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Backup for my comments yesterday about government school teachers
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Neal Boortz
May 23, 2012, 1:00:00 PM5/23/12
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Yesterday we discussed the case of some North Carolina government school
teacher – Miss Something – hyphen – Something – telling her students
that people could go to jail for saying bad things about Barack Obama.
She also told her students that people went to jail “all the time” for
saying bad things about George Bush when he was president.
I noted that this was the typical idiocy you would find in the ranks of
government school teachers. After all .. when it comes to higher
educaton, education majors are the dregs of the dregs. Well naturally
listeners didn’t like that message, so I bought some backup with me to
Nealz Nuze today.
First .. an article from CBSnews.com from June of last year: “Here’s
The Nation’s Easiest College Major.” The article flatly stated that if
you don’t want to work all that hard to get a college diploma you should
major in education. The article states: “Research over the years has
indicated that education majors, who enter college with the lowest
average SAT scores, leave with the highest grades. Some of academic
evidence documenting easy A’s for future teachers goes back more than 50
Years.”
Did you catch that little gem hidden in the middle of that quote? I’m
talking about the phrase “…who enter college with the lowest SAT scores
…” Yup, that’s right. Our government school teachers come from the
group with the lowest SAT scores in their own high school graduating
classes!
For more on that angle to the story we go to a study from The National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Take a look at the NCES “Digest
of Education Statistics.” Table 136. There you see average SAT scores
for students pursuing various majors in college. As Walter Williams
pointed out when he looked at these stats: “Students who select
education as their major have the lowest SAT scores of any major (964).
Math majors have the highest (1174).
Then we go on to college graduates entering graduate school. Looking at
GRE (Graduate Record Exam) scores for students pursuing advanced
degrees, those looking for advanced Education degrees have the lowest
GRE score (467) of all majors except Sociology. Math majors again have
the highest.
So, once again, as you bundle your children off to their government
school --- just know that these teachers who will be preparing your
children for life as adults generally came from the dregs of their high
school classes and, if they took the GRE after receiving their
undergraduate degree, from the dregs of that group as well. “But they
made straight A’s” you say? Go back and read this bit again.
And whatever you do ---- don’t rock the boat by demanding school choice
or yanking your kid out of those government schools for either home
schooling or a private school. After all, it’s only your kid we’re
talking about here.
teacher – Miss Something – hyphen – Something – telling her students
that people could go to jail for saying bad things about Barack Obama.
She also told her students that people went to jail “all the time” for
saying bad things about George Bush when he was president.
I noted that this was the typical idiocy you would find in the ranks of
government school teachers. After all .. when it comes to higher
educaton, education majors are the dregs of the dregs. Well naturally
listeners didn’t like that message, so I bought some backup with me to
Nealz Nuze today.
First .. an article from CBSnews.com from June of last year: “Here’s
The Nation’s Easiest College Major.” The article flatly stated that if
you don’t want to work all that hard to get a college diploma you should
major in education. The article states: “Research over the years has
indicated that education majors, who enter college with the lowest
average SAT scores, leave with the highest grades. Some of academic
evidence documenting easy A’s for future teachers goes back more than 50
Years.”
Did you catch that little gem hidden in the middle of that quote? I’m
talking about the phrase “…who enter college with the lowest SAT scores
…” Yup, that’s right. Our government school teachers come from the
group with the lowest SAT scores in their own high school graduating
classes!
For more on that angle to the story we go to a study from The National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Take a look at the NCES “Digest
of Education Statistics.” Table 136. There you see average SAT scores
for students pursuing various majors in college. As Walter Williams
pointed out when he looked at these stats: “Students who select
education as their major have the lowest SAT scores of any major (964).
Math majors have the highest (1174).
Then we go on to college graduates entering graduate school. Looking at
GRE (Graduate Record Exam) scores for students pursuing advanced
degrees, those looking for advanced Education degrees have the lowest
GRE score (467) of all majors except Sociology. Math majors again have
the highest.
So, once again, as you bundle your children off to their government
school --- just know that these teachers who will be preparing your
children for life as adults generally came from the dregs of their high
school classes and, if they took the GRE after receiving their
undergraduate degree, from the dregs of that group as well. “But they
made straight A’s” you say? Go back and read this bit again.
And whatever you do ---- don’t rock the boat by demanding school choice
or yanking your kid out of those government schools for either home
schooling or a private school. After all, it’s only your kid we’re
talking about here.
Lamont Cranston
May 23, 2012, 7:28:38 PM5/23/12
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On 5/23/2012 10:00 AM, Neal Boortz wrote:
> Yesterday we discussed the case of some North Carolina government school
> teacher – Miss Something – hyphen – Something
If you can't use her name, Kneel, you don't deserve to write about her.
> Yesterday we discussed the case of some North Carolina government school
> teacher – Miss Something – hyphen – Something
BTR1701
May 23, 2012, 8:24:11 PM5/23/12
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In article <jpjrr2$dc$3...@news.datemas.de>, Lamont Cranston <L...@TS.org>
wrote:
And yet people can write about whatever they like, without having to
care one bit about whether you think they deserve it or not.
wrote:
care one bit about whether you think they deserve it or not.
trotsky
May 23, 2012, 11:51:19 PM5/23/12
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Why this is marked as abuse? It has been marked as abuse.
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Lamont Cranston
May 24, 2012, 9:22:54 PM5/24/12
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Not Sure
May 24, 2012, 9:39:09 PM5/24/12
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On May 24, 6:22 pm, Lamont Cranston <L...@TS.org> wrote:
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> On 5/23/2012 8:51 PM, trotsky wrote:
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> > On 5/23/12 7:24 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
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> >>> On 5/23/2012 10:00 AM, Neal Boortz wrote:
> >>>> Yesterday we discussed the case of some North Carolina government
> >>>> school
> >>>> teacher Miss Something hyphen Something
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> >>> If you can't use her name, Kneel, you don't deserve to write about her.
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> >> And yet people can write about whatever they like, without having to
> >> care one bit about whether you think they deserve it or not.
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> I'm sure your alert went right over his tiny head.
Did you wash your mouth out that time, hooker? :)
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> >>> On 5/23/2012 10:00 AM, Neal Boortz wrote:
> >>>> Yesterday we discussed the case of some North Carolina government
> >>>> school
> >>>> teacher Miss Something hyphen Something
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> >>> If you can't use her name, Kneel, you don't deserve to write about her.
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> >> And yet people can write about whatever they like, without having to
> >> care one bit about whether you think they deserve it or not.
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> > Irony alert.
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> I'm sure your alert went right over his tiny head.
trotsky
May 24, 2012, 11:09:06 PM5/24/12
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