Archive for the ‘ Teachers ’ Category

Poetic Memorization

Hilarious bit about what happens when students are made to memorize great poetical works and can recite them at will for life, even when drunk and wandering the streets in the dead of night. [ READ MORE ]

Is Technology Just A Tool?

The technology we create for ourselves, ostensibly to make our lives easier/better/faster, seems always to impact more than just the job it was created for. I’m talking about wheels and looms, satellites and cotton gins, not Silly Putty and Flowbees. [ READ MORE ]

How To Land A Mentor

Those giants are called mentors, and every chucklehead youngin’ like yourself wants one. The more awesome a mentor, the more sought out they are. This has the unfortunate effect of making them ignore most of the tweedle-dums who come begging for their priceless advice and knowledge[ READ MORE ]

Pennsylvania Schools Cheated Also

And I’m super duper excited to read American History a few decades from now when someone theorizes that President Bush and his No Child Left Behind Act pushed American educators to cheat on standardized tests. [ READ MORE ]

School Shut Down: Teacher and Principal Smoking Meth

Dear State and Federal Governments, You don’t pay educators enough money. Perhaps a budget increase could class things up a bit[link to article] in the U.S. Public School System. Get on that, please, for the love of all things wholesome and holy. Thanks! [ READ MORE ]

Atlanta Cheats, Too

Remember the jackass educators in Washington D.C. who erased students’ incorrect answer bubbles and filled in the correct ones? So classy, so honest, such role models for the impressionable young minds they’re wearing down to nubs with high-pressure standardized tests. Adults suck. [ READ MORE ]

Zack Kopplin for President

Michele Bachmann has officially announced her decision to run in the 2012 presidential campaign. I’d rather have the Baton Rouge teen, Zack Kopplin, who called her out on her creationism/intelligent design education policies. He seems smarter and a lot more open to facts and logic[ READ MORE ]

No Senioritis Fun For You!

Reasons behind the reduced high school experience: Indiana will save between $6,000 and $8,000 per student, which will then be used for college scholarships; and most college-bound teens are done with their core requirements and have sent their paperwork in to their future colleges and universities and spend most of senior year decompressing and having fun (the humanity!) instead of focusing on their studies. [ READ MORE ]

Lecturing and Questioning

Even for students like me, who learn best by reading the material and not by having someone verbally beat me over the head with it. [ READ MORE ]

Broadband Availability for U.S. Schools

School kids need broadband, too! There’s a nearly infinite universe of information available on the Internet, a bazillion football stadiums’ worth of hard copy knowledge that would never fit into a school library or classroom[ READ MORE ]