515 - Too Cool For School and Too Lazy For Vice

[8:04 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Last night Mrs McGreen gave me a movie trivia game and i got stumped on a Steven Seagal question

[8:04 AM] 

Oh yes?

What was it?

[8:04 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

which movie did Steven seagal serve as the cook?

[8:04 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Under Siege

[8:04 AM] 

The Cook

Have to caps it

"the cook"  Guy who cooks

"The Cook" - Guy who kills everybody

[8:07 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

After im finished with this turkey im going to baste you, scumbag...with your own blood

[8:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The Simmer Man

[8:10 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

He makes his hairnets wear a ponytail

[8:14 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Steven Seagal is The Cook, in “Under Seasoned”

[8:14 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

lol

Fire Down Below the Grill

[8:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

[8:19 AM] 

"bat man" guy in charge of baseball bats at the game. 

"Batman" - Guy who beats the crap out of bad guys

[8:20 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

Batman. The hero who won't kill but will leave you crippled the rest of your life

[8:20 AM] 

ever see the short with Batman not actually knowing what death is?

[8:20 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

no

[8:20 AM] 

Penguin and Commissioner Gordon horrified to find out

(Sticks Baterang in thugs head)

Penguin - "AUGH!  Look!  Just like that!  What do you think happened to him???"

Batman - "Poor little guy...all tuckered out..."

[8:26 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

yeah i need to watch that now

[9:06 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

i don't think I'd ever take an IQ test, I'd likely be depressed by my score

"You are....*drumroll*...a little below average"

[9:08 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i took one in high school and it was 120, and another and it was 127

(Not sayin' any numbers, but I should have been an astrophysicist or something instead of this - Mr. Silver)

[9:08 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

so it seemed official

[9:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

You'd almost certainly be above average

[9:09 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

I'm borderline retarded at mathematics

literally

[9:10]

I'm smart enough to see what you did there...

[9:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

There are some real dumbasses out there, and you aren't one of them

of course there's also some question as to what IQ means, if anything

Possibly nothing

(but i like to think that's just something low IQ people say)

[9:10 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

what are questions like?  problem solving?

[9:11 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I had an IQ test in elementary school cause i was doing bad

They found out in 1st grade i was actually smart enough to be in 5th grade

I just don't pay attention

lol

[9:13 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

ive always been ahead in English classes

id need a refresher on grammar

(And capitalization, spelling, and punctuation...you have no idea how much I fix, and I declared I'm on light editing duty. Here...tell you what...I'll leave most of the rest of the stuff I didn't fix yet alone. – Mr. Silver)

[9:14 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I always seem to pick stuff up fast

[9:14 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

ive wondered lately if id be decent at writing

[9:14 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

just have to find my way to remember it and learn it

cause normally the way they are teaching it does not work for me

[9:14 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i don't think there's much grammar in IQ tests since that can be dependant on the language you're using. someone could be taking the test in their 3rd language

you might suck at english but be fluent in russian and mandarin

[9:15 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

also I think grammar is not always a sign of inttellegence

[9:15 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

it's usually like visual stuff like spotting patterns and trying to figure out what would come next in something

[9:15 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

there are some dumb people out there that can figure out grammar

lol

outside the box thinking tests

[9:16 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

“3, 5, 4, 6, 5, __  what number comes next?”

that sort of thing

[9:16 AM]

7

I still have math problems now.  I'm pretty convinced I'd test having dyscalculia.

[9:19 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

is that a form of vampirism

[9:20 AM] 

Given ample time I can figure out complex math.  World doesn't work on ample time.

[9:20 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

"BLAH, i am DYSCALCULIA!"

[9:21 AM] 

Silver Junior says he's terrible at it, but I've pushed him through stuff and he's easily better at a lot of it than I am now as a result.

[9:22 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

i thought Junior was bad so we called his teacher and they said he's very proficient.  apparently at homework he's very lazy and needs "help”.

[9:22 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

all kids are

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i hated homework and never did it

just on principle

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

My son is getting all good marks but fights homework

brain shuts off when you get home

[9:23 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

school day is 6 hours, plus 2 hours on the bus or waiting for the bus... i wanted time to myself

if they can't teach me what they need to in 6 hours, that's on them, not me

[9:23 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

homework isnt teaching, its practice

[9:24 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

practice of what?

[9:24 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

what you learned

[9:24 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

that's what tests are for

[9:24 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

no, tests are to show what you've retained and how good you became at it

[9:24 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

homework is to reinforce what you learned that day

[9:24 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

so it should be voluntary then

[9:25 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

i can see that

[9:26 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

All the smarties out there have learning disablilities

cause we look at the world diffrently

standards are not our forte

[9:27 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

problem is smarts don't equal creativity

[9:28 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Depends on the kind of smart

you can put 5 book smart people in a room

and put the outside the box thinker smart guy in there

and he will find a way out

[9:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

we didn't start getting homework until 5th or 6th grade

but it doesn't prepare you for anything, except maybe college, which most kids won't go to anyway

you don't get homework at a regular 9-5 job

[9:30 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

you mean you dont go home and practice your Katzenjammer Talking Points?

[9:30 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

so i'd be invested in school for 8 hours...that's half of my waking hours...then if 4-5 of my classes had homework...even if each could be completed in 15 minutes that's another hour+ of my own time to do someone else's work. Plus any chores or jobs i had to do

[9:32 AM] 

Right. It prepares you for a dismal future job experience.

[9:32 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

i was not prepared for this job. I shouldve done homework

[9:32 AM] 

“Congratulations! You've graduated from lowly hourly to prestigious salary!  Now you get to take stuff home and work another 4 hours "for free" to keep up!”

[9:33 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

My cousin is a teacher and she has to do work at home

[9:33 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

it's the same principle of work. countries with shorter work days (france, germany) find higher productivity per hour. And the opposite (japan) finds lower productivity per hour

Kids need to cram in their 6 hours they're in classes and go and be kids the rest of the day.

homework seems like a way to perpetuate inequality

if you have a good home life you're probably more likely to do homework.

if your house is F'd up (mine wasn't but still) you're not going to be able to get the work done

maybe you have to go home and work on the farm or you're poor and you need a part time job

i don't doubt there's kids that just pass their homework off to their parent or sibling to do it for them, too

[9:36 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

or are 15 with a drinking problem because youre severely depressed and your parents dont care

[9:36 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

was that you?

[9:37 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

mayyyyybe

>.>

[9:37 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

if i have kids i'll just do their homework for them. it doesn't matter.  most of what you learn is not needed or ends up being BS anyway. like 1% of what you learn in school is actually ever applied in the real world

[9:38]

And yet...If any of us were forced to live among those lacking a foundational education...

[9:17 AM] 

(Commercial...photogenic man who looks like he's never even held a cigarette and a 4 MO baby) "I tried hard to quit smoking."

("Sure ya did.")

"But once we brought our daughter home...that was it."

("Like millions of Americans, I tried the Smoking-Out-On-The-Porch method")

[9:18 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

lol

i quit cold turkey for like a year and the cravings didnt even get me, i just wanted to smoke again

[9:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i'm too lazy to get addicted to anything

[9:19 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

just dont really want to quit

[9:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

stopping at a store to pick up booze or cigarettes? Not for me

[9:19 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

lol

the liquor store guys know me

[9:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

"The usual, Mr. McGreen?"

[9:21 AM]  Mr. McGreen: 

i gotta switch back to liqour. Beer is killing my guts