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What education?
"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:25:21 GMT, "Doug Kanter" wrote: "Gene Kearns" wrote in message . .. On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:09:33 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote: http://www.break.com/movies/suffrage.html 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? |
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