Jindal sues Federal Govt.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by nailer

Thanks for telling me about the all public schools suck meme.

The popular meme in my neighborhood - the public schools my kids attend are good. And they are, in no small part due to parental involvement.

No question about that.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by nailer

Every state gets an F.

Fixed.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by nailer

Thanks for telling me about the all public schools suck meme.

The popular meme in my neighborhood - the public schools my kids attend are good. And they are, in no small part due to parental involvement.

There are public school systems in the Chicago area that are top notch. There are also individual schools in less "productive" districts that do a good job. And there are individual teachers, the real heroes IMO, in shit schools that have amazing success with some of the kids. (Like the blonde when she was a classroom teacher on the West Side of Chicago.)

But the fact remains that students in certain districts are at a distinct disadvantage, particularly in math and the sciences and related courses of study such as engineering. A few clinical mental health workers I knew started out wanting to go to medical school, and didn't make it. They mostly came out of either poor urban or rural school districts. All of them reported that they just couldn't keep up with kids from the high ranking districts in certain Chicago suburbs in the pre-med course of study. So they settled for a master's level mental health degrees.

That wouldn't be happening in a system where the teacher quality, materials quality, teacher salaries, and administrative functions are the same across the board and controlled by a centralized public school administrative service.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Fixed.

Thanks, I need a brain scan.

In the Pub I just edited a your to you're.

[donquixote99]

Do you mean for making the typo, or for editing it?

[nailer]

Actually it's wasn't a typo. If not attentive, I often interchange your/you're and there/their/they're. Plural/possessive switches occur far less often, but I think they're related.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by nailer

Thanks, I need a brain scan.

In the Pub I just edited a your to you're.

I'm the apostrophe Nazi...

[nailer]

Originally Posted by bobabode

I'm the apostrophe Nazi...

Apostrophe this S.


Regarding brain scans:

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

Actually it's wasn't a typo. If not attentive, I often interchange your/you're and there/their/they're. Plural/possessive switches occur far less often, but I think they're related.

I have discovered, by deduction, that the brain operations involved in typing include first a part that decides what words to type, and then a part that takes the input from the first, and turns it into movement orders for the fingers. That part knows some things--what words sound like, and what they look like, but it knows nothing at all about what they mean. As time goes by, this part has gotten less accurate in it's work. It seems like it takes the words it gets, and goofs up the orders to the fingers for some reason. Instead I get words that sound like the intended word. Regular homonyms to begin with, as in 'your' for 'you're,' but more recently, words that just sound a lot alike. In these cases it often seems a common word is substituted for an less common one, as 'horse' for 'hearse,' for example. Likewise, sometimes I get words that seem to look like the intended word, so I might get 'explain' instead of 'explode.'

Basically, the finger-controlling subsystem seems to not get it's orders clearly, or to forget them, but it presses on, taking it's best guess.

[bobabode]

I like that new gal who's running the NEA. She came after the pols with both barrels, "Leave the educating to the professionals" was her opening salvo.