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Comments
Hahaha, I love how the British know more about presidency that we do.
They don't, s'just me. I promise.
We learn bugger all about America.
My friend's still convinced that California is a city in the state of L.A.
Before, she thought they were two different countries. She's taking geography at the moment as well - I do worry about her.
Then in 10th grade, AP European- which is really just Britain and France (with 1 week of Lithuania and Estonia).
Ah, the messed up high school curriculum.
My sisters are in high school now and the only difference is the order they take things now. Also, none of my old teachers are still there- the firing/retiring started even when I was there...public school no longer had any money and people wouldn't raise taxes to get it.
Actually, thinking back on my US history, I guess mine was five years too, but not in a logical order. We took US history in third grade, fifth grade and eighth grade, then I took AP US History in 11th grade (but I think most schools take it before then) and then AP US Government as a senior. Actually, that is different for my sisters because ever since Massachusetts remade their public school exam, the MCAS, they've wanted to stress American history, so now I think my sister's class took US history in tenth grade and then in 11th, they get to choose between AP Euro or AP US history.
I think the biggest flaw in American education is geography. Most people here can't even identify Iraq on a blank map. I did have geography in fourth grade, but that was focused on being able to fill in a blank map with all 50 states of the US. That sadly took us like the whole year. 6th grade was some kind of ancient history course and we did get to fill in a blank world map- but it was extra credit during the last week of school. 7th grade was Geography, but I don't think it was official- it was just because the particular guy teaching 7th grade insisted there be a geography course, and when he retired, I think they put in something else. We did have an AP Human Geography course at my high school, but few ppl took it. So I guess the last time a lot of people who went to my high school but not middle school took geography was 4th grade.
They kept repeating the cirriculum. My younger brother missed all the changes and is actually learning different things rather than the same thing repeated by 5 different teachers.
I actually went to a very nice public school, but they did very stupid things like renovate the school and put in very expensive, aesthetic things (like a student center with huge curved glass windows) and the teachers would have things happen to them like they would run out of regular paper halfway through the school year so we'd have our packets on neon-colored paper that they had scavenged from somewhere or another.
Our school did not know how to spend money.
We had the most idiotic sign- I don't know how to describe it- like a ticker type thing, with pointless announcements flashing. And now I hear that while they hadn't the money for teachers or books, they bought -and I don't know the word for this either- these things that so instead of a chalk board, a magic computer screen-wall is displayed, and then, instead of chalk, there's these magic laser things that draw and can erase. And the whole thing can go online....And in the meantime, teachers aren't getting paid...and are quitting/retiring/fired right and left...total waste of money for flashy pointlessness
My parents were watching a documentary on school systems in the world, and Japan has the best in the world. Kids there can read at 3- it was amazing to watch. Here was this little boy, 3 years old, actually reading a book. A book! Obviously it was a simple book, but it was still a book. When I was 3, all I ever did was watch tv. I didn't even learn how to write my last name until kindergarten- so I was 5 or 6 years old. And here's this 3 year old boy reading books.
We had those stupid projector-boards too! but we only had them in the conference rooms that NO ONE used. The teachers were never taught to use them anyway, so they sat there, expensive and unused.
They just put up flat-screen TVs and projectors to display announcements. I did just fine not having that. Seriously. Buy paper instead idiots so we actually have things on which to write.
The best thing that came out of the school system was a grammar thing I did in 4th grade every Wednesday morning. I HATED it, but it taught me grammar!
or in the form of a hykoo
Talk of robots and Goosebumps
all is well online
Talk of robots and Goosebumps
all is well online
i was hopeing you would step to the challange =D
hykoo'tastic =)
this is very true
whats the russian kitten update?
have they gone home yet?
O kittens, not mine
Like other peoples' children
Rile them up, then leave
O kittens, not mine
Like other peoples' children
Rile them up, then leave
awww kittens, how much bigger are they?
oh wow kitten hykoos
i must ask, have you heard the lovely song hykoo by tally hall?
its the awesomes
The kittens still have a bunch of growing to do, but they're now big enough to jump on the counter and cause a slightly bigger ruckus
I'm quite proud of them.
and I had all of world history in one year, and three years of US history. I'd much rather have an overload of World History, believe me...
will someone just please send a magical unicorn to come and pick me up?! im waiting....
i was surprisingly alert today... that is until my proff did her lecture on molecular thingy-ma-bobs...