**OT W'D Ranting. Yes, plenty students get less than 80%
Many students come from such a horrible home life that you would be SHOCKED. Kids are set in front of the TV at age 1. Many students are watching R rated violent videos by age 6. Many innocent children deserve WAY BETTER parents than fate has served them with.
My 3 year old has books read to her every night, plays "Kid Pix" once and a while, paints, draws with crayons, and watches her share of videos. My wife and I pick appropriate videos, and there are a lot of good ones to chose from. She can count some, and sing the ABC's.
She is already ahead of a lot of 5 and 6 year olds that will show up in the public schools. So you are 6 years old, and 3 years behind in development. HOW THE HELL are you going to catch up? It goes downhill from there.
So students get to High School and they don't know anything. Because they just experienced 8 years of always being behind and not knowing what is going on.
If I flunk every math student who doesn't know the 8th grade basics- maybe 20-25% of the kids (just a guess) THEN WHAT? No high school diploma. No remediation program. No way to even get in to tech school to get caught up to something functional.
In enlightened provences in canada, if English is not your first language, you get to go to school in French.
A kid comes from cambodia to america and gets a few years of school. The folks move to canada. French for you, my lad! You are SCREWED.
Next time you want to dump on the education system, think about this- the PARENTS are responsible for the children.
My kids will get a's and go to college. Yours too. All of ours- because we are literate enough to work computers, and wealthy enough to have money to play with. For the others, it's a grim story.
Granted, some parents are poor and ill educated, but somehow know to value their kids, and education for their kids. These parents are heros.
A lot of 'em are bums.
WebDrone
(been known to teach high school math, teaching at a tech college this summer) |
