About to fight a teacher……

No child left behind = no child allowed to excel. Per a teacher friend. He spends so much time making sure his lowest performers get what they need that the high performing ones are bored out of their mind and not challenged enough.

I think it's Finland that moves kids up according to when they are ready, not year by year. Little Timmy is 18 and struggling in math, that's OK, Timmy isn't required to take pre calc and is focusing on Algebra for his final math class. Little Olga is a math whiz at 12? She's breezed through Algebra, trig, and geometry and is now in pre calc with people who are around 16 years old.

 

Virginia just dropped a bomb on the kids for the 26/27 year. Surprised the shitstorm hasn't started yet.

 

Do a Google for Outcome based education. In the US it was Goals 2000 which was villianized by Parent groups, teachers unions, state departments of education and school boards. It was replaced by No Child Left Behind and the fiasco it led up to. I am sure that OBE will resonate well with the BEEB.

 

You grow up in Iowa @Dave K ?

When my Dad was a H.S. principal this happened on several occasions. He was a three-time golden gloves champion and Olympic contender. He kept two sets of gloves in his office and was quick to offer them up whenever he did break up a fight in school. He always brought them out when he taught PE. When someone wanted to fight my older brother just off of school property, he just stood behind the rest gathered and watched, without saying a word. Conflict fizzled quickly.

I always knew not to challenge him. He was my best friend and biggest supporter.
Larry Lawrence photo, Blackhawk Farms, April 1987

 

Few others from other walks of life understand how serious of a business racing anything can be, imho. Most think it's all just a 'fun and games' hobby.

 

LOL! Nah, Preppietown on the edge of Hillbilly county PA.

That was also the era of if you talked shit about someone you could fully expect that person to be right around the corner and you'd better be able to back up what you said.

What's the Yamaha? FZR750?

 

FZR 1000 Genesis Racing Endurance bike. Four of your fellow Preppietown, Hillbilly County, PA neighbors in the back row; a couple of C-ville cronies front left; Chi-Town FBI and Iowa boxing legend on the right.

 

This is my buddies son right now to a T. Mom was a math major and dad is a vp of a major Corp. Enginneer turned IT type dude. They run a no bullshit household.

Poor kid isn't even remotely challenged in High school and he isn't even a junior yet.

Americans haven't figured out yet that equality is an outright lie, and someone has to be the janitor later in life.

We can't all be scientists

 

I recently picked one up as a project for cheap……as in really cheap. I wasn’t looking for another, but a young fellow whose father recently passed from cancer, is left trying to clear out a ton of his dad’s car and bike projects. He had an asking price, and I was good with it. But he thought I wasn’t going to buy it, so he haggled himself down…….i ended up giving him more than the asking price, which really threw him off. Not sure if I’ll ever do anything with it now, but it would be fun to race prep it and run it.

 

I recently picked one up as a project for cheap……as in really cheap. I wasn’t looking for another, but a young fellow whose father recently passed from cancer, is left trying to clear out a ton of his dad’s car and bike projects. He had an asking price, and I was good with it. But he thought I wasn’t going to buy it, so he haggled himself down…….i ended up giving him more than the asking price, which really threw him off. Not sure if I’ll ever do anything with it now, but it would be fun to race prep it and run it.

 

I've still got a lot of parts for them, if I can find them...

 

Oh for fucks sake don’t act like your blanket statements minimizing the efforts of some of the most caring, hardworking, and under appreciated people I’ve known are anything short of blatant disrespect. Couldn’t give a shit less about a disagreement but the overt and public disrespect applied so broadly strikes a nerve. It’s no different than if I were to sit here and question why WERA isn’t bigger and Evelyn hasn’t done more to expand roadracing because her job is so easy. Not a chance in hell you’d let that slide without retort in kind.

 

Finally!!! another place to use this fukn meme!!! Its from my private collection..only used on special occasions.. No thanks needed,just doing my job..

 

He also likes to say that not every kid is going to play quarterback so why do we have to teach like every kid has untapped ability.

I don't think kids should be dismissed with lowered expectations like "oh, you're just not good at that. Don't worry!" But I do think that "yeah, this is tough stuff, and it takes some people more time than others to grasp the subject." Is ok. Even if they can't get it, don't dismiss their ability and let them lower their expectation.

 

I'm lazy. Was that a move up as you master type style?

I remember in elementary school cruising through the reading levels to about 4 years beyond level. Math, not so much.

 

All hobbies are "fun and games" until you get serious about.

Think fishing. You can start with a pole, 10 feet of fishing line, a small weight, a boober, and a hook. Dig for worms and fish from the bank.

Pretty soon you've bought a truck to tow the bass boat, 48 rods and reels all with different setups, 1000's of lures, and every fishing gizmo available is mounted on that boat.

 

Help your buddy out, if he doesn't know about this already

https://www.classcentral.com/report/free-for-credit-moocs/

 

I really don’t know what I’m going to do with it. I’ve got a yzf750 that needs just as much attention. But if you get around to finding and clearing out parts I’m interested. I’d like to eventually race an fzr1000 for shits and giggles, but cripes I’ve got a few bikes already to race……and resuscitating vintage bikes for racing gets exhausting at times. I know I know, woe is me

 

Hell!! They have high school bass tournament teams now!! My old boss at Barbe America has 2 sons with a gazillion dollars in bass boats and Chevy trucks!! Rich grandma set em both up!!

 

The school that I coach at has a bass team. One of my best forwards is on it, and we had to beg him to miss one competition so he could make our state championship tournament. I was shaking my head thinking I can't fucking believe this is happening.