Kvando1 What you fail to realize is that in this country, we expect EVERYONE to attend high school.  In other countries the students have to test to get into high school, so their statistics show they are higher when in fact, they are probably no better off than us.  Back when a high school diploma was worth more tha...more

I am a high school mathematics teacher in Tennessee.  Tennessee seems to have this notion that all students are going to go to college.  So to prepare them for college, four years of math if required.  I wish they would get realistic and see that:   1)  Not all students want to go to college 2)  Not all students ...more

Can you do better without complaining?  Become a teacher and prove it.  It will be a real education for you.

You said it!  The parents want to be their friends and the teacher to be the bad person who disciplines them.  Been there!

We go into teaching to teach, not babysit or teach  your child morals.  That is the parents job.  Quit trying to dump your responsibilites onto us.    I guarantee you that if teachers truly knew what they had in store for them dealing with jackass thinking parents like you they would not have gone into the field o...more

As a current high school math teacher I can see why so many teachers quit before they reach the end of their second or third year.  From parents who don't want to admit their kids can do anything wrong to all the excuses they let their children feed off of such as..."I was never any good at math either", some parent ca...more

What really  gripes me is all these people on social security disability, the drug addicts, alcoholics and others.  My neighbor file eight times before she finally got hers...for "depression".  That biotch is no more depressed than anyone else, she just didn't want to have to work.  There are millions just like this co...more

It was wrong that the government changed the age of full benefits for those who were born after 1943.  When I started paying into this scam known as social security I was suppose to receive full benefits at the age of 65, but now it is almost 67.  You don't change the rules mid-stream because they are to your advantage...more

A point to consider (correct me if I am wrong), I thought your SS benefit was based on your highest 10 years (inflation adjusted).  When did it turn to 35, or has it always been and I was misinformed?