FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Knightstalker]

Today let us remember our Soldiers and Sailors who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor and those who survived the attack in our prayers and thoughts.

[D O.C.]

Congrats to Danny Jones for making it to The...............oh, wait, wrong board...

[EastCoastStag]

Congratulations to Danny Jones for being on the second best team in DIII. I know the game has yet to be played and I may eat my words for this one. However, just looking at the scores and the road traveled, one has to see Mount as the favorite (not even including history). They have had a relatively easy time to the finals, whereas UWW has had to slug it out, especially this week. This is what leads me to pick Mount - players with a little more rest and a slightly deeper roster. One cannot use experience, as this is now the 3rd meeting in a row. So hopefully UWW has just enough fire to make it a game and maybe even a surprise.
I'll be pulling for UWW, but just don't see them overcoming the juggernaut that is MUC.


Note: not meaning to in anyway discount anything Mr. D.J. has done. He had a great career at CLU and has really ran with everything at UWW. He is a fantastic player with an excellent career. He has done two teams proud. Win or lose I hope he is thrilled to have had the opportunities he has had.

(My grammar is horrible - curse you investment banking)

[tmerton]

(My grammar is horrible - curse you investment banking)

Ah, now - grammar is learned in elementary school (or in my case, junior high), at home and from your peers - long before you got to investment banking.  I can't believe kids don't still diagram sentences.

[Gray Fox]

(My grammar is horrible - curse you investment banking)

Ah, now - grammar is learned in elementary school (or in my case, junior high), at home and from your peers - long before you got to investment banking.  I can't believe kids don't still diagram sentences.

Your wright.  I never needed to diagram sentences cause my grammer is purfect.  Its my spelling that needs werk.

[Klopenhiemer]

(My grammar is horrible - curse you investment banking)

Ah, now - grammar is learned in elementary school (or in my case, junior high), at home and from your peers - long before you got to investment banking.  I can't believe kids don't still diagram sentences.

Your wright.  I never needed to diagram sentences cause my grammer is purfect.  Its my spelling that needs werk.

Interesting you are on this topik.  When I waz in scool, we wer taught to sound out the wordz.  I talked to a teacher the other day.  She said that logic was completely unfounded and ruined the phonics for quite a large number of children.  I am in the boat and wish that I was not.  Need to go back to the old school way of doing this.  Pounding it into the kids heads, and beating the ones with rulers who disobey

[EastCoastStag]

(My grammar is horrible - curse you investment banking)

Ah, now - grammar is learned in elementary school (or in my case, junior high), at home and from your peers - long before you got to investment banking.  I can't believe kids don't still diagram sentences.

Your wright.  I never needed to diagram sentences cause my grammer is purfect.  Its my spelling that needs werk.

Interesting you are on this topik.  When I waz in scool, we wer taught to sound out the wordz.  I talked to a teacher the other day.  She said that logic was completely unfounded and ruined the phonics for quite a large number of children.  I am in the boat and wish that I was not.  Need to go back to the old school way of doing this.  Pounding it into the kids heads, and beating the ones with rulers who disobey

My mother made me do everything outside of school as well - from diagraming, to times tables to everything else. Forced at times. But, I thank her for it. I completely believe in the ruler method. Need to smack the little bastards around at times. They don't have ADD, what they have is sissy teachers who do not put those little kids in their place.
Por ejemplo - the school system in my hometown does not require kids to memorize times tables and there are no spelling tests. But, they spend a tremendous time sitting in a circle passing around the dream catcher talking about their bad dreams. No joke.

But I blame my "on the job grammar" on having to translate the "Queen's English" into good 'ol bastardized American English.

[Gray Fox]

My mother washed the dishes and made me dry.  That was the time I got drilled in spelling and times tables etc.  What would have happened if we had a dishwasher?

I hated diagramming sentences and probably didn't do very well on them.

[Klopenhiemer]

(My grammar is horrible - curse you investment banking)

Ah, now - grammar is learned in elementary school (or in my case, junior high), at home and from your peers - long before you got to investment banking.  I can't believe kids don't still diagram sentences.

Your wright.  I never needed to diagram sentences cause my grammer is purfect.  Its my spelling that needs werk.

Interesting you are on this topik.  When I waz in scool, we wer taught to sound out the wordz.  I talked to a teacher the other day.  She said that logic was completely unfounded and ruined the phonics for quite a large number of children.  I am in the boat and wish that I was not.  Need to go back to the old school way of doing this.  Pounding it into the kids heads, and beating the ones with rulers who disobey

My mother made me do everything outside of school as well - from diagraming, to times tables to everything else. Forced at times. But, I thank her for it. I completely believe in the ruler method. Need to smack the little bastards around at times. They don't have ADD, what they have is sissy teachers who do not put those little kids in their place.
Por ejemplo - the school system in my hometown does not require kids to memorize times tables and there are no spelling tests. But, they spend a tremendous time sitting in a circle passing around the dream catcher talking about their bad dreams. No joke.

But I blame my "on the job grammar" on having to translate the "Queen's English" into good 'ol bastardized American English.

Wow passing around the dream catcher.  That is a little out there for a teaching method.  Thats about as bad a passing around a cup of kool-aid and telling the kids to take a sip. 

I wish I knew what diagraming a sentence meant.  I think it might have helped me to write better.  I got the proffesional embarassment when I left college.  Boss man came up to me and said son, start proof reading better.  He understood that it was a direct result of what we started with in kindergarten.  Thank goodness his wife was a teacher and I understood what grama style I grew up learning. 

[Gray Fox]

But I blame my "on the job grammar" on having to translate the "Queen's English" into good 'ol bastardized American English.

Gee, I thought that all that investment banking gobbledygook was just legalese.  Now I know it is just institutionalized bad English.

[EastCoastStag]

But I blame my "on the job grammar" on having to translate the "Queen's English" into good 'ol bastardized American English.

Gee, I thought that all that investment banking gobbledygook was just legalese.  Now I know it is just institutionalized bad English.

But there's nothing like a 6 figure income.

[Klopenhiemer]

But I blame my "on the job grammar" on having to translate the "Queen's English" into good 'ol bastardized American English.

Gee, I thought that all that investment banking gobbledygook was just legalese.  Now I know it is just institutionalized bad English.

But there's nothing like a 6 figure income.

Amen to that brother. 

[scandihoovian]

After 18 years teaching in public secondary schools I'll add these thoughts:

1) There are lots of good teachers out there...just not enough of them.

2) ADD is a load of crap, except for the drug companies, for whom it is a load of cash - I have had two legit ADD students, the other hundred who were diagnosed just needed to suck it up and pay attention.

3) Good teachers should never be afraid to put kids in their place, although the ruler isn't necessary.  I do feel bad for you youngins who had too many teachers that believed building your self esteem was the most important part of their job.  I have many students who believe they should receive full credit for having a pulse.  They honestly get a look of pure disbelief on their face when I explain to them that subpar work = partial credit, as well as the amazing fact that correct answers are superior to incorrect answers.

4) What's a six figure income?

[Klopenhiemer]

After 18 years teaching in public secondary schools I'll add these thoughts:

1) There are lots of good teachers out there...just not enough of them.

2) ADD is a load of crap, except for the drug companies, for whom it is a load of cash - I have had two legit ADD students, the other hundred who were diagnosed just needed to suck it up and pay attention.

3) Good teachers should never be afraid to put kids in their place, although the ruler isn't necessary.  I do feel bad for you youngins who had too many teachers that believed building your self esteem was the most important part of their job.  I have many students who believe they should receive full credit for having a pulse.  They honestly get a look of pure disbelief on their face when I explain to them that subpar work = partial credit, as well as the amazing fact that correct answers are superior to incorrect answers.

4) What's a six figure income?

I will agree with all of this.  The ruler is not always needed to put a kid in his or her place.  It is more an statement out my feelings on todays world.  It is not longer okay to spank your kid.  I will not  get into that, that is not what PP is meant for. 

I will say that the whole ADD/ADHD is completley obsured.  How did this disease just come to light in lets say the last 15 years.  I think 50 years ago we had kids with similar symptoms.  They were just consiered the village idiot, or the dunce. 

I feel the self esteem issue is the same thing regarding the sportsman ship award.  The softball league my sister grew up in gave an award the worst team in the league called the sportsmanship award.  What happened to going 0-10 and someone say hey kids, you just weren not good enought, but this isnt the end of the world.  Put in a little time and effort in the offseason and good things will come. 

No, now when our kids team looses we take them to Dairy Queen and hope they do not cry.  I cried once after loosing a game as a young lad.  My dad had me out stacking fire, me gave me something to cry about. 

All in all it is just another reflection to todays society.  I sure hope things change before I have children

[coco]

After 18 years teaching in public secondary schools I'll add these thoughts:

1) There are lots of good teachers out there...just not enough of them.

2) ADD is a load of crap, except for the drug companies, for whom it is a load of cash - I have had two legit ADD students, the other hundred who were diagnosed just needed to suck it up and pay attention.

3) Good teachers should never be afraid to put kids in their place, although the ruler isn't necessary.  I do feel bad for you youngins who had too many teachers that believed building your self esteem was the most important part of their job.  I have many students who believe they should receive full credit for having a pulse.  They honestly get a look of pure disbelief on their face when I explain to them that subpar work = partial credit, as well as the amazing fact that correct answers are superior to incorrect answers.

4) What's a six figure income?

Oh man, do I ever agree with you, scandi! I've been retired from public education for a couple years. At my high school, we had the outrageous requirement that the students actually had to earn the required number of credits to be promoted to the next year of high school. Some students and parents thought that was grossly unfair.

Graduation wasn't guaranteed either, unless the students obtained the required number of credits. That was another shocker to some of the parents. It's a different society today.