Pro Stock at St. Louis

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

It's the only pro class remotely interesting.At least they look like real cars.
Ed,you should see the East coast indoctrination system at work.Some of these
kids couldn't add 2+2 without a calculator and a guidance counselor.

I did two presentations to a local high school shop class, one with a dirt track car, one with an ET drag car and was told by the shop teacher at the end that it would have been better if I didn't use multiplication and division it it. I asked him how he thought they were going to get jobs if they couldn't do simple multiplication and division. Not sure what was worse, that the school and staff didn't seem to care and treated these kids as expendable or that they were getting paid near 6 figure salaries and didn't care...

[david ring]

Originally Posted by Bobby DiDomenico

I did two presentations to a local high school shop class, one with a dirt track car, one with an ET drag car and was told by the shop teacher at the end that it would have been better if I didn't use multiplication and division it it. I asked him how he thought they were going to get jobs if they couldn't do simple multiplication and division. Not sure what was worse, that the school and staff didn't seem to care and treated these kids as expendable or that they were getting paid near 6 figure salaries and didn't care...

Bobby,

You are right about the attitude of too many teachers-they don't care about the kids who are not going to college and even some of those who are. Of course your son Franklin is becoming an endangered species-someone who did graduate work in engineering who is not an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. Funny how the only other kid I know who has done that is the son of a drag racer too.

America needs immigrants to do things that Americans consider too dirty or too hard, like picking fruit, cleaning hotel rooms, studying math, studying physics, and studying engineering.

[Ed Wright]

Heck, they can't even count your change back at whatever summer job they have if the computer is down.

[Crew Chief]

Speaking of students that cannot do math, a friend of mine took early retirement from teaching. The school board threatened to fire him because he was flunking too many students and he was making the local school system look bad. He is thinking about writing a book exposing the system. I told him he had better watch his back!

[Ed Wright]

I have a niece that is a 4th grade teacher. I asked her why can't kids even make change after graduating high school? She says that is not what they are told to teach them. I told her she should teach that anyway, counting change back is so stinking basic and easy, they should be taught that. You would think it is so easy they would not have to be taught to do that. Sure screws most of them up if you drag out some change after they have typed in the numbers for the bills you handed them.

Parents don't want them flunking their kids, no matter how dumb they are. Just pass them on for the next teacher to deal with.

[david ring]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Parents don't want them flunking their kids, no matter how dumb they are.

This is often the problem-we like to blame schools for the problems kids have, but a lot of the time it is as much the fault of the parents as it is of the students. When I was a kid, it used to piss me off that my parents made me spend so much time reading and studying when other kids were out playing. Now that I have a great job that requires me to read and study all the time, I'm not as pissed off at them as I was as a kid. I guess they knew what they were doing.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by david ring

This is often the problem-we like to blame schools for the problems kids have, but a lot of the time it is as much the fault of the parents as it is of the students. When I was a kid, it used to piss me off that my parents made me spend so much time reading and studying when other kids were out playing. Now that I have a great job that requires me to read and study all the time, I'm not as pissed off at them as I was as a kid. I guess they knew what they were doing.

Yeah, mine kept getting smarter and smarter after I passed about 30/35 years of age.