Re: Glenn Beck on Who da Commies Is


"Hawke" <davesmithers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:hi99qq$bh9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Andrew VK3BFA wrote:
On Jan 8, 8:42 pm, "Buerste" <buer...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Very good points! And, DAMN...I'm the old fart now.

Yeh, me too. And I dont like it - now I am old enuff to know
everything, no one wants to know it!
And your right about "modern" schooling - no one will fail (it damages
their psyche) so we wind up with a bunch of kids who want to start as
CEO's when they plainly cant understand how a screw driver works!. Let
alone write their own resume. (Old Fart Syndrome)

Andrew VK3BFA.



I wonder where you guys get this no one will fail stuff? Is that what they do in elementary school these days? This isn't the way they do it in college. I only finished college in 2003. They had no problem giving you a lousy grade if you didn't learn the material. And just try going to graduate school. They won't even let you in unless you can prove you have a good chance of getting through it. My experience in college was that once you got past the first couple of years it was very competitive. If you didn't excel you didn't get the grades. Believe me, they give out a lot of Cs and Ds and they will fail you too. Maybe you guys just read that stuff on some right wing website because it's not like that in any college I know of. So where are the "no fail" schools?

Hawke

I agree that higher education is not shuffling through poor students. But the K through 12 systems need work. I think you'll agree that throwing unspecified money at the issue won't work. I use employment applications that have simple math and word problems and have some printed lines for the applicant to measure with a ruler. I bet you can imagine what kind of answers I get on these simple tests.

What were you studying last?

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