My Own Experience With Public School

My Own Experience With Public School

Lector over at Men of the West recently posted on Stupid Teachers [https://www.menofthewest.net/stupid-teachers/], and his experience getting placed in a remedial reading class. The highlight was the total inability of the school administration to believe their own eyes about his ability to read but instead believe a failed multiple choice standardized test that he had obviously answered one-off. I've generally avoided tooting my own horn, but it echoed all too many experiences I had. That sai…

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Teachers Are Incompetent - According to Their Supposed Supporters

Teachers Are Incompetent - According to Their Supposed Supporters

Just an example of something that’s come up in response to Trump and others discussing arming teachers: > If I can be trusted to teach your kid calculus, I can be trained to handle a firearm. — Archer (@BoraxCross) March 21, 2018 [https://twitter.com/BoraxCross/status/976296820807671808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > If they can be trusted to teach French they can be trusted to fly a 747. — ZKep (@z_kep) March 21, 2018 [https://twitter.com/z_kep/status/976298354786340864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > In…

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