Quote from dddooo:
And the leading 20 nations have what kind of education system, private? Hahaha, try again.
Are they right-wing countries way more conservative and capitalistic than the US, right? Like Japan, Finland, Canada, Sweden, France are bastions of conservatism and capitalism and that's why their education systems are better than ours. I did not think so.
No, their public schools are simply filled with better quality students. Pretty simple.
dddoo, honestly, I'm amazed at you. To claim that public education, in the US, is "working" is one heck of a statement to make.
I really have to ask, what standard are you applying to determine that? So far you've only offered your kids' school's college acceptance rate. You don't really expect anyone to agree public education is working on the strength of that measly evidence do you?
Do you even care about what they're learning? Or whether they are actually learning anything (useful)?
Check this out (I always post recent news, btw):
For a 16-year-old, Iris Padilla's resume looks pretty good: Not only is she already a senior close to completing all the credits needed to graduate from Richmond High, she's president of a Latin American culture club and is active in political and religious clubs at school. Next year, Iris wants to go to college and study psychology.
But Richmond High might not let her graduate this spring.
That's because Iris hasn't passed the exit exam, and she has only one more chance before graduation day to tackle the two-day test, on March 21-22.
Iris is one of 73,270 California high school seniors in the same pickle -- unable to fulfill a new state law requiring students to pass a test of basic English, math and algebra to graduate. That's 1 in 5 members of the state's Class of 2006, says the state Department of Education.
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"I need a diploma," said Iris, a chestnut-haired girl who was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Mexican state of Jalisco. "I want it. I deserve it. I've been going to school and studying. I want to have a profession."
Iris said all of this in Spanish.
Can't even speak English for crying out loud.
Come on. If this is not a sham, I don't know what is.
1 in 5 - that's 20%, folks - can't pass a test in
basic English, Math and Algebra. If this is considered "working", I'd have to see "failing".
A couple of weeks ago there a current affairs special in Australia in which recent high school graduates were given tests that seniors took in 1976 -
not one of them passed. Is this "working"?
The fact is, education is being destroyed by fancy liberal education theories. "Dumbing down" isn't just a conservative buzz word, it's a real phenomenon. (If I had to guess, I would say it's being done because there are so many less able minority students these days, that to teach a proper curriculum would leave them so far behind the gap in ability would be too large to ignore.)
