I think it is only one or two of the usual people showing lack of respect. Maybe we were the exception, but we told our kids at the start of every school year--the teacher is in charge- if we get any calls or reports about bad behavior or causing problems, you will be punished. The teachers have a hard enough job, respect them and do what you can to make their job enjoyable and a bit easier.
The ironies being that 1. Lots of the people saying that are hardly rousing successes in life and don't do jobs that have a real impact on the world--and have never taught, so have no idea what it's like 2. All of the people that others worship as geniuses, like Elon Musk, had teachers that helped get them where they are.
It must be harder than ever to teach a subject like history because the internet has flooded the world with the most unbelievably stupid lies/memes about previously well-known historical facts--like the idiocy that Hitler was a socialist and that Fascism is a left-wing ideology or Black Friday was started as a day to sell slaves, two of my favorite pieces of moronic garbage. You're fighting a tidal wave.
I believe there are more than one or two and over the years in this board teachers are shown a lot of disrespect over how some view the teaching profession.
Someone on a thread on this site just a day or two ago parroted the idiocy about Hitler. Also, you're on the internet telling me to put down the internet and enjoy life...
This thread is downright calm and civil compared to the ones we had in here a dozen or so years ago.
Another good point. And a coworker told me today that there's a bill in the legislature to increase teachers' contributions again? It was the first I'd heard of it, so im not sure. Some teachers nay never get back to pre-Christie take home levels.
On the CE board, 98% felt that public education was doing a terrible job. T2K, Caliknight, and other also felt private schools were the only way to go and no public School was adequate no matter what town.
You're right that it's a tough fight. But it's one worth fighting because ultimately, if our nation continues to allow misinformation/disinformation (much of it originating overseas via social media and bots and so forth), then we're all going to suffer.
IMO, the sole advantage of private schools is that the kids are surrounded by other kids who grow up in an environment that continually tells them they can do whatever they want or achieve whatever they want. Which in turn primes them to become C-suite employees or business owner/entrepreneurs, etc. The environment develops self-confidence and high expectations.
I have seen it on the CE board. Let's face it, there's a fair amount of truly ignorant nonsense flowing there. It doesn't dominate, but it's there and it's irritating because it's hard to work around it respectfully.
I welcome everyone to join the elite status. Work hard, follow the steps for success in America.....most people can do it.
Too many people on both left and right are living in echo chambers and seeking out information that backs up their preconceived and often wrong misconceptions. Hitler/nazism/fascism exemplifies this: I've studied that era my entire life, my grandfather was a social Democrat in the early 30s and had to flee Germany, I have relatives there, I've watched videos of Hitler's campaign speeches and read Mussolini's writings, I've even talked about the subject in German language classes. And what I hear from both sides on the subject is almost entirely wrong, usually absurdly wrong. Except for my brother, who has a degree in history, I've never met anyone in my life who seems to really know much about the subject. Yet when I tell actual facts to people who most certainly have not studied the subject and know they haven't studied it beyond reading a meme or some crappy website not only do they dig in their heels they usually end up insulting me. They want to believe what they want to believe.
The public education system was started in order to further democracy by giving everyone at least a minimal education and by bringing children of all backgrounds together. It has, of course, been twisted at times, such as with segregation, but it had succeeded well enough.
1. An overinflated sense of status in the world and of self-importance.
Ask RU36, he brought it up. To me, elite's definition is different for different circumstances.
a truly informative piece of advice.
I have always been interested in this topic but wasn't there propaganda from many countries from early 30's on. Maybe that's why there is a lot of miss info now?
No "luck of the draw". That's a loser mentality. I have said for years, success in America is built on the family. Every generation working to give the next a better set-up for life. It was not luck that my great-grandparents worked hard to give my grandparents something a little better. It was not luck that my grandparents worked hard to give my parents something a little better. It was not luck that my parents worked hard to give my sister and I something a little better. And it definitely isn't luck that my wife and are working hard to give our daughter something a little better.
There's misinformation partly because people want to attach Hitler to their political opponents beliefs in order to slander them as much as possible--as when those on the right claim Nazism was a left-wing movement, and when those on the left claim Hitler was a rabid Christian, both wrong, or when some Christians claim Hitler was a godless atheist who persecuted Christians, also false with the exception of some Cathic priests but it was because they wouldn't take a loyalty oath to him. There's also misinformation because most people really know nothing about the subject and it is seldom taught in the US. Also, people on the right are still being taken in by Hitler's propaganda/lies: he had a multi-point economic plan that looks pretty leftist but he never implemented any of it. It was all lies to rope in voters. Hitler's public utterances were the most dishonest of any politician to ever walk the planet--he lied out of his a**--which is why using his speeches as evidence of what he thought is mostly wrong and shows a person who hasn't studied the subject. The name National Socialists also hoodwinks them: NATIONAL socialism was Hitler's response to actual socialism. It was an ism devoted to the nation (aka rabid nationalism) as opposed to individuals or classes, like socialism.
