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We are the Tangent Crowd

breandan_ui_ciarraide wrote:We are the Tangent Crowd

Ain't it the truth, a chara, ain't it the truth.

[quote="Nah, I think it was because I was just a little runt. Easy to pick on. [/quote]
Definitely being a runt is what makes you look vulnerable and being Irish doesn't help. Believe me. I have experience in this too (i'm 5-4 so there's a lot of seniors that believe in 'educating freshman'). It was just dumb seniors.

Getting rid of bad teachers with tenure is just a problem. Unfortunately, at the high school i go to it's also difficult to get rid of bad untenured teachers. Apparently, and i quote, and admin person said to the newspaper: "It would be very bad for his [the teachers] self-esteem to fire him at this point in his career."

Not for nothing but the Social Emotional Learning stuff has gone too far if that's what it's come to.

Was there some kind of educational psychologist who came up with all this crap??

Ailill wrote:Was there some kind of educational psychologist who came up with all this crap??

Dr. Spock, as well as others alongthose lines in the "Cultural Revolution" of the 1960's in America. Basically, that was when an entire generation said "to hell with the status quo, we wanna do what we want" and bloody well did so, damn the consequences.
Now, a lot of good things came out of that- civil rights, religious freedoms, greater tolerance, etc., but just as many, if not more, negative results also haunt us to this day. It boils down to the massive shift from agrarian-based or influenced rural paradigm of America prior to WWII to the overwhelmingly industrial and urban technical paradigm by the '60's. Basically, what many in Ireland are now lauding as an accomplishment in Irish economic prosperity, America has a 60 year history of to show that it ain't all that it's cracked up to be. Take a good look at America, Ireland. It is your future.

I am cranky.... must be the lack of caffeine. Feckin' coffee maker

It's a very strange place to be a parent these days, that's for sure. Did you know that, in California, it's illegal to give your child a spanking? I'm not talking about a beating here...I'm talking about a one-handed smack on the rear. And then there are the children I see being actively encouraged to be rude to adults...their parents actually think it's cute when they walk up to someone having a quiet smoke on a street corner and say something like "you're dirty and disgusting." Sometimes I feel like I went to sleep in 1970 and woke up in (Orwell's) 1984.

Redwolf

Well, I have been away for a while, and was shocked at how much conversation has happened in my absence! Not to mention the social-cultural and educational developments to the topic...it was a tattoo translation

Sounds like the States is a scarey place. Seems pretty normal the few short visits, but movies do paint a different picture! Now you arse-kicking stories are getting close to home. In Canada we are slowly moving towards swarmings. Not sure if it is due to the immigrant influx, largely from Somolia, Middle East and Africa. But it feels like a more dangerous world. I always thought the States had more violence than us because you have more people than us. But the violence is changing. Today there is no respect for human life, and there is no honour. When I was young, fights were fair, one on one. How can anyone survive the 20 on one beatings that end in comas and death?

As for home schooling, Elijah Wood was home schooled. It occurs here in Canada, each province determining standards. But few do it. hope our school system is graduating only literate folk, but again, we have fewer people, therefor fewer to fall between the cracks!

As for not correcting spelling and grammar, it happened here in to a lesser extent, but only to encouage writing. Too much correction meant to much negative feed back. Stupid eh?