Money isnt everything (education)

[JS80]

Pick 10x beta stocks and you'll get the same result...

Give me someone else's money I'll lever up and make 4200% return. Or -100%.

 

[Svnla]

Can take the horse to the water but can NOT make the horse to drink it, ie. if the student(s) do not want to learn, no amount of money can make he/she/them.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

political correctness, lack of standards, grade inflation, lack of discipline and general waste, fraud and abuse.

a few examples....

We have a goal in this country for everyone to get a high school diploma. Good goal, however it means we must set the bar so low that everyone can pass.

Class sizes. A good teacher with good kids can be much larger that a bad teacher with bad kids. Yes that means we a better off grouping kids by their ability.


All teachers are paid based on years of experience, not results.

We know there are failing schools, yet we do nothing about it.

Even students know who the bad teachers are, but nothing is done.


it is time for major reform in education.

HOW..... DARE........ YOU!!!! Why do you hate children?

 

[Throckmorton]

We don't spend 3x as much as other countries.

A little less than 2x is more accurate. But rememeber, we have to build $75 million stadiums for kids to play football in!

http://www.dailyplunge.com/tag/per-pupil-spending-by-country/

 

[JS80]

We don't spend 3x as much as other countries.

A little less than 2x is more accurate. But rememeber, we have to build $75 million stadiums for kids to play football in!

http://www.dailyplunge.com/tag/per-pupil-spending-by-country/

Football > paying a bunch of life failures to teach a bunch of unmotivated retards algebra

 

[TridenT]

Most of the blame comes from parents and urban culture where being smart is looked down apart or even viewed as selling out.

Look at 60 minutes: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/21/60minutes/main6506911.shtml

inner city school boarding school with I think 100% college acceptance rate

basically that is how much attention is required once kids reach junior high to pretty much undo everything.

Pretty crazy since 90% of the people I grew up with take college for granted.

if you have a chance to listen to http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/364/going-big

than listen to act 1 it really is an amazing piece.

It is an interesting program. For some kids it really is what it takes. Some people require more attention than others.

I would be curious to see statistics for the kids who DON'T get picked. Just applying indicates some motivation lacking in the general populace.

Also I am interested in that. I do think they are probably going to be worse off though than the ones who did get in.