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Quite right, in the UK, the education system has removed the word 'Fail' with 'Deferred Success'DougF said:
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Ken Burns - The War
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terriphill
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In defense of public schools....... you really cannot blame schools for the lack of education that a student recieves.
Education begins at home!
The curriculum is well planned, the teachers are working their *#@@es off and the public doesn't care. The parents only real concern is that the kids are out of the house. (And I do NOT mean lower achieving students!!!) My students are required to Science Fair projects....ONLY THE AP students...Due date was Wednesday. I sent out e-mails to all the parents AND mailed home notices two weeks ago. I had 32 of my 60 AP students turn in their papers. The parents make every excuse in the world for why their poor little children should not be penalized because they cannot do the work I require on time. If I were to hold these kids accountable to a real level of Scientific Knowledge and achievement, I would have less than 10% pass my class and you would hear the screams and teeth gnashing OF PARENTS from coast to coast (the kids wouldn't care.)IF YOU WANT GOOD SCHOOLS YOU CANNOT DEPEND ON THE SCHOOL! YOU HAVE TO WORK AS A PARENT TO SEE THAT KIDS DO THE WORK! Every day!! and quit making excuses and saving them when they don't.
TOday's public schools demand accountablility...teachers are accountable, administrators are accountable, but the students are not (and neither are the parents)
I apologize for the length of this but its been a long week!
End of Rant!
Education begins at home!
The curriculum is well planned, the teachers are working their *#@@es off and the public doesn't care. The parents only real concern is that the kids are out of the house. (And I do NOT mean lower achieving students!!!) My students are required to Science Fair projects....ONLY THE AP students...Due date was Wednesday. I sent out e-mails to all the parents AND mailed home notices two weeks ago. I had 32 of my 60 AP students turn in their papers. The parents make every excuse in the world for why their poor little children should not be penalized because they cannot do the work I require on time. If I were to hold these kids accountable to a real level of Scientific Knowledge and achievement, I would have less than 10% pass my class and you would hear the screams and teeth gnashing OF PARENTS from coast to coast (the kids wouldn't care.)IF YOU WANT GOOD SCHOOLS YOU CANNOT DEPEND ON THE SCHOOL! YOU HAVE TO WORK AS A PARENT TO SEE THAT KIDS DO THE WORK! Every day!! and quit making excuses and saving them when they don't.
TOday's public schools demand accountablility...teachers are accountable, administrators are accountable, but the students are not (and neither are the parents)
I apologize for the length of this but its been a long week!
End of Rant!
Sherlock
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A shame I missed the series, was it on PBS? Sure sounds like something they would do...
I don't claim to be an expert historian on WW1 or WW2, but I at least attempt to have a rudimentary knowledge of the basics. And I love focusing my camera on war veterans, I once plan this year to become a photojournalist for the day for Remembrance Day (November 11th), it's so important to me... Last years photos - Photos #1 & Photos #2
I don't claim to be an expert historian on WW1 or WW2, but I at least attempt to have a rudimentary knowledge of the basics. And I love focusing my camera on war veterans, I once plan this year to become a photojournalist for the day for Remembrance Day (November 11th), it's so important to me... Last years photos - Photos #1 & Photos #2
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Sherlock said:
You didn't miss it. I don't know why, but they ran it as a straight mini-series every night but advertised it as being on "Wednesdays in October". So, now it's on Wednesdays in October.
The first episode was last week.
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Just watched a few hours of the series today (ran on Spokane PBS), it was on since 2 PM this afternoon, I didn't notice until about 6:30 PM when I looked at the TV listings...
Yeah, it was very good for what I saw of it, including the discussion afterward with Ken Burns. Talking about stories of WW2... [I think I may have shared this before] but my dad was in the Soviet army in WW2, I don't know what year he went to the front lines but do know that he was captured by the Germans after three months, survived the war in a POW camp (by a miracle) and then managed to avoid going back to the Soviet Union instead making his way to Canada in 1948... Unfortunately he rarely shared his story except for the bare details, and he passed a couple of years ago so we'll never know the full story that only he knew... He may be one of many veterans who have difficulty sharing their experiences...
This is a prized photo of him (at least to me), of my dad selling Remembrance Day poppies in 1957, at a time before he met my mom, and at a time when there are few photographs of him, plenty of ones he took... sounds like someone I know /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif me perhaps? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif Anyway... Here's the photo
Yeah, it was very good for what I saw of it, including the discussion afterward with Ken Burns. Talking about stories of WW2... [I think I may have shared this before] but my dad was in the Soviet army in WW2, I don't know what year he went to the front lines but do know that he was captured by the Germans after three months, survived the war in a POW camp (by a miracle) and then managed to avoid going back to the Soviet Union instead making his way to Canada in 1948... Unfortunately he rarely shared his story except for the bare details, and he passed a couple of years ago so we'll never know the full story that only he knew... He may be one of many veterans who have difficulty sharing their experiences...
This is a prized photo of him (at least to me), of my dad selling Remembrance Day poppies in 1957, at a time before he met my mom, and at a time when there are few photographs of him, plenty of ones he took... sounds like someone I know /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif me perhaps? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smirk.gif Anyway... Here's the photo