Teachers fail simple spelling test!

[warrior queen]

An examination of 460 currently employed teachers, ranging in age from newly qualified early 20's to late 30's experienced teachers, found that 74% failed a simple spelling test with words like convenient, subpoena, and consistant.
How the hell are our kids supposed to learn when the teachers themselves can't do it?

 

[CandiCame]

Those are fucking simple?

I've said it since 3rd grade.

FUCK SPELLING.

You're never in a situation where you don't have spell-check, and the English language is retarded in the way that it spells things.

 

[ChinaBandit]

An examination of 460 currently employed teachers, ranging in age from newly qualified early 20's to late 30's experienced teachers, found that 74% failed a simple spelling test with words like convenient, subpoena, and consistant.
How the hell are our kids supposed to learn when the teachers themselves can't do it?

Honestly Warrior Queen, all the Australians I know have rushed to secure private school placements for their children. Apparently, no one sees state run schools in the country as even remotely viable if one wants to go to a decent uni much less a sandstone...

 

[Busybody]

An examination of 460 currently employed teachers, ranging in age from newly qualified early 20's to late 30's experienced teachers, found that 74% failed a simple spelling test with words like convenient, subpoena, and consistant.
How the hell are our kids supposed to learn when the teachers themselves can't do it?

why dont they use spell check

 

[PhilGarlic]

lets

lets knock teachers! is it a fashion at the moment?

To be honest, if a good math teacher can't spell I don't mind.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Well, some people have to go to TAFE's or less to fulfill Oz's service jobs...Interesting to see the number of Asian faces on Australian uni campuses. There are a lot!

 

[CandiCame]

Fun Fact: I couldn't spell my name until the 3rd grade.

My name is spelled retardedly.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Education attracts also-rans and bottom-feeders of the food chain. Mostly cuz folks with more brain cells dont wanna babysit knuckle walking, mouth breathing trailer trash & Niggaz. People with more going for them prefer to serve on panels and committees that divine how much spinach and rutabagas to waste on teens who prefer pizza and Red Bull.

 

[ChinaBandit]

Education attracts also-rans and bottom-feeders of the food chain. Mostly cuz folks with more brain cells dont wanna babysit knuckle walking, mouth breathing trailer trash & Niggaz. People with more going for them prefer to serve on panels and committees that divine how much spinach and rutabagas to waste on teens who prefer pizza and Red Bull.

I'd add to this that a wise man once told me "those that can do, do. Those that can't, teach."

 

[The_Trouvere]

I am old enough to remember life before word processing. If I was unsure of a word I would look it up in a dictionary.

 

[Sean Renaud]

And I'm young enough to realize that if you are in a situation where you can't either look it up in a dictionary or trust the spell check on your computer to handle it that you have a bigger problem than how the fuck you spell a word. I'm all for getting better teachers and the best way to attract them is with higher pay but still.

 

[CandiCame]

I just googled dictionary. How the fuck does that work? If you can't spell it, how the fuck do you look it up?

That was a joke. I know what a dictionary is.

I seriously have never used one to check spelling though. They're for definitions. How the fuck do you look up a word you don't know how to spell? You have to know the spelling to look it up. You can't search by definition because they're arranged based on SPELLING.

 

[PhilGarlic]

spellcheck

why dont they use spell check

Because it won't tell what witch you want, which is why spell check is not 100% right (write)

 

[ChinaBandit]

Do the Australians even know how to spell?

Labour rather than labor, colour rather than color...

Whatever.

 

[CandiCame]

Because it won't tell what witch you want, which is why spell check is not 100% right (write)

And that right there is why English is fucking retarded.

Red and read and read; whether and weather, all that shit is bullshit.

Phonetically spelled things are the way to go. You know how you spell 'phone' in Spanish? 'Fone'.

BECAUSE IT'S A FUCKING 'F' SOUND!!

And if a word is pronounced the same, just pick a fucking spelling and go with it.

Hell...

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

- B. Shaw

 

[Sean Renaud]

I just googled dictionary. How the fuck does that work? If you can't spell it, how the fuck do you look it up?

That was a joke. I know what a dictionary is.

I seriously have never used one to check spelling though. They're for definitions. How the fuck do you look up a word you don't know how to spell? You have to know the spelling to look it up. You can't search by definition because they're arranged based on SPELLING.

Generally you are close enough to spell the word to look it up especially in the google world. Also change your AV, I can't pick on you when you're a liver eating monster. I only pick on pussy bitches and I avoid fair fights.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'd add to this that a wise man once told me "those that can do, do. Those that can't, teach."

Agriculture is my thing. And I explain to folks that the difference tween an ag perfesser and a farmer is the difference tween a fisherman and the flunky who scoops fish out of a tank with a net.

 

[CandiCame]

Generally you are close enough to spell the word to look it up especially in the google world. Also change your AV, I can't pick on you when you're a liver eating monster. I only pick on pussy bitches and I avoid fair fights.

Man, I get it so wrong that spell-check doesn't have a goddamn clue what I was trying to say. How the fuck is a book going to help me?

I'll change it back after Haloween.

Plus, I'm the fucking bad guy.

I turned this;

Into this

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

An examination of 460 currently employed teachers, ranging in age from newly qualified early 20's to late 30's experienced teachers, found that 74% failed a simple spelling test with words like convenient, subpoena, and consistant.
How the hell are our kids supposed to learn when the teachers themselves can't do it?

I've said it before and I'll say it again; the one thing I learned over the course of 30+ years teaching Martial Arts to kids is that kids of the average intellect that get bullied become cops and the unimaginative become teachers.

The best and the brightest go do best and brightest stuff, and the others, well,

Mama always said, if you can not say something nice...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

lets knock teachers! is it a fashion at the moment?

To be honest, if a good math teacher can't spell I don't mind.

If you are on the chunl going 27 killomatters per our...




Dear Misses smith,

You're dotter is realy not doing to good in math, perhaps some totering after school?

Angciosly waiting you're reply.

Auqualung

 

[potterboy]

I'd add to this that a wise man once told me "those that can do, do. Those that can't, teach."

And the quote continues. "And those who can't teach, teach teachers!"

 

[mercury14]

I've said it before and I'll say it again; the one thing I learned over the course of 30+ years teaching Martial Arts to kids is that kids of the average intellect that get bullied become cops and the unimaginative become teachers.

The best and the brightest go do best and brightest stuff, and the others, well,

Mama always said, if you can not say something nice...

Is that why you became a teacher?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Martial Arts are a meritocracy.


I was promoted to that position as a duty and the punishment for being the best.


The ring is most certainly not the Education Campus.


Like Sensei W. once confided to me, if I had known the responsibility that came with a black belt, I would have stayed a white belt...

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

The Martial Arts are a meritocracy.


I was promoted to that position as a duty and the punishment for being the best.


The ring is most certainly not the Education Campus.


Like Sensei W. once confided to me, if I had known the responsibility that came with a black belt, I would have stayed a white belt...

Show me 1 teacher in any US public school teacher who did not earn their job by merit.

 

[CandiCame]

One of the biggest complaints from teachers that I've heard is essentially that, merit is not rewarded. Teaching is a dead-end job. Promotion takes you out of the classroom and into administrative duty. You're thrown into the fire on your first day and expected to behave like a seasoned pro. In your EDF classes you're spoonfed Piagetian psychobabble- and that man was a moron who did his "experiments" on his own three kids and knew far more about lichen then he ever did about humans. You go into it doing that job, and you retire doing that job. If you're good, then you don't get a better teaching job, you move to administration. They just don't have the same promotion-based system as other careers.

The best that you can hope for is a better school. Teachers salaries are based primarilly upon the property values of the homes surrounding them (schools are paid via property taxes in local districts) so if you're good, you can hope to get hired in a rich school. That means that the poor kids, the kids who are more often at risk and who need better teachers, get the shittiest teachers, because merit means that you moved to a better neighborhood where you're paid better.

The entire system sucks.