Curling ???? No medals

[Oliver88]

If you've ever curled much you know that's just how curling goes. Curling Gods are the cruelest. Because curling is 99% mental, it doesn't take much of the wrong thinking or negative reaction to pressure throw you off just a bit.

With Rach, she could have been pulled early. Jennifer Jones was there. Kaitlyn Lawes was there. Cheryl Bernard and Colleen Jones could have jumped up, instant team.

The middle of Koe's team seemed to leave him a lot of tough shots. But it's curling. It happens. New tee shirts should read, "curling happens".

Curling in the US though? Ha.my ND neighbours 12 miles straight south of me have played and beat John Shuster lots, as well as beating Pete Fenson. Nowadays they come here to Killarney to curl as the curling clubs down there are all closed or closing.

The irony was that not many gave Kaitlyn and Johnny Mo a chance because of mixed doubles inexperience coupled with John's type A personality. But, they won and the favourites failed.

A lesson for next time.

You make some excellent points.
It was shame that Rachel didn't take advantage of Cheryl Bernard being the spare.

[malleefarmer]

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New take on curling

[4GFarms]

Forage, if you think today's cirruculam teachs kids how to understand poat secondary you better keep trying to get that Art's degree. When I went from high school to university over a decade ago it was an eye opener. High schools do not teach the kids anything that is needed for the real world. There should be more money management courses and other courses relavent to the real world (i.e: trade type class and life decision classes). Too much of this lets just push the kids through and let the real world eat them up.

[4GFarms]

To reply to the actual thread topic. Canada just shit the bed. It happens.

[15444]

!5444 Why stop at sports get rid of music, art and PhyEd in schools as well . I guess they should have less activities than prisons, makes sense.

I didn't stop at sports, that was just the focus of the discussion. Absolutely get rid of art and music! The whole system needs a massive overhaul. A big step would be following the Scandinavian model where children are segregated based on their actual intelligence, none of this everyone is special and a winner shit. In that system, a kid that can barely read in 8th grade is not allowed to be in the same class as those in the upper 10% of the grade. He is groomed to a labourer position, no wasting extra teaching resources on a kid that will never be an engineer or Doctor. Kids are closely followed the first 10 years of their life and decisions are made as to what sector of society they will excel in. The Swiss, from what I understand, have a very similar system.

I have 2 nephews, they turn 15 and 11 this year. 15 year old can barely form a sentence, struggles with basic math (2+2 does not always equal 4) the other one is 'gifted' if I have even met such a child, he can continue a rather decent conversation with an adult. Rather than being lumped together in their education, they should have been segregated. The 15 year old should no longer be in school beyond grade 8 (he will fail all of his secondary classes and be passed just to shift him through the system) and the 11 year old should skip elementary and be taught at a secondary level. Their father is a teacher and their aunt is also a teacher in their school (I have about 10 teachers in the family) and they agree with such recommendations. The other difference between the two kids, the older one will work like a mule (loves manual labor) and the smart one is one of the laziest kids I know - manual labor is for stupid people who don't make enough money to hire it done (he is an excellent capitalist - for which I am very proud - better than his father who is a big Trudeau fan - even more so than ones on here).

[foragefarmer]

Yes, my kids are homeschooled. Is that a problem?

"I am so glad my kids school is armed to the teeth, and that all the students in our school, know and respect guns, and know how to use them."


No I see nothing wrong with, seems very normal to me along with the Bible Camp!


4gfarms

I have two children who went through public school and went on to get a Master Degree in Science and the second with a degree in Business. Both have excellent jobs, if they come back to the farm it's up in the air right now. If the parents are involved and take interest in their children's education, public schools are excellent. There were many other parents with the same goals for their children as ours. They both played organized sports as well throughout public school and made many good friends in their school. They assimilate well in University as it's a big world out there.

Not sure what you talking about Art Degrees is that the choice your children made?

[4GFarms]

Forage,

I am reffering to the fact that anybody with an arts degree cannot find a job and are typically the ones that are protesting. Garbage university classes for those degrees.
My kids are under 10 yoa so they are nowhere near university.
You ask your kids the next time you talk to them an see if they were prepared when they first went to university. And let me know what they say. Typically takes between 2-3 years to fully get a grasp on the university model on how to study and manage the work load. I was a close to 90% average high school student and university really opened my eyes.

[bucket]

They should eliminate an arts degree and replace all those seats with more in other colleges like medicine or engineering, education.

What good is an arts degree?

[blackpowder]

I think peoplekind would be worse off without Socrates or Shakespeare or DaVinci.
False expectations might not be the subject matters' fault.

[foragefarmer]

4g

"You ask your kids the next time you talk to them an see if they were prepared when they first went to university. And let me know what they say. Typically takes between 2-3 years to fully get a grasp on the university model on how to study and manage the work load. I was a close to 90% average high school student and university really opened my eyes. "

I don't need to ask them I know the answer, it was fairly easy for the one in Science, but for the one Business it was difficult no two ways about it. It was time to toughen up. But high school and University are two different animals. In high school they are teaching the masses if you were to model it like University their would be more drop outs before getting their grade 12 diploma. In University your on your own and the onus is on you the student to ensure you keep up and study on your own. In other words it's time to grow up and prepare yourself for the real world.


As a parent you must be involved in your children's education in the school years, teachers are there to teach 8:30 to 3:30 the rest of the time it's parents responsibility to educate after that. Public education has many hard working teachers who are dedicated to their job, maybe the parents who do the complaining should look in the mirror before criticizing teachers. My two children were told at an early age that after high school your going to post secondary. It wasn't debatable.

You do your part as parents and your children will do fine in public school, I speak from experience.