Private schools test students prior to registration, and then they only accept those with high IQs! They do not accept students with learning disabilities, behavior problems or limited English skills.
The truth is that they just just want to get rid of all the older, experienced, but expensive teachers and replace them with cheaper, albeit clueless younger teachers!
God bless the hard-working teachers of the inner-city, who risk their lives daily, teaching in the ghetto!
yes, public school can be improved, but one of the true highlights of school were the teachers. There were so many who cared, who were nice, who truly helped us.
I appreciate that he's promoting public education and agree about standardized testing. But I have to wonder if his own kids go to public school. I'm not convinced that they do...
I like Matt Damon a lot and think he's clearly a very intelligent guy with his heart in the right place, but I wonder how he thinks we can get our students to be proficient in something like history without testing and rote memorization.
Last June, the NY Times published a study that found most students unable to explain why Lincoln was an important figure. I believe that mastering the basics should always precede the type of creativity that Matt Damon is advocating. We can't all be actors.
@JOMAMA341 I personally love history, and always knew more about it than any of my classmates. But that was because I had engaging conversations about history with my dad -- I usually slept through class. The teacher taught to the test, and no one learned anything. It's all about going in-depth and inspiring passion in students.
@JOMAMA341 I think history is an interesting example. When I was in elementary and high school, we were told to memorize the who, what, where, when, but never they why. The why was too difficult to measure on a scantron. Plus, the why requires you to actually understand the context and meaning of the history. Memorizing who Lincoln was, when was born, how he died, and what he did does not inherently explain why he is important.
Standardized tests, while not completely irrelevant, have gained too much prominence, as an assessment tool, for measuring the quality of an education. Standardized tests don't test for well-rounded knowledge, critical thinking skills outside of deconstructing a paragraph and doing math problems, and they don't measure creativity. So to make a teacher's job contingent on such a narrow assessment of education is misguided.
I love Matt Damon, & as a parent, I can't tell you how horrifying was the dawning realization that MY KID, was being "taught to a test" instead of the way that *I LEARNED* - tests were there, yes, but, nobody made it the center of our learning experience. I felt powerless in the face of this. And angry this was being done to my son. As a lifelong lover of learning & curiosity, to instill that in my child, through reading and exploration, I pray he's better off than the testing mentality allows
I study develompental psychology and I could write (I actually have written) 20-page papers on why high-stakes testing doesn't work. The problem in the USA is poverty, parents who have 3 jobs and don't have time for their kids, a terrible public school system and not enough funding (or spending it wrong). I am from Europe but I've spent two years in an American High School. There are so many good things but also so so many bad things. It's hard to get out of a spiral like that but if you don't..
The overwhelming majority of high school students don't have a love for learning. That generally doesn't happen until college or even later in life. What Matt says might be fine for liberal arts or creative areas like drama class or whatever but high school is about being able to bang out the basics: research a topic and write a simple structured essay. Learn the basics of math so you aren't lost later in life. Learn to make yourself do these things even though you don't feel like it, because i
because in the real work world that is what your job will be like unless you are one in a million like Matt and become an actor. You don't have to love doing these things in order to learn them. Teenagers in school have a love of listening to music and climbing the social ladder. Make them learn these basics first so they can pass the tests and then you can let them go and be free and waste the next 4 years of their life trying to "find themselves" like they hear about in the movies.
Look, the teachers aren't at fault. Standardized tests wouldn't even be an issue if more kids had two involved parents at home who can/want to invest in their children becoming productive members of society.
Easy to criticize with a bunch of talking points Matt the moron. Have you ever had a child in a class room with a bad teacher? They DO exist. You can talk trash about the system all you want but until you have a better idea or solution to the problem you should show support for teachers and not point fingers!! P.S. Mr. Damon doesn't even live in the same world as the rest of us, his reality is far different from the majorities. All should watch the movie Waiting For Superman!!! Netflix it!
Matt Damon is awesome! Not becasue of his acting roles, but because of what he said in this speech. He's right that teachers are not always alowed to be teachers, but rather dictators of standardized tests. Let's fix the problem by working WITH teachers instead of brow-beating them and making them feel inferior because they are "over-paid" inferior and unintellectual beings. I wish more people like Matt Damon would come out & speak up for us! God Bless you Matt Damon!
He is completely right. I graduated with honors in 4 subjects, with a 3.91 GPA, 2 AP credits for college, and I feel grateful that my creativity and enthusiasm for knowledge barely survived school. I"m learning so much now that I'm out. Not really in college, but on my own. I finally appreciate history now. The most useful thing that school taught me, was how to use deductive reasoning to pass multiple choice tests without actually knowing the information.
As an early childhood teacher, I was inspired by this speech! It's a shame that standardized testing and no child left behind control the way we teach and the things we have to teach. I definitely think teachers should be held accountable for doing a good job of educating children, but the way we assess teacher and student performance in this country is flat out wrong and shameful.
Very well spoken. Too bad more don't watch this video than the one circulating more than 1M hits. I hope he puts some of the millions he make per film toward change and not just toward talk.
Hateful? That was a love letter. Love for his teachers, for his mom, for the true essence of great teaching: installing a love of learning and realizing one's self. How can a human being attach the word hate to those wonderful sentiments?
Matt Damon grew up living next door to Howard Zinn, the radical leftist who wrote the most used US history book in college. It is pure hateful trash against the USA and Damon bought into it completely. Damon had been anti-USA and anti-Christianity for a long time.
@vechorik It's not hateful -- it's real. The USA has done some pretty terrible things (and still does), and its citizens must be aware of these so we can do things better next time. I think it's enormously patriotic to acknowledge our nation's flaws and care about it enough to try to make it a better place. Trying to sweep all our mistakes under the rug does not serve the citizens well.
@vechorik Do you know the body count of this country? Do you know what the body count of Native Americans is? African Americans? the Irish? Thats just a start. You know there are some estimates of Native people during the western invasion that have the body count to 125 MILLION. Saying that millions of people died in this country is not hateful. If you hated this country you would ignore its history.
You have 3 videos of weapons & violence on your page. You know weapons are tools of hate right?
@vechorik read Lies My Teacher Told Me, and maybe you'll wake up from your stuper and antiintellectualism. Truth is, Christianity and the US have not always helped people; oftentimes corrupt churches, corrupt governments, corrupt people, have killed. Open up your eyes and realize that there is a reason so many liberals trashtalk the US. It isn't easy to criticize your own country; most people rarely have the courage to do it. Liberals only exist in a few nations. Treasure them
AVANCE is delighted to see actor Matt Damon use his celebrity status for a good cause and encourage teachers to do better. There are other issues beside teachers and standardized testing that must be addressed to Unlock America's Potential. The public education system will need to continue to evolve and address the issues that impact education success such as childhood poverty and parent involvement. Thanks to all the wonderful teachers out there and to Matt Damon for their compassionate work!
I would like to thank all the the teachers that marched. Having a mother that was a teacher and a brother that retired this year after teaching 40 years of teaching I know all of the teachers would much rather be doing something fun instead of marching. First they come after your job security, then your wages. It's sad that they made you give up vacation time to protect your vocation, reputation and small salaries.
The testing system is flawed and needs to have its current incarnation scrapped. Lawrence O'Donnell said correctly that there are many factors which contributes to how a child does in school. Some administrators do not even want teachers to remove disruptive students from the classrooms. What a joke.
@eddbrowne-- you will notice that America started falling apart economically a few years after standardized testing became the norm. As Albert Einstein said "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." I do agree that I wish standardized testing had begun in the 50's because then by now we would have realized how stupid it was and moved on!
Damon went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin school, which is about as privileged a Public School as you can get without actually being private. He chastises "corporate reformers" for " literally not having ever taught anyone anything" (so apparently he knows the lives of every corporate reformer alive, since he was using the word "literally"-great teaching mom!) when all poor Matt has to do is play dress up for living and get paid millions. GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK.
@Tmanintn Would you rather a poor person who can't pull the people that Matt D can go out there and talk. This videos of him talking here are going all over the internet and people are being MORE aware of it now because of him. Yes he's an actor but any help to the cause is a help to the cause no matter where your background is from.
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@HKevin88 Wow, so everyone is there to see Matt Damon? No one wonder our education system is screwed. I agree that K-12 teachers should be paid more than minimum wage, but the Unions and the Dept of Ed have basically stolen the money that should be paid to ACTUAL TEACHERS and used it on political campaigns and bureaucratic nonsense. Having Matt Damon yell "Teachers are awesome!! Pay them more money!!" is perhaps less useful than doing nothing, as far as I'm concerned.
@Tmanintn Please don't try and twist my words, Let me clarify it for you. He did indeed pull more people, but not everyone is out there to see him. Add on the fact that the the video is being circulated it helps draw more attention to the issues at hand. Our education system is not screwed up because of people wanting to see Matt D, they are screwed up because of a list of different reasons. We all know they are stealing the money, but like i said any help is help to make better changes.
@HKevin88 He didn't "draw more attention" to anything other than the fact that "teachers are the best and should be paid more!!". Congratulations. That and a $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee. Wake me when I hear stories of Matt Damon protesting the Teachers Unions for diluting their pay, or the Dept of Ed for wasting tax payer money that should be going to school supplies and teachers, not bureaucratic nonsense.
@Tmanintn Okay if alls he has to do is dress up and get paid millions then why doesnt everyone fucking do it, Oh wait thats right thats because he actually works hard for what he does and he excels at it, thus is why he gets paid millions so how bout you think before you post garbage on videos ok thanks.
No it's because he got lucky and probably knew someone. He played the right cards at the right time and got the roles that made him the name he has today. Damon is by no means a unique butterfly. There are actors with more talent and more passion who have been driven into the ground because they didn't get lucky.
While I agree with his points here, I don't like his self proclaiming tone.
this is amazing. i originally went to school to teach, but dropped out after shadowing at a school in arkansas and seeing how miserable the teachers were. not a decision i am necessarily proud of, but hindsight is 20/20.
Matt Damon is so well spoken in this speech. "The qualities that make me who I am can't be tested!" There is so much more to instilling a love of learning than testing. To create LIFELONG learners, we need more than testing!!
The irony of someone who's only contribution to the world are a few gun handling videos stating that a world traveling Harvard Educated actor/writer has a "narrow background" is absolutely overwhelming.
@jmhooten I'm Harvard educated too and also public school educated. I guarantee that I am not rich and famous. If anything I am grateful to have been given a chance to try and do well. For most of my life, including being in the US Army, I tried to increase my knowledge and could not have done so without public education and public benefits. Now, my daughter is teaching, with a salary of half of what she could earn in industry, because as Matt Demon said, she loves to teach.
@GeorgeW6 Thank you for this comment. The opponents of public education are really trying to kill the unions who support Democrats. Teachers are being asked to evaluate students solely on tests that are unreliable and usually irrelevant. Testing can guide teachers throughout the year, but should never be the sole determinant of a student's value or the gauge of a teacher's merit. Matt Damon will incur the wrath of the privatization crowd. But he is in our hearts forever.
im just here cuz i think hes damn sexy
circusaroundtheworld 2 months ago
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Private schools test students prior to registration, and then they only accept those with high IQs! They do not accept students with learning disabilities, behavior problems or limited English skills.
The truth is that they just just want to get rid of all the older, experienced, but expensive teachers and replace them with cheaper, albeit clueless younger teachers!
God bless the hard-working teachers of the inner-city, who risk their lives daily, teaching in the ghetto!
MsJanetWood 3 months ago
Hmmmmn. How do you measure ANYTHING without testing? Again, why do we keep score?
gorams1992 4 months ago
yes, public school can be improved, but one of the true highlights of school were the teachers. There were so many who cared, who were nice, who truly helped us.
dchris1990 5 months ago
This is one of the most inspiring and eurdite speeches I've heard from an artist. Two thumbs up to Matt Damon.
BloggerMusicMan 5 months ago
Thank you for supporting teachers, Matt Damen.
chitownteach 5 months ago
well said matt damon
93johnk 6 months ago
Support Your School Teacher dot Com
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ny1foster 6 months ago
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Douche bag Matt Damon. Fuck you monkey boy.
goeatadick11 6 months ago
@THEBIGCAGEY Just listen.....
HackLover007 6 months ago
1:50 fucking Taliban....
HackLover007 6 months ago
I appreciate that he's promoting public education and agree about standardized testing. But I have to wonder if his own kids go to public school. I'm not convinced that they do...
ecsmith2006 6 months ago
I like Matt Damon a lot and think he's clearly a very intelligent guy with his heart in the right place, but I wonder how he thinks we can get our students to be proficient in something like history without testing and rote memorization.
Last June, the NY Times published a study that found most students unable to explain why Lincoln was an important figure. I believe that mastering the basics should always precede the type of creativity that Matt Damon is advocating. We can't all be actors.
JOMAMA341 6 months ago
@JOMAMA341 I personally love history, and always knew more about it than any of my classmates. But that was because I had engaging conversations about history with my dad -- I usually slept through class. The teacher taught to the test, and no one learned anything. It's all about going in-depth and inspiring passion in students.
insteally 6 months ago
@JOMAMA341 I think history is an interesting example. When I was in elementary and high school, we were told to memorize the who, what, where, when, but never they why. The why was too difficult to measure on a scantron. Plus, the why requires you to actually understand the context and meaning of the history. Memorizing who Lincoln was, when was born, how he died, and what he did does not inherently explain why he is important.
skankenweenie 5 months ago
Standardized tests, while not completely irrelevant, have gained too much prominence, as an assessment tool, for measuring the quality of an education. Standardized tests don't test for well-rounded knowledge, critical thinking skills outside of deconstructing a paragraph and doing math problems, and they don't measure creativity. So to make a teacher's job contingent on such a narrow assessment of education is misguided.
alphacause 6 months ago
I love Matt Damon, & as a parent, I can't tell you how horrifying was the dawning realization that MY KID, was being "taught to a test" instead of the way that *I LEARNED* - tests were there, yes, but, nobody made it the center of our learning experience. I felt powerless in the face of this. And angry this was being done to my son. As a lifelong lover of learning & curiosity, to instill that in my child, through reading and exploration, I pray he's better off than the testing mentality allows
AprilReign 6 months ago
Thank you Matt Damon- as a teacher, I really appreciate this public support!
cek36 6 months ago
I study develompental psychology and I could write (I actually have written) 20-page papers on why high-stakes testing doesn't work. The problem in the USA is poverty, parents who have 3 jobs and don't have time for their kids, a terrible public school system and not enough funding (or spending it wrong). I am from Europe but I've spent two years in an American High School. There are so many good things but also so so many bad things. It's hard to get out of a spiral like that but if you don't..
MrCharming123 6 months ago 2
The overwhelming majority of high school students don't have a love for learning. That generally doesn't happen until college or even later in life. What Matt says might be fine for liberal arts or creative areas like drama class or whatever but high school is about being able to bang out the basics: research a topic and write a simple structured essay. Learn the basics of math so you aren't lost later in life. Learn to make yourself do these things even though you don't feel like it, because i
nshriver1 7 months ago
@nshriver1
because in the real work world that is what your job will be like unless you are one in a million like Matt and become an actor. You don't have to love doing these things in order to learn them. Teenagers in school have a love of listening to music and climbing the social ladder. Make them learn these basics first so they can pass the tests and then you can let them go and be free and waste the next 4 years of their life trying to "find themselves" like they hear about in the movies.
nshriver1 7 months ago
@nshriver1 when's the last time you took a standardized test at work to judge your performance?
drkmbrown 6 months ago
@nshriver1
Look, the teachers aren't at fault. Standardized tests wouldn't even be an issue if more kids had two involved parents at home who can/want to invest in their children becoming productive members of society.
nshriver1 7 months ago 4
vom, think you need to spend time trying for a ged.
A ged has a test requirement, so it will mean something.
No social promotions; no Johnny-can't-read; no math-phobia-for-life.
You will have skills an employer can work with.
And you will have skills to educate yourself, as we all must through life.
eddbrowne 7 months ago
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only a bitch would excuse his shaven head,
real men just do it
vomitedshit 7 months ago
@vomitedshit There is a difference between excuse and explanation, 'vomitedshit'.
esdenaze 7 months ago
Matt Damon looks 500% better with a shaved head for some reason.
Bouchon211 7 months ago
Easy to criticize with a bunch of talking points Matt the moron. Have you ever had a child in a class room with a bad teacher? They DO exist. You can talk trash about the system all you want but until you have a better idea or solution to the problem you should show support for teachers and not point fingers!! P.S. Mr. Damon doesn't even live in the same world as the rest of us, his reality is far different from the majorities. All should watch the movie Waiting For Superman!!! Netflix it!
putefile 7 months ago
Matt Damon's speech summarized: Me Me, I, I, I, Me, Mine, I, I, I and Me.
thejollylamas 7 months ago
Matt Damon should run for president.
litlrose0746 7 months ago
Matt Damon is awesome! Not becasue of his acting roles, but because of what he said in this speech. He's right that teachers are not always alowed to be teachers, but rather dictators of standardized tests. Let's fix the problem by working WITH teachers instead of brow-beating them and making them feel inferior because they are "over-paid" inferior and unintellectual beings. I wish more people like Matt Damon would come out & speak up for us! God Bless you Matt Damon!
UncrnLdy 7 months ago
Could this video be captioned for the deaf? The transcribe audio is not very accurate. And this is a speech worth "hearing."
njboone 7 months ago
"pass multiple choice tests without actually knowing the information."
Many HS grads can't read well, nor cope with simple algebra/geometry.
Companies get better workers at lower cost in Asia.
Economic survival is national security. Don't stand in front of that train.
Testing is just the minimum standard for coping with employment.
Nearly all could pass on the first try with the right support starting in first grade.
Then they can move on to better things with skills for those better things.
eddbrowne 7 months ago
Thank you Matt!!!!
bbrook79 7 months ago
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he's so full of shit
dawallaby82 7 months ago
He is completely right. I graduated with honors in 4 subjects, with a 3.91 GPA, 2 AP credits for college, and I feel grateful that my creativity and enthusiasm for knowledge barely survived school. I"m learning so much now that I'm out. Not really in college, but on my own. I finally appreciate history now. The most useful thing that school taught me, was how to use deductive reasoning to pass multiple choice tests without actually knowing the information.
virtuosoikingpin 7 months ago
wikipedia : Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment
eddbrowne 7 months ago
Thanks to you all for posting this. We teachers need to hear these kinds of messages.
adnelson 7 months ago
As an early childhood teacher, I was inspired by this speech! It's a shame that standardized testing and no child left behind control the way we teach and the things we have to teach. I definitely think teachers should be held accountable for doing a good job of educating children, but the way we assess teacher and student performance in this country is flat out wrong and shameful.
Dbush1979 7 months ago
Very well spoken. Too bad more don't watch this video than the one circulating more than 1M hits. I hope he puts some of the millions he make per film toward change and not just toward talk.
firesbg 7 months ago
Thanks Matt Damon!
CottageGirlBlog 7 months ago
Voucher-ize It, man!
FatTony726 7 months ago
Hateful? That was a love letter. Love for his teachers, for his mom, for the true essence of great teaching: installing a love of learning and realizing one's self. How can a human being attach the word hate to those wonderful sentiments?
austingeog 7 months ago
Matt Damon grew up living next door to Howard Zinn, the radical leftist who wrote the most used US history book in college. It is pure hateful trash against the USA and Damon bought into it completely. Damon had been anti-USA and anti-Christianity for a long time.
vechorik 7 months ago
@vechorik It's not hateful -- it's real. The USA has done some pretty terrible things (and still does), and its citizens must be aware of these so we can do things better next time. I think it's enormously patriotic to acknowledge our nation's flaws and care about it enough to try to make it a better place. Trying to sweep all our mistakes under the rug does not serve the citizens well.
bmh4d0k3n 7 months ago
@vechorik Hateful? The truth can sometimes be hateful, sad but true. I know.
madisonartteacher 7 months ago
@vechorik Do you know the body count of this country? Do you know what the body count of Native Americans is? African Americans? the Irish? Thats just a start. You know there are some estimates of Native people during the western invasion that have the body count to 125 MILLION. Saying that millions of people died in this country is not hateful. If you hated this country you would ignore its history.
You have 3 videos of weapons & violence on your page. You know weapons are tools of hate right?
Matryx 7 months ago
@vechorik read Lies My Teacher Told Me, and maybe you'll wake up from your stuper and antiintellectualism. Truth is, Christianity and the US have not always helped people; oftentimes corrupt churches, corrupt governments, corrupt people, have killed. Open up your eyes and realize that there is a reason so many liberals trashtalk the US. It isn't easy to criticize your own country; most people rarely have the courage to do it. Liberals only exist in a few nations. Treasure them
dchris1990 5 months ago
AVANCE is delighted to see actor Matt Damon use his celebrity status for a good cause and encourage teachers to do better. There are other issues beside teachers and standardized testing that must be addressed to Unlock America's Potential. The public education system will need to continue to evolve and address the issues that impact education success such as childhood poverty and parent involvement. Thanks to all the wonderful teachers out there and to Matt Damon for their compassionate work!
AvanceNational 7 months ago
I would like to thank all the the teachers that marched. Having a mother that was a teacher and a brother that retired this year after teaching 40 years of teaching I know all of the teachers would much rather be doing something fun instead of marching. First they come after your job security, then your wages. It's sad that they made you give up vacation time to protect your vocation, reputation and small salaries.
Callenge1 7 months ago
Matt, as a mother of a teacher, thank you!
mardee9367 7 months ago
spec24 you have without a doubt shown your superior intelect and debating abilities. Matt never had a chance
bkncrete 7 months ago
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What a f****** tool
spec24 7 months ago
The testing system is flawed and needs to have its current incarnation scrapped. Lawrence O'Donnell said correctly that there are many factors which contributes to how a child does in school. Some administrators do not even want teachers to remove disruptive students from the classrooms. What a joke.
nubreaks2 7 months ago
@eddbrowne-- you will notice that America started falling apart economically a few years after standardized testing became the norm. As Albert Einstein said "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." I do agree that I wish standardized testing had begun in the 50's because then by now we would have realized how stupid it was and moved on!
skunkofdoom 7 months ago
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skunkofdoom 7 months ago
Based on his SOS speech, and his Wikipedia entry, Matt indeed has a narrow
background (with some depth). But it takes someone with a wide and more
relevant background, particularly regarding industrial workforce issues and
education, to know that, and to measure his words.
I know far more about Matt than you will ever know about me.
An English major who drops out of Harvard, and soon goes bust ... ?
And it seems ironic that 'gothamschools' hides my initial comment.
eddbrowne 7 months ago
inb4 people who argue for the sake of arguing.
BigTeamButch 7 months ago
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Somebody needs to assassinate this faggot. In public.
sdflksdfkfh 7 months ago
MAAAATTT DAAAMMMONNNN is very articulate and makes some excellent points.
TheEthug 7 months ago
"None of these qualities can be tested."? GLaDOS says we'll see about that.
jeffreygeee 7 months ago 7
Is our children learning YEAH
xProdiigyy 7 months ago 2
@xProdiigyy What? That doesn't make much sense...
JonnieZombie 7 months ago
Damon went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin school, which is about as privileged a Public School as you can get without actually being private. He chastises "corporate reformers" for " literally not having ever taught anyone anything" (so apparently he knows the lives of every corporate reformer alive, since he was using the word "literally"-great teaching mom!) when all poor Matt has to do is play dress up for living and get paid millions. GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK.
Tmanintn 7 months ago
@Tmanintn Would you rather a poor person who can't pull the people that Matt D can go out there and talk. This videos of him talking here are going all over the internet and people are being MORE aware of it now because of him. Yes he's an actor but any help to the cause is a help to the cause no matter where your background is from.
HKevin88 7 months ago
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@HKevin88 Wow, so everyone is there to see Matt Damon? No one wonder our education system is screwed. I agree that K-12 teachers should be paid more than minimum wage, but the Unions and the Dept of Ed have basically stolen the money that should be paid to ACTUAL TEACHERS and used it on political campaigns and bureaucratic nonsense. Having Matt Damon yell "Teachers are awesome!! Pay them more money!!" is perhaps less useful than doing nothing, as far as I'm concerned.
Tmanintn 7 months ago
@Tmanintn Please don't try and twist my words, Let me clarify it for you. He did indeed pull more people, but not everyone is out there to see him. Add on the fact that the the video is being circulated it helps draw more attention to the issues at hand. Our education system is not screwed up because of people wanting to see Matt D, they are screwed up because of a list of different reasons. We all know they are stealing the money, but like i said any help is help to make better changes.
HKevin88 7 months ago
@HKevin88 He didn't "draw more attention" to anything other than the fact that "teachers are the best and should be paid more!!". Congratulations. That and a $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee. Wake me when I hear stories of Matt Damon protesting the Teachers Unions for diluting their pay, or the Dept of Ed for wasting tax payer money that should be going to school supplies and teachers, not bureaucratic nonsense.
Tmanintn 7 months ago
@Tmanintn Okay if alls he has to do is dress up and get paid millions then why doesnt everyone fucking do it, Oh wait thats right thats because he actually works hard for what he does and he excels at it, thus is why he gets paid millions so how bout you think before you post garbage on videos ok thanks.
TheVentrilomaster 7 months ago
@TheVentrilomaster
No it's because he got lucky and probably knew someone. He played the right cards at the right time and got the roles that made him the name he has today. Damon is by no means a unique butterfly. There are actors with more talent and more passion who have been driven into the ground because they didn't get lucky.
While I agree with his points here, I don't like his self proclaiming tone.
arafitos 7 months ago
this is amazing. i originally went to school to teach, but dropped out after shadowing at a school in arkansas and seeing how miserable the teachers were. not a decision i am necessarily proud of, but hindsight is 20/20.
djboston23 7 months ago
Demoralized. That's the word I constantly use to describe how I feel about life in education right now.
imevrywomn 7 months ago
Matt Damon is so well spoken in this speech. "The qualities that make me who I am can't be tested!" There is so much more to instilling a love of learning than testing. To create LIFELONG learners, we need more than testing!!
madisonartteacher 7 months ago 55
@madisonartteacher Harvard English Major
atrain472 7 months ago
@madisonartteacher
Save our Schools!
End the Progressive Union's Strangle Hold and END the Gov't MONOPOLY!
Bring REAL competition & REAL consequences for success AND failure!
yakyakyak69 7 months ago
@yakyakyak69
''Save our students'' is a do or die mission. The worst thing that can be done,
and has been done, is to condemn students to semi-ignorance and poverty.
And they don't help with the trade deficit, which is the source of budget deficits
and an incredible national debt.
Don't abandon the public system, but take ultimate control; it belongs to the public.
Hell must be raised.
eddbrowne 7 months ago
The irony of someone who's only contribution to the world are a few gun handling videos stating that a world traveling Harvard Educated actor/writer has a "narrow background" is absolutely overwhelming.
jmhooten 7 months ago 27
@jmhooten I'm Harvard educated too and also public school educated. I guarantee that I am not rich and famous. If anything I am grateful to have been given a chance to try and do well. For most of my life, including being in the US Army, I tried to increase my knowledge and could not have done so without public education and public benefits. Now, my daughter is teaching, with a salary of half of what she could earn in industry, because as Matt Demon said, she loves to teach.
GeorgeW6 7 months ago 6
@GeorgeW6 Thank you for this comment. The opponents of public education are really trying to kill the unions who support Democrats. Teachers are being asked to evaluate students solely on tests that are unreliable and usually irrelevant. Testing can guide teachers throughout the year, but should never be the sole determinant of a student's value or the gauge of a teacher's merit. Matt Damon will incur the wrath of the privatization crowd. But he is in our hearts forever.
DFM3333 7 months ago 3
@jmhooten
You spelled "whose" wrong.
annefrankisaho 7 months ago
I assist women/seniors who need threat protection; and I teach math.
Pistols often jam if a weak grip is used, or if extractions fails.
Matt is an English dropout, actor, writer; 20 years my junior.
He never went to war; never passed college physics; never worked
in a factory; spent little time in dangerous urban areas alone; and
never handled a court case.
And EB is one user name, but you act like it's me.
eddbrowne 7 months ago
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@jmhooten
I assist women/seniors who need threat protection; and I teach math.
Pistols often jam if a weak grip is used, or if extractions fails.
Matt is an English dropout, actor, writer; 20 years my junior.
He never went to war; never passed college physics; never worked
in a factory; spent little time in dangerous urban areas alone; and
never handled a court case.
And EB is one user name, but you act like it's me.
eddbrowne 7 months ago
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As usual for those of narrow background, Damon is not aware of gaps in his world view.
The ruin of America could have been avoided if standardized testing had been the
norm since 1950, and if the power of teacher unions had not been so abused.
eddbrowne 7 months ago