Reaping What We've Sowed

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This is a quote from the president of the NEA...this guy has brass balls. Where does he think the poor policies, curriculums, and social engineering that have put our children and grandchildren in this position came from? Now they are foisting this Common Core crap on our kids and teachers...thinking that if we all of a sudden make the work next to impossible for the kids to do...somehow or other, the teachers will be able to magically infuse their students with the basics that have been ignored for years. Pull your kids out of public education if at all possible or help your own kids pay for a private school education for your grandchildren.

While education has always emphasized fluent reading, correct speech, and clear writing,
there is evidence that students are not mastering these most basic
skills. In the report, Are They Really Ready to Work?, employers note
that although oral and written communication are among the top four
skills they seek in new hires, all graduates are lacking in these areas.
High school graduates fare the worst, with 72 percent of employers
citing this group’s deficiency in writing in English, and 81 percent citing
their deficiency in written communications. Almost half of employers
said employees with two-year degrees were still lacking skills in these
two areas, while over a quarter of employers felt four-year graduates
continued to lack these skills.

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Sorry I have to inject some humor into what is not s funny subject..
It does fit though.......

[dog]

Dec 28, 2013 7:48:57 GMT -6 butterbean said:

This is a quote from the president of the NEA...this guy has brass balls. Where does he think the poor policies, curriculums, and social engineering that have put our children and grandchildren in this position came from? Now they are foisting this Common Core crap on our kids and teachers...thinking that if we all of a sudden make the work next to impossible for the kids to do...somehow or other, the teachers will be able to magically infuse their students with the basics that have been ignored for years. Pull your kids out of public education if at all possible or help your own kids pay for a private school education for your grandchildren.

While education has always emphasized fluent reading, correct speech, and clear writing,
there is evidence that students are not mastering these most basic
skills. In the report, Are They Really Ready to Work?, employers note
that although oral and written communication are among the top four
skills they seek in new hires, all graduates are lacking in these areas.
High school graduates fare the worst, with 72 percent of employers
citing this group’s deficiency in writing in English, and 81 percent citing
their deficiency in written communications. Almost half of employers
said employees with two-year degrees were still lacking skills in these
two areas, while over a quarter of employers felt four-year graduates
continued to lack these skills.

When everyone is more comfortable and constantly using LOL, WTF,LMFAO, and all the other texting slang and using texting more than actual face to face or voice communication, I can see why people are lacking in some of these areas. Capitalization, punctuation and proper sentence structure is rapidly becoming a lost art. Even if kids are taught all this in school, as soon as they are out, they revert back to the easy way.

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They go my niggaz all up in da hooudt,
Niggaz be pimpin' just like dey shooudt,
Leroy drive his Caddy right into a dee-itch
'Cause his punk-ass homey is too much of a bee-itch
Sistah on the pipe she hit on da stem
Homeboy got hisbuttin jail ageein'
Got me a supakool layin' in da free-idge
Niggaz be flyin' high off'n da bree-idge
Sambo f*cked up, he high on dat sherm
Bustin up a cap hey cuz got de germ

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Dec 28, 2013 10:09:49 GMT -6 butterbean said:

They go my niggaz all up in da hooudt,
Niggaz be pimpin' just like dey shooudt,
Leroy drive his Caddy right into a dee-itch
'Cause his punk-ass homey is too much of a bee-itch
Sistah on the pipe she hit on da stem
Homeboy got hisbuttin jail ageein'
Got me a supakool layin' in da free-idge
Niggaz be flyin' high off'n da bree-idge
Sambo f*cked up, he high on dat sherm
Bustin up a cap hey cuz got de germ

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    White trash conversation: 

Shouting back and forth in a crass manner amongst one another within short distances of 5-10 feet, and repetitively saying, "Whaa?" The signifance or efficacy of the conversation is essentially eroded, washing down into a social state of Neanderthalism.

Stacey and her sister had a 15-minute white trash conversation at the new piece of furniture in their crappy house/singlewide. They were trying to make important decisions of productivity, each less than 10 feet away, and were still shouting, "Whaa?"

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Dec 28, 2013 9:51:55 GMT -6 dog said:

Dec 28, 2013 7:48:57 GMT -6 butterbean said:

This is a quote from the president of the NEA...this guy has brass balls. Where does he think the poor policies, curriculums, and social engineering that have put our children and grandchildren in this position came from? Now they are foisting this Common Core crap on our kids and teachers...thinking that if we all of a sudden make the work next to impossible for the kids to do...somehow or other, the teachers will be able to magically infuse their students with the basics that have been ignored for years. Pull your kids out of public education if at all possible or help your own kids pay for a private school education for your grandchildren.

When everyone is more comfortable and constantly using LOL, WTF,LMFAO, and all the other texting slang and using texting more than actual face to face or voice communication, I can see why people are lacking in some of these areas. Capitalization, punctuation and proper sentence structure is rapidly becoming a lost art. Even if kids are taught all this in school, as soon as they are out, they revert back to the easy way.

Teachers are catching the brunt of the blame for the students' poor performances, but are simply the recipients of curriculums mandated by politicians and wackoffs writing PHDs. That goes for this new brand of educational dogsh!t...the Common Core Standards...another attempt at Utopia by educational progressives who jump on whatever money-cow bandwagon happens to be driving by.

[Blue Star]

This has been going on for a long time. I recently saw a test in the early 1900's that MANY wouldn't have been able to pass. It was HS test, but many times back then, Children ALL went to ONE school!

[super]

I suspect it's too late to change things at this point...better to just try and control the number of wackoffs?

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This quote from Williamson Evers (1998) serves the purpose for my argument in detailing what has almost NEVER gone on in our classrooms for 50 years or more.

Subject matter often has an inherent internal logic and can be organized on a ladder of increasing difficulty and complexity—a ladder of learning, if you will. Some material has to be mastered before one can go on to the next step. Much subject matter has this hierarchical character, and students have to learn it step by step.

Most children are not naturally curious about learning the multiplication tables or the long-division algorithm or the rigor of the scientific method. Children have to learn them through explicit guidance and through drill and practice. Disciplined study and books are needed to banish ignorance and instill knowledge. To ascertain whether students have mastered the material, students need to take tests, do homework, and write reports that are their own individual work. They likewise need to respond in class individually (and not just as a representative of a cooperative learning group) to questions posed by the teacher.

Most children are not naturally curious about learning the multiplication tables or long division.


Direct instruction should not exclude projects, field trips, group work, or a student explaining at length in class (under guidance from the teacher) how the student solved a problem. But the non-progressive educationalist would strictly subordinate efforts to enlist student interest and the use of motivational techniques to the task of getting the student to learn the subject matter.

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I still think the progressives assault on what used to be the staple of our society-the "nuclear family"-is as much to blame as the ineptness of some of our teachers.......

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Dec 28, 2013 14:56:38 GMT -6 super said:

I suspect it's too late to change things at this point...better to just try and control the number of wackoffs?

    Are you trying to be funny? Check out this little factoid promoted in many American schools by the "wackoffs":

Today, even basic math skills such as long division and the division of fractions are under assault. Teachers explicitly dismiss them as outdated and hand out calculators to children in the first grade.

   Teachers shouldn't have the right to decide whether or not students master basic math w/o an effing calculator...where's the oversight from above...or is this particular decision okay with everybody?