in his lap worries me far less than a government official with orders to rape me and my child if we don't let them take naked photos of us.
Heck, even if I was going to be worried about a no security airline, it isn't a 'terrorist' I would be worried about. It is the control freak that thinks he should dictate the behavior of every other person on the plane because he decided that public transportation was a better place to sleep than his bed, and that it is more convenient to him to throw a temper tantrum about someone behind him talking than it is to put in a $0.30 pair of earplugs.
One armed cop and no screening of passengers at all would be dramatically safer than what we have now.
Given the money they are spending, simply requiring all new aircraft to have a separate external doors for the passengers and the pilots would basically make hijacking impossible. Sure, you would need an extra bathroom for the pilots, but the trade off would be that you wouldn't need any more security than that of a bus.
Can you even look people up in the phone book anymore? I guess if you live in a small town, it might work, but I have never successfully looked up a residential number in the white pages. It might be better than just dialing 555-0001, 555-0002,555-0003... but when faced with 150 "Johnson"s in the phone book, it seems pretty rude to just start dialing all of them to find your friends number. That is if they didn't do the very common thing and have the number not listed.
At no point did I say they were robots. That statement is proof that you are an enabler. The teacher in question was caught lying. There is no question in that. Your response to someone calling them out is to attack the person that calls the liar out.
By refusing to have honest conversations about public education, this teach in fact IS sabotaging public education. Public education is broken. Badly broken. The problem starts with the parents, includes the teachers, the teachers unions, the school boards, the state governments, and the Federal Government. Each of these entities spend their time pointing fingers at the other levels of education.
You make a perfect example of the person that sees public education as the sacred cow. Why would you defend a known liar in their argument, and why would you attack the person that calls them out?
You should realize that YOU Godwined the discussion. YOU are the one that put forth the "I was only following orders" defense. We have already established that "I was following orders" is not a defense for having committed crimes. It was established during trials for Nazi war crimes. Yes, it is true that killing someone is worse than raping them (usually), but that does not make the US governments actions any less of a crime.
Calling out 'Godwins Law' was supposed to point out how ridiculous it is for someone to be accused of being like a Nazi for things like enjoying Star Trek Voyager, or thinking that Big Endian processors are better than Little Endian processors. It was not in any way intended to be an argument used to defend the literal raping of the population.
You don't happen to live in Sonoma, CA do you? I know, this is probably happining in thousands of communities across the country... sad.
Well, that solves one uncomfortable situation I was going to have to deal with......
Not looking to cause a flame war but the answer is a Mac. The security on it makes sense and most of this malware just won't run (because its for Windows), and the stuff that could can't run by itself. You actually would have to install it and enter your password for it to work.
As someone who has switched their parents to a mac I can tell you that its much easier to support as well. And they can call apple support and get helped through lots of issues.
For the trolls: *Please note, I have indicated that macs are good for this purpose, I didn't say that it was the be all end all better then anything else solution. Above all l am not suggesting that you stop using whatever you are using.
This article is talking about malware that is installed by the user, so the Mac is no help there. They are talking about situations where the malware writers have even set up helpdesks to help the users install the malware.
Macs are perfectly fine computers. Overrated, but perfectly fine. They are not any better at solving this particular problem than any other computer that has ever been on the market.
So, are you claiming that the IT guy didn't know that Macs existed? In 2006? Really? I'm not sure your story says what you think it does. Because the only logical take away from it would be that the IT guy got fired.
I don't know... I think that using a green plus symbol to indicate a screen will be shrinking, and a garbage can to indicate that you want to take that prescious data out of your computer to keep it safe is pretty darn "creative".
It seems like I am hammering him because he keeps insisting that his lies are true. Again, if there are only 5 minutes between classes, he is still a liar. Whether you think he is a poor victim being abused or not, he is still a liar. He claimed that he is required to stand from 8:30 to 4:20. With only the meeting being sitting time. We know that to be untrue. Teachers are notorious for exaggerating poor working conditions. Then, because public education is a sacred cow, people come in and defend their lies.
Are you also going to defend his claim that if another teacher didn't work 12 hours a day, that it means they are lazy and that most of their students cannot have understood the material?
This guy is a liar. He is a detriment to your public education system. Until the lies get called out, we cannot have honest discussions about public education. Until we can have honest discussions about public education, we cannot fix it massive failures.
While you may feel like you are being nice by defending a teacher, even though you know for a fact that he is lying, you are not. You are acting as an enabler.
Wow. I find it dubious that there is only five minutes between classes. I have yet to see a single high school that does not have 10 minutes between classes. Unless you are in an incredibly tiny school, where getting from a desk in one class to a desk in another is unusually fast, it is unlikely One of the High Schools I attended was quite small, and even in a small school, it can be a rush to get out of one class and into another in 10 minutes. If there are only 5 minutes between classes, your school district should be seriously concerned about the trampling deaths that would no undoubtedly occur.
Now, I cannot verify whether every single teacher is required to stand in the halls between classes, even if that sounds dubious, but you certainly get a lunch break, and you commented that you have a planning period. You claim that this is taken up with meetings. Certainly, you are not required to stand through all those meetings.
So, even if the dubious claim that you must stand in the hall during a dubiously short time between classes, lunch to sit. Thus, you are obviously lying about "start teaching at 9 and stand straight through to 4:20". So, after lying, you got called out on your lies, and the way you respond is to continue to lie.
Calling me a troll does not make you any less of a liar. Of course, your response consisting of an obvious lie, and a claim that you could lie just as much about the other points, does reaffirm the claim against you.
As for the level of padding, even some (certainly not all) of the people the medical community labels obese (particularly when the over simplified height-weight charts are used as the only criterion) are in fact, quite healthy.
That is funny, I just responded to the previous post that I am one of those people. I have been accused of painting on my abs at the same weight and boy fat ratio as I have been called 'obese'. Mind you, the lighting was just right for my stomach muscles to stand out that well, but still, it is ridiculous to think that just having the light come from the right direction could make someone who is 'obese' look like they painted on abs. Heck, the entire time that Arnold Schwarzenegger was Mr. Universe, he would have been considered 'obese'.
Meanwhile a number of people in the normal category are actually underweight.
I would take it one step farther and would also say that many people in the normal category are actually overweight.
The obsession with weight is incredibly unhealthy, and unhelpful in getting people fit. Body fat content, while still not perfect, would be a vast improvement over a scale and ruler. It amazes me that hydrostatic weighing isn't more popular. I have to drive 2 hours to get hydrostatically weighed. There is no excuse for any gym of reasonable size to not have the equipment, yet non-seem to have it.
Well, I have had physicians call me obese, and suggest I lose more weight than what I have in body fat to get into the 'normal' range. I get regularly hyrdostatically weighed, and I currently have enough lean body mass that even if I had 0% body fat, I would be "over weight" per the government, medical, and insurance industries. The only reason that I have as little lean body mass as I do is because I DON'T work out. I build muscle extremely fast. Now, I am carrying about 20 lbs. of extra body fat that I could lose, and I could squeak in at only being 'overweight'. If I exercised, it is unlikely that I could survive getting down to the 'over weight' range.
If I ate a pork chop, salad, baked potato, and a 12oz glass of unsweetened ice tea, I would pack on fat like there was no tomorrow. Now, if I ate a porkchop, a couple of sides of bacon, a few eggs, and a 12oz glass of unsweetened ice tea, THEN I would lose weight. Unfortunately, I hate ice tea, and I end up eating salads and bread.
I agree that low quality calories are a serious problem, but until they stop being recommended by the government, health, and insurance industries, that is unlikely to change. Excessive portion sizes are more of a symptom than the problem. When your body doesn't get what it needs, you tend to get cravings. You just are not satisfied, so you keep eating.
People like you are enablers. EVERY teacher claims that they work 12 hours a day 12 months a year. Anyone that has personally known a teacher knows that to be a total fabrication.
The lesson plans are one of the big lies. There is no excuse for lesson plans to be taking hours a day. High school level mathematics is not a new field. How to teach it is pretty much a solved problem. For lesson plans to take any significant amount of time, we would have to believe that no math teacher to date has published his lesson plans, and that this teacher is having to create the field of teaching mathematics from scratch. Hardly a believable scenario. Particularly given that a quick Google search shows a ton of lesson plans freely published.
The fancy little 'teachers assistants' that you are deriding are students. I'm pretty sure that even in inner city schools they have students.
I would like to know where you are finding schools with 40+ kids in the classroom, because a quick search on Google only finds a couple of references where the school said that they had higher than expected enrollment, and would add a teachers over the following couple of weeks to bring that number down. Please provide a reference to these 40+ kid classrooms. Better yet would be for this teacher to tell us what school he teaches at if this is true so that we can verify it.
While teachers that go the extra mile should be commended, EVERY teacher makes this claim, and it is clear that the vast majority of them are lying. In fact, looking at this teacher's response, we can see that he lies about his work.
I am not being a dick. Our education system is severely broken. People like this teacher are sabatoging the system. Will he get paid more for doing the extra work? No. He will get paid more for CLAIMING he did the extra work. Anyone who can do basic math can find that teacher are paid a pretty decent wage. They are in the top half of all earners by the year in most state, and are in the to 75% in most states by the hour. Yet, all we hear about is how horrible they are treated, and how they are massively under paid.
The unwillingness to have honest discussions about our public education system is dooming it to continued failure. People like you who think calling out the lies is being a "dick" are enablers. YOU are a major part of why our public education fails.
Being at the worst school in the district means that I am in at 7:30 to _actively_ tutor, have meetings with other teachers to align instruction, start teaching at 9 and stand straight through to 4:20 (except for my planning period, which is taken up by meetings)
First paragraph and you are already lying. You do not "stand" straight through until 4:20. Your school will have 6 periods give or take one. Unless your school has developed transportation (which seems unlikely given you are the "worst in the district"), there will be at least 10 minutes between each of those periods. There is also a lunch hour. That means that you have at least 1.5 hours during the school day that you could sit down. You don't convince people of your 'unique' situation by starting your first paragraph with a lie that is so obvious.
Being a math teacher requires that you are either incompetent, or have at least a rudimentary understanding of how numbers work. Your statement of "worst school in the district" is either a lie, irrelevant, or an indication of gross incompetence. "worst school in the district" could be "worst" as in, your wife wanted a three way, and she brought home the worst homeless guy with open sores in town for it. Or, it could be that she brought home the "worst" super hot disease free female model from the international fashion show her friend invited her too.
The bell curve is one of those tools that incompetent teachers (as well as other educational "professionals") use.
tutor more after school (and again a full day on Saturday), answer the forty e-mails I got but was unable to read during the day, then leave at 7:30. Planning generally happens at home.
It's funny how every teacher makes the same claim that you do. That they are spending huge amounts of time 'tutoring'. Maybe you are that one teacher that isn't lying about that, but given that you have already been caught lying, it seems unlikely. As for 40 emails a day. I call BS. There is no way that the administration is sending 40 emails a day, if other teachers claims are true, and like you spend all day lecturing, then they are not coming from other teachers. If they are coming from parents, you would have to be claiming that you get emails from nearly 20% of your students EVERY DAY. That astounding level of parental involvement flies directly in the (vague) claim that your school is the worst in the district. So, while I cannot prove you are lying like I could earlier, you are making an extraordinary claim that you get 40 school related emails a day. You will need to offer a better explanation than that if you want to get anyone who is half way intelligent to believe that.
1) Your math teacher was lazy and most of the students who left his/her class never "got" math.
That is an ad hominem attack. You call the math teacher lazy because they don't work 12 hours a day? That is what incompetent people say when they are confronted. They claim that the longer it takes the better they must be. And how did you come to the conclusion that most of the students who left his/her class never “got” math? Ahhh... You made it up. That is how you defend accusations that you are incompetent? You make stuff up and you lie. You should be ashamed of yourself for even writing that sentence.
2) You didn't go to a high school where 95% of students were on free lunch,
That isn't much of a metric these days. Shifting the feeding of kids to the state has been an on going effort in both social engineering as well as increasing revenue to the schools. It is common to see advice being given by government agencies on how to enlarge your free lunch programs. I have known plenty of middle class families living in nice homes they own, and that can afford to take vacations as well as have their fancy overpriced daily coffee ge
Might I suggest that you use the following
"128MHZ for a rugged CPU for automotive use is a good thing, but clock speed is just one of many factors. TFA was a tad light on information and worded as an ad (which is to be expected from GM's press website), but other than just mentioning vague details and the fact that Freescale made it, this doesn't really mean much without factoring in other details.
Will this mean the 2011 Regal will be leaps and bounds over the 2010? Yes. How much is debatable.
Will this matter in the total scheme of automotive technology? Not really. ECMs have been improving each year, so the 2011 Regal may have a bump in the control CPU's clock speed, but perhaps some other car maker would have a different architecture in place (multiple modules controlling different functions such as PATS/antitheft, O2 sensor, fuel sensor [1], etc.)
Will other car companies have improvements in their technology? Assuredly. Ford has some new engines going in the mainstream line of vehicles. Other vehicle makers may be bringing diesels to the US.
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128MHZ for a rugged CPU for automotive use is a good thing, but clock speed is just one of many factors. TFA was a tad light on information and worded as an ad (which is to be expected from GM's press website), but other than just mentioning vague details and the fact that Freescale made it, this doesn't really mean much without factoring in other details.
Will this mean the 2011 Regal will be leaps and bounds over the 2010? Yes. How much is debatable.
Will this matter in the total scheme of automotive technology? Not really. ECMs have been improving each year, so the 2011 Regal may have a bump in the control CPU's clock speed, but perhaps some other car maker would have a different architecture in place (multiple modules controlling different functions such as PATS/antitheft, O2 sensor, fuel sensor [1], etc.)
Will other car companies have improvements in their technology? Assuredly. Ford has some new engines going in the mainstream line of vehicles. Other vehicle makers may be bringing diesels to the US."
How is that for a car analogy?
Not to mention that if he is working 7:30am to 7:30pm, there is a competency issue involved. It's not like he is claiming to be teaching creative writing where there are pages upon pages of text to read. It is math. School is in for 6-7 hours a day. That includes breaks and lunch. He is claiming that it takes him 5 to 6 hours each day to grade papers and prepare for the next day. That is with giving him the benefit of the doubt that he spends the entire class every day actively interacting with the students (as opposed to assigning them work and doing prep while they work), he has no teachers aids, and he has classes every period during the school day.
When I went to school, classes ran for 5 hours, with an hour lunch. Most teachers had students working as 'assistants' for doing grunt paper grading (which is particularly well suited to math), and 2 of the 6 periods each day the teachers had no class so that they could do the things every teacher claims they do all night and all summer.
So, even if we give him the benefit of the doubt that he does not have it as well as virtually every teacher I had in school, we still have to question his competency in not being able to complete his work in a reasonable amount of time.
That's why we need a good alien invasion, or robot revolt. Give people an enemy that looks more different than their current enemy and they will be pals in no time.
To be fair, in the movie, it is the power source that makes Ironman work at all. Give the energy requirements that the Ironman suit would need, I think it is safe to say that the power source is more impressive than the computers AI.
That should be "He might try, BECUASE the republicans will block it.
Even worse, he hacked a private account, that as far as I understand it, would be illegal for her to use for any government business. The only way that any kind of 'National Security' could be attached to it would be if you have already have accepted that she was committing crimes herself. So, how much time did she get? Oh, yeah....
Funny, one of the reasons I stick with T-Mobile is because they don't force me to. Month-to-month, good 3g speeds, unlimited internet, unlocked phone, and they give me a discount to bring my own phone.
Instead of hiding the cost of the phone in the service plan, they just charge you for the plan, and give you a 22 month interest free loan on the phone. For people that want a new phone on the 2 year schedule, there is no difference. For those that want to upgrade early, they can pay off the old phone and buy the new at any time. For those that upgrade less often, they get a discount at the end of the loan.
I don't know if that is true or not. I did a month long road trip around the country this summer, and I got suprisingly good coverage from T-Mobile. Death Valley, Wyoming, North Dakota, Yellowstone and Yosemite all had no service. Pretty much everywhere else I got at least edge, and most places I got 3G. We were mostly on and around the freeways though. You also have to keep in mind that T-Mobile has a roaming agreement with AT&T. So, you will get voice and Edge anywhere that AT&T does.
Prior to T-Mobile, I was with Verizon, and I surprisingly found that locally I have gotten a little better coverage with a little lower quality with T-Mobile compared to Verizon. My travel generally runs from Santa Rosa, CA to Pittsburgh, CA