Tuesdays with Claymore

That teacher thread is probably the first one on DU that I’ve ever agreed with. Sure, I’ve come across some horrible teachers before (Mostly the ones I’ve had in college up until this point), but parents let their kids get by with so much crap nowadays it isn’t even funny. There are teachers in my family, and they’re awesome at what they do, especially having worked their entire careers with either poor inner-city kids or very learning disabled children, but they can only do so much when the parents either don’t care, or in one case where the parents literally have the principal in their back pocket and run the school. I did well in K-12 because my parents stayed on me and saw to it that I succeeded; they also taught me respect for the teacher, the classroom, and a diploma. If more parents stopped making excuses for their kids, and if we got past this stupid governmental notion that somehow requiring increased in-school hours along with performance based reward pay and increased certification testing for our teachers would better our education system, then maybe we would finally see results. Keep everything simple: Stop pushing more difficult courses onto lower grade level students, raise our kids right, and pay teachers more in areas where they aren’t paid well (Which includes many locales in the U.S., such as my own), and everything will turn out fine.

Joe Biden would be an excellent Secretary of State?

Really?

In what retarded universe?

I am so confused…if you lock a man in a box with some radioactive stuff he will either be dead or a liberal rapist? I don’t understand…I am not going to touch the “too drunk to consent” statement…