tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post8980090748644522737..comments2024-03-28T03:25:49.943-04:00Comments on Common Denominator: State Educators and Bad PunctuationKen Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-47763069276721352882011-03-03T19:42:04.734-05:002011-03-03T19:42:04.734-05:00You should have seen the debate on the Facebook ve...You should have seen the debate on the Facebook version, Bethany ;-)Ken Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-21653644986631951532011-03-03T19:13:55.801-05:002011-03-03T19:13:55.801-05:00A post on punctuation! My heart is warmed.
Accor...A post on punctuation! My heart is warmed. <br /><br />According the newest edition of _The Chicago Manual of Style_, the rules haven't changed. (_CMoS_ allows for some exceptions to the period-inside-the-quotation-marks rule, but these are rare and strange.)<br /><br />And since I neglected to say this earlier: I've been enjoying your blog.Bethany F. Brenganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08174727157257689080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-79473765590717080372011-03-03T12:25:44.859-05:002011-03-03T12:25:44.859-05:00If anyone is interested in my view of "Moral ...If anyone is interested in my view of "Moral Order", I just posted on my blog; angiespoint@blogspot.comAngie Van De Merwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617299120618867829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-20982489526626859542011-03-03T11:52:07.256-05:002011-03-03T11:52:07.256-05:00Ken
You are onto something when you say that admi...Ken<br />You are onto something when you say that adminstrators aren't interested in content but efficiency/order.<br /><br />In a Christian context, 'order' (creationism) is of uptmost importance, and this is why content suffers. It is for the "church"'s survival that content isn't important.<br /><br />This is unfortunatly why the humanities suffer, while science gets funded, because of economic benefit.<br /><br />Your analogy of teachers being scapegoated is classic!<br /><br />I wish when we'd moved here, I'd been, interested in content as much as "order", for my children's sake!Angie Van De Merwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617299120618867829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-8935813073546048392011-03-03T10:47:08.984-05:002011-03-03T10:47:08.984-05:00http://www.google.com/search?q=0.01+grams+to+milli...http://www.google.com/search?q=0.01+grams+to+milligrams<br /><br />Google will do all similar conversions for you. :)<br /><br />Regarding education, I think the UK does it better: schools are segregated by academic ability and once your pre-collegiate education is finished (at an earlier age then here) you are placed in one of two tracks based upon your ability: the academic track where you go to university and the life skills track where you learn a trade.<br /><br />The "put them all in one pot" approach isn't working. Neither is the "you have to go to college to get a job" approach.<br /><br />I'm not a big fan of the privatize-everything approach (I'm a democrat), but I do think that the school vouchers program makes sense and that, if education were a free market, this is exactly the structure the free market would produce.Nathanielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04008539197675560813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-52899227127849400632011-03-03T10:37:38.829-05:002011-03-03T10:37:38.829-05:00I agreed with your comment, btw. I think anytime w...I agreed with your comment, btw. I think anytime we expect people to work so far outside their areas of giftedness and aptitude we are setting everyone up to fail.Mark Schnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00521939849864426818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-71618567392478904692011-03-03T09:51:40.029-05:002011-03-03T09:51:40.029-05:00If you're talking about my comment above, yes,...If you're talking about my comment above, yes, I think teachers are expected to be nice and form the character of students who will be in jail before they're 20 while effectively teaching other students who will become nuclear physicists. They do this while being told by the government that they are losers because some child who has watched live porno in his home since birth, whose mom has him go up to the door to buy the drugs, can't pass ISTEP.Ken Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-38676015264297696842011-03-03T09:46:43.888-05:002011-03-03T09:46:43.888-05:00So in other words, teachers are expected to be lik...So in other words, teachers are expected to be like pastors, the masters of everything. <br /><br />Yes, I know, I probably messed up the punctuation in this. ;-)Mark Schnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00521939849864426818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-67915374537329743062011-03-03T08:09:42.087-05:002011-03-03T08:09:42.087-05:00I just had a brainstorm, the best solution for Ame...I just had a brainstorm, the best solution for America's public school problem I've ever heard. What we really need in failing schools is two teachers per classroom, one to maintain order and the other to teach content. The former needs to be skilled at discipline and building character. The latter needs to be a skilled teacher. The two only rarely coincide.Ken Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-39119172071064288632011-03-03T07:59:55.962-05:002011-03-03T07:59:55.962-05:00Tuesday night I covered my daughter's homework...Tuesday night I covered my daughter's homework assignment sheets with proofreaders' marks drawing attention to glaring mistakes. It's really better for her to do homework with her mom....Darrell Pursifulhttp://pursiful.comnoreply@blogger.com