Re:I wish more people would think this way!!! (Score 1)

I have a six-year-old in second grade and a four-year-old in kindergarten. The teachers are using the same boring techniques that didn't work when I was in school and are boring the crap out of my second grader. He's already turned off by learning every monday through friday and I have to reinvigorate him on the weekend with at-home projects.

That's because the quality of teachers has gone down. with high demand, job security, pension plan, decent hours, many bad teachers are jumping at the chance to work in incredible areas with smart kids, such as Fairfax County.

It is unfortunate that the teaching system (of which my wife is a part) is stuck in a 19th century methodology of teaching the masses to act in unison. It is as if they're preparing these kids for the rote factory jobs of yesterday instead of the knowledge-critical jobs of today.

What factory jobs are you talking about? Oh you meant your IT job :-P
I'm completing my masters in EE while substitute teaching at the moment, so I see the full grade spectrum. Kids aren't bored from the teaching tech (or lack there of), they are bored because of the lack of motivation and slow pace. There is more of a push these days to fill kids with information instead of having them learn it.

I've yet to find one instance in my work (IT manager over about 60 people in a large government agency with roughly 60 servers, 1,500 staff members and 18TB of data online) where I had to fill out a scantron form or decide which option was best - a, b, c, d, or all of the above.

Ooh, ooh, can i please answer this one?? what about when you are making decision like buying servers or hardware and figuring out which option is the best.

As it is, I'm on the school site council, PTA and am constantly talking to the administration in my sons' school district. They just don't seem to want to 'get it.'

Though I don't feel it's the teacher's responsibility to excite the student 100% on the topic or subject being taught, parents need to do their part instead of work 60 hours a week at a dead end job like most of these kids I deal with. And yes a corporate job making a 7 figure salary to me is dead end when you rarely see your family.