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I'd have to ask then how teachers get their jobs? Are there not any kind of conditions, any exams they have to pass? This is ridiculous; these are the people training the minds of those who may end up running the country at some stage? When I went to hedge school, at least the wizards and monks all knew their stuff. It's disgraceful to say that teachers - surely, in terms of knowledge, the most relied (or expected to be able to be relied) upon other than doctors and lawyers - are so badly trained and so ill-informed. Batty, your story about the Lieutenant is a glaring example, and exactly as you say: even if you don't know the name, how could someone with so low a rank be a supreme commander? It's not like they were like that guy in World War II, Sergeant Montgomery. :rolleyes:

Lt. Calley was a big deal when I was a kid. Assuming this teacher is around my age, it's safe to say he wasn't exactly a fan of Walter Cronkite.

Actually, I think it's a conspiracy to dumb down the public because they can easily be led to keep the ones in power remaining there. Little did they know that might backfire on them one day.

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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1922217)

There's been a lot of talk in Denmark about whether our teachers are at a high enough level or whether the public schools are floundering. But even so, you can absolutely expect your math teacher to know math, your history teacher to know history, etc. At least to the required level, but not necessarily past a 9th grade level. The teachers I remember having in my school years were quite competent. Some, even very good at making students take an interest in the material.

I'm pretty sure that the worst of those American teachers could never get a teaching job in Denmark.

Teachers who are great in Denmark would get eaten alive in America.

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Originally Posted by grindy (Post 1922222)

Just quit my job. Liberating af.

Me too. It’s great until that paycheck doesn’t come around.

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1922224)

In many states you can teach for three years without proper certification. When they replace teachers with “permanent subs” there’s almost no vetting process at all. In the roughest schools they’ll take anyone who will stay in the classroom. That’s against the law but they can’t get people to do it so they look the other way.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1922233)

Teachers who are great in Denmark would get eaten alive in America.

American teachers are cannibals too, on top of everything else? Damn.

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Originally Posted by MicShazam (Post 1922241)

American teachers are cannibals too, on top of everything else? Damn.

Jokes aside. It’s a different skill set. I’m not saying one’s easier. I know it’s a competitive job over there. Not Denmark but I remember they showed us videos from Norway and were like teach like that and we were like give us those students and we might.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1922245)

:laughing:

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1922180)

No, I think people just underestimate how ignorant the poor can be. Like, all it takes is sucking at swallowing and a complete lack of knowledge of anything scientific for someone to become sub-anti-vaxxer. This is the same kind of person who had to ask if Germany was a country. These aren't mentally deficient people, just mind numbingly average people with a depressing level of familiarity with anything outside their immediate cultural sphere.

The Insane Clown Posse are not an anomaly. They represent the intelligence of waaaaaaaay more people than any of you want to admit.

I remember this :laughing:

That annoyed me a bit when you posted that a while back.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1922234)

Me too. It’s great until that paycheck doesn’t come around.

I already have a new and much better paid job.