09:08 – According to our inventory records, we have 2000+ labeled bottles that need to be filled. I’ll try to knock that number down some today. When I get tired of filling and capping bottles, I’ll spend some time working on the earth science manual.
Tuesday, 10 June 2014
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This article on the state of public school in Chicago says it all. Look at the teacher pay vs student success rate. Tax money well spent by libturd Dumbocrats.
Four out of 10 CPS freshmen do not graduate.
If they do graduate, 91 percent have to take remediation courses in college because they do not know how to do basic math and school work. Just 26 percent of CPS high school students are college-ready, according to the ACT subject matter tests.
Students in these schools whose families can’t afford an alternative are trapped in classrooms that, for the most part, aren’t equipping them to succeed in the future.
But while CPS students get left behind, their teachers receive generous compensation.
The average CPS teacher salary is $76,000. The last contract negotiations in 2012 gave CPS teachers 17 percent raises over three years.
Did you think they were being paid to teach?
“f they do graduate, 91 percent have to take remediation courses in college because they do not know how to do basic math and school work.”
Yes. I taught freshman college English to them. 22 YEARS AGO. This was going on THEN. It was about half and half remediation and ESL. I can only imagine what it’s like now.
“Did you think they were being paid to teach?”
1.) Maintain some kind of reasonable order and organization in the classroom.
2.) Remediation of stuff they shoulda learned years before in middle school/junior high.
3.) ESL for the hordes from many dozens of other countries, but mainly south of the border, the Middle East, and south Asia. Very problematic and difficult.
4.) Indoctrinate with neo-Marxist claptrap and do not use any traditional correction/grading procedures; that will all be ironed out at the faculty and TA “collectives” meetings.
5.) If not entirely on board with all this chit, walk on eggshells daily, if not hourly, as you are being closely watched and monitored.
As I’ve said before, Barbara and I do not have kids. If we did, there’s absolutely no way we’d allow them to attend public school, period. We’d homeschool them, enroll them in private school, or some combination. We’d do that if it meant we had to subsist on gruel.
As I’ve said before, Barbara and I do not have kids. If we did, there’s absolutely no way we’d allow them to attend public school, period. We’d homeschool them, enroll them in private school, or some combination. We’d do that if it meant we had to subsist on gruel.
Good advice. We tried all three options: public, private and homeschooling. Homeschooling worked the best but my wife with undergraduate and graduate degrees, was the teacher and coordinator. For most of the high school STEM courses for my son, she contracted that out. My son’s chemistry course was five students. Calculus was three students but fifty miles away in the teachers home, three times a week.
They make more than I did as an O-5/LTC with flight pay. They can also make that (and more) until they die. Can’t be fired. Can’t be disciplined (unless you call sitting in an empty room drawing full pay discipline). Just ridiculous.
I guess that’s why Obummer isn’t retiring to Chicago. He’s moving to Bob’s part of the country. lol There goes the neighborhood.
Oh, crap. We were seriously considering eventually moving to that area.
Well, there’s still the Montana/Alberta border area, on either side of the border. Actually, probably on both sides. I’d want business premises in the US and Canada. I think I’d actually prefer to live there anyway.
Dear Leader will be in my old stomping grounds, Woostah, MA, this week to give a little talk at the technical high school; naturally his entourage will have exclusive access to the (regional) airport and two main city streets, both miles long, into downtown. The cops have told businesses that there will be no curbside parking that day, period. The governor, another communist, will be there with him. 250 Woostah cops will be on dooty, at a cost around a million or so, for the whole enchilada. Then he squirts on into Boston briefly and back out via the Woostah airport, which our parents used to take us to when we were little kids.
It’s up on a long ridge north of the city, and down below is Spider Gate Cemetery, in the middle of the dark woods, a stereotypical Halloween horror movie boneyard. You can go there in the middle of the day and there will be no one around and it is indeed kind of eerie. Only a dirt road into the site, too, and hard to find.
If Barry moves to that area of NC, Bob might oughta think about stepping up their plans to bail sooner rather than later; total crap shoot as to whether the bastard indeed goes for a third term (national security, repeal of 22nd).
I guess things have changed in the CPS. I graduated after being on their college prep track and went directly on to the nearest Big 10 university. I was not required to take any remedial courses.
Oh well, that was 58 years ago.
However, it does describe the current state in the nearby LAUSD. Worthless diplomas which must be honored by the junior, community colleges. Consequently, over half the courses are remedial and 70% do not return for a second year.
They had the kids in our high school pretty much broken down into tracks; one, that I was in, “college preparatory.” Among us was a group of maybe thirty that I’d known since junior high who were extremely studious and included National Merit Scholars and of course they aced the SATs and achievement tests. Very smart kids but were not assholes about it, for the most part. Then there was the “general” track, of everyone else, and among them were just average kids who probably wouldn’t be going on to college, other than maybe a junior or community college, more likely the boys went into the armed forces or jobs at the local GM, Bose and other manufacturing plants when we still had manufacturing in this country. Also among them were the “greasers” and the Sax Gang, known as such for their home turf in Saxonville, a part of Framingham, and the site of the Roxbury Carpet Company, which routinely leached and dribbled dyes and other junk into the Sudbury River (which connects with the Charles, Concord and Merrimack Rivers, written about by Thoreau) down behind the high school; we’d smoke doobies down there and groove on the purple and green swirls in the wottuh.
I managed somehow to be on pretty friendly terms with all the tracks and sectors and cliques, and was one of the very small minority of college prep kids who enlisted in the military. With pretty good college board scores, too; coulda probably got some kinda fin-aid package but I was mortally sick of skool and living at home by then. So got a better education from 1971-80 instead.
1971—43 years ago; Second Amendment Slim has fifteen years on me. And I have ten years on my youngest brother, who went on to ZooMass out in Amherst and failed to graduate by one frigging course. No one else in my family ever graduated from college but me and none of them seemed to give a shit, either. Can’t blame ’em.
Now that Obummer has thrown Hagel under the bus for the Bergdahl swap, I wonder if a resignation is coming? Naw, with two B-2 Stealth Bombers going towards the Ukraine for “training” Obummer can throw Hagel under the bus over and over and over. Then he resigns.
You are correct, sir; they’ll wring out Hagel for all he’s worth and then stop scrubbing out on him with that bus at some point. And as the supposed second term winds down, watch them bailing out like rats from a sinking ship, per usual in that evil fucking town down there.
The sooner it reverts to barren swamp, marsh and malaria-ridden bog, the better. Picture classical Greek and Roman ruins in the middle of a central American jungle and that’s what it will look like, short of a second civil war battlefield, maybe.
My wife also had a bachelor’s degree and now it is endemic in the family. Both our children have M.S.s, my SIL a degree from UCLA, and our grandchildren, 12 and 14, are planning on college.
Regarding CPS, LAUSD and similar, may I restate that 5th graders that 3Rs at the second grade level must be “promoted” to the sixth grade. They cannot be held back until functionally capable. It is absolutely unacceptable and intolerable that the average age in any grade be 4 years greater than we have by automagic promotion.
So you guys keep telling me that your elections are phoney, and people without huge lobby groups funding them can’t get elected. So explain this to me please: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/us/politics/eric-cantor-loses-gop-primary.html
Seems to me that the little guy can win, after all.
Commence the Tea Party bashing in 3, 2, 1…
TP bashing? Sure. BFD. Another TP idiot may get to go to Mordor, and like all the rest, inhale the toxic vapors there, get invited to neat parties with the alleged social elites and intelligentsia, not to mention ruling nomenklatura, and gee, what a surprise! Nothing ever changes. Plus all they give a shit about is their own money.
Means exactly nothing. Except it raises false hopes that anything will actually change because these creatures can get elected occasionally. Tokens, that’s all, if even that.
Tell me about their effectiveness when even a tiny dent has been made in the boilerplate arrogance of Leviathan and all its works. When even one of them can evade the blandishments of Mordor for a nanosecond.
Maybe we can get the other 433 (my rep is ultra conservative and just fine) reps in Congress replaced also. Cantor was beginning to smell like a RINO to me and was leading the effort for another blanket amnesty.
This over running the border thing is starting to look bad, real bad. It is time to mobilize the military. Machine guns nests with overlapping fields of fire and armed escorts across the river for all undocumented aliens. Will never happen with this president.
Instead, the president is issuing lawyers for the illegals. I wonder who is going to pay these legal bills? They will all be voting in the 2016 election for Hillary. Do it for the children!
Ah Davy, you are simply predictable.
The border is a problem? Well don’t count on newly elected TP drones to fix that; they gotta focus on their SS and Medicare and 401ks. Also what to wear to that cool brunch on Sunday.
Of course some evidently think that electing just one of these clowns is a revelation that the system works after all. When the closest we ever came in modern times to that kind of change was with the idiot Perot. There must have been absolute panic among the ruling elites, rushing to figure out Plan C and Plan D if it should come to pass. But they managed to squash it, of course, and we’ve had Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee functionaries since, which most mistake for actual leadership.
we’d smoke doobies down there and groove on the purple and green swirls in the wottuh.
Are you certain that was not just your imagination in the stoned state of mind?
Yeah, pretty certain, since those green and purple swirls were there 7×24, not just when we were baked. Also shopping carts and vehicles from the 1940s and 1950s.
“Ah Davy, you are simply predictable.”
“Predictable” = Consistent.
When, assuming I still believed elections and voting are genuine and worth spending time and effort on, TP or other, similar candidate groups, are winning elections in a significant minority of the states, say a dozen or so, including one or two important states like Kalifornia, Illinois, Ohio, Texas or Florida; and when there are two or three U.S. Senators from among them and a couple of dozen Congressmen who stick to their guns and all this is trending upward, then sure, I’ll buy into the idea.
Until then it’s just a sad joke.
Davy, I find it funny that you have faith in an unprovable God, but not in an election process that you can actually take part in. You truly deserve the government you get.
This wasn’t some backwater, but a Virginia Primary where the sitting House Majority Leader lost out to an unknown. It all starts somewhere, and it just happened in Virginny.
Predictable also equals unsurprising.
I don’t see any evidence of Obama trying for a third term. In the end he is just a cog in the political machine. Hillary in 2016 while Michelle serves a term as Senator, then Michelle in 2020 or 2024. That’s the strategy I see shaping up.
You could be right, brad. Of course those wimmenz are also just cogs in the machine. I don’t think HILLARY! is gonna make it, though.
“Davy, I find it funny that you have faith in an unprovable God, but not in an election process that you can actually take part in. You truly deserve the government you get.”
Billy, I find it hilarious that you don’t believe in the God who created it all and proof of Whom already done by guys a lot smarter than us lo these many centuries ago. Yet you believe in elections here in this country, in which we participate or not, that actually mean anything beyond a local small town level. You don’t seem to get it that it’s almost always a total bag job and the candidates, as in the old Soviet Union, are picked out for us. Maybe it’s done right in BC, I dunno; but I and others here have many decades of experience in how it works in what’s left of this nay-shun. It takes beaucoups piastres, to start with, and you are then immediately beholden to them what paid the piper, the fiddler, whomever.
So far, just about everyone elected here in the last dozens of years has ended up in the bag or was in the bag to start with, the several exceptions proving the rule having been Ron Paul, Sam Rayburn, and now I can’t think of a third or fourth. Of course people will pipe up that their guy is grand in whatever district but that turns out to be not so much the case for the rest of us, naturally.
On top of all of that, the system, as we have discussed here many times, is irredeemably broken beyond any hope of repair now. There are so many things wrong with it as to beggar belief, and the next election or cycle of voting charades will not fix it.
And no, sir, I do not deserve the government I get and have been getting; my family and I have shed blood and treasure repeatedly here since before it *was* a nation, and I was a good do-bee and registered and voted regularly and played the game for many, many years, first as a Republican and then as an Independent. We’re through shedding blood and treasure and through playing charades with these assholes. They need to be shown the door like we showed the Brits the door, twice, and we need to start over, preferably with the original Articles of Confederation.
But if that is not doable, or can’t be done relatively peacefully and efficiently, then let us break up into a confederacy and separate regions according to our several affinities and be done with it. We’ll find a way to set up a common defense and shut down the reactors and forget the idea of Empire once and for all. Let the Chinese have a crack at it, not that they’re in any shape to even start. The world’s time of empires is at an end.
I think it works better in Canada because here the people well to the left of the bell curve don’t bother to vote, and our best and brightest do. In America it is seemingly the other way around.
We will have to identify Canada’s and our “best and brightest,” I reckon. And I don’t doubt that there are some Canadian provinces that have not been corrupted as badly as the states here have been, for the most part. Money has an extremely loud voice here, as does, apparently, moronically stupid bellicosity and ignorance of the outside world. If our leaders tell us that Country A’s people are bad and we need to bash them, why, we just go along and trot out the bands and parades and go back to our tee-vees.
And it’s really too bad that Canadian armed forces and police are in increasingly close cooperation with ours.
Well, I was talking about me and thee, but it you want to put yourself on the left side, feel free! 🙂
And we simply must exclude Quebec, which is rampant with corruption. If it wasn’t for the greasy palms in Montreal and Quebec City, we would rank up there with Denmark and New Zealand on the Corruption Perception Index: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#2013
Oui, La Belle Province Quebec is rife, esp. the cities. It really ain’t my cup of tea up there but Princess goes to school in Montreal so what can I do. I much prefer the Maritimes and would probably dig BC. Mrs. OFD has also been out there and to the western prairie provinces and has her deceased husband’s in-laws in the NWT.
Quebec is ripe, too, in my limited experience. What is it about the French language that makes people afraid of bathing? (I’ll admit my time in France does not extend much beyond a (very) prolonged airport layover, but the smell was considerable even though my nose was deadened by about a million hours in airplanes. And I’ll also admit that I haven’t done a blind side-by-side olfactory comparison of former French, former English, and former Spanish colonies, but don’t bother my rant with trivial things such as data.)
Never been to France but I will check with Mrs. OFD and Princess accordingly; haven’t noticed that about our good friends les Quebecois, but other things annoy me about them; their rudeness in stores and the way they dress. As with other people, the rural folks seem much more squared-away in my view. This was true in my SEA experience and since then here in New England and the Maritimes.
I was in France in 1990, I think the French bathe as much as Aussies, Poms and Yanks. Didn’t notice any bad smells.
I noticed that Canukistan and Australia were similarly placed on the rank of countries with low corruption. If Quebec was excised from Canukistan and New South Wales and Queensland from Oz we’d both be right up at the top. The Kiwi’s, well, they have different moral failings… 🙂