How often do you read about high school graduates who can barely read? How often do you read about US students who know little about geography, history and who are deplorably deficient in mathematics and sciences? Weekly? Daily?
Max says much too often.
And how often do you hear that if only we paid (the same underperforming) teachers more that our problems would be solved? Constantly!
Time to abolish tenure and pay for results.
Time to abolish "education" degrees for people who should know about history, science, literature and mathematics!
Time to hold schools at all levels accountable for results, not just for meeting for a required number of days per year.
But back to the pay question. Why would increasing the salaries of mediocre teachers improve education? It wouldn't unless the lazy edumacators are arguing that the allegedly poor pay is damaging their precious egos to such a degree that they are unwilling or unable to impart all this divine knowledge to the children of the communities who foot the bill for these silly part-timers.
Educators and education administrators at all levels NEED to be held responsible for poor results including the hideous practice of encouraging kids to take out loans to remain unemployable.
OCCUPY EDUCATION!
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Stooopid dad again!
This is like watching a train wreck about to happen.
Stupid dad is not only tweeting sexual obscenities and spouting embarassing crap under his real name (sure to attract his son to spend more time), but now he has mentioned the possible reason for some of this severe behavioral discontrol.
It seems our attorney in his mid-50s not only boozes on a near daily basis, but he takes an amphetamine to kick start his day. Vyvance is a prescription amphetamine for ADHD. Alcohol potentiates this drug, stoopid dad, it won't bring your sorry butt down. It can also lead to a big MI in old guys like you.
So the sloppy boundaries demonstrated by this guy are a result of self-inflicted pharmaceutical usage.
Do I believe that he is ADD? Well since I am writing this from a comfortable distance from or Detroit lawyer, I cannot say for sure. But it seems pretty odd that you can get through law school and THEN become ADHD. Does he take it for weight control like some silly woman? Or is it just to stay wide awake after drinking?
Nothing good can come of this.
On some level the evil-ex must be delighted that he divorced her. This man should not be around teenagers.
Stupid dad is not only tweeting sexual obscenities and spouting embarassing crap under his real name (sure to attract his son to spend more time), but now he has mentioned the possible reason for some of this severe behavioral discontrol.
It seems our attorney in his mid-50s not only boozes on a near daily basis, but he takes an amphetamine to kick start his day. Vyvance is a prescription amphetamine for ADHD. Alcohol potentiates this drug, stoopid dad, it won't bring your sorry butt down. It can also lead to a big MI in old guys like you.
So the sloppy boundaries demonstrated by this guy are a result of self-inflicted pharmaceutical usage.
Do I believe that he is ADD? Well since I am writing this from a comfortable distance from or Detroit lawyer, I cannot say for sure. But it seems pretty odd that you can get through law school and THEN become ADHD. Does he take it for weight control like some silly woman? Or is it just to stay wide awake after drinking?
Nothing good can come of this.
On some level the evil-ex must be delighted that he divorced her. This man should not be around teenagers.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Max plays Max Manners
Well smacking the food certainly is offensive, but I think loudly blowing your nose at the table might just trump the smacksmacks. If it doesn't a new pet peeve is the tendency toward soup inhalation. Just exactly why do some people have to take a deep LOUD mouth breath with every spoonful of soup? Shouldn't soup be sipped quietly?
Guess not. To properly experience soup it is important to take a super breath and to clank the spoon against your teeth.
Table manners are absolutely dead.
Read this: http://www.etiquettescholar.com/dining_etiquette/table_manners/dinner_etiquette/appetizers_and_soup/soup.html
Should be obvious, no?
Guess not. To properly experience soup it is important to take a super breath and to clank the spoon against your teeth.
Table manners are absolutely dead.
Read this: http://www.etiquettescholar.com/dining_etiquette/table_manners/dinner_etiquette/appetizers_and_soup/soup.html
Should be obvious, no?
Sunday, November 6, 2011
The "safety net" is really a hammock, "folks"
What is wrong with this country?
When I was growing up we were proud that we lived in an industrialized nation. We made things we wanted and that others wanted. We recognized that the labor was labor and that we depended on one another for our various needs. Our dads,and yes moms, for women stayed in the work force after WWII no matter what bs you read, worked eight hour days and sought overtime. They picked up other jobs when they were saving and they were proud of it. Plenty of smart Americans were "shoprats". People actually went to college and then went to work at the factories because the money was good and the hours let them use their education for their own self interests. Growing up I knew plenty of people who were well read, artistic and cultured who also worked at the Goodyear plant. They were not ashamed of this nor were they ashamed that they worked for a multinational corporation.
We used to be proud of this, Zuccotti brats! We should go back to being thrilled by our manufacturing and our industry. The alternative is bleak. Subsistence farming without all the goodies made by the corporations leads to a short cruel life. And if you get rid of the evil big industries, including big food, what you have left is really a life that these same brats would find unacceptable.
I do understand the people who would like to see things made here...and classics majors are just the people to make these things. What things? Textiles, glassware, dishes (Bring back PFALTZGRAFF!..the American made one, not the imposter)electronics, etc. And this time let's not forget how great it is to be a manufacturing society.
And my title was largely to be provocative, but I do think that our safety net encourages sloth
When I was growing up we were proud that we lived in an industrialized nation. We made things we wanted and that others wanted. We recognized that the labor was labor and that we depended on one another for our various needs. Our dads,and yes moms, for women stayed in the work force after WWII no matter what bs you read, worked eight hour days and sought overtime. They picked up other jobs when they were saving and they were proud of it. Plenty of smart Americans were "shoprats". People actually went to college and then went to work at the factories because the money was good and the hours let them use their education for their own self interests. Growing up I knew plenty of people who were well read, artistic and cultured who also worked at the Goodyear plant. They were not ashamed of this nor were they ashamed that they worked for a multinational corporation.
We used to be proud of this, Zuccotti brats! We should go back to being thrilled by our manufacturing and our industry. The alternative is bleak. Subsistence farming without all the goodies made by the corporations leads to a short cruel life. And if you get rid of the evil big industries, including big food, what you have left is really a life that these same brats would find unacceptable.
I do understand the people who would like to see things made here...and classics majors are just the people to make these things. What things? Textiles, glassware, dishes (Bring back PFALTZGRAFF!..the American made one, not the imposter)electronics, etc. And this time let's not forget how great it is to be a manufacturing society.
And my title was largely to be provocative, but I do think that our safety net encourages sloth
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