Why is it that a lot of foreign exchange students from asia

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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Because they're being taught how to write while kids in the US are being taught that everyone's a winner, and that their self esteem matters more than anything else.

wrong answer.

He's pretty right on I think. We as a society are become pussies. We are letting the minority dictate how things should be. I've heard from more people that the whole no child left behind thing is BS and only hurts education, than I've heard people supporting it.

I hate the attitude that they try to push that everyone is a winner. You can't have winners without loosers.

When my daughter starts school and does poorly it's her own fault. I'll motive her to do better but I won't do what some parents do and say it's ok you did your best, you're still smart in my book.
But if she does good then it's because she cares and that we as parents have instilled in her that learning and doing well in school is how you do better in life, which in turn leads to a happier life.
Red Forman had child raising right, if your kid does something dumb or fails a test, it's ok
to call them a dumb ass.

I think when she does start going to school I'm going to raise all kinds of hell though.
When I get forms in English and Spanish I'm going to complain and say I'm offened that I pay taxes to the school system and have to pay to have material printed in a FOREIGN language. Then if the teacher ever tells me everyone is a winner I'm going to have a field day there. That will put the precedent down to my kid that Dad is a little nuts and will do stuff to embarass you so you better do good in school so he doesn't have to come back up here.

Same here. Too bad it's illegal to home school your kids where I live.. Our school system adapts to what kids can do, instead of trying to help the kids adapt to what we want them to do (ie, dropping the level of education instead of actually teaching, because, I mean, teaching? That is so 900 BC - 500 AD (Roman Age)).

Maybe I should move to America or something, and homeschool my kids (when I have kids )..

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: kami333

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
because by the time were learning to print there dealing with this stuff?
http://www.learn-japanese.info/kanjisecond.gif

Thats 2nd grade kanji, when I was in elementry school 15 years ago the we learned the alphabet in 5th grade. When I had English class in junior high (I believe they've pushed beggining English to 5th grade), if the teacher couldn't read your handwriting you failed. No ifs, buts or retests. You better print clearly if you want to graduate.

You didn't learn the alphabet until 5th grade?

I should have made it clearer that this was in Japan. Back then it was 5th grade, however most of the kids already knew the alphabet from afterschool (cram school) classes