Rabrrrrrr's TotalBastard(tm) System of Education

I was just thinking - reading the other post about the 6th grader doing algebra - that's how education should work.

Give the stuff to the kids at a good clip so the brightest are challenged and their attention is maintained and they find learning fun and enjoyable and the kids who are too fucking dumb to keep up, fuck 'em, thanks for building and fixing our cars and delivering our furniture and bagging our groceries and sweeping the floors of my office.

to have such Rabrrrrrrrrrrs in it.

That was good.

:D

Teachers know who the dumb fucks are. Why should my tax dollars pay for these idiots to be lazing around a school all day when they could be rotating my tires or changing my oil.

to go on, or be downtown shining my shoes or lifting heavy packages into my car.

Let's spend on our education tax dollars on the people will actually benefit from it, and use it for the betterment of society.

and send them off so we have someone who can be a secretary for their more intelligent peers, or who can "run" the computer system when the engineers knock off for the day, or count the pills for the pharmacist.

about the early weeding out. I was a slacker in middle school and HS. I didn't fix up until sometime in college.

I like the flexibility in our educational system. I like that I was able to straighten out by spending some time at a community college.

But I do agree that kids should have their asses kicked early on. I say if kids in Japan can learn algebra in elementary school, why the hell can't kids here? Are kids in the US inherently stupid? Perhaps many parents are that don't place the emphasis on education it deserves especially math and science.

BTW, I'm in engineering so I especially think the US educational system is weak in the basics. In the last several years in education there's been all this 'new math' stuff and I don't think it's working that well.

I must admit Rabrrrrr with your posts I never know if you are being serious or sarcastic but I now realize it was in sarcasm. ;)

:-)

Especially when I'm being this nasty.

that is how it's done there.

That's my motto!

:hi: miss-kitty!!

cardboard boxes into homes. Also Begging For Food For Dummies. People underestimate 6yr olds.

because one of their illiterate brethren fucked it up at the factory when he made it.

windshield, GROW UP AND STOP WHINING. For crying out loud steal a step ladder. Just don't get caught or we'll fry your ass. (Or inject it, but that doesn't quite roll off the tongue so sweetly).

the kind of initiative it takes to go steal a step ladder to get his/her work done...

I can picture them now, sitting around drinking coffee, doing nothing, pissing and moaning and probably even crying because they can't reach the window so they just stop working, and thus proving that they need overseers, and probably should even be put into housing camps so they can have overseers at home as well.

could have been working for three years...ever see that 60 Minutes from the 1800s when they showed the barge apprentice on the Thames? he started at 9 years old..."Time and tide wait for no man" was his first lesson... (it was probably the late 60s or early 70s they did that siory)

I always thought kids lost interest in math because it moved so damned slow.

Geometry I got from day one, algebra was just incomprehensible.

I love that scene in Peggy Sue Got Married where she tells the teacher "I happen to know that I will never have any use in life for algebra--and I speak from experience". (paraphrase)

Most people are also constantly partial differential equations in their heads without any realization that they are doing it.

to explain this. Please?

shopping for ingredients for a dinner party to which you have invited vegans and non-vegans and alcohol drinkers and not-alcohol drinkers....

but it eventually clicked. Glad I keep plugging away at it.

in H.S., i failed miserably at Algebra...in college, i got an A, and now i'm an algebra tutor...still blows my mind! :)

If the kid is that tanjed smart, just jump them a grade or two.

And your last sentence trying to be funny about disrespecting the effort and intellect of the working class makes me wonder if I accidentally hit a link to Free Republic. Back in the day I could solve differential equations and do quantum physics, but I still have alot of respect for people who can fix cars and build houses, etc.

Thus, you know, :sarcasm:

I point that out for you, since it seems you missed it.

:hi: