Utterly Meaningless

Maybe my experience was unique, but the vast majority of science and math teachers I had in middle and high school were horrible. It is in spite of them, not because of them, that I went on to do well in science in college and made it my profession. I specifically remember how horrid the teachers were in the math department – each and every one of them. How sad!

I’d much rather have the ability to move my daughter out of a class/community college until I found her a good teacher for a given subject, instead of having her stuck with a poor one without recourse.

This is part of that whole arguement wherein teachers have studied so hard to learn to teach so that kids learn, and because they have a degree, they must certainly be better prepared, regardless of the growing mountain of evidence proving the point otherwise.

And before there were schools? The human race died off, went postal, descended into anarchy, barbarianism…

I’ve got a 5yo that’s better at logic than that.

Maybe I (we) think that way because X years ago we were teenagers, survived it and maybe even to a degree understand it.

This writer of this Maine LTTE is not far from the town where the teenager was allegedly murdered by the hs teenager.