Wednesday Links
City Panel Approves Closing of 19 Schools [NY Times] M.T.A. Short on Security System Cash [NY Times] G Train Mugging Sparks Discussion [NY Times] Subway-Ad Slicer ‘Cuts Loose’ Again [NY Post] One-Man Crime Wave on Fulton Mall [Brooklyn Paper] Hope for Trolleys in Brooklyn? [Brooklyn Eagle] Big Accident on the BQE Last Night [BQE Watch]…
City Panel Approves Closing of 19 Schools [NY Times]
M.T.A. Short on Security System Cash [NY Times]
G Train Mugging Sparks Discussion [NY Times]
Subway-Ad Slicer ‘Cuts Loose’ Again [NY Post]
One-Man Crime Wave on Fulton Mall [Brooklyn Paper]
Hope for Trolleys in Brooklyn? [Brooklyn Eagle]
Big Accident on the BQE Last Night [BQE Watch]
Photo by Borado
im sorry but kids themselves are to blame for just sucking at life and not taking advantage of their education. i had ZERO parental input in my education but i knew to take advantage of it. most teachers suck, yeah, that’s a given, but they are not to blame, they DO their job which is to put the information out there. but you take what you need from school and that information. problem is most kids are just plain stupid. sorry to say, but it’s true.
*rob*
The awesome teachers are regularly trotted out as examples, and to cover up the other 70%. Oh, and probably half of the awesome teachers will become so discouraged and frustrated that they will quit after a few years anyway….
As I’ve mentioned before, Schools of Education (the folks that give degrees, bachelors and masters, to teachers) have students with much lower entrance scores than the students in the other schools of a university. Even Teachers College at Columbia!
There are a number of reasons:
(1) Teacher is no longer a valued profession… and not just in $$ terms that teachers like to gripe about. (2) Women have other career options now — so the smartest of them aren’t going to stick around in a devalued profession. And the brightest of men weren’t ever going to do it. A serious brain drain since the mid-60s. (3) The AFT… of which I’m an affiliate member… is not a problem in the way we think. They support the removal of *terrible* teachers, but the problem is that they SUPPORT, PROMOTE and PROTECT mediocrity. A mediocrity that doesn’t serve our children and the future of our nation. (4) The regulations for teachers are inflexible. Becoming a teacher in “mid-career” is basically not an option for a huge chunk of would-be brilliant educators because of the strict categories and cubbyholes that NYSED and other states have created.
What do you expect?
I think the kids go back to the schools that are closed once they are re-branded and reopened. For example, close one giant high school and reopen four smaller ones inside of the same building.
“so the “failing students” can turn the “good schools” into ” failing schools”?”
Maybe the “failing students” will go to “good schools” and become better students.
Very cool photo!
I agree that closing schools is idiotic. Where are these kids supposed to go? What will the influx of new students, good, bad or otherwise do to our already crowded schools? Did anyone in the supposed education system ever take math? Or physics? You can’t fill a full container. It overflows.
“Yeah, and none of the teachers are to blame. They are the best teachers in the world, right!!!”
No, they are definately to blame too, but seriously the best teachers in the world wont make a difference if the kids dont care and the parents dont care. Many of these terrible schools often have at least some students that do well and and achieve. Its because the parents are involved and supplement for what the school is lacking.
I really do think the difference between great schools and terrible ones is not just based on the teachers or the budget, its largely based on the students and parents.
I think this is one thing I actually kinda agree with Hannible on this one. Schools dont fail, students do.
Posted by: newsouthsloper at January 27, 2010 9:23 AM
Yeah, and none of the teachers are to blame. They are the best teachers in the world, right!!!
oh yeah, i was wondering too about all those schools closing… that sucks. imagine going to a good school then all of a sudden next term you have like 400 hoodlums to deal with? oh well, maybe it’s a good thing and will shake up property values and fuck with the str8 yuppy parents for a while.
*rob*
quote:
Queue up rob’s question: “What’s a bunsen burner?”
that’s the dumbest thing you have ever said. i was a science nerd in school!!!
*rob*