June 12, 20241 yr 4 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said: Let's not be hyperbolic, one man's terrorist is another man's Arab Eddie Munster
June 13, 20241 yr Author 11 hours ago, vikas83 said: I can't wait to be educated on the conflict by an idiot. This day just got entertaining. So now you know the REAL answer
June 13, 20241 yr 15 hours ago, vikas83 said: I can't wait to be educated on the conflict by an idiot. This day just got entertaining. Careful. It's a "professor" and a high school teacher vs people who have to think for a living. For example, they introduced us to this place known as the Ottoman Empire. Who knew?
June 13, 20241 yr 3 hours ago, paco said: Careful. It's a "professor" and a high school teacher vs people who have to think for a living. Yeah, zero thinking required in those professions. I only have to make something like 500 decisions over the course of a workday. It's ok, Paco, I don't take it personally. I know you're likely just working through some earrly-age trauma, probably due to being exposed as an intellectual lightweight as a schoolboy, so now you feel the need to subconciously compensate for your insecurities by $hitting on educators at every opportunity.
June 13, 20241 yr 16 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Yeah, zero thinking required in those professions. I only have to make something like 500 decisions over the course of a workday. It's ok, Paco, I don't take it personally. I know you're likely just working through some earrly-age trauma, probably due to being exposed as an intellectual lightweight as a schoolboy, so now you feel the need to subconciously compensate for your insecurities by $hitting on educators at every opportunity. Don’t get mad at me. Dave implied you two are the authority on the subject
June 13, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: I went to public school in NEPA cuz I was a poor. I can assure you teachers there did not penetrate my brain.
June 13, 20241 yr 25 minutes ago, paco said: I went to public school in NEPA cuz I was a poor. I can assure you teachers there did not penetrate my brain. Just your butt hole?
June 13, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Yeah, zero thinking required in those professions. I only have to make something like 500 decisions over the course of a workday. It's ok, Paco, I don't take it personally. I know you're likely just working through some earrly-age trauma, probably due to being exposed as an intellectual lightweight as a schoolboy, so now you feel the need to subconciously compensate for your insecurities by $hitting on educators at every opportunity. Honest question- have you ever had a job besides teaching?
June 13, 20241 yr 23 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said: Honest question- have you ever had a job besides teaching? I had a few service-sector jobs when I was in school and right after college, and I do some sidework for my aunt's business establishing their social media presence and helping them retail their products on occasion. But it's mostly been teaching, and it's mostly felt thankless.
June 13, 20241 yr 17 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: I had a few service-sector jobs when I was in school and right after college, and I do some sidework for my aunt's business establishing their social media presence and helping them retail their products on occasion. But it's mostly been teaching, and it's mostly felt thankless. I appreciate the honesty. So why do it? Its ultimately a function of parents if they do well or not… what good is 500 decisions if they are inconsequential? Is the work making you smarter or more skilled?
June 13, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, ToastJenkins said: I appreciate the honesty. So why do it? Its ultimately a function of parents if they do well or not… what good is 500 decisions if they are inconsequential? Is the work making you smarter or more skilled? It's definitely made me more skilled in managing behaviors, and it ostensibly compensates me for studying topics that I find interesting and important. I say "ostensibly" because I've spent a lot of time in bad schools where you're basically just trying to survive the madhouse, and you can only teach at such a basic level. It's pathetic, really. Reading and writing skills are so deficient that I've found myself having to use elementary methods for high schoolers, which I'm not trained in. It's been disappointing, having come to the profession desiring to teach the content at a high level and found myself tied up with classroom management and only being able to teach at the most rudimentary level. I've taken a job next year at a special selection school that is geared towards STEM and college prep, though, which my prior experience certainly helped me obtain. So, I'm hopeful that I might finally get to focus on instructional endeavors that are rewarding and edifying, rather than being tied up with classroom management and remediation. If not, I may ultimately end up looking to work in research and preservation. I think that would be really stimulating, but those jobs are harder to find, and the compensation and job security is often lower.
June 13, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, ToastJenkins said: I appreciate the honesty. So why do it? Its ultimately a function of parents if they do well or not… what good is 500 decisions if they are inconsequential? Is the work making you smarter or more skilled? Real jobs don't get summers off.
June 13, 20241 yr 30 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: It's definitely made me more skilled in managing behaviors, and it ostensibly compensates me for studying topics that I find interesting and important. I say "ostensibly" because I've spent a lot of time in bad schools where you're basically just trying to survive the madhouse, and you can only teach at such a basic level. It's pathetic, really. Reading and writing skills are so deficient that I've found myself having to use elementary methods for high schoolers, which I'm not trained in. It's been disappointing, having come to the profession desiring yo teach the content at a high level and found myself tied up with classroom management and only being able to teach at the most rudimentary level. I've taken a job next year at a special selection school that is geared towards STEM and college prep, though, which my prior experience certainly helped me obtain. So, I'm hopeful that I might finally get to focus on instructional endeavors that are rewarding and edifying, rather than being tied up with classroom management and remediation. If not, I may ultimately end up looking to work in research and preservation. I think that would be really stimulating, but those jobs are harder to find, and the compensation and job security is often lower. What subjects do you teach? History? US History or something else?
June 13, 20241 yr 48 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I never thought about this. Ok @EaglesRocker97, I'll be over with cash and wearing sweat pants.
June 13, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, ToastJenkins said: what good is 500 decisions if they are inconsequential? Is the work making you smarter or more skilled? I think teaching, especially in a public school, is a public service. It's a thankless, underpaid, often impossible job that somebody has to do, or it won't get done. In American schools in particular the teachers are hamstrung by administrators, lawyers, politicians, parents, and their own unions. Then their performance is evaluated based on how well students - 90% of which are a-holes - do on tests that somebody else writes. Be happy that people like @EaglesRocker97 are willing to muck through all that to little personal gain other than the rare satisfaction of seeing one or two students make some kind of breakthrough. Lindy Booth
June 13, 20241 yr 12 minutes ago, vikas83 said: What subjects do you teach? History? US History or something else? "Social studies" technically, which could include U.S. history, world history, European history, civics, government, and even psych. My specialization was always U.S. history, though, and a lot of it geared towards diplomacy/intervention. I'm most interested in U.S. history post 1945.
June 13, 20241 yr 34 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: "Social studies" technically, which could include U.S. history, world history, European history, civics, government, and even psych. My specialization was always U.S. history, though, and a lot of it geared towards diplomacy/intervention. I'm most interested in U.S. history post 1945. Gotcha. I minored in international relations in college, and basically all my classes were focused on WW2 and post war US History. I'm utterly fascinated by both WW2 and the Cold War. Hope the new job let's you specialize more and focus on that.
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