poll: who's going to win?

[franksolich]

The above are primitives on the ballot, but who haven't made top primitives #20-02.

There's one primitive left, the TOP DUmmie OF 2010.

We're having a lot of snow and sub-zero temperatures up here on the roof of Nebraska right now (almost 9:00 a.m. central time, 8:00 a.m. mountain time).  I had hoped to post the TOP DUmmie OF 2010 about noon central time today, New Year's Eve, but it might be a few hours after that.

(At any rate it will be sometime today.)

I have to go and help round up some cattle, getting the beasts into covered areas.

And so until that happens, I'm curious.

Which primitive does one think won the TOP DUmmie OF 2010?

[BlueStateSaint]

Stupid Anne, aka Proud2BLibKansan.

[Chris_]

Stupid Anne, aka Proud2BLibKansan.

Now that you mention it, it's not really a surprise.

[BlueStateSaint]

Now that you mention it, it's not really a surprise.

I think that it's the sheer volume of stupidity, rather than any one event, that wins it for her.

[whiffleball]

I hope it's not P2BL, but it probably will be.

[Carl]

I think that it's the sheer volume of stupidity, rather than any one event, that wins it for her.

She was my choice and that was cemented the thread she was cheering on a person bragging about vandalizing book covers in a store.

She is the epitome of a useless piece of shit that only liberalism and a public payroll can let exist.

[NHSparky]

But as with past winners, the volume and density of the stupid becomes so great they collapse in upon themselves.

[GOBUCKS]

I expect it's Proud2BDUmb Anne, but that's a little disappointing. If she wins, it's due to her sheer volume of stupidity, not a few outstanding, jaw-dropping, stupendously stupid efforts. I can hardly recall a single P2BDUmb post, but remember swarms of routinely ignorant rants. I prefer the shooting stars, like our all-time champ TiTtyboy. And don't forget the remarkable laundry  mat and air  port events from Pam and Twix. Or poor, stupid Beth's dispatches from the wilderness, explaining how her dope dealer convict son was reorganizing his prison and was depended upon by management to help run the place. Or the plagiarizing WeeWillie's memorable conversations with Ty the bouncer. P2BDUmb Anne isn't an undeserving Top DUmmy, but she's really, really boring compared to the DUmp stars.

[Randy]

But as with past winners, the volume and density of the stupid becomes so great they collapse in upon themselves.

That's always the best part of the DUmmie of the Year, the meltdown.

[Ballygrl]

I voted that P2BL will probably win but it's so sad because there are so many names on that list that deserve to be in the top 20, but since history was made this year and we had an entire group nominated (The Bog) then maybe next time we can nominate the entire DU board as top primitive.

[DefiantSix]

I think that NancyGreggs has been so consistently, unfailingly DUmbshit stupid for so much of the past year, that she may just give P2BL a run for her money, despite the P2BL DUmbshit's name recognition advantage.

[DumbAss Tanker]

But as with past winners, the volume and density of the stupid becomes so great they collapse in upon themselves.

I was thinking that I wished they would all collapse in from it en masse, but then I realized such a singularity of stupid could be so powerful that it would kill us all.

[formerlurker]

She was my choice and that was cemented the thread she was cheering on a person bragging about vandalizing book covers in a store.

She is the epitome of a useless piece of shit that only liberalism and a public payroll can let exist.

She is a vile human being who deserves the win for sure.    That said,  I can see Redstone or PCIntern taking the honor this year.

[GOBUCKS]

Here is p2BDUmb Anne's first post after ascending the Top DUmmy throne, a straight copy-and-paste job from Huffpost, possibly hoping other DUmmies won't notice the link and think she wrote it. This is drek we'd expect from a numbskull like DUmmy kpete, but not at all worthy of the DUmmy of the Year. Let's hope that her new celebrity doesn't cause p2BDUmb Anne to tone down her shrill hatred of everything and everyone.

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Fri Dec-31-10 03:40 PM
Original message
Teach For America's 'Highly Qualified' Is Highly Misleading
   
Seven years ago, when I began teaching high school in the Bronx as a NYC Teaching Fellow, I had every expectation of being the next Socrates. I had just completed a rigorous summer training program that I naïvely assumed would give me all the skills I needed to connect with my young charges and open their minds to the lyricism of Robert Frost's poetry or the pathos of Shakespearean tragedy. Through my determination, tenacity, and love of learning, I would not only ensure that my students passed their Regents exams; I would teach them to love English, and by extension, to take the whole of their studies more seriously.

The students had other ideas. My most vivid memory of those first two years involves a group of kids known by their teachers as the "sunshine class." (The kids traveled in blocks, so several teachers had the same group at different points during the day.) That season, the cafeteria served little bags of baby carrots to the students during lunch; two periods later, those same baby carrots -- carefully pocketed, instead of eaten -- would be launched at the back of my head whenever I turned to write on the board. No amount of yelling, threatening, or pleading ceased the onslaught; I was unable to turn around fast enough to catch the culprits, and the kids knew it.

They might have been throwing vegetables because my lessons sucked. Looking back at the journal entries I wrote at the time, it is quite apparent to me that despite the intensity of my summer program and the classes I was taking at night, I had no idea what I was doing. In one entry, I describe having the students draw pictures to illustrate scenes from To Kill a Mockingbird -- to what end, I haven't a clue. In another journal entry, I pat myself on the back for the high scores my students received on a test -- one that, when I unearthed it from a folder several years later, I found to contain purely factual questions, requiring no deeper analysis whatsoever. I'm not sure why I thought it was important to test the students on the ages of the characters in Walter Dean Myers' YA book Monster; these days, I'd be much more concerned with their analysis of the moral gray area presented by the book's protagonist.

When I think back on these things, I cringe. Not only did I not become the next Socrates, a paradoxical thing happened -- the longer I stayed in teaching, the more I realized how much I didn't know. As the months and years passed, I learned that teaching is one of those evolving skills without any real end; you're always learning how to do things better. I could never have known early on how lousy I really was. Maybe that's for the best, or else I'd have been too demoralized to stay put. In retrospect, I realize I hit my stride around the end of my second year. It was only at that point that I'd accumulated a body of useful teaching materials, gained the confidence to manage a classroom of rowdy teens, and most importantly -- through trial, error, and watching more seasoned teachers -- developed some sense of what good pedagogy entailed. None of these were things I could have been taught in any training program; they were gains I could only have made through experience.

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