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Re: Reading is for the Literate :p
by callei on Nov 05, 2003 - 04:36 AM
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I really hate to get into this one..... but
Our education system was designed to teach people to be good factory workers. There have been breif bubbles when the public schools have tried to teach something other than total conformity, basic reading and math, and the need to work in groups, but those bubbles are rare.
The harry potters give me headaches too, but for different reasons than the "weight" of the book. The whining is what gets me.
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Re: Reading is for the Literate :p
by Anya on Nov 05, 2003 - 06:37 AM
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I don't know if this applies to all state Competency tests, but the ones I took at California were ridiculous. Many of the questions were as simple as: "Bubble in the shape that is a circle." The choices were a sphere, square, rectangle, and a circle (duh). The most difficult that the Math Competency test got to was fractions and decimals. Maybe it's just me but I didn't understand why they made such a big deal about me taking it to pass my senior year when I have Algebra 1 and 2 with Geometry on my transcripts. Oh well.
There's some other simple things that I rolled my eyes at, but I'll stop here. Just seemed like they assumed that no one knew basic math...then again, knowing some people nowadays, I can kind of see that.
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