i generally don’t trust any sites that have pop ups or ads on them. Â generally i do trust books more than the internet because less idiots are able to publish paper. Â Yes you do have idiots but very few are still arguing that dragons and fairies exist.
Posts made by Yemble
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RE: Books still beat out Wikipedia
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RE: Education Reform
haha hehe yeah…public school…hmmm where to begin…you have all mentioned topics which I deal with on a daily basis.
First… basics are necessary. Background information has to be there before I can teach high level concepts such as the economic reasons for the fall of the USSR. Right now, in MD, there is no social studies or history that HAS to be taught at the elementary level. Students get to middle school without knowing how to read a map or have basic geography skills. Then instead of learning basic history from which they can then examine closer, the county gives them the concentrated orange juice version of history packed full of lovely vocabulary that my 7th graders reading on a 4 grade reading level DON’T even understand. These readings are incomplete views of history. Entire subjects such as Christopher Columbus are SKIPPED…not played down in importance as might be needed but FORGOTTEN! Mainstreaming is killing any attempt to teach to either low or high level students. At best I can accomodate low and middle, or middle and high, which leaves either 1/3 (if i teach to the lower half) or 1/5-1/8 (if I teach to the high level students) screwed. Which do you think happens more often? YAY for making a difference! County gives monthly tests to assess whether I am a good teacher or not…I will soon be rated based on student test performance as whether I am effective or not. Student responsibility is not anywhere in the equation. Curriculem is often written during the summer and is a way for “golden” teachers to show their “stuff.” These stellar lessons are over lower students heads, and takes me 3 times the amount of time to teach. By the end of a school year I can be a full unit behind. Am I to teach, or talk and move on regardless of student’s actually learning.
Character Developement…mmm how nice it is to have so much power that the most I can do to a student is inconvience them. Being told to F-off because I tell a student to be quiet. “Get out of my face” when told to take their headphones off. “Fag” when I tell them to stop rough housing. Should a student decide to be the “class clown” and spread her legs and proceed to imitate sexual “activities” I am allowed to do all of the following 1. call down to the office and have an administrator or the police officer escort her down. This can and often does not happen for 15-30 minutes. 2- do nothing and try to ignore it. Perhaps I am lucky enough to have 3-4 of these types of students in my class. Call parents…awesome if they would support us in agreeing that this behavior is acceptable…oh and if I can find a phone number to reach them at. All of this comes at the expense of the rest of the children. By the 8th grade the numbers get worse because students pick up on what they can get away with. After all it makes the school look bad to suspend many students or expel them. The alternative school has a size limit and the students are bound to come back. Lets see the chances of the students getting into trouble when they do come back is kinda as similar to that of criminals commiting crime again. Actually I would like to compare the two stats. Students with IEPs (some sort of learning disibility) are only allowed to be suspended for 10 days…less it be guns or drugs. So far I have been pushed intentionally by a student twice…hard enough to move me. Teachers have been hit and grabbed. Teaching please, this is not a movie, I have 130 students. I spend 12-14 hours at school…most dealing with discipline. Though it may sound odd but I do have most of the kids’ respect. They eventually listen to me. I can get most to do there work, but we are joking ourselves if we are saying I am saving any. Maybe I am just not a good enough teacher.
Parents- if a school has no parents in the PTA and of the 30 students who are getting E’s in my class (which is very hard to due) none of the parents show up…there is a problem. It is not at the state, county, or school. It is with the family. How would you propose I fix that. Don’t say government should get involvedin raising the kids, cuz I am no babysitter.
Not all kids are college material, sorry some don’t like algebra. Lets face it some are going to want to be electricians or something like that. How about letting them choose those career paths a little bit earlier. Give them…lets say…the basics…oh yeah…where do they get those. Obviously not at elementary school cuz I have students who can’t remember to put their names on paper let alone where or to include more than their street nickname.
Maybe teachers are professionals. Maybe some of us have gone to school for this. Please, if I tell you your son or daughter is not doing their work…i “your not making it interesting enough” is NOT AN EXCUSE. First, it is not practicable (yeah thats nowhere in public school) to make things interesting for all 130 students…second…you know maybe kids should just have to do what they are told. I am a teacher…think I enjoyed school…wow no I didn’t. Odd how I decided to punish myself. Maybe that will be the punishment for Mr. “Your a Fag” or Mrs. “Get the F… out of my face.” Perhaps I should not have to cross check a list of parents who threaten to beat the shit out of me before I do confrences for anything from grades to “my daughter will go to the bathroom whenever she wants” or “he will have his phone ON at all times.” In any other situation if a student were to step on a persons foot and then decides to tell the person who they stepped on “f*ck you get out of my way” they would have issues. The most I can do is write an office referral to go into the magical filing cabinate. Respect, oh what a lovely dream.
Crappy teachers need to go…good bye tenure. Have teachers evaluate their own. We know who is good and who is not. The Union defends the wrong teachers…the ones who have been arrested for drug possession. I am tired of going into other teachers classes to deal with discipline because they have yet to figure it out. Oh and yes you do need to keep a gradebook.
Students fail…get over it. Yes I know by now, with NCLB we just keep passing them on and on, so that if/when we do that we will retain high percentages of kids but nah lets paint over the mold and pretend its not there. Yeah a kid can fail enlgish 4 years in a row and keep getting promoted because they only fail english but then we ask “why oh why can’t johnny spell cat?” Then when they are in 10th grade and they have failed maybe 6 years of english yet they still take the 10th grade tests we are curious why they score “basic.” Oh and all the politically correct words lets get rid of them. Scoring basic, though it sounds good, is not…it means your stupid. And glossing over facts because we don’t want to hurt their self esteem does them no good. I will not lie…learning how to get my honest points across using political jargon makes me feel like some sort of vocabulary ninja working at a a japanese steak house cooking meals with only plastic straws and getting good reviews. YAY me. Lets stop lying to students. Seperate them back into low, middle, and high levels so I can best address THEIR intellectual needs.
Hope someone has the balls to address the issues honestly…because the problems in my classroom will be on our streets. You already see less concern about our communities, states, and overall country. Already you are seeing overall less patriotism. Less common decency. The problems in school grow out of social problems. And that reminds me similar conditions in another great superpower…Rome. Cliche’ “Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat it.”
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RE: Should Schools Require School Uniforms?
HELL YES UNIFORMS
Kids can be creative on paper.
At the very least strengthen dress codes…require SHIRTS not t-shirts and slacks with belts. Unfortunately schools don’t seem to be strengthening anything but the unrealistic expectations on teachers, reliance on BS data/testing , and fantasy world creations. -
RE: New Axis & Allies Global War Variant (free map)
I modified positrona’s map to include France basically a 1939 varient. But I am having trouble printing it out. I have had no time to work on it but if anyone wants it I can post it on rapidshare.
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RE: New Axis & Allies Global War Variant (free map)
gee way to make me jealous
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RE: New Axis & Allies Global War Variant (free map)
Any suggestions as to how to print out the map. I am having trouble printing it as a banner using corel.
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RE: Japanese Paratroopers
from what i know they were used very little. they did have a para corp. and heavily armed (one of the few japanese units to be issued sub-machine guns) but thats it.
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RE: 12 Sided Die and Targeted Attacks/ Defense
Thats perfectly cool dude. I have no time to play A&A during the school year. Play it out and let me know. I have a feeling artillery might be a bit too powerful on my board. Just out of curiosity what else are you thinking of tweeking. Where is your blog?
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RE: Finally, what should i do whit italy
I think it foolish to discount Italy because of its poor equipment. Italy had a decent navy and its military equipment otherwise was comparable to that of Japans, crap armor, crap rifles, decent under armed fighters. The problem with Italy was the way their men were led. I think that in some games if you are going to allow China to be a player then Italy should be too.
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RE: Using Battle of the Bulge Rules with D-Day
I thought of that but most all the territories have roads connecting each so it defeats the purpose.
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RE: New Axis & Allies Global War Variant (free map)
Positronica has just earned my vote in the next 4-5 major elections for this outstanding contribution!!!
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Trying to start a new Axis and Allies Site
Hey gang, I started a new site for Axis and Allies. I know you all have a ton of stuff for Axis and Allies. I want to make it as comprehensive as possible so if there is anything you think I should include let me know.
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RE: 12 Sided Die and Targeted Attacks/ Defense
Yeah the table got messed up. I just didn’t have the time to make it pretty. I made a new site and it has the table on there. Yes, yes in my mind it sounds oh so simply but to others it will probably be more hassel than its worth but still. Here is the table its on the site.
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12 Sided Die and Targeted Attacks/ Defense
I have been toying with the idea of modifying the battleboard some. It is probably too complicated and many will not like it but still shooting it out there just in case anyone is interested.
Some units I have given the ability to target specific enemy units. Some only get to target during the 1st or 2nd round of combat. Others target the duration. Fighters and Bombers get to target but are limited to the amount of time they spend in the “Air” this may change with Long Range Aircraft.
I have also tried to create a reserve for the defender. The reserve is to replicate behind the line units for use against break throughs or enemy weaknesses. These units do not get to fire the first round but may make targeted attacks the second.
Attacker
1_____________2___________3__________4______________5______________6______________7________8_________ Transport Infantry Mechanized Airborne Submarine Armor Battleship
Infantry (Targeted 1st (Target 1st (Target 1st (Target 1st
Aircraft Carrier (Targeted 1st round of combat round of combat round of combat round of combat
round of combat) may target may also target
reserves enemy reserves) Fighter
(Non-Target)
Artillery Fighter
(Targeted) (Targeted Bomber
may also target (Targeted 3
enemy reserves rounds of
remains in air combat)
2 rounds)Destroyer
Defense
1___________2__________3______________4______________5______________6____________7___________8______
Transport Bomber Infantry Mechanized Armor Fighter Fighter Battleship
(In Air Infantry (Targeted (Non
for 4 Submarine remains in Targeted)
rounds) Artillery (Targeted) air for 3
(Targeted) rounds)
Destroyer
Aircraft
CarrierReserves 3______________4______________5______________6____________7___________8_______
No Combat Infantry Mech Infantry Armor Battleship
on 1st Round (Target Round 2) (Target Round 2) (Target Round 2) (Target Round 2)Destroyer
(Target Round 2)Casualties
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RE: Technology and National Advantage merge
Do you have this posted somewhere already?
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RE: Technology and National Advantage merge
Territory specific advantages would be seperate from these advantages
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Technology and National Advantage merge
One thing I liked about World At War was that you couldn’t all of a sudden get Rockets in one turn. In WAW you have a progression. Everyone starts at 0 for every technology. To advance you pay $2 and roll a die. If you roll a 1 then you move your counter to 1 on the technology sheet. The next time you pay $2 and you need to get a 2 or less. It progresses until you reach 5. You can get technology immediately but its not nearly as easy and on average would cost a whole lot more.
What I would like to change however is a blended national advantage and tech chart. So you would have heavy tanks available for everbody but instead of starting at 0 for germany, she starts at a 3. This way the german play can choose to progress that advantage or not. I haven’t tried it but you could also make this vulnerable to SBR too. Careful not to make it too easy to knock out tho.
So you end up with a technology/nat advantage of lets say Long Range Bombers
Long Range Bombers allows Bombers to move 8 spaces
USSR starts at level 2
Germany starts at level 3
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RE: New Axis & Allies Global War Variant (free map)
have you ever considered making part of the sahara desert impassible?
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RE: Change in SBR Rules
I haven’t played old AA in a while. I play World at War now, and its not as easily done in WAW. You should try it if you haven’t