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The Racist Bus Driver is coming back Mon. (update)
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 93371" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Star, you're absolutely right about the math teachers! Our high school had (and still has!) a tenured algebra teacher who couldn't <em>teach</em> math if his life depended on it! Even the smartest, most talented kids have to get lots of outside tutoring to pass his classes. Both of my kids said that if they didn't understand something and asked for help, he'd just rush through it and give the exact same explanation, word for word, that he gave the first time - and they <em>still</em> didn't get it! My son purposely took both Algebra I and II in summer school with a different teacher and made A's in both of them.</p><p></p><p>The most talented teacher we ever had for math wasn't even a math teacher! He taught elementary school when my daughter was in the 5th and 6th grades and taught high school science when my kids were in high school. He just had that knack for explaining things so that they understood - he could make that "light come on" in their heads, and suddenly they GOT IT! And he wasn't even certified to teach math! It was always funny that the kids would come out of algebra class completely befuddled and then they'd all run right down the hall to "Mr. Jon's" science room and get him to explain what the algebra teacher had just confused them with!</p><p></p><p> :teacher: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 93371, member: 1883"] Star, you're absolutely right about the math teachers! Our high school had (and still has!) a tenured algebra teacher who couldn't [i]teach[/i] math if his life depended on it! Even the smartest, most talented kids have to get lots of outside tutoring to pass his classes. Both of my kids said that if they didn't understand something and asked for help, he'd just rush through it and give the exact same explanation, word for word, that he gave the first time - and they [i]still[/i] didn't get it! My son purposely took both Algebra I and II in summer school with a different teacher and made A's in both of them. The most talented teacher we ever had for math wasn't even a math teacher! He taught elementary school when my daughter was in the 5th and 6th grades and taught high school science when my kids were in high school. He just had that knack for explaining things so that they understood - he could make that "light come on" in their heads, and suddenly they GOT IT! And he wasn't even certified to teach math! It was always funny that the kids would come out of algebra class completely befuddled and then they'd all run right down the hall to "Mr. Jon's" science room and get him to explain what the algebra teacher had just confused them with! [img]:teacher:[/img] [img]:crazy:[/img] [img]:crazy:[/img] [img]:crazy:[/img] [img]:crazy:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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