Re:Obama's view on schools
by unalone on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @06:15PM
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This sounds great, but for the fact that most of the things students are being reviewed on are meaningless bullshit. How are teachers being measured? By AP scores? Grades overall? Because as a still-fresh departure from grade school, I'm pretty sure 90% of the stuff I was tested on was bullshit. My teachers knew that and let me get away with poor grades so I could learn what I wanted to, and that's where I learned. If every teacher's now being taught that they should be pushing their students to get good grades, I predict we won't see much good come out of this initiative.
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You learned how to jump through hoops and perform passable work on things which didn't necessarily interest you.
In other words, real world training.