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2019-11-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

First Common Core High School Grads Worst-Prepared For College In 15 Years

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Posted by Pancho Flerens6518 2019-11-01 09:50|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Criminal incompetence.
Educational malpractice.
Shame on Bill Gates and the other idiots who foisted this madness on us.

We are ruled by morons.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-01 10:39|| 2019-11-01 10:39|| Front Page Top

#2 We're ruled by smart-ish people who understand morons are easier to control.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-11-01 11:09|| 2019-11-01 11:09|| Front Page Top

#3 While most of my countrymen feel rather proud, I am really bewildered when an Indian kid wins the Spelling Bee or some such thingy. It's pathetic.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-01 11:16|| 2019-11-01 11:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually there's method to the Soelling Bee madness, and it makes more sense than all the stupid educational fads that American "educationists" have imposed on public schoolchildren for generations, with ruinous results.

It's called repetition. You cannot master any sort of abstract reasoning, be it a syntax or grammar, arithmetic or higher math, historical knowledge or understanding of anatomy and physiology -- no abstract subject can be mastered without repetition, recitation, and memorization.

Russian: Повторение - мать учения. (Povtoreniye - mat' ucheniya.)
"Repetition is the Mother of Learning"

Posted by Lex 2019-11-01 12:23|| 2019-11-01 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 In math, CC apparently teaches children inefficient algorithms in order to make them actually understand the nature of decimal numbers.

It's a laudable goal.

But in practice it boils down to substituting rote memorization of efficient algorithms with rote memorization of inefficient algorithms.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2019-11-01 12:32|| 2019-11-01 12:32|| Front Page Top

#6 True, repetition is the mother of learning. Rote learning of simpler concepts in early years is essential to grasp advanced lessons later that a teacher can build on.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-01 12:40|| 2019-11-01 12:40|| Front Page Top

#7 It's OK, the colleges can just dumb down too.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-01 14:44|| 2019-11-01 14:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, that could be a problem when you get to icky stuff like structural steel design calculations.

"I feelz this building will keep standing."

Posted by Matt 2019-11-01 15:15|| 2019-11-01 15:15|| Front Page Top

#9 You're channeling white supremacy, Matt.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-01 15:18|| 2019-11-01 15:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I just want a sign on every bridge that says "Caution: This bridge was designed by someone using feelings instead of math."

Posted by Matt 2019-11-01 15:55|| 2019-11-01 15:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Now, that doesn't sound good. How about "This bridge is untainted by white supremacy and patriarchal mythology"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-01 16:09|| 2019-11-01 16:09|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL -- that's about right.

Posted by Matt 2019-11-01 16:15|| 2019-11-01 16:15|| Front Page Top

#13 😊

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-01 16:39|| 2019-11-01 16:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Major universities are already passing out "legacy" students and SJW's who can't count up to twenty unless they are wearing open toe sandals.

Posted by Clyde Dribble8052 2019-11-01 17:18|| 2019-11-01 17:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Was your free-range chicken happy before it was killed?

Was the bridge you're driving on designed by an Empathetic Engineer?

As of Dec. 2018, the Obama-appointed National Science Foundation (NSF) Director had spent over $62m in his four year tenure so far on studies of "intersectionality and STEM."

A particularly choice study: "Forming the Empathetic Engineer."

Many more here.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-01 17:33|| 2019-11-01 17:33|| Front Page Top

#16 "This bridge is untainted by white supremacy and patriarchal mythology. Mind the rubble!"

Posted by SteveS 2019-11-01 17:46|| 2019-11-01 17:46|| Front Page Top

#17 LOL - my old bridge construction administration crew included my heir apparent (male/hispanic), 2 other supervisors (2 white), 3 assistants (2 Filipino/White males) and a female (hispanic). We were considered the crew people were afraid to apply to: 1) work/expectations too hard, 2) work/expectations too hard.

Nothing about "Frank's a racist/sexist/patriarchal asshole"...although I can be an asshole when it suits my purpose

Posted by Frank G 2019-11-01 17:54|| 2019-11-01 17:54|| Front Page Top

#18 So, it's working as designed. Expect more of the same.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2019-11-01 18:07|| 2019-11-01 18:07|| Front Page Top

#19 #17 - all of the above (except two of the Assistants - who have their Engineer-In-Training Cert) are CA Registered Professional Engineers. Common Core ain't gonna cut it

Posted by Frank G 2019-11-01 18:16|| 2019-11-01 18:16|| Front Page Top

#20 In October, Seattle public schools unveiled a “framework” to inject “math ethnic studies” into all K-12 math classes, teaching “how math has been and continues to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color.”

Students will be asked to “identify the inherent inequities of the standardized testing system used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color” and “explain how math dictates economic oppression.”

Posted by Lex 2019-11-01 18:32|| 2019-11-01 18:32|| Front Page Top

#21 Shitshow, the Academy

Posted by Lex 2019-11-01 18:33|| 2019-11-01 18:33|| Front Page Top

#22 A product of the liberal approved pattern of education.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-01 19:00|| 2019-11-01 19:00|| Front Page Top

#23

Was the bridge you're driving on designed by an Empathetic Engineer?

A rather pathetic article I saw recently was about how horrible "RTFM" -- "Read The Fine Manual" -- is, and how we should stop saying it in favor of mentoring and sharing knowledge.

*sigh*

RTFM is mentoring and sharing knowledge.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2019-11-01 19:42|| 2019-11-01 19:42|| Front Page Top

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