That's what you get when borders are a free for all, when few people speak the official language and when companies hire the lowest bidder.
Fun fact: here in Germany they are currently discussing dropping a bunch of subjects from elementary school and pushing more German classes because children are barely able to speak German anymore.
At the same time they have lowered language requirements for government jobs (like cops) and are even discussing dropping German requirements for immigrants and adding additional official languages to immigration offices.
The West is fucked in its quest to cater to the dumbest people in the whole world.
Speaking of which, I hit the wrong button on my controller and came across the most absurd PBS kids teaching program where a teacher was trying to teach basic arithmetic while doing jumping jacks and squats.
IE "Is 4x4=18 true? No, it's false!" And she proceeds to do squats on camera. Utterly bizarre.
I assume kids were supposed to follow along, and that the entire thing was based on some idiotic notion that adding in exercises would somehow help promote the learning process for individuals who learn... math better that way? Frankly I don't get it.
Well it didn't show any kids, it was one of those kind of education programs a teacher in an IRL classroom setting would just turn on and have the students watch or follow along with.
The "teacher" I was describing in my previous comment was the instructor in the video itself, performing the exercises while teaching arithmetic. It's really tough to describe, and unfortunately, I've not had any luck trying to dig up any similar videos online.
Closest search results I can find are called "Math Facts to Jumping Jacks". Which somehow aren't nearly as cringe as what I saw.
There are some studies that indicate incorporating a physical aspect to learning that allows it to stick in with people who have difficulty just sitting in a desk being lectured at. Which isn't too out there, the best way to learn the rules of a sport is to play it and you can translate a lot of that to most types of learning. Additionally there isn't anything wrong with getting kids to practice basic aerobic exercise so that they can do so in the future without the complaint of. "Well no one taught me how to do a push up or squat."
Oh I pretty much figured that's what the conceptual basis was centered on, it was mostly the execution and application in this instance that struck me as so totally bizarre and cringe.
I always found it funny that the bleak future where everyone was poor was full of Latinos. They probably thought that it would show how oppressed Latinos are, but in reality it just shows how the future will go to shit when the majority of the population is Latino.
At the same time they have lowered language requirements for government jobs
This is always amusing and infuriating, as the near eradication of Cajun French as a language happened because the government mandated "English is the official language, so its the only one spoken at government workplaces" and suddenly every kid had to know English so it forced the choice onto parents just enough that less and less people learned it and its nearly dead now.
That's what you get when borders are a free for all, when few people speak the official language and when companies hire the lowest bidder.
Fun fact: here in Germany they are currently discussing dropping a bunch of subjects from elementary school and pushing more German classes because children are barely able to speak German anymore.
At the same time they have lowered language requirements for government jobs (like cops) and are even discussing dropping German requirements for immigrants and adding additional official languages to immigration offices.
The West is fucked in its quest to cater to the dumbest people in the whole world.
Speaking of which, I hit the wrong button on my controller and came across the most absurd PBS kids teaching program where a teacher was trying to teach basic arithmetic while doing jumping jacks and squats.
IE "Is 4x4=18 true? No, it's false!" And she proceeds to do squats on camera. Utterly bizarre.
I assume kids were supposed to follow along, and that the entire thing was based on some idiotic notion that adding in exercises would somehow help promote the learning process for individuals who learn... math better that way? Frankly I don't get it.
Were the kids exercising as well? If not, then I don't know what the hell the teacher was trying to do.
Well it didn't show any kids, it was one of those kind of education programs a teacher in an IRL classroom setting would just turn on and have the students watch or follow along with.
The "teacher" I was describing in my previous comment was the instructor in the video itself, performing the exercises while teaching arithmetic. It's really tough to describe, and unfortunately, I've not had any luck trying to dig up any similar videos online.
Closest search results I can find are called "Math Facts to Jumping Jacks". Which somehow aren't nearly as cringe as what I saw.
There are some studies that indicate incorporating a physical aspect to learning that allows it to stick in with people who have difficulty just sitting in a desk being lectured at. Which isn't too out there, the best way to learn the rules of a sport is to play it and you can translate a lot of that to most types of learning. Additionally there isn't anything wrong with getting kids to practice basic aerobic exercise so that they can do so in the future without the complaint of. "Well no one taught me how to do a push up or squat."
Oh I pretty much figured that's what the conceptual basis was centered on, it was mostly the execution and application in this instance that struck me as so totally bizarre and cringe.
We are at the point where having those robots out of Elysium might be the only way to save humanity
I'd rather have this on the streets than our current predicament.
Those robots are obviously racist against bald white men.
I always found it funny that the bleak future where everyone was poor was full of Latinos. They probably thought that it would show how oppressed Latinos are, but in reality it just shows how the future will go to shit when the majority of the population is Latino.
This is always amusing and infuriating, as the near eradication of Cajun French as a language happened because the government mandated "English is the official language, so its the only one spoken at government workplaces" and suddenly every kid had to know English so it forced the choice onto parents just enough that less and less people learned it and its nearly dead now.
Should've eradicated Cajuns
We called the coonass for a reason, because like the ignoble coon we will find a way to scrounge back alive and thriving.
What language are they speaking? English?
Children in Germany? Mostly Turkish and Arabic, to a lesser extent a bunch of south eastern European and African languages.
English is actually one of the classes they're planning to drop in elementary school.
It's not just children though. If you go to a supermarket and listen to people, almost nobody speaks German anymore.