:lol: wtf is wrong with you people. I had no idea that there was a ban on dodgeball in high school despite the fact that I never played it in hs either. The balls we used the other day were semi-nerf balls and couldn’t do much damage even if thrown at high speed. But now I remember the balls I used in elementary school were much harder and bouncier. That shit could easily cause a concussion with little effort. I think I know what I’m going to youtube now.
If you came over to play dodgeball during recess, you were **NEVER ** to turn your head 90 degrees away from the opposite team. Doing so would result in people intentionally aiming at your head. If you needed to talk to someone outside the game or you’d be distracted for any reason, you were to the area that was used for dodgeball. Failure to do so would result in an immense amount of pain.
If you’re wondering, I fell victim to this once. I was blasted in the side of my head once by a basketball. I could not feel the left side of my face for hours. I teared up immediately trying to laugh it off in shock, when I really wanted to curl up in a fetal position and cry like a baby.
Did I mention it was cold outside that day adding to the pain?
I was walking across the playground in 4th grade and got smacked in the side of the head with one of these,I had whiplash for like a day and a half. my neck hurt so damn bad.
Just watched Waiting for Superman, I enjoyed it. Our education system needs a drastic overhaul. Not going to get too much into it because I don’t wanna start a flame war because people can’t listen to other peoples opinions.
I remember playing basketball in PE class in high school, one of those days the coaches just let you pick up some balls and shoot around. Some dude tried a full-court shot, missed badly, and some poor bastard who was sitting against the wall got a basketball right to the nutsack. Didn’t see it coming because he was talking to someone, but oh man did he hurt.
I remember going to Wal-Mart and I saw “Waiting for Superman” and right next to it “All-Star Superman” cracked me up because the kid is just sitting there and Superman is flying off in the opposite direction.
I picked up All-Star, I like cartoons and explosions.
i agree never saw the movie just know from experience our standardized testing fucked me up learning anything else. cause i was geared towards passing it my whole hs career.
My AP American Literature teacher once told me the education system considers it a success if the average adult has the reading and math skills of a sophomore in Highschool.
Standard sophomore math is like what Geometry? As for reading well I am going to assume average is probably even lower. Not many kids these days like to read, unless you’re talking about reading facebook post that look like “Omg dat was so k00l d00d, what r u doing 2nite?”
Also reading comprehension should be better. I have a friend who is really religious, mom and dad made him read the bible all the time as a kid. Yet he don’t know what the fuck the bible is talking about half the time. How you go to church for 20+ years and still don’t get the meaning behind the stories? :shake:
I’m sure my reading and comprehension skills were on that level also, but it is not because of my school (my own extra-curricular reading activities). Many schools just want that Regents money then want the kids to gtfo.
Beyond the barest minimum of rote, the best most teachers can hope to do is guide kids towards expanding their minds.
It’s pretty much all in the impetus of a child’s own mind, his raw intellect and natural curiosity.
I came from a decent enough suburban school setting, but I can guarantee you that I was one of only maybe a handful of my class who read independent of classroom requirements.
By the by, what is Regent’s money?
EDIT:
I’ll never forget my best friend in primary and secondary education’s pronunciation of The X-Men’s Rogue’s name.
“Rahg-yoo.”
He transferred into my school in the 5th grade, from the inner depths of STL education.
Yes, I do shudder at inner city education.
But I’m not giving my school credit for his willingness to learn.
most things in the world are written below the reading level of a 6th grader and unless you’re job requires it, you’re rarely using anything above arithmetic which you should’ve finished learning in 5-6th grade as well.
I have no Idea where it came from and I was dizzy.
edit:I’m also not a confrontational person at all, so chances are even if I did see where it came from, I wouldn’t have done anything.
Well if a school wants extra funds from the state they will have to make the students take a state Regents exam. If the school avg is high enough the get that extra scrilla on the do-wop. It just makes the school’s priority a Regent’s only education and not lifetime. Like the teacher will say, “Don’t ever worry about that it isn’t necessary for the Regents.” or “Just learn it this way because that’s how it will be for the Regents.” AFAIK it is really prevalent on the EC. IDK about MW/WC
