There's new research out showing that's lots of college graduates choose the business field rather than education because of low starting pay. In this specific case, it's because the $2 bill and the $1 coins are rare and much less common than nickels and dimes. It's sorta the price you pay for being an anachronism.
My! But you DO love to make excuses for people! I grant you than the $2 bill is rather obscure, but you'd think that somewhere along the line in their fine government sponsored educations they'd be introduced to the currencies common to this nation.
But then again, I reckon not. They're too busy learning how to put condoms on bananas.
Nice rhetorical flourish y'all use there, calling public schools "government" schools. It's accurate, sort of, if you mean local school districts, which are even more local than city councils and such -- you know, the kiind of government that actually is closest to the people.
But that's not what you mean by "government." You just mean it to be a snide slap.
Tell me: How many children have you ushered through public schools? Private ones? I mean, to know the difference? Oh, home schooled all yer kids, did ya?
Sorry. I'm just having a little fun watchin' you let rhetoric that's really probably not even your own run away with ya.
Absolutely! And the main excuse is this: I am commanded to love them, in their present need!
There's a great story in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous about how it's kinder -- and by that, my interpretation is "more Christ-like" -- to give a recovering drunk with the shakes another drink, to get him over the initial withdrawal, than it is to keep him dry, in pain and crazy.
Another great story has to do with "enabling." A wife (in the example) who repeatedly gets up and helps her sot of a husband back in the bed when he drunkenly falls out of it every night is enabling him. Placing a blanket over him where he lays is being kind.
Yes. I do make excuses for people -- as I do myself: I sin. I hate it. But I sin. No one knows the hate I have for my own sin. No one knows the hate others have for their own sin.
But I will love them. Give them a drink to calm their shakes. Put a blanket over them. Love them! knowing that God deals with them as God will.
EL how much American history did you have when you went to high school? Were there chapters in your history text about the Vietnam War? Did you take classes on computers? What was the highest math course in your high school? In mine you could take calculus and college algebra. What was the most complex science lesson you were taught? Biology? Did you have classes about VD's & drugs?
Today's students are in school only about 20% more days per year than when you graduated, yet they have so much more to learn to be well rounded adults. Don't knock public education, unless you have some better scheme.
I'll say this, Ben: the education I got in public schools in the seventies was superior to what children get today. I can say that because, while the teachers unions were strong then, they were not filled with as many liberals and Marxists as today. There weren't many teachers rewriting history as there are today, and there wasn't any of this Political Correctness, MultiCulturalism nonsense. There wasn't any hatred of the military, or near as much hatred of the cross as there is now.
Granted the only computer I ever saw was DOS, that had a cool Star Trek game; all text and no graphics, but I did learn Basic and FORTRAN as well as COBOL in my junior and senior year, but they're essentially dead languages today.
That's the way it is: times change, so also do the technologies each generation takes for granted. There were no cell phones, no Ipods, no X-Box's. We entertained ourselves by playing tennis, football, baseball. OH THE HORRORS of the Good Ole Days!!!
The best education I received in terms of actual book learning was in a private school... a CATHOLIC private school. But the best OVERALL education I got was as a child of the military, and the foreign languages I learned in the first ten years of my life. I saw how other people in the world lived: North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, the Azores...
Today's government schools are a disgrace. They are Liberal bastions of intolerance and indoctrination.
School Choice should be the accepted rule. Parents should be allowed to choose where and how their children are educated. And should they choose to take on the education of their children themselves, the government should not object-- as many states do.
I understand you're proud of the education you received, and the technological opportunities available today. And I don't say you're wrong. What I DO say is your experience does not include the experience I and others my age and older have had in government schools. You do not have OUR perspective. "New" is not always "Better."
My point was not that your education was inferior. My point was that today students have much more information they must absorb to be average adults. However, they have only slightly more time to be taught. I made no claims to morality or social instruction. You were downing on public schools because they aren't drilling all of America's currencies. I am saying that schools have to make choices as to what to focus on. I would rather students were taught in depth about credit cards and savings in home economics. Rather than the Susan B. Anthony coin and $2 bill.
Where do you think the brain washing happens? Presumably students from a conservative region and family go on to become teachers in college right? So where could these right-wing fascists be brainwashed to become the indoctrinators you so fear?
I know my school had a christian prayer group, and they had no trouble at all. They met every wednesday morning before school around the flag pole. Which seems fair to me. If the school allowed them to meet during instruction hours, then the school would also have to allow muslim students to leave class for their daily prayer times, an siehks, and buhdists, etc.
One of the biggest funding problems for the Texas school system is that so much of the state's ed money is earmarked for football programs, that with the budget shortfalls recently they can't buy buses and textbooks.
So I say again don't down on the public education system unless you have solutions to offer. What subjects should schools be teaching? What rules should they enact? How should they be funded? I'm willing to discuss specifics. Are you? These liberals/marxists charges are generalizations not worthy of you.
EL would you recognize and accept a $100,000 dollar bill? That's legal tender too. Can you guess which president is featured on it?
Kids today might not know about wheat pennies and buffalo nickels either. It isn't an indictment of the education system. It's just because those currencies are rare.
It's astronomically more likely the average drive-thru window attendant will see a Susan B, or a two-spot, than a 100K bill, which bears the mug of Woodrow Wilson and hasn't been in circulation since the late sixties. And since it is no longer printed, and hasn't been since the late sixties if it surfaced at a drive-thru window the attendant wouldn't see any of the modern security features they're used to seeing. But all that's beside the point. We're talking about legal tender that IS in circulation. A $100k bill would never be presented at a drive-thru, so that's not a fair argument.
But the $2 is also rare. The treasury dept. is printing a run this year, but before that the last time they needed to print new $2 was 2003. Before that 1996.
The currencies are rare. It is entirely understandable for a teenager to look askance at such a bill.
Someone who carries around such oddities, does so for the purpose of being noticed. But this episode is not a valid excuse for criticizing the overall public education system.
But then again, I reckon not. They're too busy learning how to put condoms on bananas.
But that's not what you mean by "government." You just mean it to be a snide slap.
Tell me: How many children have you ushered through public schools? Private ones? I mean, to know the difference? Oh, home schooled all yer kids, did ya?
Sorry. I'm just having a little fun watchin' you let rhetoric that's really probably not even your own run away with ya.
There's a great story in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous about how it's kinder -- and by that, my interpretation is "more Christ-like" -- to give a recovering drunk with the shakes another drink, to get him over the initial withdrawal, than it is to keep him dry, in pain and crazy.
Another great story has to do with "enabling." A wife (in the example) who repeatedly gets up and helps her sot of a husband back in the bed when he drunkenly falls out of it every night is enabling him. Placing a blanket over him where he lays is being kind.
Yes. I do make excuses for people -- as I do myself: I sin. I hate it. But I sin. No one knows the hate I have for my own sin. No one knows the hate others have for their own sin.
But I will love them. Give them a drink to calm their shakes. Put a blanket over them. Love them! knowing that God deals with them as God will.
Today's students are in school only about 20% more days per year than when you graduated, yet they have so much more to learn to be well rounded adults. Don't knock public education, unless you have some better scheme.
Granted the only computer I ever saw was DOS, that had a cool Star Trek game; all text and no graphics, but I did learn Basic and FORTRAN as well as COBOL in my junior and senior year, but they're essentially dead languages today.
That's the way it is: times change, so also do the technologies each generation takes for granted. There were no cell phones, no Ipods, no X-Box's. We entertained ourselves by playing tennis, football, baseball. OH THE HORRORS of the Good Ole Days!!!
The best education I received in terms of actual book learning was in a private school... a CATHOLIC private school. But the best OVERALL education I got was as a child of the military, and the foreign languages I learned in the first ten years of my life. I saw how other people in the world lived: North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, the Azores...
Today's government schools are a disgrace. They are Liberal bastions of intolerance and indoctrination.
School Choice should be the accepted rule. Parents should be allowed to choose where and how their children are educated. And should they choose to take on the education of their children themselves, the government should not object-- as many states do.
I understand you're proud of the education you received, and the technological opportunities available today. And I don't say you're wrong. What I DO say is your experience does not include the experience I and others my age and older have had in government schools. You do not have OUR perspective. "New" is not always "Better."
Where do you think the brain washing happens? Presumably students from a conservative region and family go on to become teachers in college right? So where could these right-wing fascists be brainwashed to become the indoctrinators you so fear?
I know my school had a christian prayer group, and they had no trouble at all. They met every wednesday morning before school around the flag pole. Which seems fair to me. If the school allowed them to meet during instruction hours, then the school would also have to allow muslim students to leave class for their daily prayer times, an siehks, and buhdists, etc.
One of the biggest funding problems for the Texas school system is that so much of the state's ed money is earmarked for football programs, that with the budget shortfalls recently they can't buy buses and textbooks.
So I say again don't down on the public education system unless you have solutions to offer. What subjects should schools be teaching? What rules should they enact? How should they be funded? I'm willing to discuss specifics. Are you? These liberals/marxists charges are generalizations not worthy of you.
At least I know that Susan B's and $2 bill are legal tender.
Kids today might not know about wheat pennies and buffalo nickels either. It isn't an indictment of the education system. It's just because those currencies are rare.
The currencies are rare. It is entirely understandable for a teenager to look askance at such a bill.
Someone who carries around such oddities, does so for the purpose of being noticed. But this episode is not a valid excuse for criticizing the overall public education system.
No offense, but pbbththth. You're talking like an old man.
LOL. "Back in MY day ..."