Perhaps this chode needs to stick her finger in someone’s butt hole then smell her finger. That would probably help her pass as a stink finger is like meth.
Yeah, not going to waste my time typing anything intelligent or funny as it seems that any kind of ramblings result in “win” replys or numptys defending the rubbish that people type.
This is of course only after you yourself have eating the defication out of the litter box of the household and bathed yourself in their urine right monkey face?
What’s the problem with a grammar nazi? I love how it’s gotten to the point where people make fun of other people for knowing grammar. Yeah, go ahead and make fun of me for knowing grammar, but at least I know how to write properly.
Iddeiotte ackktualley…goegal “Drongo” annede meee lasstes nammes stiell shurelocckes…thee bitty weer ittes seyyes MEE issa clue’es….butte asayu ex miallitaries youse issa fouregievvan’es…u noes noo butter..
I get annoyed when people mix up your and you’re but alot of people on here are quite snobby when it comes to grammar, alot of them are pretty rude to others who make mistakes, like they’re(their?) better than them…that annoys me, if they spell things like before – b4, you – u and and – nd, then they’re most likely trying don’t ‘bully’ them. Oh and since this is a rant I know you’l all correct all my mistakes for me
Yeah, because why should you be able to read about foreign landmarks if you’re going to teach children? Shouldn’t we be teaching them that there’s nothing interesting or useful outside of the United States?
It’s called knowing about the world, and the other countries that sorround the U.S. The U.S., after all, is not the only country in the whole planet earth. Geez, no wonder why the U.S. is falling behind.
Actually, there are more interesting and useful things outside the U.S.
Actually, the examples used on the test have nothing to do with teaching people about the world. They are selected as non-controversial topics for the sole purpose of testing reading comprehension. The test isn’t teaching a topic; it is testing an ability.
Too bad the US isn’t falling behind anyone, but this is a myth perpetuated by idiots who are more ignorant than the Americans they like to rag on.
Shows that you’re pretty desperate when you have to create a large political conclusion about the US “falling behind” because of a submission on failblog that could very well be fake.
Uh. American disagreeing here! When I was in college, I used to help grade papers for my English professors, and believe me: we’re falling behind. Oh, how very far behind we are falling. Most of my classmates couldn’t even form logical sentences, much less use remotely proper punctuation. Not to mention that they were writing formal papers, but were still using slang and NETSPEAK. They had never been corrected in school. Ever. Just glided right through.
In fact, the high school kids I work with now have told me it’s near impossible to be held back. Almost no one fails, no matter how clueless they are. Basically, all the school district really cares about is whether or not their kids can pass the state subject tests.
Oh, and all that said… this school district I’ve mentioned? Is supposed to be one of the top in the country.
The complaint usually isn’t that knowing foreign landmarks is not useful: The complaint is that learning foreign landmarks is often taught in the place of knowing about one’s own country.
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but the USA is large enough that it could fit several average-sized countries inside it. There’s plenty to know about the USA, which is a fact lost on latte-sipping eurotrash who once saw “sex in the city” and now believe they have the entire country figured out.
“The average land area of a country, based on the land area comprising the earth is approximately 767,731 square kilometers (296,422 square miles) – slightly smaller than Turkey but much larger than Chile or Zambia.”
I appreciate the sentiment, but the real fail is probably that if it was a reading and writing test, iI expect it was to do with interpreting source material.
i undersand brown problem cause the test suppose to be about read and writeing brown would be good teaching. i got my teach certificat this years and it wasnt to bad.
I suspect the submitter was trying to point out her lack of capitalization and poor grammar. I am about to receive my PhD and on Facebook I generally tend to ignore capitalization… not grammar though… Her point is valid though. Even with my advanced degree which is in Physics it would still be difficult for me to get a highschool teaching job in many states due to the fact that I do not have a teaching degree. Some states won’t even consider me. I am qualified to teach and do teach college level physics but I can not go teach the same level of physics in an AP class at the local highschool…… I highly doubt brown is that qualified though,
Haha, for someone who is about to “receive a PhD”, you really do know how to jump the conclusions. “She”? Like a She would say chocolate is a stupid topic o_O
Eh you are right. That was a pretty stupid assumption. Its not a bad assumption given that according to UNICEF statistics 88.6% of primary school and 62.5% of secondary school teachers are female.
You “suspect” that’s what the submitter was trying to point out? What subtle and arcane clues led you to that conclusion? I’m glad you cleared up the ambiguity for everyone here.
And for someone who supposedly doesn’t ignore grammar, your mangled punctuation is atrocious.
See, what everybody is missing here is that OP was expecting the test to include reading about reading (metareading) and writing about writing (metawriting), and OP is actually using a highly advanced version of English from the future that doesn’t involve capitalization and a new and improved method of spelling (because that is the future of language, thanks to the internet). OP is actually highly intelligent, advanced and absolutely capable of teaching.
I guess the original poster can’t get a clue why he/she did not pass the test. Sure, blame it on the international studies questions, the poster spells every other word incorrectly, even in all of the replies.
The “maybe it’s the spelling errors” theory was even corroborated by the PhD candidate above, so we’re golden. Whew, I don’t know how we’d manage to understand this site otherwise without these highly-trained personnel here to interpret events for us.
That’s the only reason I’m in the comments section, to get some clarification on WTH is going on here by a pseudodoctor with a fondness for run-on sentences.
I swear, without all these hyper-inflated personalities on the TV and interwebz there to explain this kind of stuff to us idjits, we would be screwed big time.
Its OVER stupid topics? How the hell do i know that that’s not right, and i’m not a native speaker. It even sounds like literally translated Dutch. We, the dutch make those mistakes because “OVER” actually means “ABOUT” here.
lol, amazing.
It does in “american” too…. you’d be surprised. And consider this: you can say “it’s ABOUT 3 o’clock”
My advise as of foreigner to a foreigner – do not ( ever ever) ( ever!) try to find linguistic logic in english. especially american english. it will do things to you.
I think you’ll find it’s the same way in most languages’ idiomatic expressions.
“Over” as “about” is actually logical, if nonstandard. A test might be said to “cover” certain topics (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cover def. 19); therefore it’s also “over” them.
Gotta admit, at least Massachusetts has it figured out by preventing Brown from corrupting children. Kudos to them.
I had a teacher who made spelling/grammar tests with deliberate errors for us to catch…
I found and corrected “sheperd” into “shepherd”.
And I was deducted points because in her world, “shepherd” is wrong.
This was 11th grade, in the best school in my district, in a pretty good state.
Yes, thank you Massachusetts! I was in a teaching credential program in California and dropped it because I was the only person in my program who could read and write above a third grade level. It was horrifying! None of my classmates were even as advanced as the OP.
This is hilarious. I just took the MTELs as well, and I remember the articles the OP is talking about. The funny thing is, they have the random articles, then you just have to answer all of 6 questions on the article, questions such as “What is the main idea of this article?” “What does this word underlined in this sentence mean?” It was one of the easiest tests I’ve taken.
Then again if you can’t read or write properly it would be hard.
P.S. The MTELs don’t give you a degree. It’s just one more hurdle to get your licence. You do have to pass before you can teach though.
Yeah, most of the items are easy, especially on the subject matter test, but the written portion could go either way due to the graders’ personal biases. My “note-taking” skills were rated mediocre because of the way I like to write them, but they were good enough to study with and get A’s throughout school. It’s one thing to write for an audience, it’s another thing to write for an audience you can’t choose and about whom you know nothing significant.
Even for elementary school, where the subject matter us easy, teachers are pretty smart people. Besides, just having a career in a difficult field doesn’t necessarily mean a person is smart. I have some friends who are engineers but are not very smart outside of that field.
I’m guessing that this is an ELED major who hasn’t yet passed the first MTEL, which MA ELED majors have to take in order to get to the ones that involve teaching strategies.
Perhaps this chode needs to stick her finger in someone’s butt hole then smell her finger. That would probably help her pass as a stink finger is like meth.
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シ
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Always first but never declaring,
Monkey face’s butt jokes will never be weary-ing.
They already are.
*wearing
Weary-ing. To make someone or something weary.
Trolling. To make someone or something react.
we missed you Monkey Face. Welcome back!
G Man is referring to himself and the wee mouse in his pocket.
Go for the eyes, Boo!
(Ok, so it’s a mouse, not a miniature giant space hamster, but still.)
MINSC!
VILNIUS!
TALLINN!
Sword, meet evil!
I have become death! DESTROYER OF WORLDS!
Bietchhes youse
Yeah, not going to waste my time typing anything intelligent or funny as it seems that any kind of ramblings result in “win” replys or numptys defending the rubbish that people type.
This is for all you failbookers.
Cheesey womble flange sprocket.
Table fracture metal
*flaungee
At last, Drongo! I’ve missed you. And to think, I only just commented saying that.
gay.
+616.26 Internetz
Where have I heard that name before?……………………….
Hey, idiot.
Don’t feed the troll, and for god’s sake don’t worship it.
What the heck do you think is witty or clever about spamming a site with the same stupid comment over and over?
It’s not the same comment, it’s witty comments about butt and finger sniffing adapted to the fail. And that’s clever. PERIOD!
Seconded. Funny the first couple of times, it’s started wearing a bit thin. I miss Drongo, he’s a lot better.
This is of course only after you yourself have eating the defication out of the litter box of the household and bathed yourself in their urine right monkey face?
*there
I hate you MF
MF = mother f*cker?
*facepalm*
MF = Monkey Face (a.k.a. the guy that Jables was responding to)
No sh!t.
*facepalm*
I believe you missed the implied insult.
*facepalm*
Yes, I know… it works both ways… as tor2ga mentioned
Michael Faraday? Y U NO LIEK INDUCTION?
The blue is a stupid gramerr nazii…i hate those ppl
What’s the problem with a grammar nazi? I love how it’s gotten to the point where people make fun of other people for knowing grammar. Yeah, go ahead and make fun of me for knowing grammar, but at least I know how to write properly.
*grammar
I love how nobody pointed out that JewThing spelled Nazi wrong………………………………..
Dattes coss’es dew finng issa speellin’es rong deelibbereatley’es…yuppes annede mee lasttes nammes issa shurelockkes….anne ittes speelled’es “Nasti’es” ennyweyyes.. “Billies’ yu kannes korrect mee attes yure leassure..
*due
hahahahahahaha, “Sherlock” was his FIRST name you imbecile!!!!
Iddeiotte ackktualley…goegal “Drongo” annede meee lasstes nammes stiell shurelocckes…thee bitty weer ittes seyyes MEE issa clue’es….butte asayu ex miallitaries youse issa fouregievvan’es…u noes noo butter..
Wot are ya, an ogre?
I’m genuinely impressed.
ugh typos and obvious bad grammar and spelling are easily distinguishable
but he did also spell “grammar” with 1 ‘M’ an ‘E’ and 2 ‘R’s at the end. even Drongo spelled that one right.
I love how YOU didn’t seem to notice that grammar is also spelt incorrectly.
Actually, you should know how to do both, if not, then you are mediocre at best.
Do both of what?
EB and his mom.
Walk AND chew gum.
It’s amusing that EB’s sentence is poorly constructed. Sometimes you want a semicolon instead of a comma
Never would i want a semicolon instead of an entire colon.
You’d have serious problems in the lower abdomen…
Grandma”..
I get annoyed when people mix up your and you’re but alot of people on here are quite snobby when it comes to grammar, alot of them are pretty rude to others who make mistakes, like they’re(their?) better than them…that annoys me, if they spell things like before – b4, you – u and and – nd, then they’re most likely trying don’t ‘bully’ them. Oh and since this is a rant I know you’l all correct all my mistakes for me
“A lot” is two words. And other than that, I think all your mistakes are in fact deliberate trolling.
Mexilate? Chococo? Hmmm.
Mediate Joe ©ocker? (ƒucking swear filter sh¡t)
I learn kids good sum day
Yeah, because why should you be able to read about foreign landmarks if you’re going to teach children? Shouldn’t we be teaching them that there’s nothing interesting or useful outside of the United States?
Well they need to know where Canada is, so they can avoid it.
hahaha. we feel the same way about you guys, especially buffalo and detroit.
Um… Most Americans feel that way about Buffalo and Detroit too.
Most people FROM Buffalo and Detroit feel that way about Buffalo and Detroit!
I certainly do.
Love from Detroit.
And Britain so they can laugh at us.
good call, stay out of my country you foreigners!… and by foreigners i mean people from the US.
Huzzah, I agree.
As an Austrian, I don’t agree. I want to party like it’s 1945-55 again!
If you were German, that would be 1939-1945…
*1945-49 (I am referring to the allied occupation)
It’s called knowing about the world, and the other countries that sorround the U.S. The U.S., after all, is not the only country in the whole planet earth. Geez, no wonder why the U.S. is falling behind.
Actually, there are more interesting and useful things outside the U.S.
Sarcasm recognition fail. Your argument is invalid.
Wow… You really didn’t pick up on the obvious blatant sarcasm in that statement?
*surround, you dumb F**k.
*sorrow, you moran!
Actually, the examples used on the test have nothing to do with teaching people about the world. They are selected as non-controversial topics for the sole purpose of testing reading comprehension. The test isn’t teaching a topic; it is testing an ability.
thank you
“Geez, no wonder why the U.S. is falling behind.”
Too bad the US isn’t falling behind anyone, but this is a myth perpetuated by idiots who are more ignorant than the Americans they like to rag on.
Shows that you’re pretty desperate when you have to create a large political conclusion about the US “falling behind” because of a submission on failblog that could very well be fake.
Uh. American disagreeing here! When I was in college, I used to help grade papers for my English professors, and believe me: we’re falling behind. Oh, how very far behind we are falling. Most of my classmates couldn’t even form logical sentences, much less use remotely proper punctuation. Not to mention that they were writing formal papers, but were still using slang and NETSPEAK. They had never been corrected in school. Ever. Just glided right through.
In fact, the high school kids I work with now have told me it’s near impossible to be held back. Almost no one fails, no matter how clueless they are. Basically, all the school district really cares about is whether or not their kids can pass the state subject tests.
Oh, and all that said… this school district I’ve mentioned? Is supposed to be one of the top in the country.
The complaint usually isn’t that knowing foreign landmarks is not useful: The complaint is that learning foreign landmarks is often taught in the place of knowing about one’s own country.
Maybe you haven’t noticed, but the USA is large enough that it could fit several average-sized countries inside it. There’s plenty to know about the USA, which is a fact lost on latte-sipping eurotrash who once saw “sex in the city” and now believe they have the entire country figured out.
What’s the average size of a country?
Halfway between that of Russia and the Vatican.
Was no better answer.
I was aware of that.
You should be promoted. Like to Chief waste management officer. ^^
Thank you, sir!
Your welcome. xD
NA NA NA CMON! CMON! CMON! I LIKE IT, LIKE IT!!!
“The average land area of a country, based on the land area comprising the earth is approximately 767,731 square kilometers (296,422 square miles) – slightly smaller than Turkey but much larger than Chile or Zambia.”
http://geography.about.com/od/lists/a/averagecountry.htm
And there are literally millions of Turkeys in America!
Fourty-two.
“The complaint is that learning foreign landmarks is often taught in the place of knowing about one’s own country.”
Who is making this complaint and what are they basing it on?
are you admitting that Americans have a limited capacity?
“Derp! My brain done got filled!”
I appreciate the sentiment, but the real fail is probably that if it was a reading and writing test, iI expect it was to do with interpreting source material.
I’m from Massachusetts and the MTEL is the easiest test ever. It was easier than taking an SAT.
It’s called football not soccer! ಠ‿ಠ
Shouldn’t she be able to use proper grammar and spelling first? You know, thing like “ridiculous”.
This is Wednesday.
You’re welcome.
i undersand brown problem cause the test suppose to be about read and writeing brown would be good teaching. i got my teach certificat this years and it wasnt to bad.
Jibble rights beter then mosst teechirs, to.
Im a teechir an i dunt gett whai yu gyes mispel esy wurds laike “braun probllem” an “haf ov tha stewdants”.
wut ar thos littl tik marcs arownd teh wurds an dat dott onna ennd
*brown’s
that woud be plurlal
*blurrlol
I hope to God that this person NEVER becomes a teacher.
This person should be banned from ever assembling letters again.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious.
If you say it loud enough you’ll always sound precocious.
*silicosis
Yes, but, floccinaucinihilipilification will always have a special place in my heart and lexicon.
antidisestablishmentarianism
pseudopseudohyperparathyroidism
*pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Or did I FAIL at sarcasm recognition?
Both ways are exceptable.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. A fear of long words.
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I suspect the submitter was trying to point out her lack of capitalization and poor grammar. I am about to receive my PhD and on Facebook I generally tend to ignore capitalization… not grammar though… Her point is valid though. Even with my advanced degree which is in Physics it would still be difficult for me to get a highschool teaching job in many states due to the fact that I do not have a teaching degree. Some states won’t even consider me. I am qualified to teach and do teach college level physics but I can not go teach the same level of physics in an AP class at the local highschool…… I highly doubt brown is that qualified though,
cool story bro
Tl;DR
getta liff/eyedennttities ovva youese owwn..orres “Roddey de Rodd” willes bee rounndes twouse sea yu’es..
Haha, for someone who is about to “receive a PhD”, you really do know how to jump the conclusions. “She”? Like a She would say chocolate is a stupid topic o_O
I’m a female and I don’t like chocolate…
TRAITOR!!!!
^This
is greeniculous.
Ditto.
lie!
You haven’t hit puberty yet, have you?
I hit puberty about 15 years ago, I liked it up until then!
Eh you are right. That was a pretty stupid assumption. Its not a bad assumption given that according to UNICEF statistics 88.6% of primary school and 62.5% of secondary school teachers are female.
It was probably white chocolate.
At first I read your comment as “I am about to receive my PhD on Facebook…” and had a really good laugh. Anyway, your point is good.
BOOM! ƒirstƒuck!
STUPID MODERATION!
Fixed:
At >>>f!rst<<< I read your comment as “I am about to receive my PhD on Facebook…” and had a really good laugh. Anyway, your point is good.
Double comment all across the ƒucking moderated comment section and sh¡t.
Your name suits you well. Keep up the good work. It’s awesome.
Thanks, I am glad to hear that. AND NOW ©OCK SLAP SOME WHO®ES!
You “suspect” that’s what the submitter was trying to point out? What subtle and arcane clues led you to that conclusion? I’m glad you cleared up the ambiguity for everyone here.
And for someone who supposedly doesn’t ignore grammar, your mangled punctuation is atrocious.
I thought you said you didn’t ignore grammar?
I didn’t say I was good at it. Also I failed to mention that my keyboard tends to miss keystrokes.
Ah, yes, blame the keyboard. What kind of keyboard spontaneously produces ellipses?
That’s because teaching a high school class is maybe 10% knowing what you’re teaching and 90% dealing with little psychopaths.
^ this, sadly.
I’m going to go all optimistic and have just a tiny bit of faith in humanity and say… 70%?
Humanity? In high school? Silly Jibbles.
See, what everybody is missing here is that OP was expecting the test to include reading about reading (metareading) and writing about writing (metawriting), and OP is actually using a highly advanced version of English from the future that doesn’t involve capitalization and a new and improved method of spelling (because that is the future of language, thanks to the internet). OP is actually highly intelligent, advanced and absolutely capable of teaching.
And as soon as that happens, in a hundred years, she’ll pass her teachers certification.
No, the metareading and metawriting occur on the second and third MTELs she will have to take.
I guess the original poster can’t get a clue why he/she did not pass the test. Sure, blame it on the international studies questions, the poster spells every other word incorrectly, even in all of the replies.
I don’t know what we’d do without you, Captain Obvious.
The “maybe it’s the spelling errors” theory was even corroborated by the PhD candidate above, so we’re golden. Whew, I don’t know how we’d manage to understand this site otherwise without these highly-trained personnel here to interpret events for us.
That’s the only reason I’m in the comments section, to get some clarification on WTH is going on here by a pseudodoctor with a fondness for run-on sentences.
I swear, without all these hyper-inflated personalities on the TV and interwebz there to explain this kind of stuff to us idjits, we would be screwed big time.
this shiz is blueiculous.
Its OVER stupid topics? How the hell do i know that that’s not right, and i’m not a native speaker. It even sounds like literally translated Dutch. We, the dutch make those mistakes because “OVER” actually means “ABOUT” here.
lol, amazing.
It does in “american” too…. you’d be surprised. And consider this: you can say “it’s ABOUT 3 o’clock”
My advise as of foreigner to a foreigner – do not ( ever ever) ( ever!) try to find linguistic logic in english. especially american english. it will do things to you.
I think you’ll find it’s the same way in most languages’ idiomatic expressions.
“Over” as “about” is actually logical, if nonstandard. A test might be said to “cover” certain topics (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cover def. 19); therefore it’s also “over” them.
Don’t try to find linguistic logic in any language.
Stupid Mexican landmarks, I knew I should’ve read up on those…
Yeah, the test should cover more relevant topics like magnets and horses.
brown’s point; why test at all… just gimme the degree!
blue’s point; GTFO >_>
one of my friend’s had a question on his physics test that said “how do magnets work?” i think the teacher is trolling.
… i remember HS physics, the teach spent 2 days on the whole attract/repel thing; thought my ears would bleed >_<
Gotta admit, at least Massachusetts has it figured out by preventing Brown from corrupting children. Kudos to them.
I had a teacher who made spelling/grammar tests with deliberate errors for us to catch…
I found and corrected “sheperd” into “shepherd”.
And I was deducted points because in her world, “shepherd” is wrong.
This was 11th grade, in the best school in my district, in a pretty good state.
Sure, her errors were there “deliberately”. That’s my new excuse for every time I screw up
^IT’S SHEPHERD! LOOK IT UP!
^Yu hd a stoopid teechur.
This, is what’s wrong with the education system of America.
kthxbai
That and, using commas in the, wrong places.
What,s wrong about, that?
Nothing,
*aboot
Have you heard of ‘emphasis on speech,’ or are you just a monotone, boring Joe?
Nah, he’s just, boring monotone, Joe.
Yes, thank you Massachusetts! I was in a teaching credential program in California and dropped it because I was the only person in my program who could read and write above a third grade level. It was horrifying! None of my classmates were even as advanced as the OP.
Thanks to No Child Left Behind. >_>
More like No Excuse to Under-Fund Public Schools Unused.
Anyone else annoyed by the use of “suppose to” vice the correct “supposed to”? Another grammar mistake in the original post.
“vice”? What’s that suppose to mean? Your spose to youse words write, ok?
Did you mean “versus”?
Can’t tell if trolling or just… stupid …. σ__σ
*supposed
*suppose
*use
*right
*okay
*?”
This is hilarious. I just took the MTELs as well, and I remember the articles the OP is talking about. The funny thing is, they have the random articles, then you just have to answer all of 6 questions on the article, questions such as “What is the main idea of this article?” “What does this word underlined in this sentence mean?” It was one of the easiest tests I’ve taken.
Then again if you can’t read or write properly it would be hard.
P.S. The MTELs don’t give you a degree. It’s just one more hurdle to get your licence. You do have to pass before you can teach though.
Yeah, most of the items are easy, especially on the subject matter test, but the written portion could go either way due to the graders’ personal biases. My “note-taking” skills were rated mediocre because of the way I like to write them, but they were good enough to study with and get A’s throughout school. It’s one thing to write for an audience, it’s another thing to write for an audience you can’t choose and about whom you know nothing significant.
Not even smart enough to become a teacher? Man, that takes pathetic to all new lows.
Even for elementary school, where the subject matter us easy, teachers are pretty smart people. Besides, just having a career in a difficult field doesn’t necessarily mean a person is smart. I have some friends who are engineers but are not very smart outside of that field.
On the plus side, she spelled Massachusetts correctly, which is rarely a given
yeah
Red d¡ck coloss strikes again!
I’m guessing that this is an ELED major who hasn’t yet passed the first MTEL, which MA ELED majors have to take in order to get to the ones that involve teaching strategies.
The MTEL is incredibly easy. If you can’t pass it then you’re basically too stupid to function in normal society let alone teach kids.
Actually (sadly), I think the first guarantees the second in most school systems.
Actually (sadly), I think the f!rst guarantees the second in most school systems.
LMAO – comment moderated for spelling out f!rst …
Yes, thank you Massachusetts for not letting this fool become a teacher.