Reply #81: LOL, ask a few simple questions in order to determine where you're at, and you put me on ignore. [View All]

[MadHound]

How very petty and childish. You demand answers of others, but can't stand it when somebody wants you to answer questions.

Well, your response answers those questions for me. It is apparent that you haven't taught in a classroom a single day in your life. You have no clue about who those people that I named are, and therefore have no clue as to how students learn, how varied their learning experience is, and how you need to approach each student in a different manner, something that can be accomplished by a real, live teacher, but which is impossible with a TV program.

You have demonstrated that you are one of those people that teachers absolutely hate, somebody who thinks that they know best how to teach kids, how to run a classroom, how to run a school, without a single bit of training on your part, just using the experience that you had when you were in school.

Bub, I've got two degrees in teaching, I know what goes on behind the curtain in the classroom. I know how kids learn because I've not only trained in the subject area, but have actually taught in a classroom. I know what works, what doesn't work. If you want me to give you an extended answer as to why such programming won't work, I can. But you don't seem to like the rational answers I gave you before, so I doubt that you can handle anymore rationality in your life now.

You've also demonstrated that you don't have a clue as to how much it costs to produce even a bare bones program. Let me fill you in. Even if the teacher is working for free, equipment costs, labor costs for the program are going to run fifty bucks minimum. No, you can't have high school kids shooting these shows, it is called child labor laws. You have to pay somebody to film, etc.

So, fifty bucks for an hour program. So, using the numbers I gave above, for a one hundred teacher school district, that winds up costing the district $107,500. Again, where are school districts going to get the money? And that's for just a small school district. Most districts, even rural ones, have two hundred plus teachers in them. And again, where are these cash strapped school districts going to get the money?

So you're putting me on ignore, that's fine with me. It amuses me that some simple questions on my part caused you to, essentially, stick your fingers in your ears and scream LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Geez, you just must absolutely freak when somebody dares to question you in real life. But hey, keep me on ignore, I don't care. However I won't be putting you on ignore, because I believe that every post here has value, if only comedic value.

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