Since you guys are so busy beating on eachother about poet's latest racist comment I'll address the opening portion. This isn't about education, this is about students being really stupid. I'm going to take for example the American independence question, even if you don't know the answer you just turn around the question, "in what war did America gain independence?" Answer: The war of independence
We've decided that it's not kids fault when they're dumb, answer sorry guys it sometimes is, and you "no child left behind policies" get you a bunch of stupid kids who are convinced that it's not their fault and that they just need another(15th) chance. accept that and move on.
I don't know how that addresses my "latest racist comment" (as if!). NCLB was the policy instituted by the Bush Administration under Bush's appointed Sec. of Ed., Rod Paige, who was the Superintendent of H.I.S.D, my district. He was an opportunist, back then, and a miscreant and "yes man", later. The policy was a failure. Ultimately, parents are to blame. Instead of "latch key kids", and parents' (of all colors) propensity to allow kids to monitor themselves, you have what we have.
In my household, house work came first, and then homework, and if there was time left over, perhaps television or activities. But I came from a family of educators, who put education paramount and first. Not everyone is so lucky.
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Filmed at Olympia High School (Olympia, Washington), I guess that's why they had no blacks in the video.
The racial makeup of the city was 85.3% White, 1.9% African American, 1.3% Native American, 5.8% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 1.7% from other races, and 3.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.4% of the population.
From Wikipedia
"'Olympia High School'" is ranked by the Newsweek article "Our Schools and Their Dilemma" as top 5% of all high schools nationally, due to the significant number of students taking AP Tests, as well as notable music, drama, and sports programs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia..._Washington%29
It look like the US media isn't much better at geography.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-NORFOLK.html
A liberal is someone who's too much of a pussy to call themselves a socialist, and a progressive is someone who's too much of a pussy to even call themselves a liberal. So what is a liberal progressive? Is it like multiple iterations of pussyness? Recursive cowardice?
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"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
Phantasmal (02-03-2012)
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