{"id":24041,"date":"2011-06-16T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T12:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24041"},"modified":"2011-06-16T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T14:17:05","slug":"another-failing-grade-for-us-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24041","title":{"rendered":"Another failing grade for US education"},"content":{"rendered":"

StrikeFO sends us a link to a Wall Street Journal<\/a> article that excoriates the US education system is regards to the teaching of history and current events;<\/p>\n

Only 20% of U.S. fourth-graders and 17% of eighth-graders who took the 2010 history exam were “proficient” or “advanced,” unchanged since the test was last administered in 2006. Proficient means students have a solid understanding of the material.<\/p>\n

The news was even more dire in high school, where 12% of 12th-graders were proficient, unchanged since 2006. More than half of all seniors posted scores at the lowest achievement level, “below basic.” While the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders have seen a slight uptick in scores since the exam was first administered in 1994, 12th-graders haven’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we lose generation after generation of students to ignorance in what used to be the world class education system. StrikeFO makes the valid point that maybe if teachers spent less time introducing their students to people like Matthis<\/a> and more time actually teaching relevant material, our students would be a bit brighter. It’s not just Matthis, it’s putting condoms on bananas in class and all of the socialization that occurs in the classroom as opposed to actual teaching.<\/p>\n

We have a cash-hungry university system that accommodates students who can’t read nor write by providing “remedial” instruction which is a green light for public school teachers to steal from the taxpayers by providing a less-than-adequate basic education.<\/p>\n

As taxpayers pour cash into a broken education system, illiterate and moronic students are churned out the other end…most completely unemployable in the modern world. I attended college 20 years after I graduated from high school and I learned nothing in college that i hadn’t already learned in high school. But because of education inflation, I needed that diploma for employers. A sad statement on the state of our system at this point in our history.<\/p>\n

ADDED:<\/strong> Old Trooper adds a link about Minnesota schools<\/a> who are failing their students in droves;<\/p>\n

Minnesota Department of Education figures, released Wednesday to the Star Tribune, show that 4,872 seniors have yet to pass either or both of tests; that amounts to about 8 percent of all seniors tested.<\/p>\n

This is the second year that passing both tests has been a state graduation requirement, and the figures are similar to those from last year. A final count for the Class of 2010, issued in January, found that 7 percent of seniors — 4,794 — had not passed either or both tests, even after additional chances to take them were offered beyond the school year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ADDED AGAIN: <\/strong> Yet another link from Old Trooper to prove my point<\/a> that schools need to do more teaching and less socialization BS:<\/p>\n

A middle school in Massachusetts is under fire for requiring children to complete a graphic sex survey — without parental knowledge or consent — that included questions about sexual partners and oral sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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