I compare our education system to factory farming. Everybody is taught the
same. For years I thought I couldn't do math, just not my thing, can't do math.
Turns out I can't do the "carry the one" style, its just not how I process
things. I can do more math now in my head than I could do with a calculator in
high school. We need to spend a minute figuring out how a kid learns and stick
'em in with other kids that learn the same way and a teacher that understands
it. Putting different learning styles together is dumb and wastes everybody's
time.
Low expectations of course is nothing new, in the '50s nobody cared if Johnny
couldn't read, he could always go work in the mill, except now he can't, even
if there was a mill...
-Curt
On Tuesday, July 23, 2019, 3:20:56 PM EDT, G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I quote my Paternal Grandmother [who birthed and raised 12 children who were
successful in their chosen fields]."Civilization is only one generation deep,
we either pass it to our children, or, they get to start from the beginning all
by themselves."
IMHO, low expectations always produce low results. We have produced a visible
segment of those who have never been challenged to produce educated and
energized children... Question is: Is it our fault they never learned good
parenting skills... or is it theirs?
Education, such as it now exists, always teaches to the lowest common
denominator.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:31 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Ugh, can you imagine how dumb 90% of the kids would be if their idiot parents
were "responsible" for their education?
Curt
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:23 PM, Curley McLain via
Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Amen. If I were king for a day, I'd
eliminate schools and their taxes.
tell parents to band together and teach or hire a teacher with the money
they are no longer taxed for. 6-8 years in a one room school was far
superior to a current kolledge ejamacation in most cases. (oh, and
sell the real estate, refunding the money to the taxpayers)
G Mann via Mercedes wrote on 7/23/19 10:54 AM:
> Per student, the public funded educational system spends more than any
> country in the world... yet, USA schools are ranked near the bottom.... So,
> the question comes, "If we just throw more money at the problem, will it
> fix it's self?"
>
> On a daily basis, in business, I am confronted by less than 30 yr olds who
> can not spell, can not do basic math, can not read and comprehend, can not
> follow simple instructions, and can not use basic logic... yet, when they
> are confronted with their failures, they become near violent and insulted...
>
> Reading news reports has become an exercise in guessing what the writer is
> saying, due to lack of use of basic English and syntax, coupled with gross
> spelling errors, which should have never been passed from an editors desk..
> is there is still such a thing...
>
> Increasingly, I find I must exercise my "Racist White Heterosexual
> Privilege" and fire them. [sarcasm folks]
>
> O
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