Stepping it up for a B!?!?!

Ah yes.  I've reached the point in my teaching program where you really need a brain to continue.  At this point you should have passed your Praxis Exam.   Gotten your fingerprint card.   Passed all your classes thus far.  So of COURSE the Elementary Education Seminar class should require a B or higher to continue with the program.  Why not?   Do we want mediocre teachers in the classrooms? 

And once again, in my learning team, I encounter MORONS.   One ADMITS that this is her second time taking this seminar because she couldn't pass the first time.   The class is fairly straight forward and not half as difficult as my last two classes.  Yet she is hoping to get a B.   Another gal says she will have to "step it up" in order to get a B and pass.  What happened to striving for an A and settling for a B after working your ass off?   Does this mean she is okay with C's in the rest of her classes?   Why are these people in school?   I just don't get it.  Do they think the school will just hand them a degree for showing up and posting some nonsense?

One can only hope these two ladies start living in reality.   I can only hope they do since they are on my learning team.  And we wonder why the country's education is seriously at risk?  Read my posts and wonder no more.

PAY ATTENTION

So this will be a quick post, but I had to share.   Luckily, in this sea of morons at my school, I have found another person I can depend on for intelligent posts and to do her team work on time.   I had three, but one transferred out of the program to another school.   Poor  me.   I was telling her how I am a control freak (as if none of you knew this already!), and always have myself or another person I trust post team assignments to the instructor for grading in my classes.   She said she feels the same way, especially after a classmate posted a letter to the instructor, on behalf of the team, from her gynecologist in error!  Can you even imagine?  HOW DO YOU DO THAT?   HERE IS YOUR MORON SIGN LADY!   And this is why I have this blog.  And this is why I am such a control freak.

Future teacher's post

Discussion question: 
How can the privileges of a teacher be abused? Provide an example.

Job stability or tunure as my fellow classmates has stated is one way that can be abused also tution reembursment is also something that can be abused by teachers. Most districts offer tiution rembursement for fellow teachers who wish to futher there education. This can be used to take advantage of this system by educating themseleves on the districts dime and then moving on. If a teacher wants to better themselves then that is great for your district to educate you on that. But it can be a bit unfair if you go to school on the districts dime only to leave when you get a dgree and go do something else besided teaching. I feel that this is a privilege that can be abused somewhat.


Okay, besides the bad writing, how many spelling errors can you count?  BTW, I wrote 600 words about TENURE.  And it was coherent and thought out.

MORON.

Those who don't know how to read...

During my year of online classes thus far, I find many people (future teachers), who just don't know how to read OR follow directions.   This is quite scary.  My past couple of classes would have clear instructions on how or where to do something and there was always the question to the instructor about what to do.  I finally got so tired of it I started responding to my classmates with things like, "according to page 2, paragraph 3, sentence 5 of your syllabus, it clearly states..."


Now I have two new classes for the next five weeks.  I am much further in the program now and in order to continue at this point, you must have passed the first certification exam called the Praxis.  I noticed a much better group already in my classes and was hopeful that my days of dumb asses would be over.

NOPE.

Today's dumbass:  "how many posts do we need to do weekly for this class".   The syllabus clearly states under EACH WEEK'S list of assignments, so FIVE TIMES, "you must post two substantive posts on four different days of the week" and then it goes on to explain what this instructor means by substantive.

Good luck to you lady.   Or better yet, good luck to your future students.  If you make it that far.

School Morons Part One

Lately many of the morons I come into contact with are through school posts.   There are typically about 25 students in my classes.  Most are 30-50 somethings returning to school to obtain a degree for a new career.  Like me!  At least half of these students can not form complete sentences, spell, or even use proper grammar.

Never in my life have I met people with more drama and problems than on a year of episodes of General Hospital!   Every learning team I have been assigned to, there is at least one person who has some disease suddenly diagnosed, a death in the family, or more family emergencies in five weeks than any normal person has in a life time.

So here is the question.  Why pay $1200 for each five week class if you can't write, you can't spell (or use the spell check that you can set to automatically check your posts before actually posting them in the class forum), and you can't attend class or complete assignments because you have drama?

My latest team member is now on medication that makes her "drowsy and unable to think".   A great excuse for posting six sentences which should be two paragraphs of information we can use for a grade.  Really?

So to all those people who I attend class with and can't spell things like interest, principal and elementary correctly, I quote the funny comedian Bill Engvall, "here's your sign".   Yes, the sign that reads, I AM A MORON.