That's a good question.nukchebi0 wrote:
What is forcing the teaching to the test?
I had a 4.28, thanks to honors creditsAjax_the_Great1 wrote:
Yes, you're 4.0 won't help you at all in real life with things like college and scholarships.GorillaKing798 wrote:
QFT!!!S.Lythberg wrote:
no, my college costs are astronomical, I get no rewards for succeeding, while low performers get all the attention and funding...
Last year at my school they had a club for kids who had GPA's below 2.0, they got their own shirts, front of the lunch line passes, free tickets to football games, and half price tickets to homecoming. Yet I get a 4.0 and get jack shit, it pisses me off to no end that they reward kids for being stupid. Great strategy getting them ready for the real world.
I'm beginning to think you don't actually have a 4.0.
motherfucking DOTS.Lythberg wrote:
and no, it helps very little if you are a middle class white male, the scholarship world is one of the most discriminatory and biased entities in the nation.
HurricaИe wrote:
I go to private school so I don't think we're bound by NCLB (we don't do standardized testing apart from SATs and APs and ACTs). It frankly seems like a much better environment. The really smart kids get put into classes that challenge them, while the not so smart kids get put into classes that are easier but still challenge them (so that they can get better with whatever they're having issues with).
Given the colleges most people here graduate to, it seems to work.
...where did I ever mention anything about slacking off? I said it was lame that the most I got was the fact that it'll look good on college apps (which admittedly is pretty helpful, but still. A certificate would be nice.)LividBovine wrote:
YouHurricaИe wrote:
Who was that addressed to?LividBovine wrote:
It is called training yourself for the future. If you slack off now and think you will pick it up later, good luck.
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It was really a rhetorical one.FEOS wrote:
That's a good question.nukchebi0 wrote:
What is forcing the teaching to the test?
When did I say my 4.0 was useless? I said that it makes me mad that they get rewarded for bad grades, yet I get very little for my efforts, I was implying at a high school level, but even at a college level there is a bias as everyone has stated before me.Ajax_the_Great1 wrote:
Yes, you're 4.0 won't help you at all in real life with things like college and scholarships.GorillaKing798 wrote:
QFT!!!S.Lythberg wrote:
no, my college costs are astronomical, I get no rewards for succeeding, while low performers get all the attention and funding...
Last year at my school they had a club for kids who had GPA's below 2.0, they got their own shirts, front of the lunch line passes, free tickets to football games, and half price tickets to homecoming. Yet I get a 4.0 and get jack shit, it pisses me off to no end that they reward kids for being stupid. Great strategy getting them ready for the real world.
I'm beginning to think you don't actually have a 4.0.
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Doesn't mean it's not a good one too.nukchebi0 wrote:
It was really a rhetorical one.FEOS wrote:
That's a good question.nukchebi0 wrote:
What is forcing the teaching to the test?
Doesn't it just make you all warm and fuzzy inside knowing the Government has done something successfully.chittydog wrote:
No Child Left Behind has been a smashing success. All children are now equally uneducated.
Kill all the dumb kids... national average IQ goes up, Teachers spending less time on the idiots. Solution.nukchebi0 wrote:
Isn't the answer somewhat apparent?
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Sorry, to make my point more clear:HurricaИe wrote:
...where did I ever mention anything about slacking off? I said it was lame that the most I got was the fact that it'll look good on college apps (which admittedly is pretty helpful, but still. A certificate would be nice.)LividBovine wrote:
YouHurricaИe wrote:
Who was that addressed to?
edit: In terms of affirmative action I've got it good. Hispanic, immigrant, first generation college-goer
What a remarkable cop out.nukchebi0 wrote:
As my signature implies, I am aware of the benefits of doing so. The real answer is NCLB is forcing the teaching to the test, since test scores are used as the indication of progress.
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