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I had someone on my dorm floor in college tell me that they were terrible at math, but it didn't matter because they were going into elementary education.
by dunham 2y ago
I had someone on my dorm floor in college tell me that they were terrible at math, but it didn't matter because they were going into elementary education.
- kstrauser 2y agoI worked at a motel during college. One of my coworkers was an elementary ed major. One of her class's homework was making a basic addition worksheet targeted at, I dunno, maybe 1st graders. It was a page of things like "3 + 5 =" and "4 + 2 =". She asked me to proofread it. I looked at it for the 10 seconds it took to scan a page of single-digit addition questions and told her it was fine. She was indignant that I "wasn't taking it seriously". "What do you mean? I proofread it for you." "You couldn't have even looked! No one can do math that quickly!" Uhhh... That was far from the only interaction we had like that. It wasn't a one-time mental fog. I dreaded the fact that one day she'd be teaching our kids. (This doesn't reflect my general opinion of elementary ed teachers. It's horrid that this lady could have made it as far as being a senior in college. The school was doing her, and her future students, a huge disservice.)
- BeFlatXIII 2y agoMy general experience with elementary ed classmates in college matches yours (but not my memories of my actual elementary teachers). Students studying to teach other grades may be over specialized, biased, or vindictive, but being a brainless airhead who was "good with kids" was an elementary ed specialty.