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You clearly didn't read my post, since I didn't mention anything about 7th and 8th grade being bad due to poor quality teachers.
Most children are difficult to educate at those ages, this is just a fact.
The Higher Education Thread: Justify Poor Life Choices
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Most children are difficult to educate at those ages, this is just a fact.
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ZyyzYzzy
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Children shouldn't be punished for having bad parents.
However, there's very little you can do to fix this besides charter boarding schools.
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There's nothing wrong with that. You don't need to be a genius to be a doctor. Someone of above average intelligence with a great work ethic can be a fantastic doctor. He won't be pioneering or innovating in the medical field but he can still be a great doctor. In a lot of cases, a great work ethic can be more beneficial than a few extra IQ points.
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Except you don't work with nursing assistants. So, talking to someone with little to no experience is like talking to a wall. How do you propose two nurses working in a skilled nursing facility where there is a ratio of 10:1 (10 patients to 1 nurse) without the help of an assistant? CNAs help with bathing, ambulating, toileting, feeding, and turning patients.
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I didn't say there was anything wrong with that. I said merely that doctor doesn't necessarily imply that someone is particularly smart. If you look at statistics, only a few specialties of doctors have greater than mean IQs. Some even have lower than mean IQs.
Being a doctor means you are willing to work hard and put up with a lot of bullshit over a long period of time.
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You just have to pick carefully. Those Dallas magnets are great... but something like 158k kids go to Dallas ISD schools and maybe 250 get into those magnet schools per year. It's stupid as shit. You have to question whether you can afford to live in DISD and send your kids to private school if they don't get in the magnets.
Also those townview magnets are downtown and nobody lives downtown or anywhere near it. Most people who get their kids into magnet schools end up shuttling the little bastards to school every day, and then shuttling them all over creation to see their friends since their friends will be all over.
I prefer to pony up and buy a house in HPISD, a small district in the middle of dallas that is economically segregated from Dallas, and is #6 on the list of the best school districts in the US: Here are the 20 best school districts in the U.S.
All the kids are neighborhood kids that my kids can walk to, they walk to school, etc.
You'll be surprised when your kids start school how much your quality of life is affected by what school your kids go to, where that school is and where the kids that go to school with your kids live.
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Particularly smart compared to who, you? Think of all the things a Dr. has to have accomplished in order to be who he/she is, and what you have accomplished. Are you really talking down about doctors now?
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Peter Thiel is a martian. I'm pretty sure we can set aside billionaire tech industrialists as the exception that proves the rule.
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When I was a professional tutor at the community college for 4 years, a large amount of my students were CNAs. Most were dumb as fucking shit. These dumbshits took up slots on the waiting list for the actual nursing program, slots that could have gone to people who had already completed 1 or more AS degrees while sitting on the waiting list. These dumbshits would drop out 1-2 semesters into the nursing program because actual nursing is actually fucking hard.
This is why I said 'the process needs to be better.' I meant the waiting list process. I should have been more specific.