Thursday, October 18, 2018

How about teaching your SUBJECT? - The College Fix

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"This past week, a Los Angeles area math teacher took to Twitter to ask advice on how to best explain to his students how Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed as a US Supreme Court justice.
“I’m a teacher and when Trump was elected, students were crying at my school, Nicholas Ponticello wrote
“I didn’t know what to say then, and I don’t know what to say now that Kavanaugh has been confirmed. 
What do you tell a bunch of young hopefuls when the world cheats them of their futures? 
Please help!”
It doesn’t seem the futures of Ponticello’s charges are in that much jeopardy; according to his Amazon.com bio he teaches math and coordinates the STEAM program at Flintridge Preparatory School, a private grade 7-12 school in La CaƱada between LA and Pasadena. 
Tuition: $36,000 per year.
As reported by The 74, UC-Berkeley graduate Ponticello said that he feels “civics is the No. 1 most important thing we can teach our students” … which is quite interesting since he’s supposed to be teaching … math..."
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