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[hopi]

Your Tax dollars are given to big business to open Charter schools - these schools do not have meet certain curriculum standards or  the rigors of testing that regular school face.

Big business is about crushing everyone and if they are helping someone it is for profit only.  

So if in 20 years keyboards and computers are outdated like suggested in another post - the younger generation will have no employable  skill and won't be able to communicate.

Self learning is the lazy teacher way of saying go sit  and entertain yourself.

[jaxs mom]

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@hopi wrote:

Your Tax dollars are given to big business to open Charter schools - these schools do not have meet certain curriculum standards or  the rigors of testing that regular school face.

Big business is about crushing everyone and if they are helping someone it is for profit only.  

So if in 20 years keyboards and computers are outdated like suggested in another post - the younger generation will have no employable  skill and won't be able to communicate.

Self learning is the lazy teacher way of saying go sit  and entertain yourself.

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I disagree with your opinion here. 

[alliswell]

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@ms traditional wrote:

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@Maudelynn wrote:

Like everything else, there are limited resources and limited amount of time to educate.  Why should we teach subjects that have no application in real life?  No one hand-writes any more.  Everything is done via computer.  We don't teach Latin any longer because no one uses it. We don't teach needlework, because it is no longer necessary for women to know how to do it.  Of course, if you want to learn any of these obsolete skills, you're free to get instruction on your own.

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aha!  no wonder the level of vocabulary has deteriorated: no one knows Latin  I do.   oh, i am so glad i grew up when i did -  i can do math in my head, write a grammatically correct sentence, function with or without a computer and...........do needlepoint.  

Me too! 

[hopi]

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@alliswell wrote:

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@ms traditional wrote:

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@Maudelynn wrote:

Like everything else, there are limited resources and limited amount of time to educate.  Why should we teach subjects that have no application in real life?  No one hand-writes any more.  Everything is done via computer.  We don't teach Latin any longer because no one uses it. We don't teach needlework, because it is no longer necessary for women to know how to do it.  Of course, if you want to learn any of these obsolete skills, you're free to get instruction on your own.

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aha!  no wonder the level of vocabulary has deteriorated: no one knows Latin  I do.   oh, i am so glad i grew up when i did -  i can do math in my head, write a grammatically correct sentence, function with or without a computer and...........do needlepoint.  

Me too! 

Isn't great to know when the electricity goes out and the battery dies we can still function.  

[Marianne1]

My impression of Mellie, as a teacher, is that she is anything but lazy.

She seems engaged, current, caring, and genuine to me.

[jaxs mom]

LOL seems wer're approaching "get off my lawn" territory now. 

[Mellie32]

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@Marianne1 wrote:

My impression of Mellie, as a teacher, is that she is anything but lazy.

She seems engaged, current, caring, and genuine to me.

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Thank you, @Marianne1.  I really appreciate that.

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@jaxs mom wrote:

LOL seems wer're approaching "get off my lawn" territory now. 

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Agree. Have had a good laugh though.

[Mellie32]

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@hopi wrote:

Your Tax dollars are given to big business to open Charter schools - these schools do not have meet certain curriculum standards or  the rigors of testing that regular school face.

Big business is about crushing everyone and if they are helping someone it is for profit only.  

So if in 20 years keyboards and computers are outdated like suggested in another post - the younger generation will have no employable  skill and won't be able to communicate.

Self learning is the lazy teacher way of saying go sit  and entertain yourself.

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The great educator Maria Montessori disagrees with you.  Kids learn a lot when they have the opportunity to explore what they find to be curious.  That's not to say there isn't a place for direct instruction because there obviously is.  

[Mellie32]

Here's one of my experiences with an older teacher who taught cursive.  She literally spent 20 minutes going over and over and over and over and over and over how to "correctly" write the letter "k" in cursive.  She wouldn't accept a "k" without the loop -- must have the loop!   I thought it was a total waste of time.