I have students openly either sleeping or surfing porn in class.
You need a better firewall on the network... and a ruler with which to wake sleeping students. Or, you could just try throwing a board eraser at them... that usually worked for my teachers.
The problem is that legally it is the residents' responsibility to pay the sales tax, not the merchant's. Amazon should simply turn over their sales records of all items shipped to Texas residents during that time period and tell the state, "Go ahead... collect it from them!"
With the Kwikset SmartKey system, many of your physical locks could be re-keyed quickly and easily. However, physical locks are a poor analogy to digital authentication. The OS itself should keep a key chain for you; doesn't MacOS already do this to some extent?
Let's see, she freely admits that she is blogging on school time, using school equipment, instead of doing her job... shouldn't she be fired for that alone? (Yes, I appreciate the irony that I'm posting to slashdot from work, on work time... but I really don't have anything else to do right now.)
Again, the fact that all problems with her ceased the moment she was transferred out of that classroom appears to indicate that the problem was with the abusive environment she was placed with, not the student. And she continues to be an excellent student, now that the school has agreed to simply treat her like all the other students, which is what I asked them to do in the first place. Accusing a student of "misbehaving" because she reacts badly to being treated like an animal hardly seems fair, does it?
Nope, all I did was accuse them of mistreatment of my daughter. The no trespass order was literally for saying "Discrimination is illegal, stop it" in the school office loudly enough for the staff to hear it -- there were no children present except for my daughter. Yes, when you embarrass a principal by accusing them of discrimination, it does piss them off, and they do retaliate like the petty bureaucrats that they are. Yes, at that point I had a history of complaining about district staff's treatment of me and my daughter. Oh, and as soon as the lawyer found out was was really going on in the classroom, they removed the blue "X", but the teacher still encouraged the other students to yell at my daughter to "go sit in your spot!" Feel free to contact Ms. Nicole Will at Cooper Mountain Elementary School, 503 259-6820 (nicole_will@beavton.k12.or.us) if you really feel the need to get "the other side of the story". I threatened no one, and never disrupted the educational process because I was never in the classroom. Currently, I am a volunteer at my daughter's new school -- hardly sounds like I'm a threat to the school, does it? I haven't changed anything, but they've stopped mistreating my daughter.
Why do you need a separate physical authentication token for each physical lock you need to unlock? Why couldn't they all use the same key? Can't we standardize on one?
Hint: because compromising that single key would compromise every lock you own instead of just a single lock.
Assuming, of course, that MS didn't intentionally break VMWare because they plan on selling a competing virtualization product. I see no evidence of such intent in this case, but based on MS past behavior, I wouldn't be surprised if they did.
It is certainly VMWare's responsibility to fix the problem and distribute the fix, regardless.
The point of the example was that expectations do affect performance, not that this particular teacher was racist. Please work on your reading comprehension skills.
No, not every child can be reached, and the ones that can't should be isolated from the general population. The point was that a lot of kids that most people give up on CAN be reached. Also, that there are huge differences between different teachers' ability to relate to students.
My father used to teach community college. He always said all he had to do to teach a class was read the textbook before the students did. It's not knowing the subject that makes an effective teacher, it's knowing your target audience. That audience includes both the students in your class and their parents. By this criteria, Munroe was an epic failure.
The reason why black students consistently do worse on math testing is partially due to teachers having lower expectations for black students; the teachers themselves usually don't think blacks are good at math. The other significant factors may be coming from a culture that doesn't value doing well in school, and the black students themselves not believing they should be good at math. And yet my African friends' kids are all honor students...
I call bullshit -- virtually every school district has a zero-tolerance policy on weapons, and possession of a knife on school property would not be ignored. It would generate an immediate call to the district head of security, who would investigate.
One more thing... the teacher she had before Mrs. Simpkins-Moore had zero problems with her, and the teacher she got after I transferred her out of this bigot's class had zero problem's with her. So all evidence points to the problem being the environment, not the student. Her current teacher absolutely adores her -- but then her current teacher has enough experience to actually know how to deal with children and their parents well.
She was required to sit on the blue x every day, regardless of behavior. She was told she would never be allowed to sit in a chair, regardless of her behavior. Then they lied and said being allowed to sit in seats were a reward for good behavior, and that only 1 or 2 children got that reward. Except when the school's lawyer visited the classroom and found 5 kids were sitting in chairs, and none of the kids were ever told it was a reward. Oh, and by the way... she was the only black student in the class. Plus, when confronted with this, they refused to change their treatment until the school district lawyer got involved. Now, why would they blatantly lie about what was going on in the classroom if they didn't know they were violating the law?
Even if she's right about them, she is still if violation of Federal FERPA statutes for disclosing educational records, which are supposed to be kept confidential.
I criticized my child's teacher for her blatant discrimination against my daughter; she had her teachers' union lawyer threaten me with a libel suit and the school district told me I was no longer allowed to communicate with any school district staff. The next year, I complained because her new teacher gave every other child in the class the choice to sit in a chair, but insisted my daughter sit on a blue "X" on the floor, again a violation of state educational discrimination statutes. The school's response was to lie about what what going on the the classroom, again insist I was not allowed to contact any school staff, and a trespass order restricting me from school property (for simply saying "discrimination is illegal, stop it" in the school office). Let's face it, schools are NOT bastions of free speech. If they insist on bitchslapping students and parents for speaking their minds, they need to apply the same standards to the teachers and staff!
Kids have a way of living up to people's expectations. She expects these kids to act like animals, and they're fulfilling her expectations. I'd expect teachers to vent to each other about the students (and parents) they have to deal with, but venting in an online forum displays terrible judgement.
My mother works as a substitute teacher. She takes troubled kids that every else badmouths, treats them with respect, and gets them to open up, stop being disruptive, and actually start learning. If a teacher is having problems with kids, it is as much an indictment of the teacher as it is of the kids.
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I have students openly either sleeping or surfing porn in class.
You need a better firewall on the network... and a ruler with which to wake sleeping students. Or, you could just try throwing a board eraser at them... that usually worked for my teachers.
I thought the teachers just talked about the students they'd had sex with...
How that is considered enforceable is even more amazing.
The problem is that legally it is the residents' responsibility to pay the sales tax, not the merchant's. Amazon should simply turn over their sales records of all items shipped to Texas residents during that time period and tell the state, "Go ahead... collect it from them!"
We don't have any sales tax here, and we need the jobs! Where would you like to build your new warehouse, right next to PDX? We'll make it happen.
Dear Texas, does the phrase "Aim at foot. Pull Trigger." mean anything to you?
With the Kwikset SmartKey system, many of your physical locks could be re-keyed quickly and easily. However, physical locks are a poor analogy to digital authentication. The OS itself should keep a key chain for you; doesn't MacOS already do this to some extent?
Wow... reading the comments from all the students, I have a newfound faith in the future of our youth. Go, kids, go!
Let's see, she freely admits that she is blogging on school time, using school equipment, instead of doing her job... shouldn't she be fired for that alone? (Yes, I appreciate the irony that I'm posting to slashdot from work, on work time... but I really don't have anything else to do right now.)
Again, the fact that all problems with her ceased the moment she was transferred out of that classroom appears to indicate that the problem was with the abusive environment she was placed with, not the student. And she continues to be an excellent student, now that the school has agreed to simply treat her like all the other students, which is what I asked them to do in the first place. Accusing a student of "misbehaving" because she reacts badly to being treated like an animal hardly seems fair, does it?
Nope, all I did was accuse them of mistreatment of my daughter. The no trespass order was literally for saying "Discrimination is illegal, stop it" in the school office loudly enough for the staff to hear it -- there were no children present except for my daughter. Yes, when you embarrass a principal by accusing them of discrimination, it does piss them off, and they do retaliate like the petty bureaucrats that they are. Yes, at that point I had a history of complaining about district staff's treatment of me and my daughter. Oh, and as soon as the lawyer found out was was really going on in the classroom, they removed the blue "X", but the teacher still encouraged the other students to yell at my daughter to "go sit in your spot!" Feel free to contact Ms. Nicole Will at Cooper Mountain Elementary School, 503 259-6820 (nicole_will@beavton.k12.or.us) if you really feel the need to get "the other side of the story". I threatened no one, and never disrupted the educational process because I was never in the classroom. Currently, I am a volunteer at my daughter's new school -- hardly sounds like I'm a threat to the school, does it? I haven't changed anything, but they've stopped mistreating my daughter.
Why do you need a separate physical authentication token for each physical lock you need to unlock? Why couldn't they all use the same key? Can't we standardize on one?
Hint: because compromising that single key would compromise every lock you own instead of just a single lock.
I have an Android phone. Google already knows my phone number!
Assuming, of course, that MS didn't intentionally break VMWare because they plan on selling a competing virtualization product. I see no evidence of such intent in this case, but based on MS past behavior, I wouldn't be surprised if they did.
It is certainly VMWare's responsibility to fix the problem and distribute the fix, regardless.
The point of the example was that expectations do affect performance, not that this particular teacher was racist. Please work on your reading comprehension skills.
No, not every child can be reached, and the ones that can't should be isolated from the general population. The point was that a lot of kids that most people give up on CAN be reached. Also, that there are huge differences between different teachers' ability to relate to students.
My father used to teach community college. He always said all he had to do to teach a class was read the textbook before the students did. It's not knowing the subject that makes an effective teacher, it's knowing your target audience. That audience includes both the students in your class and their parents. By this criteria, Munroe was an epic failure.
No, but she does have the hair for it... and the mustache too!
She's not... I transferred her to a different school as soon as possible, despite having to fight the principal's and district's lack of cooperation.
The reason why black students consistently do worse on math testing is partially due to teachers having lower expectations for black students; the teachers themselves usually don't think blacks are good at math. The other significant factors may be coming from a culture that doesn't value doing well in school, and the black students themselves not believing they should be good at math. And yet my African friends' kids are all honor students...
I call bullshit -- virtually every school district has a zero-tolerance policy on weapons, and possession of a knife on school property would not be ignored. It would generate an immediate call to the district head of security, who would investigate.
One more thing... the teacher she had before Mrs. Simpkins-Moore had zero problems with her, and the teacher she got after I transferred her out of this bigot's class had zero problem's with her. So all evidence points to the problem being the environment, not the student. Her current teacher absolutely adores her -- but then her current teacher has enough experience to actually know how to deal with children and their parents well.
She was required to sit on the blue x every day, regardless of behavior. She was told she would never be allowed to sit in a chair, regardless of her behavior. Then they lied and said being allowed to sit in seats were a reward for good behavior, and that only 1 or 2 children got that reward. Except when the school's lawyer visited the classroom and found 5 kids were sitting in chairs, and none of the kids were ever told it was a reward. Oh, and by the way... she was the only black student in the class. Plus, when confronted with this, they refused to change their treatment until the school district lawyer got involved. Now, why would they blatantly lie about what was going on in the classroom if they didn't know they were violating the law?
Even if she's right about them, she is still if violation of Federal FERPA statutes for disclosing educational records, which are supposed to be kept confidential.
"Drink ye then not water, but take thee a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine other infirmaties," 1 Timothy 5:23
See, I can quote the bible too!
I criticized my child's teacher for her blatant discrimination against my daughter; she had her teachers' union lawyer threaten me with a libel suit and the school district told me I was no longer allowed to communicate with any school district staff. The next year, I complained because her new teacher gave every other child in the class the choice to sit in a chair, but insisted my daughter sit on a blue "X" on the floor, again a violation of state educational discrimination statutes. The school's response was to lie about what what going on the the classroom, again insist I was not allowed to contact any school staff, and a trespass order restricting me from school property (for simply saying "discrimination is illegal, stop it" in the school office). Let's face it, schools are NOT bastions of free speech. If they insist on bitchslapping students and parents for speaking their minds, they need to apply the same standards to the teachers and staff!
Kids have a way of living up to people's expectations. She expects these kids to act like animals, and they're fulfilling her expectations. I'd expect teachers to vent to each other about the students (and parents) they have to deal with, but venting in an online forum displays terrible judgement.
My mother works as a substitute teacher. She takes troubled kids that every else badmouths, treats them with respect, and gets them to open up, stop being disruptive, and actually start learning. If a teacher is having problems with kids, it is as much an indictment of the teacher as it is of the kids.