knyte, i thought you werent american...

have you been outsider of us, were you born outsider of the us, and where have you studied at (country)


TL, that comes as no surprise to me

why does that not surprise you...

Powerpos, while you are here would you mind answering the questions?

pffffffffffffffffft

1. What are your thoughts on standardized testing? Good or bad? Why so?

Oh god, is this an issue nowadays ?
It's like people don't know what tests are for.

2. What are your thoughts on special needs education? Good or bad? Why so?

It's called "special needs", but that's not how it works.
EVERYONE has their own specific needs, but this is about people who,
when getting the same education as others, will still fail in society and live off welfare. So it is stupid to waste more money on these people then on others.

3. Do you feel Sexual education is an important class? Do you feel it should be improved, stay the same or be removed?

It falls under "prepare you for life"-classes, see #4

4. Do you think we should teach more general subjects? A "prepare you for life" class, basically.

I had that, it covered sexual education, but, i don't see why it wasn't taught in biology or something, i got things like tax-forms in economics, politics in a class about society.

5/7

Maths and language are specialisations.
Some of the base should be taught (english, adding and substracting, something about finances)
but after that people should specialize according to what they want/can excel in.

6. What are your thoughts on the current state of Social studies classes? Do you think they are doing a good job?

"social studies" sounds like something that isn't realy measurable yet costing a lot of money.
When i was in school i noticed economics-theories were wrong/off,
economics is a social study that is quite measurable compared to something like psychology, so it would probably be best if social studies got scrapped alltogether.

8. Do you think evolution theory should be taught in schools? If so, what about creationism? What other theories?

I think a lot of scientific theories should be taught in school, heck, i think students should even learn a thing or two on schools.
The evolution-vs-creationism debate is stupid, and i don't take sides in stupid debates.

9. Do you think the social environment in public school is great? Do you find it lacking? Should it exist at all?

How many schools do you think i 've been on ??

10. What are your thoughts on the extracurricular activities? Such as art, chorus, orchestra, JROTC, Sports, or Shop class. Do some need to leave? Do others need improvement?

I don't live in the USA.

11. What are some classes you'd like to see?

Something with more facts and less fiction.

12. What are your thoughts on integrating technology into education? Are the 2 distinct? What are your tips to do this correctly?

As opposed to what ? Using a stick to write in sand ??

Powerpos:Don't be stupid. - Tyrion

How about you lead by example ?

Evolution is a theory and a fact. Creationism isn't even a hypothesis. I don't think ideas that defy scientific consensus, especially religious ones (First Amendment, y'all!) should be peddled by the public education system. It's an education system, not an indoctrination system. You can brainwash your kids at church.

It seems rather Fascist to say that teaching Creationism is "Brainwashing" but teaching Evolution is perfectly fine. They're two different views of the same event and neither can be proven without a doubt.

The 1st Amendment means that you can't be forced to follow any specific religion, and can't be discriminated because of your beliefs. It's not a free token to shove any public mention of religion into the closet.

Secularism is big on free thinking, yes? Well then let people have a blasted choice on whether or not they want to follow Evolution or Creationism.

Thank you Eklipse.

Evolution occurs, though. That's not to say that My oldest ancestor is a unicellular organism, but species do evolve. We as humans have observed this.

Micro evolution occurs.

Macro evolution doesn't.

And there's a huge difference between them. Micro evolution is more or less natural selection.

Thanks for your answers, powerpos. It's an interesting perspective, even though a lot of it is just "herp derp".

1. What are your thoughts on standardized testing? Good or bad? Why so?

Good, if you are smart, bad if you are dumb. Overall, fair.

2. What are your thoughts on special needs education? Good or bad? Why so?

Not really needed, but I think it would be great if there was money enough to spend on this. Those who are struggling might not struggle anymore with some more attention, you might make the difference between a sweeper and a newspaper writer.

3. Do you feel Sexual education is an important class? Do you feel it should be improved, stay the same or be removed?

This is a class? Ha, no, the teacher just says when you are 10 or so that the dick goes in the pussy, it's very fun, but can be very life ruining, so please use condoms or alternatives. That sentence, but maybe in 10 sentences' detail is all you need to know.

4. Do you think we should teach more general subjects? A "prepare you for life" class, basically.

Isn't this already in school?

5. Do you think the maths classes are important, and if so, important for what? Are they good,bad? Do they need improvement et al?

Not really. 3/4 folk never use the skills again, it should be optional by the time you reach 12.

6. What are your thoughts on the current state of Social studies classes? Do you think they are doing a good job?

Wow, American system worse that I thought. Get rid of social studies class, just merge it with psychology, or perhaps general health.

7. What are your thoughts on language classes? Good or bad ? Need improvement?

They are ok, and acceptable as they are.

8. Do you think evolution theory should be taught in schools? If so, what about creationism? What other theories? [/quote]

I think evolutionary theory is the one that should be taught, as it is the theory most held to be true by biologists, with some footnote in 2nd and 3rd (Christian and Hindu Creationism, I think).

9. Do you think the social environment in public school is great? Do you find it lacking? Should it exist at all?

It's a workplace, you work, you don't socialise. It shouldn't exist at all, because you should be working. If you're awkward socially, just work.

10. What are your thoughts on the extracurricular activities? Such as art, chorus, orchestra, JROTC, Sports, or Shop class. Do some need to leave? Do others need improvement?

No reason why to remove them, just leave them as be. Some certainly could use improvement, but if you don't like it, don't go.

11. What are some classes you'd like to see?

All classes are offered?

12. What are your thoughts on integrating technology into education? Are the 2 distinct? What are your tips to do this correctly?

I am for a limited version, for example, internet-incapable no USB computers would be a great tool. You can write, you can study data, you can teach with a computer. Or internet, but limited to certain websites, OED, Wikipedia, other scholarly websites.

Interesting contribution, Xy


When u say "social studies", i reference History/Geography, but in Primary School they do study social issues with that class time (and behavior).

Juq if you hate Social Studies so much why do you claim to teach the Past in your clan, and have a History project going on? :P

No, xpapy. Standardized testing is bad, period.

Go watch john Oliver's episode about it on YouTube.

When u say "social studies", i reference History/Geography, but in Primary School they do study social issues with that class time (and behavior).

Oh, ok. Confusing name, isn't it? Anyhow, primary school's social issues teaching time - not needed. You have parents and daycare to teach your child social issues.

No, xpapy. Standardized testing is bad, period.

Go watch john Oliver's episode about it on YouTube.

Watched first 5 minutes, just about American standardised testing.

I talked about this in the first post:

Perhaps you should mention what school/country/province you are critiquing so there is no confusion about certain things like what we are precisely critiquing? German public school is very different than American.

Ah, ok, Kazakh education system.

This thread is mostly about American xpapy.

What's your point with that Tyrion? It matters not what public education you are critiquing, so long as we know what public education you are critiquing.

True.

But xpapy couldve pointed out that he was referring to kzahkstan in a thread where everyone else had been discussing the US

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But xpapy couldve pointed out that he was referring to kzahkstan in a thread where everyone else had been discussing the US

I have never been to America; were you really expecting me to talk about the education system there?