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OccultHawk · 01-31-2018, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by grindy

Just quit my job. Liberating af.

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

OccultHawk · 01-31-2018, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

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.

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.

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-31-2018, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

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

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

OccultHawk · 01-31-2018, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

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.

~~MicShazam~~ · 01-31-2018, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

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.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 01-31-2018, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

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

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

grindy · 01-31-2018, 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

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

I already have a new and much better paid job.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 01-31-2018, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey

I remember this

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

i remember a girl in grade 11 or 12 global history asking what hitler’s last name was

**Frownland** · 01-31-2018, 10:16 AM

One of my history professors told the class that bombing Hiroshima was necessary.

**Janszoon** · 01-31-2018, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

i remember a girl in grade 11 or 12 global history asking what hitler’s last name was

I took an astronomy class in college where, in the last class, when the professor was recapping the whole semester, a woman raised her hand and asked, in complete seriousness, "So… the Sun is a star?"

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