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Galen Manapat // March 17, 2008 at 12:37 am
Galen Manapat Note: reposted to correct word mispelling)
I am not an educator.
Rather I’m fairly intelligent dad with education concerns. When I went through South Florida schools, almost 50 years ago, math was taught poorly to me. I was also in a home getting ready to divorce. Between the two influences I never learned advanced math well. I should have.
Now I’m a father with a 2o year old and a 13 year old in Lexington Schools.
I know that my 20 year old felt at the University of Hawaii last year that she could have been better prepared for college by her high school education. She worked hard throughout high school! It was not that she isn’t smart or well motivated; I think that part of her education in the Lexington SC public school system was “sloppy” or not up to standard. Again math wasn’t taught well to her.
A year and half ago, my middle daughter, Christine had a horrible math teacher at White Knoll middle school.
Often Her teacher demonstrated that she didn’t even like the students in her class. Christine suffered under those conditions, and guess what; even when you complain to the principal, the solution is apparantly: Well you know, we just can’t get math teachers. They are hard to hire.
Boy, now there is an answer!
Why would I have an air conditioner installed by a company that says: we have found that good technicians are hard to find, in fact we don’t have any?
So now I have been failed by public education, in math in particular, in South Florida in my youth, and I’m watching my two daughters experience the same thing here.
I AM READY FOR A REVOLT!
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