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Post by thekindercarebear (C/F/M) on Apr 13, 2024 22:06:35 GMT
you guys and gals have neither the balls, the backbone, or the intelligence to understand the long term ramifications of the continued failings of our public school system. What exactly are the long term ramifications. The broken education system narrative has been repeated for over 50 years now.
where we are now but worse?
i mean if we think Trump lovers are massive retards how is having a generation of kids who cannot read or do math going to address that?
books help shape us in ways we cannot imagine.
knowledge is just a small part.
empathy - a separate peace, the glass menagerie, for whom the bells toll, of mice and men, to kill a mockingbird. the very books that Trump voters may have never read. the same books that our kids today may never read.
add in charlottes web, bridge to terabithia, the scarlet letter.
i know it bothers you and i know you and i cannot fix it.
i'd just not like to be called names for posting honest and serious articles even if i cannot fix it.
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Post by thekindercarebear (C/F/M) on Apr 13, 2024 22:07:32 GMT
but that is what they are doing!
how can you deny this?
no zeroes?
no F's?
getting rid of AP classes?
we dumb down the words we use with students.
we've made the SATs EASIER and they still fail.
are you and I even on the same page here or are we not seeing the same things?
I'm certainly not seeing it to the degree that you are, at least not for the middle class.
For the poverty-stricken red towns, and poverty-stricken inner cities, sure.
But I'm one of those idiots who believe it's a money issue.
the u.s. spends more than almost any other nation per student in education.
do not tell me it is money.
i am not buying it.
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Post by thekindercarebear (C/F/M) on Apr 13, 2024 22:10:29 GMT
we're going to end up with a nation of drones.
the problem is the robot revolution is right around the corner.
what happens to the drones when it comes?
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Post by thekindercarebear (C/F/M) on Apr 13, 2024 22:13:05 GMT
you guys and gals have neither the balls, the backbone, or the intelligence to understand the long term ramifications of the continued failings of our public school system. What exactly are the long term ramifications. The broken education system narrative has been repeated for over 50 years now.
if i ask you, "well sir, how does removing F's, removing zeroes, removing AP classes, skipping math, and removing reading assignments help our kids for what's to come in their future?"
what would be your reply?
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Post by Vassaggo on Apr 13, 2024 22:16:14 GMT
I've flipped many a C/D student to A/B by just going over their completed homework before they leave my after school program at 5pm. Of Course at 4pm we have Afternoon Tea called that from a kid who was reading the Hobbit for me. Hot or Cold Drink, sandwich and crisps/chips. They went through an anglophile streak when The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings got popular with the groups around 10 years ago. Which is around the time the first Hobbit came out. So my kids can be sure that at least 5 days a week they'll have 3 meals a day. During the summer that drops to 3 as I can only keep it open 3 days a week. These kids were never really c/d students they were just underappreciated a/b students. I have a lot of failures in my roughly 20 years of doing this, but I have a shit ton of successes. I get kids into college, community college, tech programs, mentorships, trade school, or just employment. And taking a little from AA I get them to come back to volunteer and help out after they graduate high school usually during summer. Some during School year if they are going local and I know people at their Schools. (Which I know a lot) I admire all that you do for kids. It seems like something you are really passionate about Thanks. It's a long road to get from Going to College to Teach to here. I've mucked this narrative up a bit changing names, time periods, course names, etc just to make a bit harder to doxx me. Well I knew I'd never actually have kids myself. I just don't like them from age 1day to about 10years. After 10 they morph into little thinking emotional people to me. I have a weird aversion to young kids. Prolly has something to do with my own prepubescence. My CBT doesn't really center on the why, but on what I can do in the present to help myself and others around me today. The causes are rarely relevant or affect change. Like I don't think I really need to know my Punitive Super Ego probably came from an over protective, over religious mother who used guilt trips, emotional manipulation, and threats of damnation as means of control. Knowing that tidbit of it's origin doesn't really help me if I get in a depression spiral where every other inner monologue/self talk is negative. Going out for a walk for 20 minutes while humming to myself the muppets "Mahna Mahna" does. (Quickest way for me to get into a meditative state with clear mind) So knowing I was never going to have kids, but having the need/drive to help people learn was a conundrum. Especially after the last minute change from Social Studies Major in college to History Major my final semester. (This was after my first Semester I changed from Education Fine Art to Social Studies Major). Long story but basically because of one proff who fucked me over + a realization that I probably couldn't live the life I wanted on the salary I was going to get I changed. SS Major = History classes + Sociology classes + Government Classes + Education Classes + Psych Classes + Student Teaching + Praxis 1 and 2 test = 3 year temp Teaching Cert. After 3 years there is an in person evaluation to change that to perm Teaching Cert. I had taken all the history, sociology, government, psych, praxis 1, and all but 1 education course. I failed Child/Classroom Behavioral Management a level 500 level Education course. I mouthed off about the proff being the dumbest PHD I've ever met, nothing she taught applied to me being a high school teacher. (She even went in so far as to tell the university book store not to carry the Text book that was specifically for 9-12. She only had them get k-8). I did this in my daily journal to her specifically without saying it in class. The Final nail was about 3 weeks before end of fall semester Senior Year. I was standing outside smoking. (which she had a problem with. With my long black hair which she had a problem with. With my leather trench coat which she had a problem with) I was talking to a buddy found out Proff left her briefcase at home so she wouldn't be giving back our papers today which she said she would. So it's like 3 min past the hour and I walk to my table. She goes off while staring at me how we have to be prepared and professional. We have to show up on time. Getting to your school 3 min before you are supposed to be there and smoking until 5 minutes past is not being on time. The whole time I'm grinning ear to ear. After her 5 minute tirade about me, my smoking, me being unprepared, professional, not living up to goals and comments etc. I raised my hand. She didn't call on me. So I stood up. And Asked do you have the papers you said you would return to us today so we could start to incorporate them into our Binder for the Semester? She looked at me turning red and said no. I then started walking to the door. I said way to be professional, way to be prepared, way to be committed. Each time punctuating "way to be" with a cigarette I was floating in my right hand. I mean you should be committed if a fucking professor's class is half elementary and other Middle School to High School and you choose not to give them information on their specific age group, yeah you should be committed or forced to wear a sign that says "Fuck You, I'm the Dumbest Dr. on the Planet." I then slowly lit up the cigarette, flipped her off, and walked to my mentor's office. My buddies in class said that it was really awkward for next 10-15 minutes and then just let the students go. The Professor and Mentor Talked that week. My mentor said I was going to pass my class when if I turned in my Semester Binder and got above a D on it. Funny thing that. I have witnesses that say I dropped off that binder the morning of the due date between 9-10am. 3 of them staff. 1 a Professor. Some how she didn't get my binder until 30 min after the time limit of 5pm. When That happened I said fuck it went over to my mentor and changed over to History. My Mentor wanted me to take the case up with Student Justice Court. Hell she said she would testify that she saw the completed Binder that morning at 8am when I was waiting (ie out side smoking) for another class to start. She did flip through it. Plus the other 4 witnesses. I asked how many times has SJC overturned a failing grade? It was rare. I said fuck it lets change over to history. She went into research mode to find what I could do in the final semester to graduate. I used my education courses as electives, same with psych and sociology. My mentor saw that if I added 1 more Computer class, 1 more drawing course, 1 more sociology course + 3 more History Courses (one being 555 Senior Thesis) I could graduate with a History Degree with 3 minors: Fine Art, Social Studies, and Computer Information Services (Working in the Computer Lab for 4 years Work/Study gave me quite a bit of credits.) The Social Studies is weird because it's a Social Studies Major without Student Teaching I was friends with the Dept Head told her what was going on she let me take a lowlevel Sociology course I had originally wasn't interested in as a crip course, Fine Art I knew I could get but me and Art Department Butted Heads but more on my potential vs wasted potential. (He wanted me to transfer to a college that Had a Fine Arts Major. I originally was a Fine Arts Major at a different school. He thought Social Studies and Teaching History was a waste for me. Same for History major and doing whatever with it.) He wouldn't give me a crip course. So took a 400 level drawing course. (from middle school to college only time I ever made less than A- in an Art Class. CIS was out of the fucking blue, just something she saw. I had the hardware credits from working in lab, internet/networking/webdesign credits from running wire for campus wide network and working on our webpage. (Picture taking, scanning, theme, layout etc). What I was lacking was one any level Computer Course and 2 tests at the partnering CC. One was basic Hardware Test the other was Networking test. I had taken Basic Programing in Highschool and Pascal. Mrs Henderson, a crazy old professor that looked like and smoked as much as the Social Worker in Beetle Juice, allowed me to write 3 programs in Pascal and 3 in Qbasic years before to let me take Fortran and cobol. Now the only reason I wanted to take Fortran and Cobol was my brother was taking it. He was always kinda light in the program logic/efficiency. Told him if he took College Algebra (I could've just taken basic math concepts but I placed out of that into College Calculus. I fought tooth and nail and said I'm not taking Calculus I don't care If I placed into it. I'll Take Algebra and Basic Math Concepts instead. They accepted it. Now I could've gotten grades in both simply but I knew if I had my brother for help and/or competition I would rise to challenge on these 2 8am classes. He said cool. I passed Mrs Hendersons Pascal and Qbasic program writing test and got into the basics of Fortran and basics of Cobol. Because I "placed" out of Qbasic and Pascal Classes years before thus getting 6 hours and got A's in Fortran and COBOL another 6 hours all I needed course credits wise was 1 more crip computer courses. I so didn't want a challenge in anything because 555 Thesis was going to kick my ass. So I took Mastering Microsoft Office Suite 1997 which at the time I could get an A asleep. The 2 other history courses was North Carolina Native American History and Life in a Medieval Village, both high level courses. I knew my Thesis was going to be the application of evolutionary style pressures (natural selection, random meme/idea generation, individual/nation-state survival, etc) to the development of Western Medieval European Warfare, arms, and armaments vs Western Medieval European Defensive tactics, fortressing, and armor. Would've helped if I drew out anything but Peasant as my Archetype in Life in a Medieval Village, but thems the breaks. In Life in a Medieval Village I had to research the lives of my Archetype (villager/peasant - male). Then by the end of the class have written a historically accurate (with 10 secondary and 5 primary sources backing up said accuracy) minimum 7,500 (30 pages double spaced) to maximum of 15,000 words (60 pages double spaced. I came in right under 50 pages. I was still able to double up some primary/secondary sources for both classes. Thesis ended up only being 8,000-9,000 words like 40ish pages. This was in the late 90's in NC in the middle of nowhere. I had to use every trick in the book to get Primary Sources sourced from Europe. In the end changing over to history with the minors had me sitting in a job fair in March of that year with walking pneumonia. After assuaging the interviewers panic that I was contagious. (I wasn't it was bacteriological and I had been on antibiotics for weeks) we got to talking. My weird array of talents History (research), Computer Services, and Fine Art appealed to them. Nobody cares about the Sociology Minor. Turns out they were representatives of a couple Insurance Agencies, a few Auditing Firms, and 3 Insurance Carriers. I booked a second interview in each of their HQ's. Now I just so happen to have a Uncle that lives breaths Commercial Insurance and is a CPA with Doctorate from University of South Carolina Law. He told me buckle down give whatever company I would get Hired 3 years and at least get your Institutes Associate in Insurance(AINS), Certificate in General Insurance (GINS) or Institutes Associate in Premium Audit (APA). He had a friend that was on the Auditing Side who was going to open up office in NC. I did him one better Passed the 5 classes + 5 Exams (four core classes + 1 ethics class) for my APA, the 4 Classes + 4 Exams for AINS and got my GINS 3 classes + 3exams in first 2 years. I then Started on my The Institutes Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter or CPCU. I had 3 CPCU classes + exams of the 8 I needed before I left NC company. I then Worked in an Audit department for 2 years. Got the other 5 classes + exams for my CPCU. Then Me + some loans 1 from bank 2 from family + contacts = Opened my own Auditing firm. Yes My Uncle sent a shit ton of work my way, but I had to work the 70+ hours a a week to get that work done, on time, correctly, and grow the business. I did. Then at the weird age of 36 I started the process of selling my Auditing Firm. The Deal was finalized before I was 40, but I had certain duties I had to do before it was final. I still do roughly 5-10 hours a week for them to keep up my really kick ass Medical, Life, "death policy" what I call the cash set aside from initial sale for my Funeral Party. Now this whole time from 2001ish to 2015 I was volunteering with 10+ year olds as a tutor. From 2015 until today you can say I'm kinda full time. I'm not but closest you could be to that (probably 28-32hrs give or take per week). The first 10+ years was basically a couple hours a week. So that's the long weird path I took to get here... Maybe next time I'll map Personal Life :)
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Post by Vassaggo on Apr 13, 2024 22:21:52 GMT
As your pre-diabetes can't physically talk to you, I say nay good sir no Cookie for you. Unless you eat 3 things High in Soluble Fiber, give me a mile of good walking pace and make you wife call you Vassaggo one time during noodge!
i was down to 112 his morning.
still i don't like the 120s and 130s first thing in the AM. =/
112 not bad. Your doc put you on Meformin yet? Yeah you want the 120-130's a few hours after a meal at least not when you first wake up. I've dropped like 22lbs and gave up sugar soda. I'm getting 90's in the morning 130's after my 10mg of prednisone is digested back down to 90 by supper. Haven't seen above 150 since I broke my leg and was doing nothing but sitting in bed taking steroids, pain meds, and watching tv. They wouldn't give me the hbs pills they would just track my bs and counter it with insulin. So I spiked a few times. They said blood clots happen quite a bit if you are doing nothing but laying down. The 2 pills I take can cause kidney production decrease + blood clots so insulin way to go for short time. Plus lots of CT Scans with Dye... which doesn't play nice with Metformin.
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Post by dlancer on Apr 13, 2024 22:22:10 GMT
I'm certainly not seeing it to the degree that you are, at least not for the middle class.
For the poverty-stricken red towns, and poverty-stricken inner cities, sure.
But I'm one of those idiots who believe it's a money issue.
the u.s. spends more than almost any other nation per student in education.
do not tell me it is money.
i am not buying it.
The US spends money to get results because we're the US and that's how we'll always do it. I didn't want to get into a whole anti-capitalistic diatribe here, but oh well. Here in the US, it's all about how much money you make. For education, we pretend the goal is intelligence to create progress, but in reality the goal is to make dollars. And dollars don't actually require intelligence. However, while grades don't equal smarts, grades do typically equal dollars, and just like capitalism, it's who can best game the system. Some smart people do indeed make money, such as with doctors, but it's kinda rare for the two to line up. All the scientists should be the ones making real money, but they aren't. Not even close. So either we fix that issue so the smart people make more money (not likely), or we throw more money at it which can work but probably not as well. But of course this is just my opinion.
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Post by thekindercarebear (C/F/M) on Apr 13, 2024 22:24:53 GMT
you guys and gals have neither the balls, the backbone, or the intelligence to understand the long term ramifications of the continued failings of our public school system. What exactly are the long term ramifications. The broken education system narrative has been repeated for over 50 years now.
we've known each other a long time and a lot of that has been on different sides of the coin.
but through the years i know you can be heatedly passionate but thoughtful and you know i can be a smug selfish asshole but i try to be somewhat reasonable for a rightie.
IF i am saying "my kid is in Advanced English and getting an A while other kids are not doing well HAHAHA" then yeah i'd be the asshole here and possible racist if i singled out other minorities.
i am not.
my son is in advanced english with an A and i am like what the god damn hell is going on here!?
he's in an advanced class and read 1 book and 1 play.
how on god's green earth is that advanced?
and if that IS advanced, what is not advanced?
because whatever not-advanced is, it is not helping 80%+ of black Americans and countless hispanics and i am sure a good chunk of whites and other asians to read.
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Post by thekindercarebear (C/F/M) on Apr 13, 2024 22:31:40 GMT
the u.s. spends more than almost any other nation per student in education.
do not tell me it is money.
i am not buying it.
The US spends money to get results because we're the US and that's how we'll always do it. I didn't want to get into a whole anti-capitalistic diatribe here, but oh well. Here in the US, it's all about how much money you make. For education, we pretend the goal is intelligence to create progress, but in reality the goal is to make dollars. And dollars don't actually require intelligence. However, while grades don't equal smarts, grades do typically equal dollars, and just like capitalism, it's who can best game the system. Some smart people do indeed make money, such as with doctors, but it's kinda rare for the two to line up. All the scientists should be the ones making real money, but they aren't. Not even close. So either we fix that issue so the smart people make more money (not likely), or we throw more money at it which can work but probably not as well. But of course this is just my opinion.
and that is fine.
if you believe it is money and capitalism, i won't argue too much. as i become more of a nationalistic socialist or whatever, i feel where you are coming from.
THAT said, i think it is quite unfair that posters can make snide remarks against me implying i am a racist for my educational rants. rants which have actual data from credible sources.
if whoever doesn't like the actual data from the credible sources, then ignore it. odds are they do it anyway.
no need for anyone to impugn my decent character.
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Post by blacktothefuture on Apr 13, 2024 22:33:19 GMT
What exactly are the long term ramifications. The broken education system narrative has been repeated for over 50 years now.
we've known each other a long time and a lot of that has been on different sides of the coin.
but through the years i know you can be heatedly passionate but thoughtful and you know i can be a smug selfish asshole but i try to be somewhat reasonable for a rightie.
IF i am saying "my kid is in Advanced English and getting an A while other kids are not doing well HAHAHA" then yeah i'd be the asshole here and possible racist if i singled out other minorities.
i am not.
my son is in advanced english with an A and i am like what the god damn hell is going on here!?
he's in an advanced class and read 1 book and 1 play.
how on god's green earth is that advanced?
and if that IS advanced, what is not advanced?
because whatever not-advanced is, it is not helping 80%+ of black Americans and countless hispanics and i am sure a good chunk of whites and other asians to read.
It’s never good when a person can’t read or do basic math. I don’t mean to down play that. I’m just saying some of these reports are a bit misleading. You also have to consider there are more collage graduates in the US than ever before, for all races. I can’t tell you what worries me more. An uneducated underclass (which you always had, and always will) or unchecked AI. How’s that for irony?
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Post by thekindercarebear (C/F/M) on Apr 13, 2024 22:33:58 GMT
I admire all that you do for kids. It seems like something you are really passionate about Thanks. It's a long road to get from Going to College to Teach to here. I've mucked this narrative up a bit changing names, time periods, course names, etc just to make a bit harder to doxx me. Well I knew I'd never actually have kids myself. I just don't like them from age 1day to about 10years. After 10 they morph into little thinking emotional people to me. I have a weird aversion to young kids. Prolly has something to do with my own prepubescence. My CBT doesn't really center on the why, but on what I can do in the present to help myself and others around me today. The causes are rarely relevant or affect change. Like I don't think I really need to know my Punitive Super Ego probably came from an over protective, over religious mother who used guilt trips, emotional manipulation, and threats of damnation as means of control. Knowing that tidbit of it's origin doesn't really help me if I get in a depression spiral where every other inner monologue/self talk is negative. Going out for a walk for 20 minutes while humming to myself the muppets "Mahna Mahna" does. (Quickest way for me to get into a meditative state with clear mind) So knowing I was never going to have kids, but having the need/drive to help people learn was a conundrum. Especially after the last minute change from Social Studies Major in college to History Major my final semester. (This was after my first Semester I changed from Education Fine Art to Social Studies Major). Long story but basically because of one proff who fucked me over + a realization that I probably couldn't live the life I wanted on the salary I was going to get I changed. SS Major = History classes + Sociology classes + Government Classes + Education Classes + Psych Classes + Student Teaching + Praxis 1 and 2 test = 3 year temp Teaching Cert. After 3 years there is an in person evaluation to change that to perm Teaching Cert. I had taken all the history, sociology, government, psych, praxis 1, and all but 1 education course. I failed Child/Classroom Behavioral Management a level 500 level Education course. I mouthed off about the proff being the dumbest PHD I've ever met, nothing she taught applied to me being a high school teacher. (She even went in so far as to tell the university book store not to carry the Text book that was specifically for 9-12. She only had them get k-8). I did this in my daily journal to her specifically without saying it in class. The Final nail was about 3 weeks before end of fall semester Senior Year. I was standing outside smoking. (which she had a problem with. With my long black hair which she had a problem with. With my leather trench coat which she had a problem with) I was talking to a buddy found out Proff left her briefcase at home so she wouldn't be giving back our papers today which she said she would. So it's like 3 min past the hour and I walk to my table. She goes off while staring at me how we have to be prepared and professional. We have to show up on time. Getting to your school 3 min before you are supposed to be there and smoking until 5 minutes past is not being on time. The whole time I'm grinning ear to ear. After her 5 minute tirade about me, my smoking, me being unprepared, professional, not living up to goals and comments etc. I raised my hand. She didn't call on me. So I stood up. And Asked do you have the papers you said you would return to us today so we could start to incorporate them into our Binder for the Semester? She looked at me turning red and said no. I then started walking to the door. I said way to be professional, way to be prepared, way to be committed. Each time punctuating "way to be" with a cigarette I was floating in my right hand. I mean you should be committed if a fucking professor's class is half elementary and other Middle School to High School and you choose not to give them information on their specific age group, yeah you should be committed or forced to wear a sign that says "Fuck You, I'm the Dumbest Dr. on the Planet." I then slowly lit up the cigarette, flipped her off, and walked to my mentor's office. My buddies in class said that it was really awkward for next 10-15 minutes and then just let the students go. The Professor and Mentor Talked that week. My mentor said I was going to pass my class when if I turned in my Semester Binder and got above a D on it. Funny thing that. I have witnesses that say I dropped off that binder the morning of the due date between 9-10am. 3 of them staff. 1 a Professor. Some how she didn't get my binder until 30 min after the time limit of 5pm. When That happened I said fuck it went over to my mentor and changed over to History. My Mentor wanted me to take the case up with Student Justice Court. Hell she said she would testify that she saw the completed Binder that morning at 8am when I was waiting (ie out side smoking) for another class to start. She did flip through it. Plus the other 4 witnesses. I asked how many times has SJC overturned a failing grade? It was rare. I said fuck it lets change over to history. She went into research mode to find what I could do in the final semester to graduate. I used my education courses as electives, same with psych and sociology. My mentor saw that if I added 1 more Computer class, 1 more drawing course, 1 more sociology course + 3 more History Courses (one being 555 Senior Thesis) I could graduate with a History Degree with 3 minors: Fine Art, Social Studies, and Computer Information Services (Working in the Computer Lab for 4 years Work/Study gave me quite a bit of credits.) The Social Studies is weird because it's a Social Studies Major without Student Teaching I was friends with the Dept Head told her what was going on she let me take a lowlevel Sociology course I had originally wasn't interested in as a crip course, Fine Art I knew I could get but me and Art Department Butted Heads but more on my potential vs wasted potential. (He wanted me to transfer to a college that Had a Fine Arts Major. I originally was a Fine Arts Major at a different school. He thought Social Studies and Teaching History was a waste for me. Same for History major and doing whatever with it.) He wouldn't give me a crip course. So took a 400 level drawing course. (from middle school to college only time I ever made less than A- in an Art Class. CIS was out of the fucking blue, just something she saw. I had the hardware credits from working in lab, internet/networking/webdesign credits from running wire for campus wide network and working on our webpage. (Picture taking, scanning, theme, layout etc). What I was lacking was one any level Computer Course and 2 tests at the partnering CC. One was basic Hardware Test the other was Networking test. I had taken Basic Programing in Highschool and Pascal. Mrs Henderson, a crazy old professor that looked like and smoked as much as the Social Worker in Beetle Juice, allowed me to write 3 programs in Pascal and 3 in Qbasic years before to let me take Fortran and cobol. Now the only reason I wanted to take Fortran and Cobol was my brother was taking it. He was always kinda light in the program logic/efficiency. Told him if he took College Algebra (I could've just taken basic math concepts but I placed out of that into College Calculus. I fought tooth and nail and said I'm not taking Calculus I don't care If I placed into it. I'll Take Algebra and Basic Math Concepts instead. They accepted it. Now I could've gotten grades in both simply but I knew if I had my brother for help and/or competition I would rise to challenge on these 2 8am classes. He said cool. I passed Mrs Hendersons Pascal and Qbasic program writing test and got into the basics of Fortran and basics of Cobol. Because I "placed" out of Qbasic and Pascal Classes years before thus getting 6 hours and got A's in Fortran and COBOL another 6 hours all I needed course credits wise was 1 more crip computer courses. I so didn't want a challenge in anything because 555 Thesis was going to kick my ass. So I took Mastering Microsoft Office Suite 1997 which at the time I could get an A asleep. The 2 other history courses was North Carolina Native American History and Life in a Medieval Village, both high level courses. I knew my Thesis was going to be the application of evolutionary style pressures (natural selection, random meme/idea generation, individual/nation-state survival, etc) to the development of Western Medieval European Warfare, arms, and armaments vs Western Medieval European Defensive tactics, fortressing, and armor. Would've helped if I drew out anything but Peasant as my Archetype in Life in a Medieval Village, but thems the breaks. In Life in a Medieval Village I had to research the lives of my Archetype (villager/peasant - male). Then by the end of the class have written a historically accurate (with 10 secondary and 5 primary sources backing up said accuracy) minimum 7,500 (30 pages double spaced) to maximum of 15,000 words (60 pages double spaced. I came in right under 50 pages. I was still able to double up some primary/secondary sources for both classes. Thesis ended up only being 8,000-9,000 words like 40ish pages. This was in the late 90's in NC in the middle of nowhere. I had to use every trick in the book to get Primary Sources sourced from Europe. In the end changing over to history with the minors had me sitting in a job fair in March of that year with walking pneumonia. After assuaging the interviewers panic that I was contagious. (I wasn't it was bacteriological and I had been on antibiotics for weeks) we got to talking. My weird array of talents History (research), Computer Services, and Fine Art appealed to them. Nobody cares about the Sociology Minor. Turns out they were representatives of a couple Insurance Agencies, a few Auditing Firms, and 3 Insurance Carriers. I booked a second interview in each of their HQ's. Now I just so happen to have a Uncle that lives breaths Commercial Insurance and is a CPA with Doctorate from University of South Carolina Law. He told me buckle down give whatever company I would get Hired 3 years and at least get your Institutes Associate in Insurance(AINS), Certificate in General Insurance (GINS) or Institutes Associate in Premium Audit (APA). He had a friend that was on the Auditing Side who was going to open up office in NC. I did him one better Passed the 5 classes + 5 Exams (four core classes + 1 ethics class) for my APA, the 4 Classes + 4 Exams for AINS and got my GINS 3 classes + 3exams in first 2 years. I then Started on my The Institutes Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter or CPCU. I had 3 CPCU classes + exams of the 8 I needed before I left NC company. I then Worked in an Audit department for 2 years. Got the other 5 classes + exams for my CPCU. Then Me + some loans 1 from bank 2 from family + contacts = Opened my own Auditing firm. Yes My Uncle sent a shit ton of work my way, but I had to work the 70+ hours a a week to get that work done, on time, correctly, and grow the business. I did. Then at the weird age of 36 I started the process of selling my Auditing Firm. The Deal was finalized before I was 40, but I had certain duties I had to do before it was final. I still do roughly 5-10 hours a week for them to keep up my really kick ass Medical, Life, "death policy" what I call the cash set aside from initial sale for my Funeral Party. Now this whole time from 2001ish to 2015 I was volunteering with 10+ year olds as a tutor. From 2015 until today you can say I'm kinda full time. I'm not but closest you could be to that (probably 28-32hrs give or take per week). The first 10+ years was basically a couple hours a week. So that's the long weird path I took to get here... Maybe next time I'll map Personal Life :)
you are a good egg charlie brown. :)
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Post by thekindercarebear (C/F/M) on Apr 13, 2024 22:37:36 GMT
we've known each other a long time and a lot of that has been on different sides of the coin.
but through the years i know you can be heatedly passionate but thoughtful and you know i can be a smug selfish asshole but i try to be somewhat reasonable for a rightie.
IF i am saying "my kid is in Advanced English and getting an A while other kids are not doing well HAHAHA" then yeah i'd be the asshole here and possible racist if i singled out other minorities.
i am not.
my son is in advanced english with an A and i am like what the god damn hell is going on here!?
he's in an advanced class and read 1 book and 1 play.
how on god's green earth is that advanced?
and if that IS advanced, what is not advanced?
because whatever not-advanced is, it is not helping 80%+ of black Americans and countless hispanics and i am sure a good chunk of whites and other asians to read.
It’s never good when a person can’t read or do basic math. I don’t mean to down play that. I’m just saying some of these reports are a bit misleading. You also have to consider there are more collage graduates in the US than ever before, for all races. I can’t tell you what worries me more. An uneducated underclass (which you always had, and always will) or unchecked AI. How’s that for irony?
if we separate foreign students, how many college graduates do we have?
i ask this because you know our SAT scores?
if we took out the overseas kids, the east asians, and the indians - i feel our national SAT average score would be pretty abysmal.
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Post by dlancer on Apr 13, 2024 22:38:18 GMT
The US spends money to get results because we're the US and that's how we'll always do it. I didn't want to get into a whole anti-capitalistic diatribe here, but oh well. Here in the US, it's all about how much money you make. For education, we pretend the goal is intelligence to create progress, but in reality the goal is to make dollars. And dollars don't actually require intelligence. However, while grades don't equal smarts, grades do typically equal dollars, and just like capitalism, it's who can best game the system. Some smart people do indeed make money, such as with doctors, but it's kinda rare for the two to line up. All the scientists should be the ones making real money, but they aren't. Not even close. So either we fix that issue so the smart people make more money (not likely), or we throw more money at it which can work but probably not as well. But of course this is just my opinion.
and that is fine.
if you believe it is money and capitalism, i won't argue too much. as i become more of a nationalistic socialist or whatever, i feel where you are coming from.
THAT said, i think it is quite unfair that posters can make snide remarks against me implying i am a racist for my educational rants. rants which have actual data from credible sources.
if whoever doesn't like the actual data from the credible sources, then ignore it. odds are they do it anyway.
no need for anyone to impugn my decent character.
Unfortunately them's the breaks with ideological discussions.
I think it was unfair to be called a racist because I didn't think a Biden comment was racist.
I think it's unfair that I'm called a Hamas supporter because I believe in a ceasefire and two-state solution.
I thought it was unfair that I was called a groomer for my pro-trans positions.
However, I've been doing this on IMDB since Obama and Hillary were battling it out in 2007, and have come to understand it's just the way it goes.
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Post by thekindercarebear (C/F/M) on Apr 13, 2024 22:45:55 GMT
i was down to 112 his morning.
still i don't like the 120s and 130s first thing in the AM. =/
112 not bad. Your doc put you on Meformin yet? Yeah you want the 120-130's a few hours after a meal at least not when you first wake up. I've dropped like 22lbs and gave up sugar soda. I'm getting 90's in the morning 130's after my 10mg of prednisone is digested back down to 90 by supper. Haven't seen above 150 since I broke my leg and was doing nothing but sitting in bed taking steroids, pain meds, and watching tv. They wouldn't give me the hbs pills they would just track my bs and counter it with insulin. So I spiked a few times. They said blood clots happen quite a bit if you are doing nothing but laying down. The 2 pills I take can cause kidney production decrease + blood clots so insulin way to go for short time. Plus lots of CT Scans with Dye... which doesn't play nice with Metformin.
yeah metformin at 750, not the highest dose but i've "heard" too much metformin over too much time is bad for one organ or another or might turn me into a zombie.
i went from 195 to now 180, my blood pressure is okay. my cholesterol has been my solid. i try not to overdo it on fats, fried food, etc. and eat my greens and avocados and drink a good share of water.
my 2 cans of coke per day are my vice of choice and someone told me to cut it to one a day and i have but it's a pain in the ass lol
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Post by 🐈⬛ Molly 🐈⬛ (FU) on Apr 13, 2024 23:00:13 GMT
I'm certainly not seeing it to the degree that you are, at least not for the middle class.
For the poverty-stricken red towns, and poverty-stricken inner cities, sure.
But I'm one of those idiots who believe it's a money issue.
the u.s. spends more than almost any other nation per student in education.
do not tell me it is money.
i am not buying it.
The money is pouring into standardized testing and professional development centered around standardized testing. It’s definitely not going into teacher salaries. It’s not going into hiring more teachers so class sizes are smaller.
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