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Attn: Concerned Citizens of the US | by TheyMustBIdiots | 2003-07-11 11:05:12 |
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This is open to everyone, despite the title. | by TheyMustBIdiots | 2003-07-11 11:06:13 |
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Won't happen under these people. | by adiplomat | 2003-07-11 11:09:46 |
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That's why I'm going to vote Dem next election. | by TheyMustBIdiots | 2003-07-11 11:11:24 |
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See. *THATS* why US politics is screwed up. | by subbywan | 2003-07-11 11:27:15 |
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I suggest you actually read TMBI's post | by adiplomat | 2003-07-11 11:30:19 |
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But then that's not democracy. | by subbywan | 2003-07-11 11:37:22 |
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Newsflash! America Not A Democracy. | by Naruki | 2003-07-11 11:38:53 |
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We're not a direct democracy | by subbywan | 2003-07-11 11:48:05 |
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We have every right to complain, through our votes | by TheyMustBIdiots | 2003-07-11 11:55:31 |
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Even at the expense of the country? | by subbywan | 2003-07-11 11:59:32 |
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Yes, even at the expense of the country. | by TheyMustBIdiots | 2003-07-11 12:03:39 |
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Much like communism, that only works on paper. | by subbywan | 2003-07-11 12:09:37 |
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Hoss puckey. | by sparkyr | 2003-07-11 12:15:14 |
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As I said. It works on paper. | by subbywan | 2003-07-11 12:21:10 |
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Then | by mirage | 2003-07-11 12:27:13 |
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Oh, wait I forgot, we can't | by sparkyr | 2003-07-11 12:40:02 |
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by subbywan |
2003-07-11 12:47:41 |
Throwing money at a situation seldom resolves it.
Bush *does* have the right idea with the No Child Left Behind bit. Unfort, it's still up to the states as to how they want to approach that. That means you have 50 different ways of doing it, and in some cases, the states let the school districts themselves decide, so you have even more ways. That means you have *NO* way to accurately measure what works and doesn't work.
The states *demand* to have control over their syllabus', but the current trend seems to be to either lower standards so more people pass, or like Harvard, inflate grades so that it seems more people pass.
My father had a saying that hasn't failed me yet: "If you know the work, there's no question they can ask you that you can't answer". I firmly believe that. This whole thing about "The questions were too hard" is bull. Teachers DON'T go out to design exams that students can't answer. And from having attended school in the US, students here often expect to be GIVEN answers and solutions rather than taught how to solve it themselves.
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No Child Left Behind | by saxguy | 2003-07-11 13:15:22 |
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What exactly IS the function of the school system? | by LurkerMo | 2003-07-11 13:31:55 |
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Unfort, Parents are more and more demanding | by subbywan | 2003-07-11 13:48:29 |
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What would it take for parents to meet their | by LurkerMo | 2003-07-11 13:59:28 |
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You want honest or nice? *grin* | by subbywan | 2003-07-11 14:06:07 |
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Unfortunately, as beneficial to Society as it | by LurkerMo | 2003-07-11 14:56:30 |
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Yep. And therein lies the problem. | by subbywan | 2003-07-11 15:01:59 |
