Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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T be fair, Mira, how many people were interviewed that knew all the answers? It wouldn't be very entertaining to show all of them, though.
I'll bet Jay could go to Nova Scotia and get some dumb answers, too. Actually Nova Scotians were taught these lessons in American History ,Hawkeye. I would certainly expect our univercity and community collage teachers to be able to answer as well as Gramps. You may have learned your history but spelling appears to be a different issue.
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Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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So I omitted the O in to, it wasn't a spelling error, it was a typo. I learned to spell to and too and two in the eighth grade. The third time through.
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Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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Example #2, and these are not all under 50ish types. There are plenty more examples if you would like me to go on.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seYUbVa7L7w&feature=related I love the kid at the end. Steel, let me know when your next class is
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Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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Great Idea SteelTrap, Maybe you could call your school------------ THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
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Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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They don't teach combat....
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Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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sgs wrote........ I work in a junior high school. I've talked to many an eighth grader who can't remember what they were taught two hours ago. _________________________
Well then they weren't taught ! Fair enough! I've found that people, young and old, usually don't retain what has no relevance for them.
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sgs wrote........ I work in a junior high school. I've talked to many an eighth grader who can't remember what they were taught two hours ago. _________________________
Well then they weren't taught ! Fair enough! I've found that people, young and old, usually don't retain what has no relevance for them. However world History ,the system of governments and how they were formulated is always relevant as it is the basis for taxes & the economy of nations.
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Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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...usually don't retain what has no relevance for them. Taxes and the economy of nations probably have less relevance to an eighth grader than you think.
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...usually don't retain what has no relevance for them. Taxes and the economy of nations probably have less relevance to an eighth grader than you think. Jay was not questioning 8th graders but gramps seems to have done a much better job of retaining his Historical references then his offspring or they were never taught those lessons to begin with.
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...usually don't retain what has no relevance for them. Taxes and the economy of nations probably have less relevance to an eighth grader than you think. Why did you change goal posts ?? You referenced young and old don`t retain info that you felt held no relevance to them & then only made note of eight graders in your comment to me!
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Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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Punching the time clock is all it is, they do not care if you get anything out of it, they just want you to get the diploma so on some chart it says that they had a high passing percentage. I will be a junior next year and see it. Our school has a room for the kids that don't try "credit recovery" as they call it, not a room for the special needs, but literally for the kids that don't put forth any effort, so when they fall so far behind they can go make up a semester in 3 weeks. It is kind of hard to learn anything when they show up 2 hours later than us and leave an hour earlier than us and have smoke breaks all day long, they even bring pillows in to nap, it sure sounds like a real, advanced learning envirement to catch up on what they "missed" while they thought they were cool refusing to do work, just my look from the inside i guess
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Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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ketchikan, just think, those are the people who you will have to choose from when you hire somebody one day.
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Re: America's school system is DOOMED>
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ketchikan, just think, those are the people who you will have to choose from when you hire somebody one day. Or vote for someone.
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