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.
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.
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.
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.