Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Education as an elective

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Education as an elective

American students still
relatively stupid uneducated

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After a decade of intensive efforts to improve its schools, the United States posted these results in a new global survey of 15-year-old student achievement: average in reading, average in science and slightly below average in math.

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As sarcastic as I can be

Unless the parents are fully committed to seeing that their kids are educated, a $million spent per student won't make a difference. Do you think Orientals are born smarter? JFC, smell the farging sake!!

ASIDE - from Tim W.
A Marine was retired from the Corps due to wounds he received in battle. He found work as a high school history teacher. On his first day- still in a full chest cast covered by his shirt- he found he had the toughest group of teenagers in the school as his pupils. He walked into the classroom and opened the window. The resulting breeze began to flap his tie around a bit, so he grabbed a staple gun and nailed it to his chest.

He didn't have a bit of trouble the entire school year.

Rodger the Real King of France 12/07/2010 12:14:00 PM 14 Comments

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Anonymous said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; 12/7/10, 12:32 PM
Anonymous said...: It isn't the kids, it's the schools. Kids today are as intelligent as they have ever been. They are being sabotaged by teachers and methods designed to dumb them down.

Skoonj; 12/7/10, 12:45 PM
TheOldMan said...: Flush the Department of Education.; 12/7/10, 1:06 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Asian kids attending the same school as non-Asians consistently outperform them. The difference is entirely due to the demands and expectations of the parents. What they are taught by liberal educators is another problem entirely, and the amount of money spent per student is also immaterial, by and large.

And -- of the parents who do have high expectations, too many of them wind up doing their kid's homework.; 12/7/10, 1:23 PM
OregonGuy said...: Go to the state website

http://www.ode.state.or.us/data/reportcard/reports.aspx

Choose Astoria and view the results.

More than four out of ten male students can't meet the minimums for science: 3-1/2 for math; 3 for English/Language Arts. Females do slightly better in English/LA and math, but worse in science.

Imagine a factory where forty percent of the product didn't meet minimum standards. How long would that factory stay open?

Schools are different. It's for the kids.
.; 12/7/10, 1:52 PM
toadold said...: A few years back the local media rag was doing an article about the schools and the subject of why Asian kids were doing so well. They talked to a Vietnamese girl about why she did well in school and she said, "If I don't do well in school my father would kill me."
"Oh!" The interviewer said, "He would ground you and everything."
"No,you don't understand my father would kill me!"; 12/7/10, 2:36 PM
TimO said...: Once the hippies and SDS radicals in the '60s graduated and took over the school systems and teacher unions, the entire country went to hell....; 12/7/10, 3:24 PM
Anonymous said...: in the early 90s I had a Asian collage kid buy a shotgun from me. He used it to kill himself because his grades were not good enough.; 12/7/10, 5:37 PM
Anonymous said...: Japan has a high suicide rate among young people. My niece teaches over in Japan, she was telling me a story about one of her students who had a hickey on her neck, she didn't want to be too critical of the young girl because she feared the girl might kill herself. She also says that the schools raise the child, not the parents. When the parents are upset with their child, they call the school. She feels that method isn't working out too well for the culture.; 12/7/10, 7:55 PM
Anonymous said...: The kids aren't doing well because the parents don't insist on it.
The parents don't insist because their long term welfare isn't dependent on how the kids turn out.
The perception is that the government will take care of everybody.
Eventually, this will change... but there will be lots of sorrow getting there.
Steve (currently in CA); 12/7/10, 9:07 PM
Anonymous said...: Today, the Wall Street Journal had the ranking of the top 40 countries in both math and science.
Take a look at it and ask yourself if there is not some clue in the ethnic makeup of those 40 countries.; 12/7/10, 9:51 PM
Alear said...: School, schmool. Come out to the real world, where I work with the best of the Indians and Chinese. Seriously, graduates of their versions of Harvard.

They can pass all the school tests they want, and they certainly have, but when it comes to creativity, our good ole American engineers are consistently, measurably better. By very far.; 12/8/10, 12:26 AM
Anonymous said...: Call my cynical, but, here goes.

Look at the fall shoppers when school is reopening. The white parents are helping their little girl choose between the pink Hello Kitty cell phone or the Dora Explorer one. And she's 16. For the boy, it's whether he needs the jock with or without a cup for sports this year.

Meanwhile, the Asian family is deciding between the TI-89 or the HP48gii calculator. For both kids.; 12/8/10, 6:21 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Alear makes a good point. We are tops in the world when it comes to stressing and rewarding individual accomplishment. A MiG pilot can't make a left turn without permission from a ground controller. To continue the analogy though, it would be nice if our pilots were taught to fly before being turned loose to dogfight, wot.; 12/8/10, 10:10 AM

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Education as an elective

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