I thought Jerry Cantrell cut his hair off?
It doesn't take 4 years of English to teach basic writing and grammar skills. The stuff they teach in high school english right now in no way helps you in life. There isn't any real world skill that's gained from writing a 5 page analysis about some poem Emily enson wrote while she was having a hot flash.
I agree with you that there are massive problems with the way English is currently taught in high school and stated as much in my post.
I disagree that there's no need for four years of English in high school and that there's no benefit to developing skills in critical thinking and textual analysis. But, that's not terribly shocking; it's already been well established that you and I have different values academically/educationally.
High school in Texas is a joke. All you get taught is how to take a state test that basically decides whether or not you graduate and get your diploma. And teachers get bonuses if their little peckers get high scores on those useless state tests.
That's the same problem across the country that happened cause of the No Child Left Behind Act. Arizona has the same issue.
Keep in mind that you're trying to have a debate with a fat, senile old cuck....
What debate, I told it as it really is, not even debatable.
Dude, you really do gotta get over me, people are talking.
Why not teach kids how to do that will help them in real life? How about teaching kids how to fill out a job application, make a resume, how to interview for a job, etc...? Actual life skills that will help you.
So you agree beating poetry crap into kids' heads is re ed? That alone knocks a year off the English curriculum as for whatever reason they spend a gigantic amount of time analyzing poetry.
Truth bombs, that 's easily more useful than 90% of what's taught in high school after freshman year, tbh...
Bingo!
Most these kids will not land that big $$$$ job because of math skills. They will end up in some factory/cannery etc. They need to know life skills.
That's not what I said. There is as much value in studying poetry as there is studying any other type of literature.
An entire year dedicated to poetry? I find that hard to believe.
Getting a job isn't/shouldn't be the only reason for education.
Even those factory jobs aren't getting filled because modern day manufacturing jobs require basic skills that HS grads don't have because they're so terrible at math/programming.
This country's tolerance for people who blow at math is sickening.
Please, explain to me the value in the time schools spend on Haiku poetry. I'm anxious to hear why it's important to learn about Jap poetry.
If you combine the time spent on poetry during all 4 years of HS it's easily 1 year.
Maybe if schools could actually teach math, we'd have less people who blow at it.... from what I can tell, math seems to have some of the worst teachers on average.... I maybe had one math teacher ever who didn't outright hate their students, knew how to explain things, and didn't replace actually teaching the material with millions of homework problems and busywork.... it's no wonder that kids hate math and resist learning it when math classes ing suck, tbh...
You ever work in a factory/cannery? Tons of jobs there that don't require math skills other than simple add etc. Sales jobs.
Agreed completely which is why I say a bigger emphasis needs to be placed on it.
I shouldn't say I hate the fact people blow at math since the result of it is me getting multiple job offers that people who spend 4 years of college studying poetry about Emily enson's bloody tampon's would kill for
For the record, I also disagree with DoK that English isn't that important.... writing is a skill just like math/science/etc., perhaps even more important than those skills, tbh.... I actually think it's been de-emphasized too much to the point where English majors pretty much have to double-major in something else to get decent job offers....
I'd also say high school math teachers >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> high school english teachers
high school english teachers are some of the most useless people on Earth who are for the most part stupid as .
English majors have to major in something else because there's no real world application for being able to analyze the literary techniques Emily enson uses to describe her first period.
Did you know they stopped forcing students to memorize the multiplication table and want to change pi to just 3Agreed completely which is why I say a bigger emphasis needs to be placed on it.
I shouldn't say I hate the fact people blow at math since the result of it is me getting multiple job offers that people who spend 4 years of college studying poetry about Emily enson's bloody tampon's would kill for
How many times does the average person need/use algebra in their life?
No I didn't know that. I also don't get how you can just change what pi is. The area of a circle isn't gonna magically go from 3.14etc*r^2 to 3*r^2 with a mandate that pi is now 3.
That multiplication table i deal with every day, it's like how do you not know what 9x8 is
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