Sunday, September 23, 2012
2 Million Mins. Reflection
What this video made well aware was that the Americans of the United States are loosing their competitive edge. Through out this video it goes back and forth veiwing three different schools in completly different places. one being in the U.S. one in China and one in India. The video then ranked the schools in order from greatest to least with china at the top and the United States at the bottom. Which seemed odd because chine and india are so poor compared to america or at least thats what they say? when all we see here if lack of jobs and pay to take care of our families. All our money goes to taxes and yet nothing changes we could have a better school system but our government decides to spend money else where, where its more important in places like abortion clinics and swiss bank accounts... Yes we have it easier here then people elsewhere but we too have to work for it. you dont just get things handed to you not now, not ever. Another reason for their higher acedemics could be that they spend more time in school then us, longer days and longer school year. A man even mentioned in the video that in the last 25 years our school systems have failed and are completly broken is that our faults? We dont get to choose the teachers, we cant control how parents raise their kids, we dont get to decide where our money goes.... so it is broken schools or a broken government thats the question? I also found it interesting that they scored so much higher then us and were so much smarter then us and went to school to be engineers and biology but yet that wasnt what they wanted to do... all they wanted to do was come to the u.s. and enjoy their lives where they coiuld make their own decisions and find their own happiness. what you put into life is what you get out of life, no matter where you are or where you go to school. Numbers do NOT define us as human beings, but our charecter and hard work do... You never hear at a funeral oh this person had a 4.0 GPA and aced every test in their lives and scored the highest on their state exams... No, istead you hear about all the great things they achived for instance, time served in the military, or volunteer work through a charity or organization, or how they lived life to its fullest. So the Question is are you living by the numbers, or are you living life? food for thought!
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Article #2
** University's visa licence revoked **
A university is banned from teaching and recruiting overseas students, leaving more than 2,000 potentially facing removal from the UK.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/
Im not sure what my views are about this article?I feel for the innocent students that are effected by this, but it makes me wonder, and ask myself... what kind of institution is this? how do you not know if students are showing up to classes? Do they not take roll call. Maybe they should do participation points so students have to be there and my goodness take roll call it takes 5 mins and your done! i dont think the university should be giving out visas in the first place. isnt that their countrys job? universities already have enough to worry about why throw visa's on top of everything? they shouldnt have been sponsering students if they didnt know what they were doing, they filled those students with false hope. Now they may not even get placed with another school and its not their fault so who do they have to blame? 2,000 students thats a huge chunk. The school was even prewarned over 6 months ago that this was an issue and needed to be fixed imediatly whether that was fixing the problem or find paperwork that was never there? Its really just too bad i feel for both parties mojorly the students but thats alot to handel like i said i dont think any school should be able to give out visas. That should be a governed thing through their government. thats what you pay taxes for, use your resources! Im not sure cause it didnt say in this article, but im wondering were these college paying students with no visas or were the "sponsered"? Because if these intergrated students arent paying for their education and getting sponsered and free visa's while residents are paying max loans and bills, kinda seems unfair to me...?Collapse this post
A university is banned from teaching and recruiting overseas students, leaving more than 2,000 potentially facing removal from the UK.
< http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/
Im not sure what my views are about this article?I feel for the innocent students that are effected by this, but it makes me wonder, and ask myself... what kind of institution is this? how do you not know if students are showing up to classes? Do they not take roll call. Maybe they should do participation points so students have to be there and my goodness take roll call it takes 5 mins and your done! i dont think the university should be giving out visas in the first place. isnt that their countrys job? universities already have enough to worry about why throw visa's on top of everything? they shouldnt have been sponsering students if they didnt know what they were doing, they filled those students with false hope. Now they may not even get placed with another school and its not their fault so who do they have to blame? 2,000 students thats a huge chunk. The school was even prewarned over 6 months ago that this was an issue and needed to be fixed imediatly whether that was fixing the problem or find paperwork that was never there? Its really just too bad i feel for both parties mojorly the students but thats alot to handel like i said i dont think any school should be able to give out visas. That should be a governed thing through their government. thats what you pay taxes for, use your resources! Im not sure cause it didnt say in this article, but im wondering were these college paying students with no visas or were the "sponsered"? Because if these intergrated students arent paying for their education and getting sponsered and free visa's while residents are paying max loans and bills, kinda seems unfair to me...?Collapse this post
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Article
After reading this article and the comments listed on it i have come to the conclusion that if I were a teacher in chicago I may be doing the same thing...
I have to agree with a person who commented on this topic named "AP", she said:
I have this job as a teacher because I love it. I'm not some soulless human who picks a job purely for financial gain. I am good at what a do and I make a difference. I don't expect the taxpayers to subsidize any of my decisions - I'm paying back my loans all on my own, thank you very much. I also work at a private school - so you can rest easy none of your tax money is funding my "poor choices" to become an educated individual.
A lot of people pursue expensive degrees --- it's called becoming an expert in your field. Lawyers and doctors do it and they are commended for their dedication. Why shouldn't teachers be treated the same way??
Sept. 10, 2012 at 5:53 p.m.
I have to agree, why should we not be treated the same?... Yes funds are limited, but the money we paid for school to become teachers, a job we love should be donation enough. Instead were treated badly and being held to such high standards, its hard to keep up. How is one teacher supposed to have a HUGE classroom and still be able to control and teacher EVERY SINGLE child in the classroom. if the test scores arent good the teachers no good , thats not true... Theres just too many kids we cant get to them all and answer every single question they have its impossible. If the politicains really wanna put money somewhere they can put it into our school systems instead of their bank accounts. we cant have "no child left behind" if theres not a teacher there giving them the help they deserve instead their forced to share one teacher with 50 plus kids who need the same attention. Its not our teachers its our politicans and the way their running this country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/education/teacher-strike-begins-in-chicago-amid-signs-that-deal-isnt-close.html?smid=go-share
I have to agree with a person who commented on this topic named "AP", she said:
I have this job as a teacher because I love it. I'm not some soulless human who picks a job purely for financial gain. I am good at what a do and I make a difference. I don't expect the taxpayers to subsidize any of my decisions - I'm paying back my loans all on my own, thank you very much. I also work at a private school - so you can rest easy none of your tax money is funding my "poor choices" to become an educated individual.
A lot of people pursue expensive degrees --- it's called becoming an expert in your field. Lawyers and doctors do it and they are commended for their dedication. Why shouldn't teachers be treated the same way??
Sept. 10, 2012 at 5:53 p.m.
I have to agree, why should we not be treated the same?... Yes funds are limited, but the money we paid for school to become teachers, a job we love should be donation enough. Instead were treated badly and being held to such high standards, its hard to keep up. How is one teacher supposed to have a HUGE classroom and still be able to control and teacher EVERY SINGLE child in the classroom. if the test scores arent good the teachers no good , thats not true... Theres just too many kids we cant get to them all and answer every single question they have its impossible. If the politicains really wanna put money somewhere they can put it into our school systems instead of their bank accounts. we cant have "no child left behind" if theres not a teacher there giving them the help they deserve instead their forced to share one teacher with 50 plus kids who need the same attention. Its not our teachers its our politicans and the way their running this country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/education/teacher-strike-begins-in-chicago-amid-signs-that-deal-isnt-close.html?smid=go-share
Speaking in Tongues
Speaking In Tounges Video reaction:
All I can saw is WOW. I know i couldnt do what those kids do. Speaking multiple langues at one time, my brain would crash into overload. I guess thats why they do it when their young, when they still have that window of opportunity. But being thrown into a class room where your teacher speaks a different lanuguage then you... tough! How uncomfortable... could you imagine what was going through those kids heads ha ha some of them looked so confused and lost at first. Later throughout the year you saw them getting better though, and speaking almost fluently to the teacher, its amazing what they can pick up on! I would love to send my children somewhere like that, just wish it wasnt so spendy. In the world we live in today though its going to be needed english is becomming less and less of the norm. spanish is on a quick rise to becomming the number one spoken lanuage in this country. So wouldnt it only be wise to enrich our childrens lives by teaching and enabling them the possiblity of learning multiple new languages?
All I can saw is WOW. I know i couldnt do what those kids do. Speaking multiple langues at one time, my brain would crash into overload. I guess thats why they do it when their young, when they still have that window of opportunity. But being thrown into a class room where your teacher speaks a different lanuguage then you... tough! How uncomfortable... could you imagine what was going through those kids heads ha ha some of them looked so confused and lost at first. Later throughout the year you saw them getting better though, and speaking almost fluently to the teacher, its amazing what they can pick up on! I would love to send my children somewhere like that, just wish it wasnt so spendy. In the world we live in today though its going to be needed english is becomming less and less of the norm. spanish is on a quick rise to becomming the number one spoken lanuage in this country. So wouldnt it only be wise to enrich our childrens lives by teaching and enabling them the possiblity of learning multiple new languages?
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