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Ahh, the future of this great country is very bright indeed. I will always be able to afford lawn care services if these illiterates continue to ooze out of our public schools year after year. The pass rate for the FCAT (our standardized basic achievement test in Florida) for reading comprehension for tenth graders was about 38% this year (down from 42). And as lousy parents continue to fail their children in their responsibility to prepare them for success, we will continue to have a ready supply of unmotivated unskilled labor just "getting by." I guess this is where ricers come from...


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Watch "Idiocracy"... its a horrible movie, but damnit if it isn't spot on.

^^ I've been saying that since it came out. It really exposes how dumb people are getting..mostly in America.

That's exactly why that movie is just down right scary.
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WTF?

Let me say that again, just for the record.

What The Fuck?

I've only just returned to FL after being away for 10 years, so I'm not terribly familiar with this test. It looks like each part is scored from 1-5, with anything 3 or above being a pass.

Looks like my old Alma Mater came in at a measly 40% pass rate in 10th grade reading comp. No surprises there. The school was filled with drooling rednecks and incompetent teachers when I was there, and apparently nothing's changed.

Still, words can't even begin to express the magnitude of my disgust here.

Oh, and +1 on Idiocracy. It's a bit slapstick in places, but under the brightly-colored plastic surface that film is scarily prescient.

Every human needs to see this film.

WOOHOO! Shovels and spatulas for everybody! or at least (100-38=62) 62% of you!

Edit: I heard a comedian once in Tampa that asked, "Are there any Florida natives in the audience tonight?"
"WOOHOO!" responded a vocal minority in the crowd.
He asked, "How's your lawn care business?"

38% !!!????!!!


Passing????

I could understand only 38% Excellent scores....but EVERYONE should be passing.

I didn't realize things were this bad. I probably should have known, but maybe being on a college campus most of my waking hours has shielded me.

We are in trouble folks...big trouble.

People are given too much shit these days (not given shit like that, but given things too easily). What happened to hard work with a payoff. Today kids are pretty much pushed through school even if it is clear they need to learn more. Good grades aren't enough, you need to understand the work too, or you will be useless once in the real world. I think test standards are WAY too easy. I never made great grades in school, but thats only because I didn't care. I took my GED at 16 and passed it very easily the first time with no studying what so ever and what shocked even then that it could be that easy. I bet Alabama's comprehension is low too. It shows when you go out in public and see some of the people walking around like they left half of their brain at home. Drooling, talking on their cell phones, stumbling around buying stupid shit at the store. Anything less than 60% (or preferably higher than that) is embarrassing.

+1 on Idiocracy. Bad movie, but I still could see America being like that in less than 200 years if we stay on the path we are on now. I hate to do it, being as I love technology, but I think its partly (or mostly) to blame for people becoming more stupid. People don't have to think anymore, they can just pull out their do everything device and never have to flex a brain cell.

If everyone were passing, it would render the test meaningless. There is always going to be some wheat and some chaff. Unfortunately, we just have a lot of chaff down here.

The test is already too damn easy. Have a look for yourself: http://fcat.fldoe.org/fcatitem.asp

You're right...not everyone.

I remember high school...man there were some dumbasses. Wouldn't 10-15% failure be a little more in line though(EDIT: if we were properly educating our students)?

If it's like our standardized tests here I know it's too easy. My sister and I both had to speak with prinicipal and admin back during the days of the TAAS test because I missed one question and she scored perfect. They said that just didn't happen...unless you cheated. What a joke.

I wonder how FL stacks up to the rest of the country. I went to private school in NYC. 98% of enrolling freshman graduated AND WENT TO COLLEGE. The other 2% were kicked out long before that. There was no getting left behind, you either passed or went some where else. I'm really nervous about when my son has to start school, I just have this feeling that schools these days just makes kids worse.
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+1

My daughter is only 2...but we're already thinking about how bad it's going to be.

My family started home-schooling after my sister and I, and each of my younger siblings have gone to out of state private universities with a full ride.

I know how much a bad rap home-schooling gets, but if done right it seems like a great option.

I'm torn there...

My niece, who is now 4, will probably be getting home-schooled. She lives in a sufficiently rich environment that I'm not so much worried about isolation (my sister and her husband, my mother and her husband, and my maternal grandmother all live under one roof.) It's just that the couple of people who I have personally known, in their mid to late 20s, seemed somehow weird. Socially underdeveloped maybe. I can't explain it.

A belated +1 for Idiocracy.

My high school had both AP and IB programs. I was one class shy of starting college as a sophomore due to all the basic 101-type classes I tested out of. I'm not a smart man, but it sure as hell made sense to take a $200 45minute test on shit I already knew rather than spend a semester learning the shit again.

During my junior year of high school, there was a computer fuckup and I accidentally got placed in a regular history class. There was such a huge division of kids in honors classes and regular classes that I only knew about 2 of 30 kids even though I'd been going to school with all of them for about 5 years now.

This was the fucking 11th grade, and there were kids that didn't know what July 4th was about.

I went to bed at 8pm until I was 14.
I didn't have a TV in my room unless I was getting at least a 3.5.
My dad whupped my ass when I needed it.
I played the sports I wanted to and they came and watched.
My first car was an '81 2-dr piss-yellow Volvo.
I wasn't allowed out past midnight... ever.
I had part-time jobs starting when I was 16.

My parents made damned sure I knew that when I turned 18, I was either going to college, or getting cut off... my choice. I never went through the stage where I thought my parents were full of shit or didn't understand me... they did their jobs like parents are supposed to... it was a good childhood. I hope I do just as good with my kids.

Holy Shit!

I graduated HS 23 yrs ago, and havn't looked at math much since then, so I figured I'd suck at it. So for shit and giggles I just took the math section from the link that Joe posted.

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A JOKE!

Was that for 6th graders? God I hope so.

This happened to me too...kind of opened my eyes.

Couldn't resist considering the topic.

I'm right there with ya. It all comes down to how we raise 'em.

By BIL and SIL home school. They have five. The oldest just decided last year to go to high school. It was his choice so that was nice that they let him decide. The next oldest is 7th grade. She may decide to stay home schooled all the way through. Either way, they are VERY well prepared for life.

I used to be totally anti-home school but have changed my mind. The work ethic alone will pay huge dividends when they go to college.

Funny thing...My sister is younger than me, she graduated in '92. One of the HS teachers had a daughter the same age as her. She was home schooled. I guess it was good enough for dad to teach the rest of the kids but the school wasn't good enough for their kid.

I went to catholic school from 1-8 then 9-12. Classes of 20 through grade school, class of 100 in high school. At Grade 9 I was given the chance to go to catholic or public, and I chose catholic. I'm not religious, but for some reason I felt like class size was a big deal.
The lower student to teacher ratio and adding a little bit of morals kind of helped in my opinion. Not saying it was better by any means, but I do know every teacher in the school at every grade level knew my name which kind of kept me in line. All that being said
my kids will probably go to public school if I still live in NOVA (one of the highest rated public schools).

SOOOOOOOOOOO true. I'm reminded of that movie on almost a daily basis.

I was just telling someone about that movie today. Its got electrolytes!

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"It's got what plants crave!"

I'm looking at the test Joe linked to. I'm on the instruction page and already pissed off.

#6 "Think positively. Some questions may seem hard, but others will be easy."

#8 "Relax. Some people get nervous about tests. It's natural. Just do your best."

2 of 8 instructions for taking the test are about making the student feel good! One of them is even written improperly. They put a comma in the sentence before the word but. The test creators fail at their own test!

I'm no whiz kid but in grade school I was taking advance placement classes. They gave us all sorts of tests intended for high schoolers. That 10th grade stuff was cake in 5th grade. Looking at those tests Joe posted they should be cake for a reasonably bright 11-12 year old. Public schools are about graduating the largest percentage of students possible. It seems against the rules to challenge a students brain at any time. Can't hurt a student's self image by having them fail can we?!?

I'm off to Starbucks for a handjob and the latest episode of "ow, my balls". Maybe I can score some extra big ass fries on the way.

Actually, the thing that bothers me about this sort of policy is that it leads schools to "teach the test" so to speak. In other words, rather than covering a broad curriculum, schools have an incentive to spend a great amount of their time and budget specifically preparing students to take the standardized test, on the basis that the school will be judged by these scores and rewarded (financially) accordingly.

The city of Mason OH, where I lived for a few years, was notoriously guilty of this practice. They do in fact have a reputation for having some of the "best" public schools in the state. It is has been widely noted however that, being located in an area which reaps significant tax revenue from the many corporations whose headquarters, R&D departments and relatively highly-paid employees which are located there, the schools are able to afford comprehensive third party test-prep materials and consultants.

Example: Kaplan: Solutions for K-12 Schools. Improve Performance on State Tests. Build Proficiency to Meet State Standards



It should be noted that, as a broad generalization, Florida public schools are poorer than hell. When I was in HS, we (the student body) were broadly segregated into two groups. One group was the kids who they figured were college-bound, the other group was the ones they just hoped they could hang a diploma on so they could get a job fixing air conditioners. Even in the "smart" group (about 150-200 of us in total per grade level), I had many a class where there were not enough textbooks for everybody to have one, so instead there was just a single class set (maybe 30-40 textbooks) which were kept in the classroom, and you could check one out overnight if you needed to. Obviously 200 kids vying for 30-40 books per class x 5 classes made for quite a mad rush the instant the closing bell rang. The classrooms at Charlotte High were spread out over several one-story buildings (and one three story building on the verge of collapse) covering a pretty large area, so you kinda had to prioritize which book you were going to run for first, keeping in mind that the bus drivers waited for no one.

On the other hand, we did have a pretty decent football field. Nice weightroom, clean showers, lights, plenty of parking, etc.

:laugh:

That craigslist ad looks deliberately misspelled to me. I've seen people post like that before, with almost every word wrong. I don't think this is the product of stupidity; this is someone looking for more attention from browsers.

Check out answers.yahoo.com if you want to see how bright the 13-16 year olds are now days...
Even better look here: The Worst And Saddest Of Yahoo! Answers - Geekologie

Both my parents are teachers. Sadly in Utah you can’t even get an F any more until you get into 7th grade. None of the kids have any motivation because of this. Instead of blaming the parents the districts blame the teachers, saying they "Don’t care enough, if anyone in their class is failing”. Their jobs are at risk, because of students that don't give a shit, because their parents don’t give a shit.
In turn the teachers really do just stop giving a shit, and give all the kids who don’t work C's and the few kids who do A's. When the standardized tests come around it's not uncommon for teachers to give the students the answers as they are taking the test; as the higher the average score the school has the better the chance they have at getting government grants and what not, that was the principals idea.

well, you're shits all retarded and you talk like a fag.

The "poor" local school district just figured out that it could save $700,000 by buying napkins for the cafeterias that weren't embossed with the Hillsborough County Schools logo.

They are crying about their budgets and needing to make cutbacks, but since the building boom went bust and all of the migrant (illegal) workers left town (attendance is down by 27% countywide), they are building new schools like it's going out of style. Less brats, more buildings, go figure.

Anyone else notice how "Vitamin water" sounds an awful lot like BRAWNDO?

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2008/04/brawndo01.gif

if its not clear, has a flavor, or has marketing behind it...its not water.

How many are old enough to know what Brawndo The Thirst Mutilator is actually paying homage to?

Yeah, I used to drink it back in the 80's

Rondo: The Thirst Crusher

The following claims to be true, but even if not, it's still full of win.

The following was published in The New York Times. This is a NYU college admissions application essay question, and an actual answer written by an applicant.

Question 3A: In order for the admissions staff of our college to get to know you, the applicant, better, we ask that you answer the following question:

Are there any significant experiences you have had or accomplishments you have realized that have helped to define you as a person?

Answer:

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch break, making them more efficient in the area of heart retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees. I write award-winning operas. I manage time efficiently. Occasionally I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and god-like trombone playing. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook thirty-minute brownies in only twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru. Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, and I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I am bored I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays after school I repair electrical appliances free of charge. I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don’t perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive large quantities of fan mail. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis racquets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise lost, David Copperfield and Moby Dick in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed covert operations for the CIA. I sleep only once a week, and when I do, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation In Canada I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics don’t apply to me. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and all of my bills are paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four-course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis. But I have not yet gone to college.

He was accepted.

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I was volunteering at USO Friday and we were putting Tang packets into the care packages. First of all, I didn't know Tang still existed. Second... Tang looks ALOT like brawndo.

http://www.cw-usa.com/common/images/...-sport-box.jpg
http://www.lubaincfoods.com/dry/images/tang_large.jpg

Disturbingly, you can now buy Brawndo in 16oz cans: ThinkGeek :: Brawndo High Caffeine Energy Drink

My rule of thumb is, fail the FCAT= you're stupid. I remember getting off the plane December 26, 2000 from a third world county, two weeks after I was enrolled in school with the coming up FCAt. I passed with more than fare scores in the english section, and with way above average scores in the math and science. Now here is the punch-line all I really knew how to say was "may I go to the bathroom?" and there were kids fluent on english that failed both O_o. The second time when I took in 10th grade I fell asleep, literally knocked out, half-way into the test and I scored relatively high scores. Anyways is really upseting to know that when you ask someone for the cosine of angle they think you mispelled cousin. About "Idiocracy" late +1, which also reminds me of Chris Rock's "Bigger and Blacker" (I think) when he remarks that in today's society people love not to know shit, and it's true. Well gotta get back to work hopefully I dont wake up tomorrow to know that we use gatorate to water our plants just because it has electrolytes.

Some of that is pretty bad. I blame parents. My mom was a single mother with 4 kids. She worked nights as a nurse well going to school and taking care of us. Yet she still raised all of us to be respectful and hard working. There is no excuse for bad parenting.

Remind me of my "Can Ants Swim" project! :loser: :bowrofl:

Can they?

No, they make rafts out of their dead and sail.

You researched it too??? this was my conclusion.