When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools

Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by panic on Saturday December 31, 2016 @06:40PM (#13293798)

The young woman (and it is almost all young women) gets a degree, a certificate, and gets to be in charge of your kids for six hours a day, even though when she was in your English class in HS she would copy her answers off of the test of your permanently-stoned buddies.

Can you cut it out with the misogyny here? Teachers deserve more respect than this.

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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by Haven_Monahan on Saturday December 31, 2016 @07:09PM (#13293931)

I can respect them for their ability to control a classroom, to empathize with, and to motivate young children.

I cannot in any meaningful way respect, the breadth, rigor or quality of undergraduate ed-major programs in the US. Graduates of these programs may have respectable knowledge and skills-but that is an exception unique to the individual.

Apparently, the facts are misogynous. Damn, damn facts.

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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by GotAnyMegadeth on Saturday December 31, 2016 @07:35PM (#13294052)

I guess your point would have been made without mentioning the gender of the average teacher. Can come across like two points at once when phrased like that

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Re:When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools by dgellow on Sunday January 01, 2017 @04:35AM (#13295235)

If you're talking about facts, give us a source?

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