Obviously............

[Bob Wright]

On NBC News tonight, a film clip covered the teacher's strike in Oklahoma City. A view of protesting youth showed one young man holding a sign reading:

"My textbook is older than ME!"

Obviously he doesn't read them.


Bob Wright

 

[SAJohn]

 

[coach]

I believe ME is the correct usage as the object of the sentence. Could be wrong. The nuns used to make us diagram sentences but it was a long time ago.
On another clip I saw an older male teacher crying like a baby about salaries for teachers.

 

[Gator89]

Yep, everybody knows it should be "my textbook is older than I are".

 

[Bob Wright]

I believe ME is the correct usage as the object of the sentence. Could be wrong. The nuns used to make us diagram sentences but it was a long time ago.
On another clip I saw an older male teacher crying like a baby about salaries for teachers.

The test: "It is older than me am."

"It is older than I am."



Bob Wright

 

[coach]

I’ll give you I am.
Still think just me alone works.

 

[blackhawknj]

So what's wrong with old text books ? Probably better written and less full of PC nonsense. Of course, if you've spent your school time smoking dope and don't know how to read and write.....

 

[Pat-inCO]

The "teachers" want more money. Fine, we all do. How about they get paid
to performance? Is there anyone on the forum that has not heard multiple
"children" (many of them into their 50s) that have problems forming a
sentence . . . without . . . the word - - like - - in it?

These very same teachers forget that they have THREE MONTHS that
they are not expected to work, yet they get paid for that time. They get
a week off in the Fall and another in the Spring, "to handle lesson planning".
Humm . . . How many times do the lessons change EACH YEAR, while
they are teaching?

I FULLY AGREE that they should not need to be the person teaching
discipline to those brats, but even so, the job being done in inferior.

I'll just stop now, before I get too wound up. :shock:

 

[Skoopski]

I read something where they weren't happy with a $6,100 raise. I WISH I got a quarter of that in a raise...

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Yep, everybody knows it should be "my textbook is older than I are".

Or perhaps "my textbook are older than I is".

Or the current classic "my textbook be older than I be".

:wink: :wink: :wink:

 

[GP100]

Thy textbook... To read, or not to read.. This here be the question..

 

[redhawker]

Absent the grammar problem, nowadays having an old textbook might actually be an advantage. You are more likely to get accurate, truthful information from an older textbook instead of the indoctrinating lies they put out in current textbooks.

 

[welder]

Yep, everybody knows it should be "my textbook is older than I are".

Or perhaps "my textbook are older than I is".

Or the current classic "my textbook be older than I be".

:wink: :wink: :wink:

It's funny because it's true. :shock:

 

[blackhawknj]

Do they even HAVE textbooks anymore ? I thought everything was all digital, downloaded. Makes it easier for the Ministry of Truth to revise and update them.

 

[nvbirdman]

I read a Facebook post today from a teacher who said this would be her last year teaching. She had to fail half her class because they refused to do the work and turn in their assignments despite letters and phone calls to the parents. Now the parents will dump on her and also on the school administration. The administration will take the easy way out and not mention what a poor job of child raising the parents are doing, but instead will place all the blame on the teacher.
When the parents were growing up they were taught that nothing is their fault, and their children are being taught the same thing.

 

[blackhawknj]

How many of those kids have parents living off "disability"-or the dole ? How many of those kids are just "meal tickets" for the mother ?

 

[Pal Val]

Textbooks are big business. Publishers come up with small changes in order to market a "new edition". When I was teaching Spanish, I remember a student showing up with an old edition of the textbook. Before I said anything to him, he explained that he had looked at both the old and new editions, and found out the only difference was in the page numbering. The new edition had two extra pages in the first chapter, so he used the old book which he bought used, and simply added 2 to whatever page numbers I assigned. Give the guy a "A" for effort! BTW, he was one of my best students.

 

[caryc]

Yep, everybody knows it should be "my textbook is older than I are".

Or perhaps "my textbook are older than I is".

Or the current classic "my textbook be older than I be".

:wink: :wink: :wink:

Wow, I didn't know you spoke Ebonics. Was it hard to learn????

 

[nvbirdman]

Yep, everybody knows it should be "my textbook is older than I are".

Or perhaps "my textbook are older than I is".

Or the current classic "my textbook be older than I be".

:wink: :wink: :wink:

Wow, I didn't know you spoke Ebonics. Was it hard to learn????

Ebonics is reel eesy to lern. True dat.

 

[Colonialgirl]

My Dad taught school (MATH/Algebra)) in the Los Angles school district; He said the ONLY students he had NO problems with, Homework ALWAYS completed, and great scores on tests were his Oriental students; He said one time one of his top students explained that IF he got a BAD grade at school, he got a SORE butt at home and was restricted to studying at home.

Said one time a Hispanic girl turned in a test paper with "Mary, Mother of Jesus, Please HELP ME" Written at the top.. He said she was one that almost never did ANY homework. Said he also told her that God would more apt to "HELP" if she studied and did the homework.
He also got told he couldn't flunk ANY students, to just PASS them along.

 

[blackhawknj]

I recall one of the last time the Westinghouse Science Prizes -since discontinued-were handed out, it was noted the majority of winners had either Indian or East Asian names.
Many schools around here have had an influx of Indian students who have quickly become the preferred students. Strong family values, strong work ethos, firm belief in education.
As one parent put it to me, parents should meet with teachers to compare notes. He remembered that in the town he grew up in most of the teachers lived in town, parents and teachers often met informally. They could compare notes, if the kids were badmouthing their teachers to their parents and badmouthing their parents to their teachers....

 

[GP100]

Or perhaps "my textbook are older than I is".

Or the current classic "my textbook be older than I be".

:wink: :wink: :wink:

Wow, I didn't know you spoke Ebonics. Was it hard to learn????

Ebonics is reel eesy to lern. True dat.

WORD!

 

[Taterman]

Textbooks are big business. Publishers come up with small changes in order to market a "new edition". When I was teaching Spanish, I remember a student showing up with an old edition of the textbook. Before I said anything to him, he explained that he had looked at both the old and new editions, and found out the only difference was in the page numbering. The new edition had two extra pages in the first chapter, so he used the old book which he bought used, and simply added 2 to whatever page numbers I assigned. Give the guy a "A" for effort! BTW, he was one of my best students.

Somewhere along the way he must have learned common sense.

Ebonics is reel eesy to lern. True dat.

Fo shizzle.

 

[Dan in MI]

Still think just me alone works.

That's how it is on most of my jobs...... Sorry off subject.