Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Pam Bondi: Adam Schiff needs to tread very carefully" video.

  1.  @DieselRamcharger  : That's not entirely true, although it's more true in K-12 education, where people who can't finish a program will go for their teaching certificate, instead. They go to the high schools and are considered "gurus" if they got a 'C' in an upper-division math/chem/physics course. That 'C' told them they weren't going to cut it in their chosen discipline, but means they're overqualified to teach our children. I graduated with geology and math degrees and in both disciplines, the ones who couldn't finish took their 'extra' science and math credits and went to get their teacher certification. Then in grad school, majoring in math, the people who couldn't pass the PhD examinations (Prelims) tended to go into EDUCATION, to get a PhD in EDUCATION, 'majoring in math.' With the EDUCATION degree, they were trained to become administrators, so the real math PhD's have bosses who have PhD's in education and/or administration. The least capable of them become the bosses of all of them. Isn't that the way of things? Can't hold down a job? Become a politician, Bernie! But don't knock the academic life. You get lots of time off. You get to be creative trying to find better ways of getting through to students. It's a never-ending and always-engaging vocation, if you like to see the lights go on in somebody's head. I'm underpaid for my skill set, until you figure in the time off for Christmas and summer! Then it's about right. I never cared too much about money. Just wanted a job that I'd want to get up for, every morning. And teaching is that kind of job. Until the last few years, when Obama made the whole school system into an SJW nightmare. In recent years, the bureaucracy has set up one stumbling block after another in the way of actual student learning. It's not nearly as rewarding as it used to be. Instead of upholding standards, the bureaucrats' way of measuring success is students passing their classes, and the easiest way to achieve THAT is to lower the standards and treat students like they're babies. "Let anyone in your class. We'll remediate their lack of skills 'on the fly.'" The OLD way of not passing a student until they UNDERSTAND and can PROVE IT is falling by the wayside. And good teachers are getting out. Schools, nowadays, are in the business of promoting incompetence. And it's disgusting. And you do no one any favors telling them they can do something they can't. "You're really good at flapping your arms, Johnnie. Now jump off this cliff and show us how good you fly!"
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