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Post by bamagatr on Apr 11, 2007 12:39:11 GMT -5
If anything schools make me feel like everything I do is pointless. Sadly, that is the attitude of many of the high school students with which I have some dealings... Kids are not only being sadly prepared for real life....they are being sadly prepared to learn that there IS a real life....
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Post by galaxygoddess on Apr 11, 2007 12:40:38 GMT -5
Sounds to me that you want everything handed to you. God I wish that was true. If that was true I wouldn't be where I am. I have worked harder than most kids should have. I tutored algebra to the rest of the students in my 9th grade class because i had learned it before they did. The only thing that was "handed" to me was the intelligence I was born with. An old joke between a couple of close friends and relatives is "a hyper intelligent wombat" it's an esoteric phrase that I'm not going to go into here. I used to sit and read college level books for my home-schooling exercises. Want copies of them? I'll show them to you. i still have them. I read them for fun. I read the dictionary and encyclopedias for fun. Why? cause it was fun. I find learned fun. However, after years of working my ass off to get to the point I am at, I'm tired of needless BS that doesn't even remotely apply to what I am doing or need to be doing. I would love to know why you have to take advanced calculus to be a day care worker. "Excuse me 2 year old child but what is the square root of a tangent?" I think he whole educational system needs reworked so that you don't have to waste time and energy on unnecessary classes. And I'm talking about college curriculum, not high school or elementary school. Those are to prepare you for college. I was taught every subject under the sun, from math to advanced languages to advanced history while I was home-schooled, so that I would be prepared for any career choice I wanted to undertake. Now that I no longer need those courses, now that I could practically teach those courses my self, I do not feel the need to take those classes. In my history class in college I was actually telling the teacher what HE had wrong. I had already learned these courses and they were completely redundant to me. Why should I take a class when I have already learned it? Why sit through a class when every time the teacher asks a question, he motions for ME to answer it because #1 no one else will and #2 I already know the answer like a well trained parrot. I should be allowed to opt out of unnecessary classes.
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Post by JCJ on Apr 11, 2007 14:06:52 GMT -5
I am sorry that I didn't realize the extent of your (galaxygoddess) intellect. I should have known that you were a self proclaimed genius from the length of your posts. You were definitely an advanced student due to the fact that you fell just two points short of being able to surpass Math 101 (college algebra). Just because you read the dictionary or the encyclopedia does not mean that you are intelligent. To me it seems that if you have the spare time to read such books you also have the spare time to take the so called pointless classes. I myself would have much rather skipped the core classes and got straight to my major, but I learned from these classes how to study and research. The only point that I am trying to get at is that public, private, or home schooled; hard work and desire get you were you want to be. If the decision is made to not be involved with public schools then that should be every aspect of the school system. One must make certain sacrificed with every decision.
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Post by family1st on Apr 11, 2007 17:27:39 GMT -5
JCJ- You miss the whole point. The public school system isn't a private institution of learning. If one pays into the system and desires to participate in said system, regardless of the extent, one should have the ability to do so. Otherwise, let's privatize the whole system, take away their tax dollars, and force them to rely completely on funds provided by the students and their families.
Even though I support this bill to some extent, my family will NOT be participating in ANY public school extracurricular activities.
GG- I was in the gifted program back in elementary school and was completely bored out of my mind. It wasn't until my parents started homeschooling my two brothers and I, that I developed an appetite for learning.
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