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This idea of a shadowy unified people that control everything is a poor way to try to make sense of the world.
“They” refers to the teachers in this context. Sorry to assume you spoke English as a first language.
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He must not have been the top of his class if he had ended up a HS teacher. Which is actually kinda sad. Pay and working conditions for teachers shouldn't be so that being a teacher is regarded as a failure.
Is it regarded as a failure? Teachers in public schools work part time for 25 years and get a scaling pension they “negotiated” with the politicians their union dues elected. I’d call them fantastic winners. Grifters? Sure. But certainly not losers.
No need to take my word for it: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/15/us/teacher-pay-myth-misconcep...
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Good lord this comment is condescending. Some people are teachers because they want to be teachers, period. They find fulfillment in it. That’s not even touching the unnecessary dig at public institutions.
Did you go to public schools? I did. The student body is mainly uninterested, incapable, or irredeemable. Some great diamonds in the ruff to be sure. But certainly these people would excel regardless of a 1-off actual good teacher seeing as most of them are just mailing it in, like their student body. Why go to the trouble of getting a masters to waste it like this? FWIW I don’t believe teachers should need a bachelo…
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What other unsubstantiated claims did she make?
Not the OP, but a fourth grade substitute teacher made the claim that we always saw the same side of the moon because it didn't rotate. I don't know what got to me the most: that she didn't understand, that my attempt to explain it didn't go over, or that the other kids in the class didn't get it either. In any case, I've been working on improving my explanations ever since.
Sounds kind of pedantic to me, and confusing (certainly to kids).
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Most school teachers are full of it, but they don’t mean to. They are simply low level clerics in the church of truth. They recite a very lossy account of what they were ordained with at a likely low level institution. It’s not really their fault - people need jobs, the ministry needs repeaters, and the pay is bad. Your teachers weren’t the disease - they were just a symptom.
If only teachers were as intelligent and wise as HN’s anonymous commenters.
>Their measurements reveal that medieval glass has a much lower viscosity than expected at room temperature—16 orders of magnitude less than previous estimates It's pretty rare to read an article in which the degree of previous error is sixteen orders of magnitude.
Water at 0C has over six times the viscosity of water at 100C, yet to the untrained human they seen to flow about the same. Olive oil is 100 times more viscous that water. Yoghurt about 10000 times more viscous than water.
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> You are simply full of it Except your calculations support exactly what I said. > It’s 3 months off. Yes, it's typically 3 months off if they don't work summer session in a traditional schedule. Which most who are able to (there are reduced available positions) do. Hence, the full-time but, for some, 3/4-year seasonal full-time that I stated.
They get paid for that extra time if they choose to work it. Otherwise a teacher works 30 hours a week when normalized to a 48 hour work year. This is part-time work. But they get golden health care, pension, and early retirement. Good for them. This is why teachers aren’t suckers as the OP suggested. They’re in on a great scam. Good for them. The sucker working retail could only dream.
Finally! I always knew my 7th grade science teacher was full of shit on that one, she was so adamant about some things that turned out to be wrong. This one was maybe more excusable because it was common to teach at the time. Maybe it ended up making us better students in the end because we learned to fact-check our teachers, and not to be adamant about things we only think are true (though I'm still guilty of that m…
Teachers (and everyone else) will be wrong about things. That's OK. The problems happen when people don't bother to do any simple checks themselves, and just accept things as fact without doing any critical thinking or experimentation of their own.
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Good lord this comment is condescending. Some people are teachers because they want to be teachers, period. They find fulfillment in it. That’s not even touching the unnecessary dig at public institutions.
Did you go to public schools? I did. The student body is mainly uninterested, incapable, or irredeemable. Some great diamonds in the ruff to be sure. But certainly these people would excel regardless of a 1-off actual good teacher seeing as most of them are just mailing it in, like their student body. Why go to the trouble of getting a masters to waste it like this? FWIW I don’t believe teachers should need a bachelo…
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Is it regarded as a failure? Teachers in public schools work part time for 25 years and get a scaling pension they “negotiated” with the politicians their union dues elected. I’d call them fantastic winners. Grifters? Sure. But certainly not losers.
My parents, both with master’s degrees, worked at least eight hours every day teaching, grading assignments, and then preparing for the following day. I would guess about ten hours on average, seeing as I was mostly left alone as a child while my parents worked over the kitchen table. Yes, they don’t teach during the summer. Their pay reflects that. I won’t even touch on personal expenditures for supplies. Grifters?!…