What are they teaching my kids???

[SteveShaw]

it is so easy to set of the sensitive ones

Would that be "it is so easy to set off a set of the sensitive ones"?

[emmline]

...and it doesn't necessary occur to the hiring parties to screen for this.

Well played, emm.

Or poorly done. You decide.

I'd like to visit the Islets of Langerhans someday. But I'm not sure I could stomach the trip. Tours leave daily from St. Pancras station.

I recommend against kissing the Kidney Stone. Even leaning over backward.

it is so easy to set of the sensitive ones

Would that be "it is so easy to set off a set of the sensitive ones"?

No. It's:
"It is, so...easy, to set, of, the sensitive ones. l, ol."

[Denny]

it is so easy to set of the sensitive ones

Would that be "it is so easy to set off a set of the sensitive ones"?

it is so hard to prooff read me own stuff.

[emmline]

it is so hard to prooff read me own stuff.

Innit just?

[Innocent Bystander]

[chas]

Administrators and Department Chairs will be available to answer questions. Park in the main parking lot, enter in the main entrance and the Auditorium is straight ahead. Feel free to bring your perspective 9th graders. We’ll see you there!

At the university I went to, there was a sign to the effect, "All perspective students report to room 105." This is one of the allegedly finest universities in the nation. But it WAS the engineering school.

[jim stone]

Taught university for many years. The chief problem for graduating seniors is functional illiteracy.
A significant minority cannot write a grammatical English sentence. They are graduated anyway
cause the universities need the tuition. Guess what one of the illiterates' favorite majors is?

A teacher-competency test was given the graduating seniors in Education at a local university. All
failed. The test was published on the front page of the Times Picayune. Multiple choice
questions about what the above paragraph had said. Students couldn't read.

Once they are hired as teachers the unions protect them.

[SteveShaw]

Once they are hired as teachers the unions protect them.

Quite right too!

[Nanohedron]

But it WAS the engineering school.

I dunno, engineers misspelling stuff....could be a recipe for disaster.

[jsluder]

I dunno, engineers misspelling stuff....could be a recipe for disaster.

Meters, feet... what's the diff?

(I is a ejukayted injuneer.)

[Denny]

always on about tater tots & hot dish recipes, he is.....

[MTGuru]

Meters, feet... what's the diff?

(I is a ejukayted injuneer.)

Yes, but can you spell "Mars Climate Orbiter"?

[jsluder]

Yes, but can you spell "Mars Climate Orbiter"?

Lessee... "Mark's Primate Sorbitol" ... nope ... "Lars Climb a Toblerone" ... aw crap, its close enuff fer guvmint work, just hit the ignishun.

[dwest]

Taught university for many years. The chief problem for graduating seniors is functional illiteracy.
A significant minority cannot write a grammatical English sentence. They are graduated anyway
cause the universities need the tuition. Guess what one of the illiterates' favorite majors is?

A teacher-competency test was given the graduating seniors in Education at a local university. All
failed. The test was published on the front page of the Times Picayune. Multiple choice
questions about what the above paragraph had said. Students couldn't read.

Once they are hired as teachers the unions protect them.

Teacher union states, there are none in the south, have a higher rate of firings than non-union states.

[Nanohedron]

always on about tater tots & hot dish recipes, he is.....

Huh. Tell me YOU'RE not fascinated by the macabre yourself. Puh-leez.

Oh, and by the way, I believe you meant "hotdish". Not "hot dish". Hotdish. One compound word, bub. One. One, un, ichi, aon, ek, raz, uno. As in Uno Compoundo. We've been over this before.