I rented the documentary on the US school system "Waiting for Superman" on netflix a few weeks ago. My plan was to invite some friends over from my TE class but never found a good time. Tonight I finally broke down and watched it when I got back from work. I watched it with my roommate Dan and his girlfriend Aimee (who is also an elementary education major.) If you haven't heard of the movie if shows the story of like 5 families that have to enter a lottery in the hopes of getting their children into a good school.
It was the first movie that my eyes kind of welled up since I saw Air Bud like 10 years ago. You know the scene where he has go get rid of him and says, "Go away! I don't want you anymore!" He totally did, but that's beside the point. It was just so sad that basically the only way these kids will get a good education is if they win the lottery to get into one of the very few good schools in their district. Most of the lotteries were like 800 applicants and 20 openings.
One of the biggest points I took away from it is the problem with ineffective teachers. The movie claimed that after a teacher has tenure it is basically impossible to fire them. So there are all these crappy teachers out there but there is no way to fire them. Obviously this movie only presents one side of the argument, but the side it presents is a pretty strong one.
I encourage you all to watch it and then we can discuss it next time I see you.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Speedway Recap
Ok I have a few short stories about working at speedway
1. There is this old lady that comes in every week and buys us out of bottlecaps candies. If there are 17 left in the box she buys them all. You would think she would get sick of them after a while. I'm doing some math and lets say she buys 10 packages of bottlecaps every week (which is conservative) at $1 a piece. Thats over $500 a year on candy.
2. An old guy came it at like 10pm and bought a banana. Then he held the banana like it was a gun and pointed it at me... awesome.
3. Tonight I shut this ladies pump off because she was sitting in her car while it was pumping. This is against the rules because that can build up static electricity which can start a fire. She marched inside not too happy, I tried to explain to her the situation but all I got was, "SO YOU SHUT MY PUMP OFF!?" Then she said she was never going to come to Speedway again, awwww shucks!
4. Some a-hole came in and bought cigarettes, when I turned my head he put them in his pocket. When I gave him his change he said I never put the cigarettes out (then how the heck did I wring them up?). I said I did and he started laughing and replied, "It never works." He thought it was a hoot, I didn't find it very amusing.
5. Someone stole one of the plastic cases that holds the towels by the pumps. Why?
1. There is this old lady that comes in every week and buys us out of bottlecaps candies. If there are 17 left in the box she buys them all. You would think she would get sick of them after a while. I'm doing some math and lets say she buys 10 packages of bottlecaps every week (which is conservative) at $1 a piece. Thats over $500 a year on candy.
2. An old guy came it at like 10pm and bought a banana. Then he held the banana like it was a gun and pointed it at me... awesome.
3. Tonight I shut this ladies pump off because she was sitting in her car while it was pumping. This is against the rules because that can build up static electricity which can start a fire. She marched inside not too happy, I tried to explain to her the situation but all I got was, "SO YOU SHUT MY PUMP OFF!?" Then she said she was never going to come to Speedway again, awwww shucks!
4. Some a-hole came in and bought cigarettes, when I turned my head he put them in his pocket. When I gave him his change he said I never put the cigarettes out (then how the heck did I wring them up?). I said I did and he started laughing and replied, "It never works." He thought it was a hoot, I didn't find it very amusing.
5. Someone stole one of the plastic cases that holds the towels by the pumps. Why?
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