03-04-2014, 10:18 PM
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Originally posted by csgray
Hey, I work in a Public Charter School in downtown Hilo and we still have iffy internet. Try holding an audience of middle school kids while you are waiting out the spinning wheel of death! Infrastructure on the whole Island is really hit and miss.
Carol
csgrey,
I don't know how you do it ma'am. I couldn't. you just don't have all that much to work with anymore. I feel for teachers today. It's no wonder a lot have just given up. back in the day, this country put people on the moon using basic college level math, slide rules, and guys who had just as much balls as brains. Now? Hard to find either. With all this technology, you'd think we'd have our own Jetson's style cars zipping around the galaxy... It's saddening to think how much money we spend on education and teacher's can't get the supplies they need to teach without dipping into their own pockets. Meanwhile, you gotta deal with terrible kids you can't correct with the ol "Board" of "Education." Yeah, I said it. They need to bring that back!! But really, poor ol teacher's get boxed in to cookie cutter curriculums and standardized testing. You know this. Then there's parents... God! Some of them, their kid's could fail every subject and you couldn't get them to come in for a parent-teacher meeting to save your life, but try to punish the kid and you'd never see a more "concerned" individual. But it's all good while they are robbing well behaved students of their educations. I really feel for you teachers. Not saying that's the case in Hilo, but in my experience and from what I've heard in other ares, that's pretty much the case. Hope your internet gets better!
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