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[pgriz]

Uh, oh. I think Leonore has an autobot or script that is loading up the post count...

Don't I wish?? Instead, they are just quotes from past student essays.

OMG - Leonore is using her students as slave labour to beef up her post count ranking! Leonore - step back from the keyboard. Get your minions to step back as well. Think of the bigger picture! Students are sentient beings! Truly they are!

 

[Gary A.]

An interesting study would be to see how people get into positions of authority, in which the people they are supposed to be instructing are actually much more competent than they are. And yet it happens over and over again. When I was in the high-tech field, we had Dilbert-like bosses all over the place and the usual wonderment was how did these characters get to where they got?

I know a woman who was a second-grade teacher and denied tenure TWICE by two different school districts. She's now an assistant superintendent

I do a lot of volunteer work at a local high school, Whitney High School in Cerritos. WHS is the #1 public high school in California, per testing. Every single kid in there is exceptional and nearly every single kid is smarter than their teacher. Sometimes it makes for an interesting and volatile dynamics.

 

[limr11]

And don't you want to know how that is possible?

Part of me does, and then the rest of me becomes exhausted at the thought of how often stuff like this happens.

 

[snowbear95]

Here's another one that drives me crazy; the misuse of quotation marks.

Taken with a crappy cell phone camera:
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Oh, hell yes. How in the world did an "m" even get into the word "sandwich?"

 

[Gary A.]

Uh, oh. I think Leonore has an autobot or script that is loading up the post count...

Don't I wish?? Instead, they are just quotes from past student essays.

OMG - Leonore is using her students as slave labour to beef up her post count ranking! Leonore - step back from the keyboard. Get your minions to step back as well. Think of the bigger picture! Students are sentient beings! Truly they are!

Yes, we need to unionize to stop this abuse by management.

What do we want ... UNION!
When do we want it ... NOW!

 

[mishele]

Can someone make me breakfast?

 

[snowbear95]

Can someone make me breakfast?

Good morning, sunshine. What would you like - chicken or Pop-Tarts?

 

[Gary A.]

An interesting study would be to see how people get into positions of authority, in which the people they are supposed to be instructing are actually much more competent than they are. And yet it happens over and over again. When I was in the high-tech field, we had Dilbert-like bosses all over the place and the usual wonderment was how did these characters get to where they got?

I've noticed in some organizations, there is an attitude that a manager can lead any department, regardless of function. This may be true in some aspects, such as budget preparation, but I feel departmental policy making requires a certain amount of expertise in the field.

On a sidebar. I've worked in many different countries around the world ... and while you think management and workers and government and getting things done sucks here ... it is even worse in most other countries. (At least by my observations.)

 

[astroNikon]

Doing good so far everyone
But keep you post length down and make longer posts into multiple posts


I'll be back to check on progress
I'm gonna go curl up in the towel closet and take another nap

 

[sm4him]

Uh, oh. I think Leonore has an autobot or script that is loading up the post count...

Don't I wish?? Instead, they are just quotes from past student essays.

OMG - Leonore is using her students as slave labour to beef up her post count ranking! Leonore - step back from the keyboard. Get your minions to step back as well. Think of the bigger picture! Students are sentient beings! Truly they are!

Yes, we need to unionize to stop this abuse by management.

What do we want ... UNION!
When do we want it ... NOW!

NO, not now. Wait until I'm in first place again.
THEN I'll want to unionize.

 

[limr11]

OMG - Leonore is using her students as slave labour to beef up her post count ranking! Leonore - step back from the keyboard. Get your minions to step back as well. Think of the bigger picture! Students are sentient beings! Truly they are!

Oh yeah?
"Life is offered to so many people in this world."

"An education can help you with your reading with writing because without it we wouldn’t be able to read or write."

 

[mishele]

Can someone make me breakfast?

Good morning, sunshine. What would you like - chicken or Pop-Tarts?

Chicken?!! I'll pass. hehe

 

[sm4him]

Did You Know...

cats spend 66% of their life asleep.

In other news, I think AstroNikon might actually be a cat.

Doing good so far everyone
But keep you post length down and make longer posts into multiple posts


I'll be back to check on progress
I'm gonna go curl up in the towel closet and take another nap

I rest my case.

 

[Gary A.]

Can someone make me breakfast?

Man, I haven't even had a cup of coffee yet. Haven't even made it to the kitchen. I have a routine for coffee.

 

[limr11]

"I now know about global warming from earth science and the different rocks that are important to society. Like who knew rocks would be something major on earth. Did you know?"