Yesterday, February 4th, we stayed around Bettendorf and Davenport.
We had our own private pool area all afternoon. Wrote in my journal and read the US News and World Report issue about the problem with schools. It is always made to seem as if this is critical in the US. I agree that in some schools it is.
However, blaming teachers is off base. When I started teaching back in 1973, the quality of teachers was much lower than when I retired in 2006. I was impressed with the dedication of the new teaching corps.
It is NOT the quality of teachers so much as the problem lies with parents. Too many to not encourage their children to get ahead by attending to school chores.
Plus, we are trying to teach kids higher orders of thinking before they are ready. Any engineer will tell you that you can't build a structure until you have a solid foundation. If you don't, it will fall down. We are not giving our kids that solid foundation, and, instead, rushing to construct the building.
That solid foundation is the four "R"s: Reading. 'Ritin'. 'Rithmetic and 'Rememberin'.
Don't Get Me Started. --RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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