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The Orange Menace should take the 100K and go get an education.
I'm relieved to hear you aren't one screaming against Common Core and the uneducated kids learning nothing but liberal drivel all the way from K-College. Good man./----/ You wrote:"I don't know if Republicans have always hated education, "I never really followed politics in any depth until the last Pres campaign and stumbled in here one day searching for articles on gun control. I don't know if Republicans have always hated education, but the slander against education from kindergarten through college is just frightening to me.
When people started bitching about "Common Core" years ago I figured it was because parents were pissed they couldn't do the New Math. (They still are, imo.) Then I started working for Adult Ed and had to do some in depth dives into the standards etc. It is so not to be scared of. I can understand the objection to the federal interference in education, whether I agree with it or not. But Common Core itself is so not scary. And people absolutely refuse to listen.
Ahhhh the first strawman argument of the day. Well done.
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Yup. I keep forgetting that not everyone sees things like I do. Some people have little interest in academics and find school a huge waste of time. For them, finding the motivation to learn something might have to be a situation like yours--you needed to learn it and you also wanted to learn it because you had a specific goal in mind.I agree. I saw at it's worst in the military when going through electronics classes using algebraic formulas and calculations...I had basic algebra in 8th grade, all other math at a higher level I learned on my own..I pushed my kids to do well in math by doing projects with them and teaching them basic electronics as teens..My Mom was not very good at math and I had no Dad to speak of so blaming parents is not always to usable venue..It is up to that individual to learn...LOL. Good point.I have found nothing particularly wrong with it..Not much difference then the days of the three R's, reading, riting and rithmatic..Now tell me what's wrong with the spelling of two of the fundamental R's in education back in the 1960'-'70's...I never really followed politics in any depth until the last Pres campaign and stumbled in here one day searching for articles on gun control. I don't know if Republicans have always hated education, but the slander against education from kindergarten through college is just frightening to me.
When people started bitching about "Common Core" years ago I figured it was because parents were pissed they couldn't do the New Math. (They still are, imo.) Then I started working for Adult Ed and had to do some in depth dives into the standards etc. It is so not to be scared of. I can understand the objection to the federal interference in education, whether I agree with it or not. But Common Core itself is so not scary. And people absolutely refuse to listen.
I have quite a few students who have dropped out recently, in the past five-ten years, and some of them have some huge gaps in their mathematical ability. Don't know their multiplication tables, never actually learned how to deal with fractions, or understand decimal places, can't do a simple percent problem. I'm actually reteaching long division to some of them. These are not mentally challenged kids.
Now it's true irl we rely on calculators, but the lack of math understanding is absolutely sickening. I'm not sure what's going on. It is not the fault of common core, which is just a set of standards, but something is wrong somewhere.
Of course, I say that knowing that I'm dealing with the ones who dropped out.
I learned to be better at fractions by learning the metric system, converting the fraction to decimal and doing the calculation then converting it back into a fraction for American standard use...I was bad at fraction calculations as a kid...Yup. I keep forgetting that not everyone sees things like I do. Some people have little interest in academics and find school a huge waste of time. For them, finding the motivation to learn something might have to be a situation like yours--you needed to learn it and you also wanted to learn it because you had a specific goal in mind.I agree. I saw at it's worst in the military when going through electronics classes using algebraic formulas and calculations...I had basic algebra in 8th grade, all other math at a higher level I learned on my own..I pushed my kids to do well in math by doing projects with them and teaching them basic electronics as teens..My Mom was not very good at math and I had no Dad to speak of so blaming parents is not always to usable venue..It is up to that individual to learn...LOL. Good point.I have found nothing particularly wrong with it..Not much difference then the days of the three R's, reading, riting and rithmatic..Now tell me what's wrong with the spelling of two of the fundamental R's in education back in the 1960'-'70's...I never really followed politics in any depth until the last Pres campaign and stumbled in here one day searching for articles on gun control. I don't know if Republicans have always hated education, but the slander against education from kindergarten through college is just frightening to me.
When people started bitching about "Common Core" years ago I figured it was because parents were pissed they couldn't do the New Math. (They still are, imo.) Then I started working for Adult Ed and had to do some in depth dives into the standards etc. It is so not to be scared of. I can understand the objection to the federal interference in education, whether I agree with it or not. But Common Core itself is so not scary. And people absolutely refuse to listen.
I have quite a few students who have dropped out recently, in the past five-ten years, and some of them have some huge gaps in their mathematical ability. Don't know their multiplication tables, never actually learned how to deal with fractions, or understand decimal places, can't do a simple percent problem. I'm actually reteaching long division to some of them. These are not mentally challenged kids.
Now it's true irl we rely on calculators, but the lack of math understanding is absolutely sickening. I'm not sure what's going on. It is not the fault of common core, which is just a set of standards, but something is wrong somewhere.
Of course, I say that knowing that I'm dealing with the ones who dropped out.
It didn't even cross my mind to blame parents, btw.
I have quite a few students who have dropped out recently, in the past five-ten years, and some of them have some huge gaps in their mathematical ability. Don't know their multiplication tables, never actually learned how to deal with fractions, or understand decimal places, can't do a simple percent problem. I'm actually reteaching long division to some of them. These are not mentally challenged kids.
Now it's true irl we rely on calculators, but the lack of math understanding is absolutely sickening. .
So?I agree but it boggles my mind that someone would bitch about him donating his salary. LunaticsIt would be nice if he'd give it to a front-line charity like a soup kitchen or food bank in a major city. Or a struggling healthcare center in Eastbumfuck. Even the YMCA.
He's donating 100K to the department while calling for a 9 billion dollar cut in the same department.
I hope you made him a cake or took him to the amusement park or something. That's a big achievement.My youngest son was the top of the county in math last year....
Oh the irony...while proposing to cut the Education Department budget by over 9 BILLION.
No, this is not a story from The Onion.
Trump donates second-quarter salary to Education Department
I asked a student not long ago what she does when she walks into a store and the rack says 25% off. She had no idea how to set that up, even on a calculator. She told me she makes sure she's got enough to pay the original price and gets pleasantly surprised when she takes it to the register.I have quite a few students who have dropped out recently, in the past five-ten years, and some of them have some huge gaps in their mathematical ability. Don't know their multiplication tables, never actually learned how to deal with fractions, or understand decimal places, can't do a simple percent problem. I'm actually reteaching long division to some of them. These are not mentally challenged kids.
Now it's true irl we rely on calculators, but the lack of math understanding is absolutely sickening. .
Generation X, Y or whatever we're up to now, needs to get a better handle on using math for everyday problems. They can always use a calculator to get the exact answer, but many of them don't know how to even make an educated guess what the answer is.
Such as carpeting a 20 by 30 foot room, with carpet going for $10.99 a square yard installed. Roughly how much is it going to cost? They don't know if it's around $50, $500, or $5,000.
Americans are, almost without exception, fucking morons.I never really followed politics in any depth until the last Pres campaign and stumbled in here one day searching for articles on gun control. I don't know if Republicans have always hated education, but the slander against education from kindergarten through college is just frightening to me.
When people started bitching about "Common Core" years ago I figured it was because parents were pissed they couldn't do the New Math. (They still are, imo.) Then I started working for Adult Ed and had to do some in depth dives into the standards etc. It is so not to be scared of. I can understand the objection to the federal interference in education, whether I agree with it or not. But Common Core itself is so not scary. And people absolutely refuse to listen.
The Orange Menace should take the 100K and go get an education.
Are you really having this discussion?By law he must receive his paycheck, he has been donating it, if you don't get a check, you can't donate it....Man this is a complicated world we live in...He said he would not accept his paycheck for being President...........
Another promise fulfilled.
...while proposing to cut the Education Department budget by over 9 BILLION.
No, this is not a story from The Onion.
Trump donates second-quarter salary to Education Department
I agree. Home schooling is the way to go. If it was good enough for the kings of England it's good enough for our children....while proposing to cut the Education Department budget by over 9 BILLION.
No, this is not a story from The Onion.
Trump donates second-quarter salary to Education Department
The Department of Education should have their budget cut 100% and be completely eliminated.
i am so glad obama didnt invent oxygen .....how would the gop repeal that?
That's a pretty asinine statement considering most family's have two working parents as well as a huge chunk of children who have parents just as stupid as an uneducated child.I agree. Home schooling is the way to go. If it was good enough for the kings of England it's good enough for our children....while proposing to cut the Education Department budget by over 9 BILLION.
No, this is not a story from The Onion.
Trump donates second-quarter salary to Education Department
The Department of Education should have their budget cut 100% and be completely eliminated.
His choice surprises me. Education has been a department I always thought of as Jimmy Carter's thank-you to the teachers' union. Also with the Common Core rant I can't imagine the department is too popular these days.
But never-the-less that wasn't meant to downplay Trump's good gesture. Definitely a class act.
Did you miss the point? He donates $100,000 to a department he wants to cut 9 billion dollars from. What's classy about that?
Same with the DEA.....while proposing to cut the Education Department budget by over 9 BILLION.
No, this is not a story from The Onion.
Trump donates second-quarter salary to Education Department
The Department of Education should have their budget cut 100% and be completely eliminated.
Well we do have a police for for some reason...They never have solved any crimes committed against meself..His choice surprises me. Education has been a department I always thought of as Jimmy Carter's thank-you to the teachers' union. Also with the Common Core rant I can't imagine the department is too popular these days.
But never-the-less that wasn't meant to downplay Trump's good gesture. Definitely a class act.
Did you miss the point? He donates $100,000 to a department he wants to cut 9 billion dollars from. What's classy about that?
We've spent close to 3 trillion on the dept of ED in the last 30+ years and have nothing to show for it. Of course you folks have never objected to throwing good money after bad and getting nothing for it as long as you can use it to buy votes.
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