Stuff you wish they taught in school

[Zack]

These teachers already get paid too much as it is

lolwut

 

[MantaRevan]

Honestly you have a one track mind. The world doesn't revolve around the Catholic Church and not everyone wants your religion taught to their children. Why not teach Islam? Buddhism? Santeria? (that at least is a little Catholic). I'm so sick of people wanting to shove their religion in everyone else's face. Keep it in the Catholic schools. And the critical thinking bit doesn't really hold water since there are plenty of other ways to teach that. I've heard Muslims, Protestants and Jews say very similar things about their religion.

Thank you. Somebody had to say it.

 

[MantaRevan]

Thing is Catholic teaching encourages people to think. Yes there are the absolutes (relativism is anathema) but the primary question is first to learn what the Church teaches (the fact), but then you are supposed to learn why it teaches as it does, taking the corpus of teaching as a whole. (the thinking)

Catholic thought holds that one always must have a reason for their faith, and that faith and reason are not contradictory and are indeed complimentary to each other. This combination, I think encourages the sort of educational paradigm I expressed in my previous post, and in addition avoids relativism and the sort of clinical, empty, unfulfilled and ultimately incomplete understanding of the world that a purely utilitarian, positivist education provides, ensuring that the person can more properly relate as a thinking person to the world instead of simply spouting information he has gathered without actual intellectual engagement.

Reason is believing something based on logic, hypothesis, or empirical analysis. Faith is believing something with none of the above. Why would anyone want both faith and reason, when they can have %100 reason?

 

[MantaRevan]

School should separate boys from girls, and teach them how to be men and women. The parents aren't doing it, so the schools should. These teachers already get paid too much as it is (for 9 months work I might add), so make them work for that money.

I completely (with as much respect as possible) disagree with everything you said.
Schools shouldn't force sexist gender roles on kids or tell them how they can be as people.
Teachers get pretty bad salaries(in the US that is) for one of the most important in all of our society. Imagine what would happen if all of the teachers went away.

 

[squall78]

trigonometry it's triangles and stuff it can be sometimes useful in real life I think like if you're making something that's rectangular and you don't want it crooked you make right triangles and measure that exactly.

to the average student i feel learning how interest works and how to budget is more practical.

i also hate the fact here in the usa we need to take state history. it eats up time that could be used to teach more world history. my world history class was mostly WWII because it was "OMGHITLERANDSTUFF"

as far as teacher salaries, don't they only work 9 months out of the year? doesn't the pay work itself out to be average if you factor that in?

 

[NovaKart]

That might be a local thing. I grew up in Kentucky and we didn't have to take state history. In fact I don't remember us ever even having that class although one of my uncles mentioned that he did. Now I suppose I should wait for the jokes about how our state history involves a bunch of pregnant illiterate 13 year olds who grew up on a diet of possum and raccoon.

 

[MantaRevan]

That might be a local thing. I grew up in Kentucky and we didn't have to take state history. In fact I don't remember us ever even having that class although one of my uncles mentioned that he did. Now I suppose I should wait for the jokes about how our state history involves a bunch of pregnant illiterate 13 year olds who grew up on a diet of possum and raccoon.

Louisville?

 

[NovaKart]

I'm from Lexington

 

[MantaRevan]

I'm from Lexington

Lexington? Fair enough. I grew up in louisville before immigating.

 

[NovaKart]

Fair enough. While I may have relatives in Harlan and Hazard counties who grew up on a similar diet as mentioned and married at a similar age and education level they at least had the grace not to mention these things when census workers and social services were within earshot.

 

[squall78]

Maybe it's just me then (I lived in Hawaii my whole life). We had Hawaiian History in my freshman year, which started from the Kamehameha days to annexation and statehood. I enjoyed my US History and World history a lot more then state history. It just seems like a waste of a a year to learn such a small regional area.

 

[Marla_Singer]

It's not in working hard that we make money, it's in finding the best opportunities.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Maybe it's just me then (I lived in Hawaii my whole life). We had Hawaiian History in my freshman year, which started from the Kamehameha days to annexation and statehood. I enjoyed my US History and World history a lot more then state history. It just seems like a waste of a a year to learn such a small regional area.

That's because you're not a native. Damn' colonist !

 

[Disgustipated]

lolwut

hint: they only work 9 months a year, thusly, they get paid too much.

Teachers where I live get paid very well (except when you first start out, but with seniority their pay is fairly high).

 

[squall78]

That's because you're not a native. Damn' colonist !

lol by that logic everyone is a colonist. i dont think natives even exist anymore. oh sure you can claim 1% Hawaiian blood... but come on now

 

[Artifis]

I wish school taught more about critical thinking. The ability to take information and adapt it to real-life situations rather than rote learning.

 

[Cutlass]

hint: they only work 9 months a year, thusly, they get paid too much.

Teachers where I live get paid very well (except when you first start out, but with seniority their pay is fairly high).

They get paid less than people with the same education and workload. Thulsy they get paid too little.

 

[downtown]

hint: they only work 9 months a year, thusly, they get paid too much.

Teachers where I live get paid very well (except when you first start out, but with seniority their pay is fairly high).

Not really. Summer break for kids isn't the same length as summer break for teachers, since they have professional development before school actually starts. Plus, teachers work more than a forty hour work week during the school year, so if you actually break it down by hours work, the disparity isn't very great at all, compared to other professionals.

And no, teachers in Las Vegas are not particularly highly paid.

 

[Zack]

hint: they only work 9 months a year, thusly, they get paid too much.

Teachers where I live get paid very well (except when you first start out, but with seniority their pay is fairly high).

How much do you think teachers should make, then?

I personally find it disturbing that such an important job (education) is a position of such low prestige and pay.

 

[Marla_Singer]

I personally find it disturbing that such an important job (education) is a position of such low prestige and pay.

I agree and I would even say it's generally true for many of the jobs which serve the collectivity: firemen, emergency services, policemen, public health. Many people occupying these jobs work very hard for a very low wage relatively to the energy they invest in them. I have a deep respect for them.