Club 30's "Kill The Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 71st Edition

jetta SG

Love that song! You see what you've done to me? It's stuck in my head now. Mad

After 6pm tomorrow, I can sing that song. But since I work straight commission, doesn't matter if I stay till the end of my shift. As soon as I handle a customer who's coming down to the store for an issue, I'm going to ask if I can leave and call it a night.

ShrodingersCat SG

walao. that's a damn stupid thing to do. Despite all studies telling teachers not to pigeon hole children - MOE does exactly that.

U know all those studies about moving students placed in 'moderate' result classes into classes with 'high' results.. and NOT telling the teachers about it. Results have shown that when this happen.. students who get high results end up regressing, and students who had moderate results in the first place, end up improving.

It really makes a lot of difference when it comes to self belief, attitude, and perspective.

jetta SG

Did you eat something you're allergic to? Or like you said, a bad case of mossie bites. Poor thing. Calamine lotion dabbed on each bump might help?

Lin Yu SG

got hong mok Sad Sad Sad you drink?

fudgester SG

You can never really quantify all those non-tangible attributes and put a physical face to them.

Too bad the MOE (and that principal in today's papers) just can't seem to grasp that.

the Bear SG

you're welcome Twisted Evil

try to do what the kid in the joke did...

A young guy from Minnesota moves to Florida and goes to a big "everything under one roof" department store looking for a job.

The Manager says, "Do you have any sales experience?"

The kid says, "Yeah. I was a salesman back in Minnesota."

Well, the boss liked the kid and gave him the job.

"You start tomorrow. I'll come down after we close and see how you did."

His first day on the job was rough, but he got through it. After the store was locked up, the boss came down.

"How many customers bought something from you today?"

The kid says, "One."

The boss says, "Just one? Our sales people average 20 to 30 customers a day. How much was the sale for?"

The kid says "$101,237.65."

The boss says "$101,237.65? What the heck did you sell?"

The kid says, "First, I sold him a small fishhook. Then I sold him a medium fishhook. Then I sold him a larger fishhook. Then I sold him a new fishing rod. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast, so I told him he was going to need a boat, so we went down to the boat department and I sold him a twin engine Chris Craft. Then he said he didn't think his Honda Civic would pull it, so I took him down to the automotive department and sold him that 4x4 Expedition."

The boss said, "A guy came in here to buy a fishhook, and you sold him a BOAT AND a TRUCK???!!!"

The kid said, "No, the guy came in here to buy Tampons for his wife, and I said, 'Dude, your weekend's shot, you should go fishing........"

Twisted Evil

jetta SG

I can't say the same for myself, can't say I showed MOE. I was constantly told that I was lousy at Maths. I didn't have a teacher who wanted to help me understand. I was partly to blame too since I didn't bother either. Crying or Very sad I really regret not having done my part. Mum did get me private Maths tuition but I just couldn't grasp concepts. So embarassing when you can't even help your kids with 6th grade Math homework.

jetta SG

I've heard this joke before. Hearing it again made me laugh. Thank you! Maybe I'll be as lucky tomorrow? Send that customer my way! Laughing

the Bear SG

i did further math in JC..

and i don't think i can help people do math now.. i heard they're doing things like fourier transforms in ITE Shocked

ShrodingersCat SG

Same here. Sometimes it could be that people are just better at one thing than another. But i believe if all teachers could teach while believing that all students COULD learn - then whatever their current results are, they definitely could improve.

I have had teachers telling my class point blank that.. Oh.. arts class ah.. why don't u drop maths C or A maths? Waste of time you know - all will fail anyway.

the Bear SG

passing it isn't the point is it?

it's learning..

but then, these days i get blank looks.. the results is all that is important..

jetta SG

Haiz, I kept getting failing mark after failing mark. At some point, you just stop trying, you know? The teachers I had were resigned to the fact that I would fail miserably. None of them took me aside to give me one on one coaching. So that was how I sailed along in secondary school. I didn't even want to turn up for the GCE Maths paper because I knew it would be a waste of time, but I sat for it anyway. Strangely, I was good at Math in primary school.

the Bear SG

i like math..

but i think i know where you come from.. i don't think i can do the math anymore..

people do change.. and i think i have throughout the years.. i'm no more the cold analytical thinker i used to be Laughing

still, i've always figured math can be learnt... everyone just needs their own time and a personal determination to do it... those things, and a patient teacher Smile

jetta SG

Planets weren't in line for me, pity. If I knew then what I know now, I would have worked hard at the subject. Life as I know it would be so different today.

bluejuice SG

yah.. same for my school as well..

My sec 4 chem teacher sucks at teaching. All she know is how to teach from the text or read off her slides. Then she gets frustrated when we don't understand because she can't explain clearly.

And then she tells our class, we should all drop Chem because we're going to fail our O levels anyway.. We're all hopeless..

ALL our class passed O levels Chem! She got so proud of herself.. but really, its not her credit... all of us had some other help from tuition teachers or self study groups..

Mad

jetta SG

That is soooo sickening!!!! Teachers who have no aptitude should be trained. Those who still have no aptitude should not teach. Mad Mad Mad

ShrodingersCat SG

more importantly is the attitude ba.

if a teacher begin to look down on her students, there is really no point in continuing. does not make sense.

plus, those teachers who say those discouraging words, and then say "i am using reverse psychology'... should really see a psychologist.

the Bear SG

anyway.. the 2007 Darwin Awards are out! Razz

clicky here => 2007 Darwin Awards

Razz

ShrodingersCat SG

hahah dunno why this reminds me of my Science teacher in sec 2.. this very sombre man who speaks very slowly and has NO sense of humour.

Everytime we tell him we don't understand... he just looks at us, and repeats everything before slightly slower and kind of hope that we would understand now that he 'slow down'

but we heard he had some mental breakdown when he was doing his doctorate, that is why end up teaching us. we thougth he was boring like siao but no long lasting angst abt him.

the Bear SG

i never had problems in school.. i was a nerd.... still am one Laughing

the only problems i had was art.. and being a lazy sod, i didn't bother to read up my literature at all.. so i just passed it.. much to the constenation of my teacher who yelled at me in a bemused way Razz

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