Good stuff out of that one

lol had to.

By the way.. I am voting for this guy.

I used to follow my dad to work on occation. It was always a wonderful experince because you learn in a way that you don't learn in school. You see how things work, what you need to know and can ask and have answered very relevent questions.

Nice rhyming there Nader but i thought that education was one of the few things left up to the states and the president has little bearing on what goes on within our school districts.

Too much memorization, regurgitation, vegetation in public education.

"Ball of confusion!"

>> ^uzema:
Nice rhyming there Nader but i thought that education was one of the few things left up to the states and the president has little bearing on what goes on within our school districts.


Even with state control, education systems have been more and more laden with heavy regulation and standardization. There are many times of the year in many grades where teachers have to drop their lesson plans just to get students ready for the "mega standardized test to determine if your school gets more funding or not" tests. Here in Texas that was the case, I know it is getting that bad in other states as well.

These tests don't help children or teachers for the most part, they just go to falsely gauge the success of different school systems against others for the bragging rights of certain Politicians and government bureaucracies. I can name teachers and people in my life that have made a real difference in my life, but they never administered a multiple choice test to size me up and point me in the right direction.

Standardized testing is teh sux as far as I am concerned, at least, for the types of tests that are given out today.