“Ain’t no party like a Clinton party”

There is something disturbing about this quote when you mix high school girls and the name Clinton.

2) How long did the public school choir rehearse their little ditty on school time?

I guess this is what passes for music eduction now a days.

David Bieri, principal of Scranton’s Robert Morris Elementary School, said Mrs. Clinton’s speech might end up luring him to her camp. “I came here as an Obama supporter. My children are 100 percent Clinton supporters,” he said. “After hearing her speak, I’m on the fence. Now, I’m waiting to hear some more specifics.”

Doesn’t anyone else find that oh-so-ironic?

An Obama supporter waiting for specifics?

LOL

/looking for the silver lining

Sad really…

Beyond sad really except for my girls. They all grew up knowing the school system didn’t give a care for them. They learned to think for themselves by bringing questions up at home about subjects they thought might be slanted. We always discussed them at great length – both sides of the issue. Now, they look at all sides of a problem before they make decisions.

We have 4 and 5 years olds in Haiti that can speak and read in three languages. They want to learn. Here, kids are like most teachers; do as little as possible to get by.

Mallard said it best (top three).

Laying to waste the idea that Barack Obama is better able to connect with American youngsters, Hillary Clinton made a campaign stop in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she creaked back and forth self-consciously while a high school choir treated her to a …

Salt said:

It is depressing. The largest part of the problem is that students are taught “what” to think and not “how” to think on these subjects.

The sad truth is that kids are far too impressionable when it comes to subjects about which they have little interest (e.g. politics). The funny thing is that if their teachers (liberal or otherwise) told them what to wear, what music to enjoy, what movies to watch… Then you would not hear the mindless repetition of mantras such as the ones you mention.

I hear ya, Salt. I think kids are becoming more and more automatons and less clear thinking, self-aware individuals. You can clearly trace the advent of this with the creation of the standardized test- which I’ve both taken as a student and administered as a teacher.

American society expects public schools to pick up more and more of the slack from the breakdown of families. It expects teachers to be counselors, social workers, disciplinarians, and babysitters all rolled into one. Kids are no longer intelligent, thinking human beings because we’ve come to expect less out of them except to score acceptable grades on standardized tests. We no longer expect them to be law-abiding, responsible, financially-savy, success oriented individuals.

Sad really…

On-my-soap-box said:
As a former teacher
emjem,

Dang, we lost another good teacher?

Yeah, unfortunately, sad but true. My husband and I move every 3 years since he’s in the military. It just got plain hard to keep applying for Social Studies teaching jobs only to be told “we’re not hiring how ’bout you sub instead.” Schools are hurtin’ for subs not quality Social Studies teachers.

I have about 3 different state teaching certificates (NY, AL, CO), have taken different certification exams, filled out masses of meaningless employment paperwork, have gone through background checks only to find that the educational bureaucratic maze hard to overcome. Maybe someday but not right now.