When I was young it was early June-Labor Day. We started changing towards the end of my HS and I walked like 7 days before June. Now the area goes to school mid May to 1st week of August.
Looking at my class roster....got a kid who is the current valedictorian of the sophomore class sitting next to a kid ranked 454 out of 465. Should be interesting. Fucking kids start back tomorrow. Gonna suuuuuck.
Can't wait to read how Drew tortures teaches another batch of spoiled brats. Keep fighting the good fight my friend.
Should be an interesting set of classes. Lotta smart kids....lotta dumb kids. Not many 2.5 GPAs. 3.4 - 4.0 and 1.0 to 2.0
Are the parents of the kids with under a 2.0 just not involved at all or are the kids just really dumb?
both, but more of the 1st one imo. lots of less than smart kids still get good grades because they still work hard. takes a special kind of lazy to get a 1.0 in public school.
Bit of both...if a kid has an Individualized Education Plan(IEP) they're usually just slow. I have only 1 kid this year with an IEP, so I'm assuming their parents don't give a shit. However, freshmen always get the worst grades because they're not used to the rigor of high school right away. Some of these kids could adjust this year. The best students are juniors. Something clicks between sophomore and junior year and they usually are all about getting down to business. They also start worrying about class rank and college, so they try harder. Seniors are great until after Christmas, and then they simply don't give a fuck anymore.
it really doesn't make any sense to give kids 10+ weeks off of school but as a future teacher I'm okay with it
thought summer break was implemented back in the day so kids could help their parents with crops and what not and its just kind of stuck around. not sure how accurate that is though
Most American school kids are about three weeks in to their three-month summer vacation. Yet working adults (the Explainer included) spend the better part of June, July, and August toiling away as usual. Why do kids enjoy such generous summer breaks? Fiscal limitations, century-old developmental theories, and outdated medical concerns. The now-standard 180-day academic calendar with a long summer holiday didn't come about until the early 20th century. Previously, urban schools operated year-round with short breaks between quarters. In 1842, Detroit's academic year lasted approximately 260 days, New York's 245, and Chicago's 240. But since education wasn't mandatory in most states until the 1870s, attendance was low. Despite the official schedule, many kids ended up spending the same amount oftime in school back then as they do now. Brooklyn school officials, for example, reported in 1850 that more than half their students showed up just six months a year. Poor attendance got some people wondering if such a long academic calendar was worthwhile. Why keep schools open year-round if most kids don't even go? Reformers also warned that goody-goodies who did show up every day might burn out. Many physicians at the time felt that students were too frail, both in mind and body, for so many days at their desk. Too much education, they argued, could impair a child's health. City school officials began listening to reformers around the turn of the century. Gradually, they shortened the school year by about 60 days and eliminated the summer quarter. Reformers could have instituted a long break in winter, or spring, but they picked summer for three main reasons. 1) Poorly ventilated school buildings were nearly unbearable during heat waves. 2) Community leaders fretted that hot, crowded environments facilitated the spread of disease. 3) Wealthy urbanites traditionally vacationed during the hottest months, and middle-class school administrators were following in their footsteps. Meanwhile, the school districts outside cities had quite different academic calendars. In the 19th century, rural kids spent just five or six months in school—two to three months in summer and the same in winter—and the rest of the year laboring on farms. So while urban educators worried that children were overtaxed by their busy schedule, officials in rural areas thought their students were mentally undertaxed. By the early 20th century, public-school officials in many farm states had lengthened the academic year and introduced a summer break to bring agrarian districts into line with urban ones. Physicians no longer believe that children are too feeble for year-round instruction, and most school buildings now have effective ventilation systems. So why don't we go back to having school in the summertime? For one thing, it's expensive to keep schools open, just like it was in the late 1800s. But some nonprofit organizations argue that the long breaks hinder the learning process. According to the Johns Hopkins Center for Summer Learning, kids score worse on standardized tests in early September than in late June. Plus, students in other industrialized countries have more instructional time. The Israeli academic year lasts 216 days, and kids in Japan plug away for a whopping 243 days per annum.
Pretty good crop of kids this year....no completely outrageous favorite movies and only 2 said Big Bang Theory was their favorite TV show. Most said Workaholics surprisingly.
I really do hate to stereotype, but damn these kids make it hard not to. So, I realized today in 3rd period one of my kids has INCREDIBLE B.O. I deliberately passed out handouts to each kid individually to try and determine who fucking reeks. And I found who it was.... Wait for it.... Spoiler Muhammed
Finished City Lights today...one kid has the balls to say immediately afterwards that it sucked. Kids around him pounced and told him he sucked. My reaction to them attacking him?
HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. Every fucking year, immediately after we watch King Kong, I give them a quiz. Question 8 is "Which building does King Kong climb to the top of in New York City?" There has not been a single year where someone hasn't missed it. Every fucking time. I thought this year would be the year that everyone gets in correct when I said "Which building does King Kong climb to the top of in NEW YORK CITY. NEW. YORK. CITY." Fucking quiz #3 I graded: "World Trade Center" Quiz #8: "Eiffel Tower"
they will contribute nothing to society. More than likely, they will become the tax payer's burden. euthanize them.
#3 could've been right if you had watched the 70's version. I take it that you did not watch that version, though.
In middle school there would be daily Ax and other body spray wars after gym class; those were the days.
Used to teach senior English as well...but now I just teach an intro to film class, a video lab class, and a class that produces the morning announcements TV show and the senior video
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Realized a kid with "autistic qualities" really can't do shit in my class. I looked up her schedule so I could see what her other teachers were doing to accommodate her. That's when I saw her schedule: 1. Social skills (SPECIAL ED) 2. Home Living skills (SPECIAL ED) 3. Community skills (SPECIAL ED) 4. Adaptive PE (SPECIAL ED) 5. My fucking class. So, all day long she's taught how to figure how much money to bring to the grocery store and why she shouldn't use an iron....and then I ask her to explain how Etienne Jules-Marey's photography gun worked. Thanks a whole fucking lot, guidance.
MOTHER FUCKERS!!! I'm grading some Citizen Kane answer sheets and one of the questions is: What book does Thompson read to find out the details of Kane's childhood? The answer is he reads Thatcher's diary/manuscript/memoirs/autobiography. 5 mother fucking dumbasses wrote the same answer on their sheet: "The one one were" THE ONE ONE WERE THE. ONE. ONE. WERE. What in the fucking fuck does that fucking mean? It means: A) They're cheating and B) They're the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet Earth. Who the fuck thinks that is a plausible answer to turn in? Guess which four words are going to be written in GIANT letters on my white board tomorrow?
Usually, it's a zero and I fill out an honor code violation form that stays on their record for a least a year. They can't join any honors programs or if they're a junior or senior...they can't graduate with special cords or anything. But, usually the first time I just give the guilty parties a zero and use it as a teachable moment to show how stupid most of them are at cheating. I'm pretty honest with them....I tell them unless you're really good at cheating, I'm going to catch you...and then it's going to be hell to pay. After this warning...all gloves are off. They also have their first film reviews due tomorrow. Going to give this speech before they turn them in...and tell them if they plagiarized this film review, keep it, re-write it in their own words and turn it in tomorrow for 25 points off. I tell the rest of them I can find out if you plagiarized in roughly 20 seconds...so proceed with caution if you want to turn it in.
This is a good example of why a high school diploma won't get you far in America today. The one one were.
Even if you have NEVER seen Citizen Kane...the phrasing of the question itself at least points you toward saying "a diary"
Decided to go a little light with it as opposed to a hard ass. I really only like one of the kids who cheated...and he basically just nodded and smiled a sheepish grin like he know he had been caught. He apologized on his way to lunch and said he took a little pride in being caught giving the world's stupidest answer. The others were trying to figure out who originally wrote it. I don't think anyone has fessed up yet. The rest of the class took great pleasure in trying to determine who the guilty parties were.