Teachers fail simple spelling test!

[dan_c00000]

I'd be interested to see this study. Mostly because I did some searching and couldn't find one.

 

[warrior queen]

I'd be interested to see this study. Mostly because I did some searching and couldn't find one.

Honestly, I don't know who did it, because I came into the room during the news segment and caught the last bit of the broadcast.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Isn't spelling and grammar the very basic skill needed in order to effectively convey your learning, whichever field (math, science, language, etc?)

No they are not. We've gotten to the point where spelling and grammar are a combination of formalities and things computers fix for us and before that were things that you just had to convince the majority of. Tey aren't like math or science. Language is quite fluid.

 

[miles]

When I was unleashed to practice psychotherapy

You...a psychotherapist? ROFLMAO!

 

[Arlan]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/consistent

I raise a glass to you, fellow compulsive editor.

Cheers!

Lately, though, I've been learning to ignore other people's spelling and grammar mistakes. It's quite relaxing.

 

[Loring2]

Capitalism is pure meritocracy.

In college, I actually went over the various Clinton Papers and proposals for Education to do a paper in some bullshit language class.

Paying teachers more cannot and will not raise those bound by culture unless that teacher is truly someone they want to emulate. If that teacher is a person from a class that their culture tells them to distrust on every level, then they will not find reason to adapt a new mind-set.

That is another problem with progressive ideas, they are focused on money, not Capital.

Capital is more than money; it is ideas, risk, sweat-equity...,

Well said Gump ... well said.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Different measure.

If you are the best of the mediocre, then that is a lesser meritocracy for sure.

It is very much like comparing the best welder at the VoTech to the Valedictorian who graduates with full scholarship to an Ivy.

The REAL meritocracy was those of us who gravitated towards the sciences and math, your engineers, architects, researchers, etc.

I understand why those of you connected with the teaching profession howl every time this subject is broached for you tend to take it personally, see my original remarks.



In strategy, it is important to keep a near view of distanced things and a distanced view of near things.
Miyamoto Musashi

So you were initially wrong. It is a meritocracy, just not a "real" meritocracy. So while teaching a karate class requires you to pass a test it's a "real" meritocracy, teaching in a public school, which requires you to pass a test isn't.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Yes, for every positive discrimination, there is a feeling of negative discrimination for the "meritorious" as defined by the Sgt. therefore there is evolved a whole industry that strives to portray teachers as almost nearly interchangeable beings of equal talent, ability, training and desire in order to forward the myth of overwhelming confidence guaranteed by the Education campus...



Better schools neither are to be tolerated for some child, assumed to be a minority at all times, might get left behind in a "bad" school so the only way, as it is with most progressive ideas, to prevent the bad is to retard the good and achieve a measurable equality.

That's a great opinion, but ALL states are actually raising standards. You won't find any state that is lowering their standards. A simple Google search yielded articles about my home state raising standards.

http://www.flgov.com/2012/07/11/raising-the-bar-works/

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

any new hire.

Nope. Feel free to try again though.

 

[CandiCame]

Actually, I wasn't aiming to bash teachers.
I was thinking the fault lies with the system that educates people to become teachers!
Why would you be able graduate when you can't spell well enough?

Isn't spelling and grammar the very basic skill needed in order to effectively convey your learning, whichever field (math, science, language, etc?)

Not in this universe. Maybe in whatever parallel dimension you're from. Maybe if you're an English teacher, but not really even then, whatwith spellcheck. I can't imagine a use for spelling.

 

[hummermania]

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.

No its not just the moment, we have been knocking the useless for years.