Sol Rosenberg
Girthy Member
Insurrecting is hard, isn’t it, bullshitters?
Maybe Storming The Capitol Wasn't Such A Good Idea
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Olsonist
Disgusting Liberal Elitist
Tom will be along shortly to tell us that Caldwell is just a good ol' nincomcouper, never meanin' no harm.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
The age he will be during the years he will spend in prison exactly correspond to the part of my life I spent restoring a Columbia 43.
In fact I retired younger than he will be when he gets out.
Stupid really can be expensive can't it?
In fact I retired younger than he will be when he gets out.
Stupid really can be expensive can't it?
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
I heard somewhere that a federal sentence in the States is exactly what it says - no time off for good behaviour and so forth - you do the full boat.
Is that in fact the case?
Is that in fact the case?
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SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
Bummer.
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
Stupid is supposed to be painful.
Seperation of decision/action from consequences is a big part of why the USA is going off the rails. A lot more people look at this as "political persecution" so it's likely that the lesson is not doing much good.
Bus Driver
Bacon Quality Control Specialist
I'm hoping people are taking notes for when early release/parole discussions come up.
Bus Driver
Bacon Quality Control Specialist
Speaker McCarthy -
The response from the defeated ex-President -
The response from the defeated ex-President -
Steam Flyer
Sophisticated Yet Humble
Did anybody expect anything different?
These people are reflexively, instinctively, dishonest panderers.
What's up with TFG's avatar?
Is he trying to pull some sort of perverted Col Kurtz?
Bristol-Cruiser
Super Anarchist
I understand what you are getting at but it is too simplistic. The 100 kids cannot be taught in this sort of industrial model that might work for older secondary and post-secondary. Many of the 100 do, in fact, need teacher attention even if they are being successful and not disruptive. In grade 7, with the hormones starting to rage it would be 'interesting' to say the least.
I agree with your comments about 7th grade but hard to imagine it working in grade 1, might be more possible in grades 11 and 12 but there is a huge structural problem. - as building structures. You say send the kids to the auditorium but you are going to have more than one or two of these large groupings at any given time and you don't have the large spaces to accommodate them. One problem with most schools is that they have physical spaces designed to accommodate at most 35 or so kids. You could, for example, have grade 12 math classes of 75 or so (with tutorial support at another time) but you have no spaces for these larger classes - that would allow smaller classes elsewhere unless you are going to do costly school renovations.
My career was at schools at two extremes - for a time at what was likely most inner city school in Canada followed by many years at an upper middle suburban school that was mainly immigrant families very much focussed on academic achievement. The student needs in the two schools were often very different but they were real in both. Some people and governments seem to think that teaching is something that can be systemized with the same process being applied everywhere. Spent a couple of hours talking to my conservative MPP about their ed policies. His example of their approach was that they were going to find out who taught Hamlet in the best way possible and then get everyone to teach it in the same way. For so many reasons that just could not work. Teaching at its best is an art. Two teachers, in two settings, may teach Hamlet in completely different ways - and both can be wonderfully effective. The problem with teaching as an art for educational bureaucrats and politicians is that the process is much less controllable.
My comments are based on high school and from a Canadian context. I am assuming the lessons are similar elsewhere. See specifics above.
Blue Crab
benthivore
Good thoughts all. Thx
Mrleft8
Super Anarchist
Teachers engaging the students' interest, in anyway that they can is key. Staying in focus on the end goal is also key. My best teachers made learning fun, not a chore to be completed by Tuesday at 10AM.
Of course, class can't always be a playground with Robin Williams bounding in through the window dressed up like Jean Lafitte, but it also doesn't have to be the drone of a bumblebee from Sept to June with no zip.
I had a math teacher in Freshman year HS that was brilliant. He had awards, and presidential medals and I literally could not stay awake for more than 10 minutes in his class.
Of course, class can't always be a playground with Robin Williams bounding in through the window dressed up like Jean Lafitte, but it also doesn't have to be the drone of a bumblebee from Sept to June with no zip.
I had a math teacher in Freshman year HS that was brilliant. He had awards, and presidential medals and I literally could not stay awake for more than 10 minutes in his class.
My high school physics teacher worked on the philosophy of "repetition is the mother of learning". I would routinely dose off in class from the boredom. He would wake me up with a question, and I always came up with the right answer. Yeah, the repetition worked, but it was boring as hell. In college I had a physics professor that did not do the reputation thing. Kept it interesting. He also gave points for telling him bad jokes. I did well in that class without ever dosing off.
SloopJonB
Super Anarchist
IIRC there's a lot of overlap.
Oops! I am blaming autocorrect. Yups, let's go with that.
Sol Rosenberg
Girthy Member
I fell into a particularly deep sleep in class once, to the point that I was disoriented when I woke up, and didn’t realize where I was until after I yawned, stretched, and ripped a trumpet solo of a fart. Never fell asleep in class again.
