Re: Literacy in the USA -- not so very good

Purl Gurl wrote: 
Skitt wrote:


By the way, you say you are a teacher.  Well, I don't want to be too
critical, but your above contribution has a few quite glaring flaws,



Those flaws are what?

You have provided no basis for your contention which
inherently dismisses your contention as baseless.


Purl Gurl


At the risk of invoking your wrath, I consider the following selections to be flawed. My takes on the selections are in parentheses:



"You have provided no basis for your contention which
inherently dismisses your contention as baseless."

(Your contention is baseless.)



"I can speak to some of this, Skitt."

 (I can speak about some of this, Skitt.)



"Should a student meet that criteria, then teachers, counselors and administrators
will meet, discuss the student, then vote to advance or hold back."

(Should a student meet that criterium, then teachers, counselors and administrators
will meet, discuss the student, then vote to advance or hold back.)



"Their thinking, the group, is a student will be placed in special classes,
remedial classes, upon high school entry. Those classes will "catch up"
the student to current standards."

(The thought of the group, is that a student will be placed in special classes,
remedial classes, upon high school entry. Those classes will "catch up"
the student to current standards.) ("catch up accepted", as it is within quotation marks.)



"My thinking is a student who fails miserably, usually backed by previous
grade level failures and advancement, a student at grade eight who fails
is so far behind, no remedial class will help."

(My thinking is, that for a student who fails miserably, and when backed by previous
grade-level failures, no remedial class will help.)



"Number one problem leading a student to failure, is lack of reading skills.
I contribute this directly to a lack of parental involvement. When a student
fails, short of learning disabilities, this fault rests directly upon the shoulders
of his parents. It is the parents who have failed, not the student nor his
classroom teachers."

(The number one problem leading a student to failure is a lack of reading skills.
I attribute this directly to a lack of parental involvement. When a student
fails, apart from a learning disability, the fault rests directly upon the shoulders
of the parents. It is the parents who have failed, not the student, nor the teachers.)



"At a university level, even post-graduate level, I have found many of my students
are reading and writing back there at that grade eight level. This "advancement"
mule manure is pervasive through all grade levels, including university level."

(At university, even with postgraduates, I have found many of my students
are reading and writing at an eighth-grade level. This "advancement"
mule manure is pervasive through all grade-levels, including university levels.)



"Administrative support and counselor support for teachers, is zero. Those
two offices are arch enemies of teachers, especially administration."

(There is no administrative and counselor support for teachers. Those
two offices are arch enemies of teachers, especially administration.)



That's enough for now. Feel free to correct my mistakes.


Stupot
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Tenors, Bass & Baritones and ICM
    ... I strongly agree with your observation that very few teachers teach ... whether an ICM musician intends to ... dedicated student of this music for over 20 years. ... So a Guru becomes crucial in mentoring. ...
    (rec.music.indian.classical)
  • Re: Sinfest (12/07) "Govern like its 1933"?
    ... except that all kids take the same test. ... easily will shovel your merit pay into the pockets of teachers who had ... NCLB to use the SATs to measure yearly progress in student ... administrators that can bea larger part of the problem. ...
    (rec.arts.comics.strips)
  • Re: The Guitar Teacher Project
    ... for his "academic pursuit". ... You make it sound like the student tells ... lessons with teachers that let me guide the process too much. ... I think guitar teaching, in general is in a dismal state in the USA.. ...
    (rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz)
  • Re: Interesting article by Joel Spolsky: The Perils of JavaSchools
    ... (BTW, as you probably know, I'm a college student right now, so I /do/ speak from experience. ... If they can write Visual Basic code in Java, ... Because it's completely worked out in the textbook, so it would be more profitable to copy that code for an A than work it out yourself, make a dumb mistake, and get a B. Because there are subtle issues with integer overflow that make a completely correct implementation beyond the capabilities of the average student. ... A lot of teachers are bad, but it's better that a bad teacher teach Lisp than a bad teacher teach Java, and there appears to be a shortage of good teachers at the moment.) ...
    (comp.programming)
  • Re: Interval Recognition
    ... I would like to put in a vote for learning lots of simple tunes ... the teachers and the students seem to get a lot out of it. ... understanding of the music for both teacher and student. ... Cinese ribbon dances) ...
    (rec.music.classical.guitar)
Loading