Mike Powell wrote to ALL <=-
Well, move them to Oregon, where they are going to help all the
kids of all the colors of the rainbow graduate while being even
less prepared to advance forward or face the real world. Your
kids will love it there.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/08/gov-kate-brown-signed- a-law-to- allow-oregon-students-to-graduate-without-proving-they-can-write-o r-do-math
-she-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-it.html
https://tinyurl.com/25me8v7n
The "leadership" out that way are all idiots. Stupid idiots.
Well, move them to Oregon, where they are going to help
all the kids of all the colors of the rainbow graduate
while being even less prepared to advance forward or face
the real world. Your kids will love it there.
graduate-without-proving-they-can-write-o
r-do-math-she-doesnt-want-to-talk-about-it.html
https://tinyurl.com/25me8v7n
The "leadership" out that way are all idiots. Stupid idiots.
Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-
The "leadership" out that way are all idiots. Stupid idiots.
I don't think they are idiots. I think they know very wekll what
they are doing.
They have been raping education into nothingness in Spain since
the 80s or so. Even college education was more tough than it used
to be. I was lucky enough to be educated in an old-school college
which was ran by dinosaurs who used education programs from the
70s - which means the programs were outdated but at least were
the real thing.
If you are a politician, you don't care for the long-term
sustainability of the country. You only need to be cool enough in
the eyes of your voters in order to get reelected. If you want to
purchase parent's votes, an easy way to do it is to tell them
their kids are going to have it easy to get to college if you are
in office. Most parents want their kids to eventually hit high
level education so they will roll happily with it.
Also, today's parents are pussies and don't want their kids to be
stressed by mennial things such as exams and the like and love
blaming their kid's failures on somebody else. If their children
are failing exams, it must be the system's fault rather than the children's. This makes it easy for politicians to sell them "You
are right, we will adjust our system to reasonable standards if
you vote me."
Somebody I know maintains that they are actively trying to
provide suboptimal education so people ends up ignorant and
stupid, and thus manipulable.
Long term, this means the country ends up cracking under its own
weight, but by the time that happens, the politicians responsible
will be long gone to their Peru mansions, enjoying Martinis and
hookers while their motherland burns.
August Abolins wrote to Gamgee <=-
Well, move them to Oregon, where they are going to help
all the kids of all the colors of the rainbow graduate
while being even less prepared to advance forward or face
the real world. Your kids will love it there.
The "leadership" out that way are all idiots. Stupid idiots.
It's about getting votes. Arelor summarized it nicely.
But something akin to this started happening in grade schools
here when they discontinued teaching of cursive writing.
(That's cursive as in writing "style of penmanship in which
some characters are written joined together in a flowing
manner" - not the art of swear words!) hahah!
When I heard that, I thought, WTF. Cursive writing is often
the basis of even producing one's signature later in life.
Gamgee wrote to Mike Powell <=-
I'm actually hoping that the "big one" comes soon, and the entire
western coastal states all break off and disappear into the ocean.
Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-
I don't think they are idiots. I think they know very wekll what they
are doing.
They have been raping education into nothingness in Spain since the 80s
or so. Even college education was more tough than it used to be. I was lucky enough to be educated in an old-school college which was ran by dinosaurs who used education programs from the 70s - which means the programs were outdated but at least were the real thing.
Somebody I know maintains that they are actively trying to provide suboptimal education so people ends up ignorant and stupid, and thus manipulable.
Long term, this means the country ends up cracking under its own
weight, but by the time that happens, the politicians responsible will
be long gone to their Peru mansions, enjoying Martinis and hookers
while their motherland burns.
August Abolins wrote to Gamgee <=-
When I heard that, I thought, WTF. Cursive writing is often
the basis of even producing one's signature later in life.
August Abolins wrote to Gamgee <=-
When I heard that, I thought, WTF. Cursive writing is often
the basis of even producing one's signature later in life.
Speaking for the USA, since I don't know the specifics in other
countries regarding elections and how long one can serve - one of the obvious answers is TERM LIMITS. That way the assholes can't work the
system for decades, getting rich, and screwing people over. The numbers
can be debated, but something like 5-8 years is all one should be
allowed to serve, and then go away.
Agreed. I'm old enough to have learned cursive writing in school. I
will have to say that I have *VERY* rarely ever wanted/needed to use it, though. Other than
signatures of course. I'm kinda on the fence on
whether it's worth taking all that time to teach a kid how to do it.
Would that class time be better spent on teaching them how to balance a checkbook/debit account
do basic income tax preparation, basic cooking skills, etc etc...? I never took it as a kid, b
I remember some kind
of elective course called "home economics" being offered. Seems like
kids today don't know much about how to actually operate in the real
world.
I am happy we no longer have to be careful about the wrong person
listening to us when we mooked the Leader's moustache, but I cannot
stop realizing we have gone soft.
I'm left-handed, was taught to orient the paper the way a
right-hander does, so I hook my hand over the writing -
which has resulted in a lifetime of smeared writing and
poor cursive.
I never took typing classes in high school, so I hunt-and-
peck, albeit very quickly.
Kurt Weiske wrote to Gamgee <=-
I'm actually hoping that the "big one" comes soon, and the entire
western coastal states all break off and disappear into the ocean.
My family's cabin near Donner Summit (elevation 7122, about 180
miles inland) would make nice beachfront property, and quite near
the soon-to-be Nevada free-trade territories, post USA.
Arelor wrote to Gamgee <=-
Speaking for the USA, since I don't know the specifics in other
countries regarding elections and how long one can serve - one of the obvious answers is TERM LIMITS. That way the assholes can't work the
system for decades, getting rich, and screwing people over. The numbers
can be debated, but something like 5-8 years is all one should be
allowed to serve, and then go away.
I agree with term limits. We don't have them in Spain and it
causes some ugly problems in local and autonomic governments
which keep the same leader for decades.
When one of these long standing leaders gets eventually replaced
after an ellection, they invariably find lots and lots of
irregularities and corruption piled up from years and years of
sitting on the throne. I don't know why people acts surprised
when that happens.
[...] Cursive writing is often the basis of even
producing one's signature later in life.
Agreed. I'm old enough to have learned cursive writing in
school. I will have to say that I have *VERY* rarely ever
wanted/needed to use it, though.
[...] I'm kinda on the fence on whether it's worth taking
all that time to teach a kid how to do it.
[...] Seems like kids today don't know much about how to
actually operate in the real world.
Would you be averse to demonstrate that cursive can have
application in improving speed of writing?
Many of the curriculum books are popular since the covid thing
forced people to teach or study at home. I recently brought in
a Gr 8 Math curriculm for a customer. Looking through that a
lot of the stuff about cartesian coordiates, fractions,
calculating volumes etc.. all looked quite familiar. Except for calculating volumes, not much of that other stuff seemed to
have any application later in my life. But I personally
enjoyed the math challenges.
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