"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:25:21 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:09:33 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:

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I couldn't believe it.

I know that this is probably preaching to the choir... since I know
your wife is a teacher, but education is now defined as the ability to
pass a standardized test. It has nothing to do with ability to reason
or accrued knowledge.

A recent newspaper article found that, locally, of 350 applicants,
only 23 of 350 applicants with a high school diploma had adequate
skills in reading, writing, and math to begin entry level college
classes.... but having a high school diploma, we know they can pass
that test! Right?


I wish someone would explain to me why this is true, and exactly what's
happened since I left high school in 1970. It's rather depressing.

I can tell you exactly what it is. Liberal "learning should be fun
with no consequences" and it's more important to socialize our
children than teach them things like - oh say, math. It's much more
important to obtain another music teacher than a math teacher.

Witness the idiot superintendent down in Killingly who, this is not a
joke, thinks it's degrading to give out "performance based marks" thus
came up with a "credit" system with no consequences. If the child
passes a course, he/she is given "credit" - if not, then nothing on
the record to indicate that the child failed to pass. His reasoning
is that grades are demeaning - that the fact that one kid gets an A
and one gets a C is demoralizing to the C student and thus decreasing
to that child's efforts to learn.

Those are the idiots we have to deal with in the education system.

Is this a plaid skirt school?