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RBBailey

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Good news. Over night the State reversed its trend to not allow on line teaching, grading and such for fear that a few would be left out. At 9:00 PM they finally released their final directives, and said that every effort should be made to reach and teach, grade, and even take attendance. Plans should be in place and rolling within the next two weeks. I'm very glad for this. Partly because I'm a parent of two high school kids, partly because I'm a teacher who actually wants to teach important things, and partly because I hated the idea of dumbing it all down just because we were afraid of missing a few. Also, whatever I share, make, teach is now for a reason. I was being told to dig up daily stuff for my students to do on their own, without the expectation of grading or even discussing the stuff.... So, good on Oregon for taking the right steps here.
 

javelinadave

Administrator
Staff member
On a lighter note:

A suspected Covid-19 male patient is lying in bed in the hospital, wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. A young student female nurse appears and gives him a partial sponge bath.
"Nurse,"' he mumbles from behind the mask, "are my testicles black?"
Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, "I don't know, Sir. I'm only here to wash your upper body and feet."
He struggles to ask again, "Nurse, please check for me. Are my testicles black?"
Concerned that he might elevate his blood pressure and heart rate from worrying about his testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and pulls back the covers.
She raises his gown, holds his manhood in one hand and his testicles gently in the other.
She looks very closely and says, "There's nothing wrong with them, Sir. They look fine."
The man slowly pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her, and says very slowly, "Thank you very much. That was wonderful. Now listen very, very, closely:


"Are - my - test - results - back?"
 

FlyersFan76

Well-known member
On a lighter note:

A suspected Covid-19 male patient is lying in bed in the hospital, wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth and nose. A young student female nurse appears and gives him a partial sponge bath.
"Nurse,"' he mumbles from behind the mask, "are my testicles black?"
Embarrassed, the young nurse replies, "I don't know, Sir. I'm only here to wash your upper body and feet."
He struggles to ask again, "Nurse, please check for me. Are my testicles black?"
Concerned that he might elevate his blood pressure and heart rate from worrying about his testicles, she overcomes her embarrassment and pulls back the covers.
She raises his gown, holds his manhood in one hand and his testicles gently in the other.
She looks very closely and says, "There's nothing wrong with them, Sir. They look fine."
The man slowly pulls off his oxygen mask, smiles at her, and says very slowly, "Thank you very much. That was wonderful. Now listen very, very, closely:


"Are - my - test - results - back?"

Nurse now they are blue, finish what you started.
 

javelinadave

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hillstrubl

Founding Member
Moved our daughter out of the freshman dorm at college earlier this month.
She is taking her school of engineering classes on-line.
It will be interesting to learn what happens to tuition fees.
If someone can get a good education on-line, then will brick and mortar universities become a thing of the past?

I have very mixed feelings about this, I normally very much support doing anything online that can be done that way, but I still just don't see it being a valid replacement based on a few things. What I went through in my higher-level education drove an innate sense of huge gaps in what I later saw when hiring candidates with the bulk (or all) of their post high school education completed online. Facts can be taught, but the relationship side is what is missing. There is a huge difference between seemingly identical candidates. My job is officially 100% done through remote means (email/phone/vid-conf/etc), but if I actually worked 100% remote, success would diminish. Face-to-face is needed to both teach interactivity (even in Engineering, my undergrad degree) but also how to communicate effectively.

The other side of my thoughts on this is the trainwreck that our brick and mortar formal education has become. Attempting to not get politicalish, but even in the ~15 years that I have been out of college, when I visit my alma mater, its a VASTLY different place (same for where I went to grad school). A place where smiles are compulsory (see asterisk later), funding drives 125% of any endeavor (as opposed to just 100%) and the system would rather castigate any rumor first, in order to save face, before treating their customers students as humans* that were previously accepted though a vigorous vetting process. (*happy to elaborate through DM's)

I understand at this point there's no choice.

sorry for the rant.
 
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RDavisinVA

Technical Excellence Contributor
I think your "rant" is pretty much, spot, on.
The other thing that happens, at least in the universities of a blue state, is that the students are taught what to think instead of how to think.
This is also driven home during the on-line classes.
Am of the opinion that the political doctrine of a good professor, should never be revealed to their students and when it is: it goes a long way to brain-wash young minds trying to absorb information.
The same thing is happening in all grades in public education in blue states.
This is one of the reasons the school education vouchers were opposed by liberal democrats, because it would broaden the options for parents who don't want their children brain washed with a particular ideology and loosen the liberal education hold on most students who's parents are not liberals.
 
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