Sad and funny all at the same time.

There was also probably a time valve adjusting was assigned to the "slow" kid just after he was sent up the street for blinker fluid.

But I saw on the internet that there was water in batteries?!

Well, consider there are about 260 million Americans 18 and older, yet only about 150 million of them voted in our last election.  It makes it easier to understand why people often don't know who the president or vice president is.  Knowledge is power, but many seem to prefer weakness. 

Education is vastly different than when we were in school.  In some ways kids are learning certain skills far younger (like basic algebra), but in others they seem to not learn at all (like times tables).  A large part of this is that kids were doing badly on testing in high school, so they started introducing skills deemed necessary earlier, and this backs all the way into kindergarten. 

My understanding is that a lot has changed with the SAT.  For one, it no longer stands for anything.  Someone felt the word "aptitude" was discriminatory or some woke nonsense.  The index is now 2200 I believe, so if we tell kids today what our scores were we look dumb, because they don't know the index used to be 1600.  Colleges look at the scores, but they are not as critically used as in our day.

IMO what we have lost in education are logic and civics.  We are not teaching kids to be critical thinkers or problem solvers in school, so if you want your kids to have those skills you are going to have to teach it to them yourself.  Ditto for how the government works and what documents like the Constitution and the Bill or Rights really mean.

Welp, didn't freak out Tom, but the current max SAT score is 1600, again.

I don’t think I am ready for college yet.

I still substitute teach at the high school down the road about once a week. I like to chat with the kids about what their future plans are and sometimes the SAT comes up in conversation. About 5 years ago I was asking some of the students if they had taken the test, and they said I should ask a particular student what score he achieved on the test. The youngster scored a perfect 2400, and I asked him in what year of high school he was. Brainiac was a freshman.

rpm wrote:

I still substitute teach at the high school down the road about once a week.

I'm curious Bob, what subject(s) do you teach?

rpm wrote:

Mach1Driver wrote:

rpm wrote:

I still substitute teach at the high school down the road about once a week.

I'm curious Bob, what subject(s) do you teach?

I'll sub for any subject Terry, but I'm smart enough to know that I'm a substitute teacher, not a teacher. If a student has a question I can't answer I'll ask who the smartest kid in the class is, and have them help. I pretty much take roll and make sure the kids don't stab each other in the neck. Kidding. I honestly don't know how real teachers do it, having to put up with the administration and especially the parents. It didn't take me long to realize that the special ed parents were some of the worst.
I sub about once a week and get jobs from a group of teachers who contact me directly. I enjoy the interaction with the kids, and it's restored my faith in the youth. Although we'll never have a shortage of hamburger flippers.

Good for you. Well done!

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rpm wrote:

Mach1Driver wrote:

rpm wrote:

I still substitute teach at the high school down the road about once a week.

I'm curious Bob, what subject(s) do you teach?

I'll sub for any subject Terry, but I'm smart enough to know that I'm a substitute teacher, not a teacher. If a student has a question I can't answer I'll ask who the smartest kid in the class is, and have them help. I pretty much take roll and make sure the kids don't stab each other in the neck. Kidding. I honestly don't know how real teachers do it, having to put up with the administration and especially the parents. It didn't take me long to realize that the special ed parents were some of the worst.

I sub about once a week and get jobs from a group of teachers who contact me directly. I enjoy the interaction with the kids, and it's restored my faith in the youth. Although we'll never have a shortage of hamburger flippers.

My wife's been a teacher for 22 years.  I don't know how she does it either.  Special Ed teachers don't wait in line to get in heaven.  My mother-in-law was one for over 30 years.  The best was when she had to go back and take new certification tests, which included expertise in a variety of subjects she never taught and never would.