Smart stupid bastards (2 Viewers)

[Alan Remorse]

that's what im talkin about!!

 

[Bellatrix]

sheesh, just a bit of humour, darlin'

go back to clown school and toe the line

no YOU go back to clown school

*zing


Edit: seriously though, "darlin'"?? Are you J.R. Ewing?

 

[snakybus]

you bet I ahm Sue Ellen

 

[Deleted member 3435]

You know those fuckers who get straight A's but have the common knowellege of a cream egg?

you looking for grinds?

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Any exams I sat were crammed for - the only exceptions were subjects I actually enjoyed (English, History).

I hated people who emerged from exam halls moaning how they failed only to get good results.

I had far more respect for the people who came out saying 'That was fairly easy. I think I got a B' only to end up barely passing or even failing the exam. Those people were cool.

 

[mazzyianne]

I have a feeling I souldn't write anything on this thread coz I have millions of work to do...
But
The LC is bollox, I had a maths (pass) teacher who had no clue about maths, she just knew the sylabus and how to get her students to pass. I got an A1. I know VERY little about maths.

There are sooooo many problems with the Irish system.
It is based only on linguistic intellegence, even the art and music exams have written bits. In lots of schools you cant even do those subjects, or tech drawing or any of that stuff. And which schools??? The under resourced ones of course.
I think it would be better if we didn't have to take 6-8 subjects, but could specialise in the ones we're good at.
If more kinds of intellegence were taken into account.
If there was continuous assessment.
If there was some decent subjects on the curriculum like social sciences and philosophy, gender studies, shit like that.
If funding was taken away from fee paying schools and focused on the ones that need it.
I'll stop now

 

[nlgbbbblth]

There are sooooo many problems with the Irish system.
It is based only on linguistic intellegence, even the art and music exams have written bits. In lots of schools you cant even do those subjects, or tech drawing or any of that stuff. And which schools??? The under resourced ones of course.

I don't know about that.

Technical Drawing, Art, Building Construction, Construction Studies and Music were all on offer at the local Vocational school (aka the Tech) when I was growing up. Of the five schools in the town the Tech's students were mostly working class from less well-off backgrounds who were perceived as not being as academically gifted than their peers. Resources-wise it would have gotten a lot less than the four remaining schools where the aforementioned subjects were only sporadically offered.

 

[ICUH8N]

Same here. other than our execrable student body, the school had everything, from proper music facilities to an engineering and CAD (which comprised 4 fully-equipped workshops) block, as well as dedicated workshops for woodwork and construction studies, two art studios (including kilns, guillotine blah blah) and at least 5 labs. We even had a dope non-denominational chapel (which I was never in)
That's just what I can think of off the top of my head. Granted, it's Dublin, but still.

 

[classic seanc]

No in fairness, our school had lots of stuff, though it was all in all kinda old, but more than the tech. Pre- Parnell, our school was the estate of the Earl of Cloncarty, who was quite mad, so besides school stuff, we also had lots of ghost stories and insane monuments.

Still, I hated the place.Funded as we were by the catholic church, we had plenty of facilities for the sports people, but the music was an afterthought, and only tolerated if you were willing to sing and play songs for the masses. At any rate, an interest in music, or anything other than sport and mass, was discouraged. Money and facilities ain't the issue, its the whole fuckin ethos of the education system. It really really makes me sick.




I really should stop posting at half two, sure it only gets me upset.

 

[snakybus]

gender studies in the leaving

hahaha

can you imagine that

 

[La La]

gender studies in the leaving

hahaha

can you imagine that

eh...yeah i can imagine it.

it's be easy to pass.

"girls are best and boys smell like poo"

straight A's all the way

 

[snakybus]

it's called man-odor and it's there to attract the likes of you, i.e., wimmin

 

[mazzyianne]

I'm not saying there aren't exceptions, but mentioning a few schools you know that had facilities doesn't really disprove what I said.

There's CSPE or CSEP or something right? The first years (3rd level) tell me it was bollox but it was the only class that made them think about anything political.
However, on their JC they got a picture of Mary Harney and one of Dustin the turkey and were asked which was the tainiste.
If you treat people like idiots...

They have gender studies in lots of countries in school... Canada and such

 

[ICUH8N]

on their JC they got a picture of Mary Harney and one of Dustin the turkey and were asked which was the tainiste.

To be fair, Dustin run tings.

 

[classic seanc]

However, on their JC they got a picture of Mary Harney and one of Dustin the turkey and were asked which was the tainiste.

I thought they were the same person

 

[RSJ]

The only school in macroom with music, art, tech drawing or any of that sort of thing was the tech, the rest of us had to do the regular history/sciences/geography bullshit. And it would be class to have gender studies in school, get in there and put kids in the right headspace before they turn into rugger bugger fuckheads.

 

[mackle]

The only school in macroom with music, art, tech drawing or any of that sort of thing was the tech, the rest of us had to do the regular history/sciences/geography bullshit. And it would be class to have gender studies in school, get in there and put kids in the right headspace before they turn into rugger bugger fuckheads.

To be honest I dont think gender studies would really work. It's like drugs education in school. Doesn't matter how much you preach theres always gonna be the stupid fuckers who go out and do some really stupid drugs.

 

[RSJ]

I hardly think you could equate gender studies with drug education?

 

[mazzyianne]

I think gender studies would be great in school, just because some people wouldn't learn anything from it is no reason not to teach it. I did plenty of subjects I could now tell you nothing about.

Another problem is school doesn't teach people to think. That's probably the biggest problem.
I have this class, they are 18 or 19 and have never been asked their opinion in their educational lives.
Imagine the history LC exam was something like:
Q) What did you thing about chapter 5 on the 1916 rising?
A) Well, to be honest I wasn't all that keen on the whole book. Where were all the women while all this was going on? So I did a little research and it turns out 50% of the population were women back then too. I wondered why the only one in my history book was Lady gregory. I mean Is it that the hisorians were male and didn't think what the women were up to was important? Maybe they all slept through the rising? Or they were making the tea? It seems to me like hisory books are a history of the political parties of the time, who met who for what meeting. What were the real people up to? How did they live? Now that would be interesting reading....blah blah

I got a D in history

 

[RSJ]

Ah, but that would mean the exam markers would have to think on the job aswell, and we all know that's not going to happen....