[geeks] This makes me sick

[Ken Hansen]

I have a friend (through my wife) who graduated from a mediocre little school in the outskirts of the NJ  Pine Barrens (sand/pine trees/amd rusted pick-ups litter the landscape - this is where the Sopranos go to get rid of their bodies (hee-hee)...). Any way, when she was about to graduate with her "teaching degree" she sent out her resume looking for a teaching position.

50 of them.

One to each of the state Boards of Education.

No one told her that Boards of Ed. didn't hire teachers, School Districts hire teachers.

Darwinism in action.

She later went to Alaska to find a husband, came back to NJ unsuccessful.

(Note for Dave McGuire: D.E.S. once dated her for a while, before he left NJ!)

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:45 AM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] This makes me sick


Teachers might just be undervalued as a group because many of them (at
least the teachers in training that I know) are really stupid.

For instance, at my school, which is dominated by their teaching program,
there is a math competancy test that must be passed to be able to take
Math105, which is math for teachers.  This competancy test includeds such
challenging math problems such as long division, fractions, addition,
subtraction, and multiplication, and big scary little word problems.  Now,
people have three chances to pass this test before they are forced to drop
out of the class.  A shockingly large number of people, who want to be
elementry school teachers, FAIL the test three times in a ROW ?!?