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School is too easy, students report

Started by Bill , Jul 11 2012 02:22 PM
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#1 OFFLINE   Bill

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 02:22 PM

The Detroit Free Press reports:

Millions of kids simply don't find school very challenging, a new analysis of federal survey data suggests. The report could spark a debate about whether new academic standards being piloted nationwide might make a difference.


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Posted 11 July 2012 - 03:54 PM

Of course it's too easy, thanks to No Child Left Behind. Our school system is just another way to dumb down America...and it's working.
Maybe your perception needs tweaking.

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Posted 11 July 2012 - 06:39 PM

Of course it's too easy, thanks to No Child Left Behind. Our school system is just another way to dumb down America...and it's working.


I think you are putting the response ahead of the cause. Maybe NCLB wasn't an improvement (god knows everyone has done their best to sabotage it) but it was passed to help resolve the crisis. Instead it's used as an excuse.
But you knew that already, didn't you?

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Posted 12 July 2012 - 05:25 AM

Graduated in 07....it was easy, I was just lazy. I'll tell you we NEVER learned how to write a paper...I mean like the kind in college, boy was Frshman English in college a kick in the ass.

Edited by Bazinga, 12 July 2012 - 05:25 AM.

July 12th 2012: The day it was determined the almighty Joe Pa and his precious PSU Football program was the biggest and most disgusting fraud of all time!

All Paterno Apologists who kept chirping over the years that he was the greatest of all time and ran the cleanest program of all the power confrences can suck it.

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Posted 12 July 2012 - 07:37 AM

I think you are putting the response ahead of the cause. Maybe NCLB wasn't an improvement (god knows everyone has done their best to sabotage it) but it was passed to help resolve the crisis. Instead it's used as an excuse.


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Posted 12 July 2012 - 07:55 AM

The goal of public education is not to educate, it is to provide an easily led mass of citizens. it is succeeding beyond it's wildest dreams.

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Posted 12 July 2012 - 06:51 PM

Sabotage how?


Well, let's start with the bitching about it. Nobody involved _wanted_ it to work, it would seem.
All I ever heard was "we have to teach to the test". My response was always "can they read the test to take it, and, if so, isn't that an improvement?" Invariably silence.
But you knew that already, didn't you?

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Posted 13 July 2012 - 07:38 AM

I don't see how complaining about it is sabotaging it. I complain about my job all the time, yet I continue to work hard for my organization.
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 07:47 AM

I don't see how complaining about it is sabotaging it. I complain about my job all the time, yet I continue to work hard for my organization.


Not that I am speaking for you but i'm guranteed to be one of those people. Only thing keeping me coming back is the green.
July 12th 2012: The day it was determined the almighty Joe Pa and his precious PSU Football program was the biggest and most disgusting fraud of all time!

All Paterno Apologists who kept chirping over the years that he was the greatest of all time and ran the cleanest program of all the power confrences can suck it.
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