I went to Catholic school for K-8, 4 years at a public high school, and then except for about a year at a community college, I went to a Catholic college as well. I’d say my teachers were just as good for both.
And for that matter, while they weren’t teachers, my mother was a teachers’ aid at the local elementary school, and two of my aunts were teachers’ aids at my high school. And I’ve seen the kind of work THEY had to put up with as well.
LHOD, you and I may have had our differences, but I do admire you for what you do. Martin Hyde, you’re embarassing yourself. It’s cringe-worthy.
There must be intelligent and thoughtful school board members whose primary goal is to enhance education.
It’s just that in years of covering school board meetings as a reporter, I never encountered any. They generally spent their time indulging petty grudges and trying to score points on the unfortunates who were obliged to put up with them
It’s rude to suggest someone is drunk because they say something you disagree with. This is an internet message board, you have no evidentiary basis for assessing me or anyone else as intoxicated, so that then is just a childish ad hominem attack.
Now I’m reduced to hoping that maybe your (hypothetical) toxically bitter and angry slacker brother-in-law has just hijacked your SDMB account. Because if you were really drunk off your ass, you’d probably be making a lot more typos.
So other people’s experience makes them a “biased observer of the system” but yours makes you an impartial expert? Neat.
“Look how everyone from the dinner party is still talking about how I dropped my pants and took a shit on the living room carpet. Winning!”
It’s worth noting that “drunk off your ass” was being offered as the less reprehensible explanation for your posts, the other option being that you’re genuinely a disingenuous asshole. But if you prefer the second option, we can work with that. It remain consistent with your posting style, as the above examples demonstrate.
I actually know several people who have served as elected school committee members who really do care about the kids, but even so, that’s a very special perspective, where you are mostly looking at balancing budgets, re-building decaying buildings, and other financial and infrastructure issues, not the bread and butter of teaching children.
I’m sorry for the teachers that hurt you, Martin, apparently giving you this warped and ludicrous disdain for their profession. It happened long ago and those teachers are probably long dead.
I’ve worked on the campaigns for school board members who felt this way, and it used to be a contest of ideas, where the opponent simply had a different idea of what was best for the children.
The last couple of cycles, however, it’s not about differing opinions as to what is best for the children, but a pure ideological hatred of public school, and the people are trying to get elected in order to dismantle it to the best of their ability. They run on talking shit about the teachers, making them out to be untrustworthy and lazy. @Martin_Hyde’s rant could be taken straight from their campaign material.
I picture him being a lazy, entitled student who probably thought having to sometimes read the book was “teaching himself” and test reviews were “useless” if they didn’t have the exact questions that were going to be on the test. He feels he’s entitled to cheat on tests and plagiarize because those lazy teachers make him teach himself all this boring stuff that he doesn’t need to learn. He threw a big, baby fit every time a mean old teacher punished him for cheating.
