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[RDKirk]

I shared your post with my teachers today for their experienced insight. They soundly disagree with you. I'll trust those with decades of educational experience over a random stranger on the internet bent on insulting public education & using fallacious arguments. The more you write, the more I continue to be proud & grateful to have attended public schools.

That's because they're in the middle of it, they are hardly disinterested, and probably, frankly, have never bothered to step back and make the comparison.

 

[RDKirk]

Every school in this area does it. My son attended three different universities while he was in High School. He took the more basic classes but they went beyond what he could receive from the High School. Also he was not allowed to attend any social clubs at the university. AT the time he was happy to socialize with the High School Students.

The 3D computer printer class was at the University and he had a conflict with marching band. So I called the counselor at the university and then I talked to the guidance counselor at the High School. The next semester they added the class to the High School so he was able to take it at that time. I know the University he is at now has a 3D printer he can use at the Library that he can use if he wants. He said there are problems to get the program to work and you have to get it adjusted right to print out what you want to make.

The University here is also doing research on a polymer ink to use with 3D printers for nanotechnology manufacturing. Right now he wants to stick to Computer Engineering and I can not get him interested in Chemical Engineering. One of his cousins has a masters degree in Chemistry and is working for NASA right now. This field is wide open and he should have a job even before he graduates. They like to hire them their senior year. We are hoping he gets a job in the area here and does not go running off. Although they could go anywhere in the world to work. They pay starts at $85,000 a year, even if they do not have a degree.

So nothing you said had to do with the high school, but with the policies of nearby universities.

You do realize that most public high schools are not partnered with nearby universities, right?

All of our kids are this way. We are a Filipino-American community. There is no inbreeding here. Filipinos and Americans are about as far apart as you can get genetically. The kids of all our friends are very healthy and they do very well in school and they get really good scholarships. Maybe because they are considered a minority and I am sure that helps. No one at school has ever guess just what "race" my son is. They have guessed everything other then what he really is. His mom is a sagun so I am sure that somewhere along the way he is related to carl sagan. That is middle east and they are known for their mathematical abilities. That is why there is a big fight with the technology companies trying to get the best most qualified people into the country to do the work. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and 18 others have committed $1 billion to fight immigration laws.

And so you further identify that your son's high school is different from most other high schools, and thus his experience is not representative.

 

[Cimorene]

That's because they're in the middle of it, they are hardly disinterested, and probably, frankly, have never bothered to step back and make the comparison.

This is another post full of false assumptions.

 

[RDKirk]

This is another post full of false assumptions.

I have teachers in my family. My wife, in fact, is a teacher, specializing in deaf and hard of hearing (she got called to translate for a Clinton speech when we were stationed in Hawaii--because she had already been vetted through my own security clearance).

 

[Cimorene]

I have teachers in my family. My wife, in fact, is a teacher, specializing in deaf and hard of hearing (she got called to translate for a Clinton speech when we were stationed in Hawaii--because she had already been vetted through my own security clearance).

The teachers in your family are not representative of all in the profession & the ones I spoke to could not have disagreed with you more strongly. I think a lot of teachers would deem your arguments to be erroneous.

 

[RDKirk]

The teachers in your family are not representative of all in the profession & the ones I spoke to could not have disagreed with you more strongly. I think a lot of teachers would deem your arguments to be erroneous.

The teachers you've talked to are no more "representative of all in the profession" than the teachers in my family.

But you might do better to interview teachers who are nearing the ends of long teaching careers about the differences in the "hallway cultural environment" of their early years compared to the hallway cultural environment today.

Moreover, I haven't actually been talking about teachers, I've been talking about the cultural environment, of which teachers are merely part-time inhabitants, and not particularly in charge of its shape.