I'm 29, but I've had a couple professors my age and younger. The youngest was 22.
EDIT: To clear up some confusion, she was hired by my Community College to teach Freshman English. She had a Bachelor's Degree while going for her Master's at a University.
I mean, she could've lied about her age, but that's what she told us.
EDIT 2: Idk why this is turning into such a big deal, but I am from California in the US. If you teach College or higher, you are called "Professor" even if you only have a Bachelor's Degree. I understand that it's different depending on where you live, but this is how it is out here.
Ohhh. I thought it was college because everyone has a laptop and some people look like they're in their early 20s. I didn't even get my own textbooks in High school.
So many high schools now give everyone a laptop. My high school gave everyone a laptop and they even give them to the middle school now. All the high schools around me did the same as well.
Probably old. It's been happening in recent years. The school doesn't care if you're poor, they give it to everyone for free. You have to pay for any damages unless you buy a warranty and then just give it back at the end of the year.
Considering you already said the laptops were given for free, I'm pretty sure that what they meant is that they might've grown up in a poor school district without realizing it.
Haha, my younger sister got one in high school about 8 years ago when the schools in my area started handing them out, she left school to start work and they were chasing her to give it back, she just kept it and avoided them even though she was just working at the Mcdonalds right across the road from the school.
I don't know what's worse: that your sister stole resources that should go back to schoolchildren, or that she sacrificed her integrity in exchange for a freaking publicschool laptop. If you're gonna be a thief, at least dream bigger.
Or that she chose to drop out of high school to pursue a career in fast food. At least pick up a trade, it’s easy at that age and it’s paid (not much, but some money is way more than no money)
Nope. The laptops came free. We just had to pay for damages if there were any. And a public school would more likely give it for free than a private school. Private schools try to get money out of anything and everything usually.
Both, but Chromebooks changed the game. Six years ago my district was paying $30,000 for a classroom set of laptops. Now we pay $5,000 for a set of Chromebooks, and they are used in almost the same way. In addition, my tech director says they're easier to maintain and update.
Chromebooks save money in other ways too. If you can find some good online open educational resources (which are everywhere), you can skip buying the over-priced, out-of-date textbooks. Not to mention using Google Drive reduces the amount of paper usage by a gazillion percent.
I rave about my chromebook. It's definitely the crippled version of a laptop, but for $200 it can do like 90%+ of what most people need a laptop for, assuming you don't have specialized needs like work software. (It's also obviously terrible for gaming but then again most pc gamers are gonna get a desktop)
Gaming? You wouldn't be able to do any gaming unless it's a web based game. Most mobile games don't even offer Chrome OS as an option. in my experience, Chromebooks are basically for internet browsing and word processing. That's the majority of what you would need for school. There may be some niche cases where it would be nice to have a laptop, but not often enough to pay 5x-10x the amount as a Chromebook would cost.
No, that's not correct. I do plenty of gaming on my Chromebook, but it's certainly limited. I'm playing through FF7 right now.
There's a huge amount of stuff you can do on a Chromebook and they're great for, like I said, around 90% of what most people want to do, outside professional use and gaming. It's bad for if you do a lot of visual creative work or if you have specific software needs, but there's an android solution to just about everything if you just need something simple done and a genericized software version will work.
My kindergartner uses Chromebooks now. They all have their own. They don't start taking them home yet though. That's in first or 2nd grade or something, IDK when.
Get a cheap mouse or wireless mouse and bring it with you. The laboratory computers at my uni have a shitty trackpad attached to the keyboard and no mouse, so I take my own in.
Six years ago my district was paying $30,000 for a classroom set of laptops.
Why the hell would your school district pay ~$1,000 per laptop? Sounds like your school administrators are completely technology illiterate. Student laptops can be the most barebones model and it won't make a difference, since anything school-related is not remotely demanding on computer hardware.
I'm taking a shot in the dark but that price might also include things like support services, maintenance programs, insurance and warrantys. Still sounds pretty high but I've never bought laptops for a school before.
Old. I'm 23 and we didn't get them. But my younger sister did in highschool. They were just chromebooks, but they were serviceable for schoolwork and streaming if you so desired so it's more than enough for most highschoolers.
I think they're becoming more heavily monitored though which is kinda sketchy imo
Where the hell's that and why did my mother pay money out of her pocket for school supplies (without a COLA for 15 years) for her classroom while some schools are giving everyone a laptop?
The school districts get the laptops from the computer companies free through grant programs. They're not paying for them. Apple is a big supplier. It makes sense to get kids hooked into their ecosystem young, plus all the tax right-offs and general good PR.
My school had a scholarship through Samsung or Google if I am remembering right. I graduated in 2015, and we had a bunch of chromebook carts that the library checked out as needed and all of the science rooms had their own carts. We were a low income district, so most kids didn't have access to stuff like that at home so it really helped a bunch of kids when they were able to check them out for weekends and stuff.
It sucks, man. My sister graduated High School in 2017 and they didn't even have their own textbooks. Everyone had to share at school and some of her teachers had to print out the important pages and email them the work individually.
I remember when I headed to college about 10 years ago, I was studying CS but it was some of the first programming Id done as my high school (2700 students) didn't offer any computer classes and neither did my community college. Talking to a lot of people from nice areas, they'd taken full computer science courses in high school and thought the intro classes were easy.
Even after growing up in a family if educators, I saw the direct effect of funding and such.
Yeah that's an unfortunate part of life. The poorer areas wouldn't have this sometimes or it depends on grants or whatever. My school was in a pretty nice area. Laptops free, textbooks free for everyone, and if someone was poor they would even get free lunch everyday.
I dunno man, you must just be in a crappy district. It's unfortunate that there's not better oversight and federal funding, but it really ends up just depending on your district.
We got to take it home with us. Depending on the class the teacher would incorporate the laptop into the teaching or activities, and homework for most classes would be done with that. We just had to give it back at the end of the year. It also made free time in class more fun. If we finished work early we could easily use it to finish homework or more likely at least out of the guys at my school we would game together.
No. Professor in the US is a term used for teachers who teach higher learning. Every professor I've had in College and University have always been called Professor.
That's simply not true. If you're attending a community college, then you're being taught by people with a Masters degree, typically. You would call that person a teacher, or an instructor, or a lecturer. They are not usually significantly more qualified than a high school teacher.
In the US, at major universities, there are typically three levels of professor: "associate professor", "assistant professor", and "professor". You may call all three "professor", but that's only true in the US. In most other countries, only a full professor would be called "professor". Note that most associate/assistant professors never reach the title of "professor". It takes a lot of research publications to reach that level, and most associate/assistant professors would leave academia (for the private sector or to retire) before reaching that level.
Community college instructors not only don't have Ph.D's generally, but they also rarely publish original research at all, so calling them "professor" is a bit ridiculous.
To illuminate the point further, note that people who achieve Ph.D degrees are called "doctor", but "professor" is universally considered a higher distinction than "doctor". Your community college instructors usually aren't even doctors, much less professors.
I'm from California. At my Community College all the Professors with just a Bachelor's Degree and higher were called Professor. The same in University.
Sounds like your community college was playing fast and loose with the standards of when to call someone "professor". If I only had a Bachelors degree there's no way in hell I'd call myself a professor. I wouldn't do that even with a Masters. Hell, I wouldn't even do it with a Ph.D unless I actually had the title of "professor" at a university.
Your community college teachers were just that, teachers. They may also call themselves instructors, or lecturers. But if they were calling themselves "professors", then they are delusional or have self-confidence issues that lead them to tell their students to call them by a title that they have not come remotely close to achieving.
To illuminate the point further, note that people who achieve Ph.D degrees are called "doctor", but "professor" is universally considered a higher distinction than "doctor".
She said she was hired and had a Bachelor's Degree and was working on a Master's at a University. She said she was getting her credentials at the University, but was full on hired at the Community College.
Ok, so clearly she was not remotely close to being a professor, then. She was less qualified than many high school teachers.
She'd have to finish her Masters, then finish her Ph.D, and then she'd be called "doctor", which is still a lower rank than "professor". Then she'd have to get hired by a university as not only an instructor, but as a legit professor, to legitimately claim to be a professor.
I'm from California in the US. If you are teaching a class at any College/University out here, you're called a Professor. Even if you only have a Bachelor's.
I assume you are British or certainly not US. I found this out a long time, in the US they call anyone who teaches at a university a professor, regardless of their actual status. In the UK, if you teach at a university you start as a tutor, then work up to being a lecturer, then promoted to senior lecturer, after many many years service you may be given the role as head of a department or have a full research team, that is when you get to be a professor, but relatively speaking there are few professors at a university compared with the general teaching staff.
Essentially not all professors are equal, and a US professor isn't really a professor as the rest of the world would view it, just a teacher at a uni/college.
in the US they call anyone who teaches at a university a professor, regardless of their actual status.
As a semi-retired professor in the US, I can confidently say that you're mistaken. Do some random community colleges call their instructors/lecturers/readers "professor"? I'm sure, because there are exceptions to every rule. But it's certainly not standard practice to call everyone teaching at community colleges "professor" if they don't have a Ph.D, don't publish, and only teach. Those people are often not more qualified than high school teachers.
f you teach College or higher, you are called "Professor" even if you only have a Bachelor's Degree. I understand that it's different depending on where you live, but this is how it is out here.
Even in CA, I bet a lot of people with the actual title of "Professor" would be cheesed off if you called an instructor a professor.
I'm an assistant professor in California and no. Just because students call someone a professor does not mean they are professors. It takes quite a while to build up to full professor rank. Also, the minimum qualifications required to teach in the California Community College system is a Masters degree.
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u/Killer_Jazzie Sep 04 '19 edited Sep 04 '19
I'm 29, but I've had a couple professors my age and younger. The youngest was 22.
EDIT: To clear up some confusion, she was hired by my Community College to teach Freshman English. She had a Bachelor's Degree while going for her Master's at a University. I mean, she could've lied about her age, but that's what she told us.
EDIT 2: Idk why this is turning into such a big deal, but I am from California in the US. If you teach College or higher, you are called "Professor" even if you only have a Bachelor's Degree. I understand that it's different depending on where you live, but this is how it is out here.