Education Sector-gross misconduct or PC fascism?
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Wow. Tricky situation. I feel for you. \n\nAre you able to find out about previous similar incidents at the school at what happened to the people involved? Or other schools, to work out what the precedent is in these cases.\n\nI wonder if the Citizen's advice bureau might be able to offer\nsome advice? \n\nYour point that you haven't been trained to deal with situations is a good one. At the end of the day, you only swore, no one got hurt. Sounds as if this is the first time you've been involved in anything like this, and, if you've put up with all the knocks and bangs from before you must be pretty devoted to the job. I hope they'll be lenient. \n\nGood luck.
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Banned? Where? In your school district?\n\nGenerally speaking, books are banned when fascists have their way.
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These are some of the bad effects of Globalization and politicization of the education. Education curriculum and students are easiest to be target by political parties to make their point and score brownie points from different quarters. \n\nNo one understand where is problem with reservations - is it concept or implementation of this. Similarly adding film stories and making maths and English optional to please a strata of the society who votes and pay money to these political parties to gather power. \n\nSo I fully agree with you that education about which boast around all the world is deteriorating and this way we will loose whatever position we have got in world.
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It's not working because it wasn't written by educators. It was written by beaurocrats.\n\nThe only way to fix the educational system is to let educators write the laws. Not the beaurocrats.
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I think it's wonderful that the bulk of your learning comes from antichristconspiracy.com, you must live in a wonderful school district.  Folks, I realize none of us really enjoy paying higher taxes, but don't you think our public schools are worth the investment?
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I'm going to overlook your misspelling, your rant, your slam against another user.\n\nBecause you have raised a valid issue.\n\nThe enemy is US.  We allow it.  Want to stop it, start at home.  Don't know what else to tell you.\n\nI'd tell you the problem is public education, but at least some of those kids can spell.
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I guess so. Its actaully really sad that although one of our human rights is to have basic education, that isnt the same for tertairy studies. All the goverment is really doing is forcing unemployment to increase due to the high cost of education, rather than lowering the costs, and allow more people to gain valuable degrees, at lower cost which will only, in turn, benifit the country helping it to become even more developed!!!
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Damien, you have to admit that the level of education, as a whole, has been degraded. I was in retail management and noticed the change as far back as the mid 70's.  When Reagan was governor he did lower the curve out here to accomodate the slower learners. As an end result, we are now a nation of dittoheads, are too stupid to protest the most visible and blatant misuse of our federal government and the corruption of our voting rights.  \nOur young heroes are like lemmings, running out to attack a country who's biggest crime against America was having a leader who threatened to kill some richkids dad!  \nI am not impressed.
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Clickl this link and read the article. It is much too long to copy it here. I hope this answers your question, or most of it. A very good  question, by the way!\n\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Internet
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I don't have any, but I'm sure you can find unresearched, unproven "factoids" (that means unsubstantiated or unproven non-facts) from Teacher's Unions or any State Department of Education website...they do, afterall, have a lot to lose if too many people figure out that they're doing a horrible job "educating" the students of our Nation...and then more parents decide to allow their children to learn at home and in the big open world we live in! Good Luck in your search!\nHOMESCHOOLING ROCKS! LET LEARNING FLOURISH! ALLOW KIDS TO BE KIDS AND LEARN NATURALLY!
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It's really happening.  A lot of people in this country place no value on education anymore, not to mention that many schools are atrocious.  Also, look at our culture - huge divorce rate, undisciplined children, continuously lowering standards, I could go on and on.  I run a business where I have to deal with the public every day.  What I see scares me.  Incidentally, the school district in my city thinks that having 67% of the students reading at grade level is good.  That is the mentality.
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Educational standards have clearly gone to hell in a hand-basket....
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It's disgustingly trendy.  My husband is a high school English teacher, and I honestly think he was the first teacher to even question the authenticity of students' papers.  His principal's response about the epidemic?  "What are YOU going to do to make sure they pass?"  I was under the impression that educators' jobs are to teach students how to think for themselves, not allow them to be herded through the system.  The fact that it's run rampant in universities shows just how sorry this society's system is now.  :(
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The quality of finish education system is in a bad condition, and Im ashamed of it. Our teaching metods has changed in direction where there is no actual  teaching, but all kinds of childish assiments that you`re supposed to know how to, without any teaching at all. When the course starts, the teachers give a long list of books, and assiments, then they dump the class on their own. All kinds of redigilous group assiments are commonly used too, as the teachers are assuming that pupils will teach pupils, even if no-one of them knows what to do.\n\n Also, In Finland`s higher education circles there is this phenomenal boom of studying abroad.  I`ve seen and heared it what it`s all about: Drinking beer and partying, and in the end delaying the graduation to profession. I think it`s useless waste of time and money. Usually heavy loans are needed when you rent appartment in western europe, and then you end up paying loans the first ten years in case you get a degree and a job someday, which are not by all means written to stars in these days.
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No, no, no, absolutely not. Professors should be unbiased. \n\nHiring educators for their point-of-views is moronic.
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Interesting question (I think it is a question.) Seems to me there is enough blame to go around...let's not stop with teachers. How about the students themselves? How about the parents? We have seen a huge dumbing down of students in the past 30 years...lowest common denominator effect, or "let no child be left behind." When students are pushed further into classes they cannot understand, when the quality of education is such that many students are left in the dark, when parents remain detached from their children and expect teachers to do it all, we have what we now have...a nation of illiterate kids graduating from high school Not all students are illiterate, but you don't have to look further than the questions/answers here to see that many kids cannot spell, cannot write a sentence, and cannot communicate clearly with written words. We have spawned a system where it is NOT cool to be educated, and certainly NOT cool to achieve anything in public schools. NERD is all but a curse word, isn't it? Yet it is the Nerds who inherit the jobs, the salaries, the world. Kids may think it is "cool" to be ignorant, but there comes a day when they must look around and wonder how they were left out ... of everything. IF I were to come home with a bad grade, IF I were to not do my homework, IF I were to mouth off to a teacher, I wouldn't sit for a week. So, to avoid the punishment, I did the work. Isn't it strange today that when a child misbehaves, the parents are up in the face of the teacher with accusations, threats, etc. Is it any wonder that teachers give up trying to educate a bunch of students who have no interest beyond text messaging? Teachers head into the career thinking they will make a difference. It doesn't take long for them to find out they are underpaid baby sitters of out-of-control thugs and brats. Unfortunatly, time has a way of evening things out. Sad to say, but I am glad I do not have to face the daily challenges of gangs, bullies, and "cool" people that students are surrounded by today.
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Without a doubt, the quality of education offered in American schools has plummeted in the last 25 years.  Parents from all walks of life, presented with failing grades by their undereducated children, reacted by forcing schools to lower their standards.  The result has been new generations of young people who, as adults, lack even fundamental knowledge of science, mathmatics, and linguistics.  It does not bode well for the future of science and technology, let alone education, in America.\n\nThe causes are manifold.  Parents, both working long hours, who are less and less involved in their children's lives.  High standards of living causing entertainment to be more valued than work.  Lack of role models.  The Internet.  Reality television.  Computer games.  Hollywood.  Consumerism.  Your evaluation is as good as mine.\n\nBush is not the product of such an average American household.  He's from a driven, ambitious, wealthy family, and an older generation, which valued knowledge, and whose collective work ethic still drives our economy. \n\nStill, you have a point.  He is more representative of the younger  generations coming into adulthood now, than he is of his own.  The political machine that put him into power was more responsible for his success than he was.  Once there, in the limelight, his shortcomings became glaringly obvious.  Was his re-election a result of his appeal to the younger crowd?  I doubt it.  They do not turn out in large numbers to vote.  Their poor education also fails to teach them about the importance of good government, and civic responsibility.\n\nI'm afraid Bush was elected, and re-elected, for reasons that have far more to do with American's fears and biases, than for his intellect or capabilites.  We, and too much of the rest of the world, will suffer the result for some time to come.