Re: Glenn Beck on Who da Commies Is

Let the Record show that Hawke <davesmithers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on or
about Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:04:54 -0800 did write/type or cause to
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
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?

K-12. I tried to flunk out twice - in grade school. Did minimal
to zero class work. But they saw my test scores - in the sixth grade
they knew I wasn't really stupid, I was reading the encyclopedias in
class. I learned a lot, but I couldn't get held back a year.

Some college level classes are "no fail" in the sense that the
instructor will consider the class/subject as un gradable. Intro to
Jazz, Art Depreciation, Conversational English, Remedial
Conversational English - you can't pass them, but you can't fail them
either. Or vice versa. I recall reading of a teacher who was
required by a school policy to give a final, but it was not a class
which lent itself to a "final exam". So he passed out a test on the
state capitals of the US. He had to give it, he didn't have to use
it.

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pyotr filipivich
We will drink no whiskey before its nine.
It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!
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