Given the highest rate in the country per that page (Iowa) doesn't even make it into -- to carry the school theme -- "A" range (B+ to B, depending on your school's rating system), there isn't a single state in the Union that isn't revolting in the category. ^^;
And given the low standards of poor distrcts and the tendency for kids to be "pushed through", those numbers are probably already inflated.
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Well, got any ideas for this sweeping reform then that doesn't involve handing control to a more powerful band of morons?
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Oddly enough, I saw a lot of low cost-per-student states with good graduation rates. The correlation between spending there is poor.
Which is kind of insane.
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Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Well, got any ideas for this sweeping reform then that doesn't involve handing control to a more powerful band of morons?
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Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Shiva.Nikolce said: »
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
We're straying a tad from the point, though. You have to justify taking control away from the states and giving it to our ever-bloating, ever-inefficient national government.
yeah because they did so well with all of the other things we entrusted them to do
The same could be said of the federal. What's your point?
I was talking about the federal government...
so...my point is the federal government sucks and has never even seen a problem it couldn't turn into a major catastrophe by looking at it.
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Bahamut.Milamber said: »
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Well, got any ideas for this sweeping reform then that doesn't involve handing control to a more powerful band of morons?
If upending the entire system is truly too idyllic, then yeah. Take it all the way down to individual districts.
I mean, local government is corrupt as *** and normally full of hillbillies who work part-time while they're away from their hardware store, but hey. At least the federal government won't be messing it up, amirite?
It doesn't necessarily help to justify one extreme by using another extreme. I'm still waiting for ideas.
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
It doesn't necessarily help to justify one extreme by using another extreme. I'm still waiting for ideas.
I see no problem in completely reworking the way schools in this country operate to be more in line with more successful countries in this area.
But then we'd have to admit that America is bad at something. And you want to talk about political death...
I thought bashing the U.S. was the new age of being politically correct.
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Bahamut.Ravael said: »
I thought bashing the U.S. was the new age of being politically correct.
Oh, yeah. Waving a flag and a gun and a bible is such a rebel statement. A real dagger in the heart of political correctness.
(Well, waving a Rebel flag and a gun and a bible is a statement...specifically, that statement is "my sister is my mother", but that's not the point really.)
But really. If "politically correct" is so damned important, then why do so many politicians cater to the Bible/Flag/Gun crowd?
Oh wait, yeah.
Because sadly, they're still an extremely influential part of the electorate.
Which speaks volumes about America, really.
The tactic of acting the victim when you're the majority/controlling group is getting really old in this country.
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
It doesn't necessarily help to justify one extreme by using another extreme. I'm still waiting for ideas.
You'll get idiots distributed throughout the spectrum. There's significant benefit towards standardization of a core of what should be taught.
Consider what impact that has for families in the military, let alone anyone else that travels in the US.
I mean, come on, why is this even necessary:
http://www.dodea.edu/Partnership/interstateCompact.cfm
So you have children while serving in the US military, a side benefit is that your kids probably get screwed educationally whenever you are relocated to another state.
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And yet somehow the "Common Core" is seen as an abomination to people on opposite political ends. The government sucks at sweeping reform, and it has proven it time and time again.
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Bahamut.Ravael said: »
And yet somehow the "Common Core" is seen as an abomination to people on opposite political ends. The government sucks at sweeping reform, and it has proven it time and time again.
Our government sucks at sweeping floors...
let's find someone with a good system in place and force them to fix ours at missile point
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Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Odin.Jassik said: »
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Social mobility or not, politicians care about this little thing called reelection. If your state guts education, you can elect better leaders.
Have you looked at state elections recently? A large portion run unopposed, even more only ever face minor competition, and the rest just rework the districts at will to curb any chance of competition.
Yeah, and how many of those states have gutted education to the degree Ramy is so afraid of? If you're so gung-ho about passing off control of education to a centralized government, you're going to have to do more than scare people with hypotheticals.
The solution to this shitty big state government where nothing gets done is an even bigger shittier federal government!.
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Shiva.Nikolce said: »
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
And yet somehow the "Common Core" is seen as an abomination to people on opposite political ends. The government sucks at sweeping reform, and it has proven it time and time again.
Our government sucks at sweeping floors...
let's find someone with a good system in place and force them to fix ours at missile point
Using missiles... now that's something that our government is good at. Taking advice from Snidely Whiplash? That's also something that our government is probably good at. We're getting somewhere.
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Bahamut.Ravael said: »
I thought bashing the U.S. was the new age of being politically correct.
That and confessing your love to France !
Again I say, just privatize everything, right?
That could never go wrong.
That could never go wrong.
Ramyrez said: »
Again I say, just privatize everything, right?
That could never go wrong.
That could never go wrong.
You're going to extremes again.
fonewear said: »
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
I thought bashing the U.S. was the new age of being politically correct.
That and confessing your love to France !
Oddly, I love how France is always the butt of a joke when we wouldn't exist as a country without them.
I mean, they didn't help out of the kindness of their hearts, their own benefits were certainly there, but the fact remains.
Without the the American Revolution would have gone a bit differently.
Ramyrez said: »
Again I say, just privatize everything, right?
That could never go wrong.
That could never go wrong.
The examples of capitalism gone wrong only exist in movies (fantasy). Meanwhile the examples of communism gone wrong are numerous and plenty.
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Ramyrez said: »
Again I say, just privatize everything, right?
That could never go wrong.
That could never go wrong.
You're going to extremes again.
Then what's the answer? Libertarians seem to think all government is bad, and everything should be privatized. Which is clearly idiotic when it comes to schools. Almost as much so as it is with jails.
Though come to think of it, that's probably what's going to happen. If there's one thing our government loves it's privatizing things and then selling those contracts in exchange for campaign donations.
Ragnarok.Nausi said: »
Ramyrez said: »
Again I say, just privatize everything, right?
That could never go wrong.
That could never go wrong.
The examples of capitalism gone wrong only exist in movies (fantasy). Meanwhile the examples of communism gone wrong are numerous and plenty.
Yeah. You're right.
Red Dawn is the totally accurate and natural expectation of an socialist endeavor, and the entirety 17th-19th centuries/the Industrial Revolution never happened. Only the good things count. The bad things were just the cost of progress.
A few broken eggs in an omelette, right?
Ramyrez said: »
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Ramyrez said: »
Again I say, just privatize everything, right?
That could never go wrong.
That could never go wrong.
You're going to extremes again.
Then what's the answer? Libertarians seem to think all government is bad, and everything should be privatized. Which is clearly idiotic when it comes to schools. Almost as much so as it is with jails.
Though come to think of it, that's probably what's going to happen. If there's one thing our government loves it's privatizing things and then selling those contracts in exchange for campaign donations.
Yeah, what is the answer? The lazy way out is to see someone doing something wrong and chucking it in the lap of someone known to do lots of other things wrong, pretending that it'll be okay this time.
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Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Ramyrez said: »
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Ramyrez said: »
Again I say, just privatize everything, right?
That could never go wrong.
That could never go wrong.
You're going to extremes again.
Then what's the answer? Libertarians seem to think all government is bad, and everything should be privatized. Which is clearly idiotic when it comes to schools. Almost as much so as it is with jails.
Though come to think of it, that's probably what's going to happen. If there's one thing our government loves it's privatizing things and then selling those contracts in exchange for campaign donations.
Yeah, what is the answer? The lazy way out is to see someone doing something wrong and chucking it in the lap of someone known to do lots of other things wrong, pretending that it'll be okay this time.
The lazy way you mean the American way !
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Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Odin.Jassik said: »
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Social mobility or not, politicians care about this little thing called reelection. If your state guts education, you can elect better leaders.
Have you looked at state elections recently? A large portion run unopposed, even more only ever face minor competition, and the rest just rework the districts at will to curb any chance of competition.
Yeah, and how many of those states have gutted education to the degree Ramy is so afraid of? If you're so gung-ho about passing off control of education to a centralized government, you're going to have to do more than scare people with hypotheticals.
Funding and curriculum should be completely independent. That's the concept behind tenures. I'm not trying to scare anyone with hypotheticals, there is a very big difference between the way the DoE is funded and the way schools are, and lawmakers rarely pay a price for cutting funding since the effects are increasingly offset by other sources.
Don't start reading between the lines, you're smarter than that.
Bahamut.Ravael said: »
Yeah, what is the answer? The lazy way out is to see someone doing something wrong and chucking it in the lap of someone known to do lots of other things wrong, pretending that it'll be okay this time.
I already told you what, in this instance, I think the answer is. Take a cue from some of our European allies who have their ***together when it comes to education and restructure our own system to be in line with theirs.
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17 minutes surely you jest !
Ragnarok.Nausi said: »
Ramyrez said: »
Again I say, just privatize everything, right?
That could never go wrong.
That could never go wrong.
The examples of capitalism gone wrong only exist in movies (fantasy). Meanwhile the examples of communism gone wrong are numerous and plenty.
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I didn't hear you through all of that capitalism.
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Ramyrez said: »
I already told you what, in this instance, I think the answer is. Take a cue from some of our European allies who have their ***together when it comes to education and restructure our own system to be in line with theirs.
LOL! copypasta! now we're talking!
we can just change the name of our country to sweden so we don't have to modify the text books at all
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