--- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: _Politics,_was_[L3]_Re:_fight_the_evil_of
> _pricediscrimination
> >Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:13:49 -0500
> >
> >Jan Coffey wrote:
> > >
> > > --- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Then there is the matter of accidents.
> > >
> > > Simple solution, teach a class in gun safty in school. Replace the 10th
>
> >11th
> > > or 12th year of "english" those clases are a waste.
> >
> >1) I didn't consider any of those classes I took those years to be a
> >"waste", personally.
>
> Neither do I. In fact, the foundation of writing skills and language
> analysis they established probably allow me to do my job effectively.
>
> An observation: Just because a required class may not help you personally
> doesn't mean it's worthless. For example, I may never use the trigonometry
>
> that I learned about in HS in my daily life, but it's essential to
> everything from construction to chemistry.
>
I wasn't saying to do away with all 3 years, just one. Besides no one made
you take 12 years of triginomotry, or 12 years of art history. or 12 years of
colour theory.
Why do you think that 12 years of english is necisary? Did you really learn
anything in 10th,11th or 12th grade you didn't already know in 9th?
The only difference in these classes was the publisher of the book, and the
words on the spelling tests. Granted for me, the spelling tests were like
automatic Fs due to my genetics, which I did find teribly unfair. But still,
for everyone else the rest of the information was 3 years of re-run. How many
times can you be tought to diagram a sentence before you just don't care
anymore. How many times can you go around a class reading shakespear aloud?
Is it really necisary to subject students to Beowofe 3 years in a row? How
many compare-contrast papers can one write?
The way we teach English in this country is akin to spending a smester a year
teaching 1st 2nd 3ed and 4th graders how to tie shoes.
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