Part of the college prep reading course I taught to juniors and seniors included critical thinking skills. There was very little correlation between success in this and the ability to absorb information and regurgitate it, which is what most grades, all the way through grad school are based on. This was especially true of cause and effect. Eventually I had to just go on to the next topic, because some kids could have been still sitting in that room 30 years later and wouldn’t have been able to process the concept. I figure they grew up to be Republicans.
You are probably paying less than I am. I can do any carpentry that doesn’t involve lifting something I can’t lift, can do any electric easier than a 3 way switch, and anything plumbing wise. But, cars have engines? That explains why pushing the button makes it move.
About 40% of those people who major in education, get a teaching job and start teaching find another job before their tenure year. Very few who survive that five years are poor teachers. I have taught and I have worked in an office. The major difference is that when you are working in an office you do not have to be paying 100% attention 100% of the time. This isn’t a demand from the front office. It is necessary to maintain the classroom discipline and get the job done. A poor teacher pays for it in student disrespect, and they pay for it heavily.As for summers off, there are mandatory inservice classes and meetings that take up a lot of time. And, time will be needed to work on your graduate work, since most districts have the bachelor’s track set up so that raises after about 5 years don’t keep up with inflation. The masters is pretty much necessary for a living wage. Another option is to work a summer job. A friend of mine started mowing lawns and within three years was making too much to make it sensible to come back to teaching.And, when you leave work, you leave work. Each class requires about 20 minutes of prep time if you are revising lessons you have done before. If it’s a new lesson, an hour or two is more likely.After getting a total of 6 1/2 years of college and working for 32 years, I was making about 75% of what my nephew was two years into a sales job.All of the ideas for improving education add about 20% to the classroom hours, and no additional money seems to be available to get extra people to help with the job. Paying the people who are doing it more might make them happy, but it’s not going to increase the quality, because it would be an overwhelming amount of work. Eventually, they are going to get to the point where no one with the intelligence to do the job is going to be dumb enough to take it.
While employers squeeze workers and their unions for cuts to health care and other benefits, the CEOs of major corporations now make nearly 400 times more than their average employees, the largest employer-worker gap in our history. While 60 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck– with three multi-billionaires owning more wealth than the bottom half.
If you are wondering why we continue to pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, you should know that Pfizer has increased its profits by 42 percent so far this year to $26.4 billion.
Gasoline? Profits of Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP and Shell skyrocketed by 169 percent so far this year to $125 billion. They are spending over $73 billion not to reduce gas prices at the pump but to buy back their own stock and increase dividends to their wealthy stockholders.
Groceries? Global food prices skyrocketed by over 33 percent last year and are expected to go up another 23 percent this year. Billionaires in the global food and agri-business industry became $382 billion richer during the pandemic.
WRONG! There was sound until about 10 years ago. Now there is no point in my going to the movies because they don’t have closed captioning, just strange mumbling.
Trump’s first impeachment was because he was holding aid to Ukraine hostage until Zelensky provided some dirt on Biden.Zelensky still has not provided any of the imaginary dirt on Biden that the MAGATs, so Republicans are still doing Trump’s bidding, doing their best to hold aid to Ukraine hostage, just as Trump demanded.
Of course, they will try to hem and haw and spin and obfuscate and make up all kinds of other excuses for stabbing an ally in the back, but we all know it is all about doing the bidding of Trump and Trump is following his besty Putin.
The once-respected Republican Party of the 1950’s all the way up until 2015 — when they were merely greedy in their aggressive efforts to REDISTRIBUTE wealth from the working people who produce it to the few richest elites who own and control the productive resources but were not traitors aiding and abetting our adversaries — was deeply opposed to Russian aggression.
Today’s Republican Party, which has become nothing more than the MAGAT cult hates Zelensky because, unlike the Republicans, Zelensky has enough character and fortitude to refuse to surrender to Russian domination the way they did.Chamberlain will go down in history as a traitor, or at least a weak kneed moron. But we haven’t learned from his mistakes.
If you think standing with our allies is expensive, wait until you see the cost of abandoning them.
My brother in law was a cop in a small Texas town. He was a bully in high school to the point of exhibiting psychological issues in the stuff that he did, and he was able to turn that hobby into a profession by joining the local police department.
Our police should be carefully chosen, required to wear cameras, and any complaints should be reviewed by a citizen’s committee, elected by the citizens of the community. I can assure you he would have never been a cop, because he would never have applied for the job under those rules. I said he was evil, I didn’t say he was stupid.
Part of the college prep reading course I taught to juniors and seniors included critical thinking skills. There was very little correlation between success in this and the ability to absorb information and regurgitate it, which is what most grades, all the way through grad school are based on. This was especially true of cause and effect. Eventually I had to just go on to the next topic, because some kids could have been still sitting in that room 30 years later and wouldn’t have been able to process the concept. I figure they grew up to be Republicans.