@Chyck_Justice@ZillennialApple And CPAs also have to have continuing Ed and they work year round minus vacations and very few holidays. Cry me a river.
@mathillustrated@MartinCothran I learned NOTHING useful for my 3 remaining children. Nor anything useful that I could use at my position as a part time teacher's assistant in a parochial school.
@mathillustrated@MartinCothran Perhaps you are correct. However, they used textbooks that are widely available and used throughout the country. My experience is limited. However this homeschool mom produced one state university valedictorian and another 4.0 STEM university senior without a single ed class.
@mathillustrated@MartinCothran As someone who took 5 education and child development classes this past fall, I can confirm Mr. Cothran is correct. Those theorists dominated the discussions and the young people in my class swallowed all that garbage hook, line, and sinker. Scary!
@JoshuaLisec My kids don't get one until high school. My eldest son got his first calculator (TI-36X Pro) one month before he took the PSAT in the 10th grade. He scored top 7%. Not only was that his first standardized test, but he also did not know he could write in the test booklet!
@hybs_california@educator4ever36@marcportermagee Not true. My son only had algebra 1, algebra 2, and geometry in high school. He still took Calc 1 his freshman year and got an A. The biggest predictor of success in college calc is mastering those three NOT taking AP calc in HS. Mastery as focus is lacking across the board.
@MtGardenMama Literally had a 1st grader write a note to a kindergarten girl telling the kindergartener no one liked her! More than half the girls I had this year would have given Mean Girls a run for their money. Mind boggling!
@MartinCothran I had an amazing teacher from Arkansas for my 9th and 11th grade honors English class. She still read aloud to us! I can still remember her thick southern accent reading Shakespeare to us. She said you raise animals but rear children. That thought stuck with me.
@MartinCothran This is why I consider Charlotte Mason progressive. She was very tuned into psychology. I do not consider modern psychology at all in my children's education.
@JeremyTate41 My eldest homeschooled kid took the PSAT in 10th as his first standardized test. Gave home his first scientific calculator a month before and taught him to fill in a bubble. Scored top 7%. I was a National Merit Scholar before "test prep" became a thing. Just shows how bad it is.