RolandMk.1
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Seeing as how I graduated high school back in '07 I might as well throw in my .02 cents...
The biggest problem with the public schools are standardized tests. All the general classes; the English, math, history, geography, even gym class, are all geared towards students passing those tests and not a damn thing else. Those tests were what the sun rose and set on during the school year; and I never once saw any good come from them.
If those could be gotten rid of we'd start to see students coming out of school able to do simple math without a calculator; and read at an age-appropriate level. (For the curious, I was issued a calculator for my senior year math exam; all I had to do was plug in the numbers.)
Teach a child to pass a test and they'll pass one test; teach him to succeed in all tests and he'll be better off.
The biggest problem with the public schools are standardized tests. All the general classes; the English, math, history, geography, even gym class, are all geared towards students passing those tests and not a damn thing else. Those tests were what the sun rose and set on during the school year; and I never once saw any good come from them.
If those could be gotten rid of we'd start to see students coming out of school able to do simple math without a calculator; and read at an age-appropriate level. (For the curious, I was issued a calculator for my senior year math exam; all I had to do was plug in the numbers.)
Teach a child to pass a test and they'll pass one test; teach him to succeed in all tests and he'll be better off.