Math Problem Meme

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e2592dff.jpg

imagine having this teacher

What's bigger, 5/6 of a pizza or 1/1000th the planet earth

Quick someone get Poly Gonzales. We will get to the bottom of this.

"teachers dont get paid enough" lmao.

Sending your kid to public school is practically child abuse.

ItIsSoOver posted...

"teachers dont get paid enough" lmao.

Sending your kid to public school is practically child abuse.

is it really? Do you send your children to private school?

Very small sample size but I knew one public school teacher who was obviously very interested in math and wanted her students to learn and another one who just taught by using worksheets and whatnot

So you really dont know what youre going to get

FatalAccident posted...

is it really? Do you send your children to private school?

Schmen's kid is homeschooled because he's afraid the kid might come home with an opinion he didn't give her. He gave this explanation himself a few years ago, not long after she was born and before he dipped out.

Damn_Underscore posted...

Very small sample size but I knew one public school teacher who was obviously very interested in math and wanted her students to learn and another one who just taught by using worksheets and whatnot

So you really dont know what youre going to get

Pretty much. There are great teachers and there are terrible teachers. Across the board, not nearly enough is done to address terrible teachers, but that's mostly because there's just an all-around shortage of teachers in general and therefore few opportunities to replace the bad ones. That, in turn, mostly boils down to pay: because teachers aren't paid very well, you either get people who are passionate enough about teaching to do it in spite of the poor pay (which tend to be better) or people who aren't able to monetize their knowledge and skills in any other way and fall back on teaching (which tend to be worse). You miss out on a lot of people who say "I could be good at this, but my skills would make me a lot more money elsewhere," which makes for a much smaller pool of good teachers than is ideal.

That forms a destructive spiral, too, since the fewer teachers there are, the larger class sizes end up being, which makes it much harder for teachers to do a good job. That burns out the teachers that are actually trying, so you end up with even fewer good teachers left to pull from.

FatalAccident posted...

is it really? Do you send your children to private school?

She has two tutors.

And hey, if the teacher in this picture and every other shitty public school teacher is good enough for your kid I guess that's your call. I'm not saying there aren't good ones, but the good ones are the exception, not the rule.

And that's just the teachers. Most students are a bunch of normie kids who aren't there to learn, who are going to be constantly disruptive, and the bullies, and the shitty attitude and the blah blah. They're fucking awful.

All this so that you can your kid can be taught how to memorize for a standardized test rather than actually learning anything useful.

There's a reason why most kids can get more out of 2 hours of home schooling and it's because public school fucking sucks and the system as it is is just straight up bad for kids. Home schooling also gives them the time to be kids. Sitting in that classroom 7 hours a day is soul crushing. Sure as shit was for me and I was one of the smart kids.

How do you make sure your kids have a social life?

Assuming the home schooling is good quality, that is the one major issue with being home schooled.

Plenty of other people out there who homeschool, and plenty of better places to socialize than a school. She meets up with other kids for whatever playtime activities we plan on a daily basis - usually just sports at the park, but we also do laser tag, rock climbing, and trap shooting to name a few.

Remember, you unlock about an extra 5-6 hours in your kids day by not sending them to the idiot box. My daughter has so much more time to learn and do than I did that I almost feel jealous of her.

adjl posted...

Schmen's kid is homeschooled because he's afraid the kid might come home with an opinion he didn't give her. He gave this explanation himself a few years ago, not long after she was born and before he dipped out.

oof

DevilSummoner posted...

oof

I mean, that's sure as shit not why I hired a tutor, but I don't disagree with schmen at all. I'd rather not haver her grow up to be someone like adjl after all.

His unimaginable horror scenario where someone else doesn't get to spend more time teaching my kid ideas than I do doesn't scare me as much as it does him.

ItIsSoOver posted...

I'd rather not haver her grow up to be someone like adjl after all.

So you want a dumb daughter, I get it.

ItIsSoOver posted...

His unimaginable horror scenario where someone else doesn't get to spend more time teaching my kid ideas than I do doesn't scare me as much as it does him.

Well, yes. That's more or less precisely what I said, if we operate under the assumption that you and he agree on the matter (which seems like a pretty safe assumption). Why would exactly what you want scare you?

Zareth posted...

So you want a dumb daughter, I get it.

Eh, I wouldn't say dumb. Done properly (which usually means "with more money than most people who try it have," but that isn't an issue for them), there's no reason home schooling can't yield an intelligent kid who knows everything any school could have taught them. Heck, realistically, all of the actual knowledge of any primary and post-secondary curriculum can be found on Wikipedia (a non-trivial amount of post-secondary level stuff as well), so the only thing school really needs to teach is how to learn that information, not the information itself. Kids just tend to be better socially adjusted when they have a variety of formative influences, rather than being limited to their parents and whoever their parents pay to influence them.

adjl posted...

Eh, I wouldn't say dumb. Done properly (which usually means "with more money than most people who try it have," but that isn't an issue for them), there's no reason home schooling can't yield an intelligent kid who knows everything any school could have taught them. Heck, realistically, all of the actual knowledge of any primary and post-secondary curriculum can be found on Wikipedia (a non-trivial amount of post-secondary level stuff as well), so the only thing school really needs to teach is how to learn that information, not the information itself. Kids just tend to be better socially adjusted when they have a variety of formative influences, rather than being limited to their parents and whoever their parents pay to influence them.

You would need to verify that they're a good tutors, which, unless you've got a degree in education, would be difficult.

Zareth posted...

So you want a dumb daughter, I get it.

if you think adjl is smart then your opinion actually means nothing to me

shadowsword87 posted...

You would need to verify that they're a good tutors, which, unless you've got a degree in education, would be difficult.

You usually go through references and other evaluations, like measures of how academically successful some of their past students have been. That's a little tricky for earlier grade levels because drawing a line between the tutor somebody had when they were 5-6 and how they do in college doesn't always work, but there's still room for evaluation in there even if you aren't personally familiar with education.