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To: jttmab who wrote (13243)	5/20/2002 2:12:54 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I wouldn't call it a trap. Just a few questions/comments to see where it all heads. Peel the onion back a layer as we used to say. Now I know it's a trap! :-) It's been quite a few years, but I seem to recall that teacher/student ratios, were significant factors regarding education. Sources? I mean original, not some guy restating a study in a text. I want to see how the study was done. In lower grades, this might be true. In high school? In college it would appear not to be true. Humanities classes can run into amy hundreds of students. In the sciences, not uncommonly the classes don't have upper limits except for the seating capacity o the assigned room. (Although, they do rely on the fact that only a small percentage of the student body is equipped to understand, say, solid state physics even at the beginning level.) <i.With distinction sounds good...maybe I could ask 10 people to PM me on what 'with distinction' means... I have no idea. Seems like just the 3.0 would cover it. But.... hummmm.... you appear to be distracting by nitpicking. Though I don't recall applying Diff Eq, or linear regression analysis in my General Math or Geometry classes....I really disliked teaching Geometry...it was just 'so obvious and trivial'. But, from what you've indicated you did teach, it would seem that they would be at least helpful. And if you got to teach AP Calculus, necessary. But let's move back into the education system a few schooling years. Back to first grade. Do we want physics, english, chemistry, history, and mathematics majors teaching first grade? Clearly not. But I'd take it even further: Does the teacher need a college degree at all? Why? Teenagers learn how to run a movie projector. You don't need an "Audiovisual Media" class in college to do that. Why not a high school diploma with a 3.0 at that level? Even that may be overqualified. taught General Math, Algebra, Geometry, Fortran IV [which tells you how far back that was], Statistics, Trig, Calculus, and had parking lot duty, cafeteria duty, and hall duty. Would you and/or C. Bradley Thompson have me continue to put aside my valued knowledge in mathematics for the parking lot, cafeteria, and hallways? Come now. Every job has scut work. This is no different. This is no different than me a few years out of college spending several hours a day watching an automatic cable testing machine test our cables. My job was to make sure it didn't cheat. Honest. Given that there are a lot of teachers, former teachers, and teacher's spouses on this site, I'm sure I've offended a lot of people with this. It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. :-)