I was reading through another thread and started wondering something. Did anyone else’s not have real classes in middle or high school? By that I mean I literally was not taught 8th grade history, HS chemistry, and geometry off the top of my head. There either wasn’t a teacher and was a yearlong sub who couldn’t teach the subject or there was a teacher who didn’t teach and instead just talked about random things or told us about how awesome they were when they were in high school. For those classes we were either given the answers for tests or finals ahead of time (so the school wouldn’t look bad) or you would take real tests, fail them, and then magically get an A or B at the end of the semester. I am wondering how common this kind of thing is and was and what others might have experienced.
Okay, it's all starting to make sense now. But in answer to your question, no, that didn't happen to me in TX public education. Some classes were on the lame side, with a coach just showing films and handing out worksheets, but there was still content. I had a very bad college course once, with an adjunct prof who was a total flake and missed a lot of classes. Not sure how common your experience might be, but I would bet it is increasing in frequency.
One of my friends went to a private school like that. Literally skipped school twice to hang out at his school where we could do whatever the hell we wanted.
The school district cant put highly paid math teachers in schools with no students qualified for the classes. I went to a ghetto black Catholic Middle School and when i went to St Thomas the kids from wealthier schools had more advanced classes. That being said there were not enough kids to justify those classes at my middle school
Uh, ok. In most states teachers are paid within the same scale regardless of subject and that certainly was true for when I was in school. Also everything I listed was part of the mandatory curriculum. So...yeah.
Some math teachers have docterates but regardless im sure they are paid more. Ghetto schools have more pressing issues with poor students that costs money also
@rimbaud School districts are rich or poor. You might be in a ghetto hisd school but hisd is actually classified financially strong.
I went to public school in NOLA - it was pretty bad. My parents put us in private school but it was Catholic and they treated us poorly for not being Catholic so my parents were forced to put us back in public school. It was definitely a lower tier of education. Ultimately we moved to Sugarland and we were young enough we could easily catch up. But definitely if you don't live in the right area you are getting shafted
I think schools provides supplementery education only to kids but does not replace what kids learn from their parents with all respects to teachers out there. [ Premium Parenting Skill] when my kid was an infant and refused to eat his cereal, I would eat his disgusting cereal within seconds,and do my victory dance and brag of how strong I will be, aside from explaining the wisdom behind this weird behavior to his mom, I knew he learned a valuable lesson of competitiveness .you can't teach that in school
I really am only interested in personal experiences. I have no ulterior objective with my question so no need for whatever it is you are doing.
Im saying your premise of poor school is a misnomer. You look at the district Whatever i did is no secret. Pretty straightforward ass point
A person doesn’t go to a district they go to schools and I am asking for personal experiences. I’ll ignore the other stuff and just tell you to replace “poor” with “crappy” if that makes it more clear for you.
But schools arent poor. Districts are So what is your experience in a poor district as opposed to poor school. Now that being said schools in districts are not the same and obviously economics of the neighborhood matter. But an hisd school in a poor neighborhood is attached to hisd so it isnt poor
@rimbaud I grew up in a bad poor ghetto district. North Forest in northeast Houston. I didn't attend school there however. One thing that stood out to me then and now is how comfortable kids in my neighborhood were with very poor grades. That being said im sure its the same in hisd poor neighboorhoods
Yes it does. I did crap in college chemistry and wasn’t ready to really understand it until my late 20’s. The funny thing is I now have done graduate study and it is a part of my everyday life.
Twelve years of Catholic parochial schools in Houston during the late 60's-70's and feel I got a really great edge from it. I was zoned into some pretty disadvantaged schools in Sunnyside area of Houston had I attended public schools.
@rimbaud I believe you were in hisd from previous posts. I remember vaguely you talking about your school experience in the past in terms of quality of school. We have to be honest about the quality of education of the homes around the school affecting the school. You cant just throw money at those schools. HSID has bad schools. Its not a poor district. So whats the issue?
My parents were Asian. They sent my ass to a public school where I could take and pass 7 AP courses. But I almost went to Dulles high if I didn't move to Cali...