You teach?
Interesting.
I think our ham buddy here is asking me, the OP.
Yes I teach. Have been an adjunct college professor for close to 20 years. I've taught thousands of studnets and won many awards. Not that that means anything. I think the real proof on my success as an professor is my students are very well trained, (they know there shit), and get jobs. Or if they are failing/flunking out they thank me for being an excellet teachiner becuase I made them realize this is not what they want to do in life.
Hope that answers your question.
Well, I had assumed that US high school industrial arts / electronics elective teachers nowadays would have a little better attention to detail is all; like they did 30-some years ago when I was there. Considering all the typos and lack of understanding the difference between "may be exposed to" and "will be constantly exposed to" is what made me wonder, but then you write that you are a college adjunct professor. This makes it very clear. Thanks!
And congratulations on your stud nets.
Never said I was a high school or industrial arts / electronics elective teachers. But I udnerstnad the confusion. I am a college profesor who is teaching a college class to a gifted group of high school students at the high school. It is not a high school class, it's a college class being taught at the high school.
But in America we can't call anyone in high school anymore gifted or teach classes for gifted studnets. So to be politiclaay correct the colleges are contracted to teach college classes to the gifted highschool students through a dual enrollment program.
Make sense now?
Let me tell you these kids are smart. Very smart. I have one thriteen year old who is incredibly smart. Lucky for me I know things he hasn't learned yet.
As for America's education system it is badly broken. I was just on a professor improvemetn confence call this morning telling us we nned to be more effective in our teaching by using more vidoes, vitural teaching aids and automated online quizes. Stupidest thing ever. I get students who have been taught in virual enviroments how to use a screw drive and vituraly solder wires together.
Let me ask you... Would you hire a guy who doen't know how to use a screw driver and learned how to solder and use a VOM meter virutaly?
Crud cheap VOMs are $10 on eBay. Instead we pay $250 per student so they can learn virtually.
Sorry for the rant, but these kids are going crazy in our schools. We are taking all of the fun in learning. I remember in my high school we had auto, metal, wood, and electronics shops. Over a decande ago they ripped all of that equipment out and turned the shops into classrooms.
The joy we had in high school metal shop of making something we could be proud of. All that is gone. Kids today have to be proud of making things in a virtual environemnt.
My worst nightmare is getting into an auto accident and waking up in a hospital only to find the person treating me was someone I flunked.