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11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - FBI, Dutch police inve... · 0 replies · +2 points

I hope finding these guys won't be like finding a needle in a hay stack...

Sorry, I couldn't resist

11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Wash. state wins U.S. ... · 0 replies · +4 points

I had extremely high SAT scores and scored in the 89th percentile on the Miller Analogies Assessment (you won't know what that is most likely) which I took cold without studying. I was accepted into the University of Washington's prestigious Marine Science program but choose Education instead (dumb by your reckoning?). For thought, Sociology and Anthropology are sciences whether you like it or not (exempli gratia, scientific process).

You cannot fall back on teaching because you are not a licensed, trained teacher. I can tell from your tone (it takes many years to become a teacher not a couple of weeks like your CDL). Plus there are the grammar and spelling errors. On top of that you would be required to meet the current standards of Pro-Cert or National Boards and that is after getting your MAEd or Ed degree.

By the way, I received my CDL in college (paid for by the company that hired me); it was CAKE to get (about 45 hours of training and I was driving a dump truck) and about 3 months to get really good at.

I planned to toss your own lightly understood logic back at you but this is more enjoyable. You are a silly little intellect who bristles in the presence of superiors. I don’t usually get malevolent but you seem to need it.

11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Wash. state wins U.S. ... · 4 replies · +2 points

I finally got around to your dribble.

If it is so easy to become a teacher and the pay is so good, join us. Shrug off the manacles of your "blue collar" existence and make a difference in the world. Yep, that's what I thought

thebigteacher (not boasting, just qualifying)
M.Ed, BS Sociology, BS Cultural Anthropology, BA Ed, BA Sped, Minor Ethnic Studies, Minor History

11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Tacoma fishing store b... · 0 replies · +2 points

I've taken carp on top but these guys are worse than that.

11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Wash. state wins U.S. ... · 6 replies · +4 points

The average teacher in Washington has at least one BA and a MA. By the way: your improper use of "ad hominem" is telling. Lay off the thesaurus you must understand it in context.

11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Wash. state wins U.S. ... · 1 reply · +3 points

ITBS, Gates-MacGinitie & Stanford Binet Assessments to name a few. Of course I would not use the WASL or MSP neither is norm-referenced. Your ignorance at the variety of assessments used in Public Schools is obvious.

11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Charter measure aims f... · 0 replies · +6 points

You are right, CREDO has come under scrutiny due to Stanford Universities pro charter school stance.
http://credo.stanford.edu/reports/memo_on_the_cre...

Read it. This is only one of the many criticisms on this study but I choose it because it was Stanford itself doing the admonishment.

11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Wash. state wins U.S. ... · 11 replies · +4 points

Keep living the pipe dream. Both of my children are in the 99% percentile academically. My son has been at post high school reading level since third grade and my daughter since second. There are bright kids everywhere. My nephew, just finished in the top 5% at West Point (He was accepted to MIT as a junior). Two of my nieces are at the U.W. finishing their degrees in medicine and one just finished with Law at Gonzaga (she starts with an East coast law firm in September after she gets back from Europe). All of these bright capable students came out of Public Education. Get over your pathetic elitism. With you to guide them your kids will be cleaning the gutters and tending the lawns at my children's residences.

11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Wash. state wins U.S. ... · 0 replies · +4 points

I recommended 3 students for retention this year and our school "Promotion Team" voted me down. In many buildings and in many districts it is not the teacher who has the final say in retention, it is Parents, Administration, Promotion Teams or Building Intervention Teams, etc.

11 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Wash. state wins U.S. ... · 13 replies · +5 points

Rush, the standards are not always real, meaningful, developmentally appropriate or based on research. Add to that how we are forced every few years to reinvent the wheel and our problems become obvious.

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