A friend of mine called MGS2 "a soap opera with dart gun". It was complete crap. It had about an hour of good gameplay. It should be the example set for what games should NOT do.
... but would probably do very poorly as a teacher themselves.
My mother was a public school teacher. She got her degree from the same college as I did. I got what is considered by the public as a better degree than she did (her: Education, me: Computer Science) yet what she can do in a classroom is incredible.
I taught a couple classes that were targetted to people who wanted to learn computers, Excel, Word, etc. That was difficult with just 2 to 5 people who wanted to learn, try it with 20 to 30. Over her career she taught kindergarten through second grade.
I would have no problem sending my kids to a public school in the State of Washington (not DC). The money that is spent per student is a fair amount and the teachers eventally have to get their Masters degree (or equivalent). Washington State is #1 in SAT scores, with Oregon right behind.
And teachers do get paid next to nothing. Starting salary is about $25K per year. Yes they only work 9 months, but does your job make you take 3 months off unpaid? Hard to get a summer job teaching when no one is hiring for learning. Yes they only work ~6 hours a day, but there is extra time that they have to put in grading papers and coming up with tomorrow's lesson plan.
If you think you can do better, please homeschool, I hope it works out for you. There will be one less parent annoying the teacher that their student is more important than the others. The best thing that parents can do is teach their kids that they aren't special, that they have to earn, scape, and work their tails off to get something in this world.
While I don't agree with the Fight Club "you are not a beautiful or unique snowflake", I do think that the world doesn't owe anyone anything; an education is included in that.
If you feel like cheating you can win. But anyone thinking of trying the competition question as to whether you want to lose because others do.
I did a competition a couple years ago and thought I did well. Was near the top of my group and had a couple successful challenges. The only problem was that there were other people who had two accounts. They used one account to try the problems and get the proper solution and then used the other to paste the result and get the maximum points. It's like playing high-school soccer against Beckham; you can't win unless you cheat.
I haven't been back since so maybe they found a way around this problem but unless they found a way around this problem I think it's probably still quite prevalent.
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A friend of mine called MGS2 "a soap opera with dart gun". It was complete crap. It had about an hour of good gameplay. It should be the example set for what games should NOT do.
... but would probably do very poorly as a teacher themselves. My mother was a public school teacher. She got her degree from the same college as I did. I got what is considered by the public as a better degree than she did (her: Education, me: Computer Science) yet what she can do in a classroom is incredible. I taught a couple classes that were targetted to people who wanted to learn computers, Excel, Word, etc. That was difficult with just 2 to 5 people who wanted to learn, try it with 20 to 30. Over her career she taught kindergarten through second grade. I would have no problem sending my kids to a public school in the State of Washington (not DC). The money that is spent per student is a fair amount and the teachers eventally have to get their Masters degree (or equivalent). Washington State is #1 in SAT scores, with Oregon right behind. And teachers do get paid next to nothing. Starting salary is about $25K per year. Yes they only work 9 months, but does your job make you take 3 months off unpaid? Hard to get a summer job teaching when no one is hiring for learning. Yes they only work ~6 hours a day, but there is extra time that they have to put in grading papers and coming up with tomorrow's lesson plan. If you think you can do better, please homeschool, I hope it works out for you. There will be one less parent annoying the teacher that their student is more important than the others. The best thing that parents can do is teach their kids that they aren't special, that they have to earn, scape, and work their tails off to get something in this world. While I don't agree with the Fight Club "you are not a beautiful or unique snowflake", I do think that the world doesn't owe anyone anything; an education is included in that.
If you feel like cheating you can win. But anyone thinking of trying the competition question as to whether you want to lose because others do. I did a competition a couple years ago and thought I did well. Was near the top of my group and had a couple successful challenges. The only problem was that there were other people who had two accounts. They used one account to try the problems and get the proper solution and then used the other to paste the result and get the maximum points. It's like playing high-school soccer against Beckham; you can't win unless you cheat. I haven't been back since so maybe they found a way around this problem but unless they found a way around this problem I think it's probably still quite prevalent.