Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck
Posted by a former public school victim on 10/25/07

I was a vicitm of the public school system. I was tested and had a 156
IQ but I was also dyslexic. They didnt know what was wrong and didnt
think to check either. When I over came the disorder I started to
excel so much that It was so literally boring and astonsihingly easy
that I just lost interest. Without looking into what was later
revealed to be dyslexia, these stellar examples of educational people
slapped a lable on me of trouble maker and went out of their way to
make life hard for me. Looking back it was so painfully evident that
despite their higher education at any given time no matter what I was
always the smartest person in the room and that wounded their pride
and egos to know that this kid was so far above them intellectually. I
scored 1520 (old system scores) on the SAT and I turned down
appointments to West Point and the Citadel and when I did that I was
labled a loser. I went on to the army and became a Special Forces NCO
and a combat trauma medic and am now a Nuclear Technology Specialist
and I can say with certainty that public school and all but three
public school teachers played absolutely no role in the achievements
of my life. I was taught how to read and write and do basic math by my
parents before I ever entered 1st grade. I was taught advanced math by
my aunt. The only thing I really learned in public school was
revolutionary war history and even then I learned much more by reading
the encyclopedia. I know this is harsh to say but I honestly believe
that sending your kids to public school is a harsh form of child abuse
and that is why I send mine to private school. My daughter is 12 and
has already been tested to have a 147 IQ and has excelled at
everything she has ever done. I dont want her to be subject to the
backwardness of self righteous failures that will do all they can to
ridicule you and cause prblems for you when you dare expose them for
the trash they are as is the public school system in this country. I
love my little girl too much to handicap her by forcing her to be
subject to a system that has lowered its standards so much that you
have down syndrome kids saying this stuff is way too easy.

On 7/28/07, me wrote:
> This is really sad, i'll be teaching for the first time this year..
> and i have always wanted to teaching, this is my passion and my
> calling and it hurts me to think that this really happens...
>
>
> On 5/15/07, razorfan wrote:
>> I'm sick to death of hearing about education and teachers needing
>> more money. I sat today at the annual meeting of the Mental
>> Health Center for our county. It is appalling what some of these
>> clinicians who work 40 hours + per week, 50 weeks per year, are on
>> rotating call for emergencies, have to continue education to renew
>> licensing requirements make far less than teachers.
>>
>> At my son's high school we have teachers acting like students.
>> Wanting to be cool and relevant. Teachers who gossip, who sell
>> drugs etc... We have teachers who are so inept and play power
>> games with students to get them to jump through hoops to earn a
>> passing grade rather than teach them to simply learn the material.
>>
>> Teachers who have so much technology available to post assignments
>> etc... who refuse to "touch" technology. They miss out on all the
>> students could be learning. But it seems they have the mentality
>> of "that's not my job". So no one does what is needed to reach
>> the students.
>>
>> I'm completely soured on teachers. I see a small handful who go
>> above and beyond in their effort to teach the children to learn.
>> The others just seem to collect a paycheck and qualify for
>> teacher's retirement.

Posts on this thread, including this one

• maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 3/14/07, by Donald Iarussi MBA/MFA.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 4/01/07, by Nancy.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 4/01/07, by Alabama's end result.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 4/02/07, by Nancy.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 5/15/07, by razorfan.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 5/20/07, by Moritz Weber.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 5/24/07, by Obviously Bev Hills school don't teach grammar/spelling nm.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 7/17/07, by Let me guess to "Donald".
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 7/17/07, by Let me guess to "Donald".
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 7/17/07, by Let me guess to "Donald".
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 7/28/07, by me.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 10/25/07, by a former public school victim.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 10/25/07, by a former public school victim.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck..., 11/29/07, by Steve.
• Re: maybe the problem is that public schools suck, 1/11/08, by Bob Simmons.