Sad but true. Our state legislature already decided it was necessary to introduce bills calling to investigate the University of Oklahoma for allowing Richard Dawkins to speak there about OMGEVOLUTION. *facepalm*
I'm sorry, I'm just really having trouble comprehending this, since I was laboring under the impression that colleges were there to EDUCATE people, and generally an EDUCATION entails more than one side of an argument.
Once, just once... can't my state make it onto ONTD_P for something that doesn't make me weep for the future of the species?
I can't speak for the rest of the state, but Oklahoma City's school system, the biggest in the state, already sucks monkey balls. The first high schools my sister and I attended were run-down pits, and about a third of my senior class didn't graduate. If you don't get into big special art/pre-IB schools like Classen, screw getting the funding you need. My sister moved all the way out to one of the suburbs to go to school in a different school system because OKC's was so bad. When I was going to high school, OK's teachers were dead last in pay. And this is WITH the regulation we have now. So yeah, this legislation's really going to help things. :P
Crap like this happens, and the Daily Disappointment Oklahoman wonders why this state has so much trouble finding and keeping good teachers?
My teachers are fantastic, but I take all Ap/Honors classes and so it's different for me than what the other kids are getting. In third grade we had over 400 kids in our grade I think. Now in the graduating class we have 120. The majority of our teachers are horribly underpaid and have lost all desire to teach. Our music and arts are pathetically underfunded and our Football team is glorified, even though we NEVER win.
It saddens me, because I know intelligent people who will NEVER do anything, because somewhere along the way, their home life destroyed them and the school dropped the ball in putting them back together. And why? Because teachers have too many kids to watch over and some slip through the cracks. Because teachers aren't paid nearly enough.
Our music and arts are pathetically underfunded and our Football team is glorified, even though we NEVER win.
lol I just got flashbacks from my high school almost 10 years ago. I never understood why our football team got so much funding, considering how much they fucking sucked.
I took AP classes too, and while a couple were good, the others were absolute jokes. I was lazy as hell, never studied/did homework and still made 2nd-tier honor roll; my best friend made valedictorian while sleeping through most of AP Chem. When our class went to take the AP Chem exam, all but two of us literally just sat there and played hangman in our free-response section - because the teacher did absolutely jack in the way of teaching the subject. It was pathetic.
Granted, plenty of people in my school went on to do decent things. But it was still a mess.
...For the most part we already are. I'm not, because I've taken correspondent college courses and educated myself for the most part (by reading most of the Chemistry and Bio and Physics books by myself, doing the work and asking to check my answers in the all knowing Answer Books) but most people think evolution means "we evolved directly from a MONKEY" and such nonsense as that. I mean, I don't expect people to be OMG SO AWESOME AT SCIENCE and know everything, but I'd like them to at least understand the simple, basic parts of science. Like the Scientific Method. THEY DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THAT.
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Well, say goodbye to well educated Oklahoman children. Creationism is only one step away.
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Sad but true. Our state legislature already decided it was necessary to introduce bills calling to investigate the University of Oklahoma for allowing Richard Dawkins to speak there about OMGEVOLUTION. *facepalm*
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Sooooooooo glad my atheist ass doesn't like in the OK.
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Good grief. Seriously?
I'm sorry, I'm just really having trouble comprehending this, since I was laboring under the impression that colleges were there to EDUCATE people, and generally an EDUCATION entails more than one side of an argument.
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...because I'd like to beat them with a textbook.
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I can't speak for the rest of the state, but Oklahoma City's school system, the biggest in the state, already sucks monkey balls. The first high schools my sister and I attended were run-down pits, and about a third of my senior class didn't graduate. If you don't get into big special art/pre-IB schools like Classen, screw getting the funding you need. My sister moved all the way out to one of the suburbs to go to school in a different school system because OKC's was so bad. When I was going to high school, OK's teachers were dead last in pay. And this is WITH the regulation we have now. So yeah, this legislation's really going to help things. :P
Crap like this happens, and the Daily Disappointment Oklahoman wonders why this state has so much trouble finding and keeping good teachers?
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It saddens me, because I know intelligent people who will NEVER do anything, because somewhere along the way, their home life destroyed them and the school dropped the ball in putting them back together. And why? Because teachers have too many kids to watch over and some slip through the cracks. Because teachers aren't paid nearly enough.
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lol I just got flashbacks from my high school almost 10 years ago. I never understood why our football team got so much funding, considering how much they fucking sucked.
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Granted, plenty of people in my school went on to do decent things. But it was still a mess.
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