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"The meek shall inherit the

Resistance — Sun, 22 May 2011 23:04:34 +0000

In reply to I awoke this morning Flower

"The meek shall inherit the Earth."

That preacher/teacher of the Rapture is so false. He tells his parishoners to pray "Let your kingdom come to Earth as it is in Heaven" then he lies to his parishoners that they are leaving for heaven.

WHY would they be leaving; when all along, they've been praying for Gods Government to come rule.?

I like it here too, I'm not much into harps, Accordians and guitars are my favorites.

It is recorded about man - kind that they should "Become Fruitful and fill the Earth"

Do angel - kind procreate? I dont think so

I don't think I want to become an angel

Thank you so much for the link to Khan

Yeah NCD, i fouund this one

Richard Day — Sun, 22 May 2011 18:27:35 +0000

In reply to Thanks for the link to the

Yeah NCD, i fouund this one paragraph and it contained a number of ideas.

The ten in a row idea. Get the kids excited and feeling a little obsessive compulsive about these puzzles.

Get the media and the Web involved here.

My God, the world opened up for me when I found this magic internet. All this information...

You should not have to be enrolled in Harvard, to hear a good Harvard prof orate!

And there are thousands of paragraphs out there concerning education. Brilliant paragraphs..

I awoke this morning Flower

Richard Day — Sun, 22 May 2011 18:22:49 +0000

In reply to I think the problems lie in

I awoke this morning Flower and we were all still here.

I mean we lot a hundred Americans in car accidents and another 100 Americans died of gun shot wounds...

But it looks like you and I still made it without paying any monies to the idiots that said we would not be here at all! ha

I think the problems lie in

wabby — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:34:23 +0000

In reply to LINGUISTICS

I think the problems lie in language too, Mr. Day. I reckon that is why I put more faith in a persons actions than in their words. Bradlee Dean can gas all he wants about President Obama's choice of religion, but in the end, the president and his family attend Christian services so that action convinces me Dean is wrong.

Or maybe it is the interpretaion of words that is at fault. What is said is not always what is heard. It's a short trip to crazy if one thinks about it too much.

I truly do not know.

I'm just glad I didn't have to do the Rapture thing yesterday. I like it here...on this planet.

Thanks for the link to the

NCD — Sun, 22 May 2011 15:51:48 +0000

In reply to LINGUISTICS

Thanks for the link to the HuffPost piece on the Khan Academy. The guy is good, and for anyone with a kid in school I would check it out, he has scores of videos on math, which can help you teach your kid math when the teacher doesn't. We are now fighting the second go-around with all the same bad teachers my first kid had in a public HS. They are still there years later.

A teacher who doesn't teach might be one who doesn't grade or return homework the same or the next day, or even return it before the test on the chapters involved. A fundamental truth of education is homework doesn't do any good without timely feedback. Another bad teacher is one who misgrades tests and marks correct answers wrong (after you have taught your kid the stuff, they get it marked wrong, you have to monitor a lazy teacher in addition to teaching your kid). There are endless examples.

Has anybody here ever seen a school with a published manual, or a section in the Student Handbook on TEACHER responsibilities to students (beyond the BS Mission Statement), with specifics, like grading homework on time (or at all)? Forget it, it probably isn't there. If your kid has a bad teacher (there are lots) get them out of the class into the good teacher's class, or you might try out the Khan website (mentioned in the Huff link in the main post by Richard) for help and good instruction videos on math for your student.

See this New Yorker article on how it is impossible to get of of incompetent teachers in NYC. A quote from it: One school principal has said that Randi Weingarten, of the teachers’ union,“would protect a dead body in the classroom.”