Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "" video.

  1. Somehow I got through all my schooling thinking stems were only found in botany, which wasn't my main interest. Edit: To elaborate, ca. 1960, there was an effort to improve science education in the United States as a response to the achievements of the Soviet Union's space program. Nobody thought it needed a catchy acronym. Nobody said literary subjects were less important.
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  2. Teachers are contracted for a specified term of work. When the term excludes a significant period, they might arrange to have payments spread evenly over a year, but I don't see any point to it. Many teachers have other employment in the summer, or they take continuing education.
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  3. They are, in fact, used to clean pipes, but I don't think there are many pipe smokers these days.
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  4. "Liberal education" used to be a well-understood term, with no negative connotations. She is using it in the traditional way. If you are one of those people who have made "liberal" a dirty word, then you are responsible for your lack of understanding the term.
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  5. "goth"? no.
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  6. I just looked it up. For all grade levels, and for high school, about 30% have been teaching between 10 and 20 years. About 30% have been teaching more than 20 years. Interestingly, the numbers do not change much by size of school district.
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  7. In fact, there was no such rule. There was a lot of talk about whether a proposed rule (which was not adopted) would allow ketchup to be considered a vegetable.
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  8. The Romans were pretty good at building with stone.
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  9. You can't have a say in what private schools do. That's what "private" means.
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  10.  @blablabliam — In that case, I am not impressed with innovations in teaching. My wife is a retired elementary school teacher. In California, in some districs, literacy skills are appallingly low. My wife's 1st and 2nd graders learned to read at grade level, because she taught reading the old-fashioned way. A 3rd grade teacher once remarked at how well students from her 2nd grade class read. Why should that be remarkable? It is the job of teachers in the first two grades to teach reading, which is the foundation of all learning. It was remarkable only because many primary school teachers these days noodle around with one innovative idea or another while neglecting reading and other literacy skills . Students who are not reading on grade level at the end of 3rd grade will likely always be behind. Failure to read at grade level is not the fault of the students, almost always. Almost everybody can learn to read competently within the first two grades.
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  11. For free? You don't have a salary? Are you just a volunteer?
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  12. The school year is a fixed number of days, usually excluding most of the summer. Teachers work on a contract. They teach one academic year for a specified compensation. Teacher compensation is sometimes spread evenly through the year, but teachers who have other employment in the summer might not prefer that. It would be the same total pay either way.
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  13.  @Spectacurl --I don't see the difference. Many teachers in the USA have stable employment once they have been in a school district for awhile.
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  14. The salary could be distributed evenly over the calandar year or evenly over the school year, it wouldn't make any difference. There are just two essential parameters to a teaching contract: the no. of days of teaching, and the total pay. Distribute them however you like.
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  15. Thomas Jefferson, advocate of public education and founder of The University of Virginia, wrote in 1818, as one of the objectives of education: "To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens, being then the objects of education in the primary schools, whether private or public, in them should be taught reading, writing and numerical arithmetic, the elements of mensuration, (useful in so many callings,) and the outlines of geography and history." His views arose out of the Enlightenment which was the intellectual foundation of the New American Republic, and his objective was that the Republic should survive and thrive. In my time, these views were not controversial.
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  16. Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard) was a pioneer in early science education. I was born at just the right time to be inspired by him.
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  17. I don't see why you think high school chemistry should be more nearly current with chemistry research. High school is usually the first time a student takes chemistry, and nearly everyone who takes it will not become a chemist. It needs to to provide a suitable foundation for those who will go on to take more chemistry, that's all. I was in a science track in high school and took chemistry as a junior in 1963-64. We used Chem Study, which was pretty new then. I don't know where high school chemistry has gone since then. I took a year of college chemistry as an engineering major, and learned some new concepts then, but have never needed more than a basic understanding of chemistry since. It seems to me that college is the place to get up to date in chemistry. The few who are serious about learning chemistry will take courses beyond the first year college coursr, and the fewer who are more serious will go to graduate school.
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  18. Literacy belongs in everyone's education, but I don't see how to fit it into the acronym.
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  19. Are you saying you have to choose one person even if none is acceptable? May you not leave one ballot position blank?
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  20. Computer Science at what level?
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  21.  @shadebug — I happen to have two degrees in Computer Science. I can't imagine what you could teach in secondary school that would qualify as Computer Science. I'm not saying it's impossible, only that I, a bona fide old timer, cannot imagine it. As a point of interest, when I was in graduate school, one professor new to the department said she was opposed to expanding the program to offer an undergraduate degree. I told her I had a BSCS (from another university). Times change. They probably do have it now.
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  22. Her channel, her choice.
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  23. A lot of teachers in the United States depend on supplemental summer employment. Even if a teacher does not need the extra income, he or she might choose to have a summer job.
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