Florida County Makes '23' a Passing Grade

Associated Press ^ | MAY 30, 12:34 ET | Associated Press

[KentuckyWoman]

I suppose they could have just redrawn the "curve" or given the students "points" just for writing their names like they did with the SATs and avoided the public knowing about the lack of knowledge possed by today's students......

[Jennifer in Florida]

Home School Bump!

I've got a question for all of you homeschoolers. How much does it cost per year to homeschool your kids typically? Does anybody have any website links about homeschooling that they could send me? I'm thinking about it, but I have three kids and wondering if it is feasible. FReepmail me.

[doc30]

And in Hillsborough county, contrary to State requirements, no student who fails the F-CAT will have to repeat that grade. What's the poin in even having tests. Can't we just say that schools are "Children and Teenager Babysitting Indoctrination Centers?"

[babylonian]

Sadly, there aren't enough jobs at McDonalds for all the dipsticks the schools are turning out. We're in trouble.

[mindprism.com]

Our definition of evil equates to 'loss of human lives'. The greater the loss, the greater the evil. This is because, as individuals, our arch-nemisis is death. The individual has little concern for 'the future of humanity or civilization' and shrugs responsibility onto 'generations to come' or 'the leaders in government'.

When mini-mega-death is considered, no one dare recognize the core meaninglessness of individual lives in modern times and the insignificance of the loss in the bigger picture.

I'm contending there is a far greater evil than such losses, that is: the loss of human potential, destiny, dignity, and morality on the scale of civilizations. The erosion and deformation of human spirit as a whole is the most sinister evil we face.

As long as the individual has no higher concern than himself humanity will continue on this abominable path. We stand in awe of the perverse and sanctify iconoclastic cultural poisons.

In newspeak, pressure to be good equates to oppression and defiance is held up as heroism.

[pabianice]

Outstanding! None of these third world morons will ever compete for my job.

[headsonpikes]

"I don't think I could answer 23 questions correctly..."

Exactly! This could be a tough test!

And you have to get over 50% for an 'A' grade.

Sounds to me like gubmint skoolin' is right on track....

Kids illiterate?...Check!

Kids innumerate?...Check!

Kids ignorant of history?...Check!

NEA monopoly intact?...Check!

Skool administrator's salaries paid?...Check!

Woo-Hoo!! Five for five!! Is this a great country or what?!?!

[Moosilauke]

Good point. Clever students will soon realize that, when in doubt, eliminate the names of any dead white men among the possible answers to give yourself an even greater chance of guessing right. (Of course, that assumes the students are able to spot the "dead white men".)

[knak]

No wonder the butterfly ballot was so confusing!

[clintonh8r]

Palm Beach County: Making tomorrow's unemployed and menial workers today.

Of course, history doesn't really matter. The PC left rewrites it all the time...

[Wondervixen]

I'd get together with other upset parents, march up to the Palm Beach School Board offices, and stuff whatever 23% diploma they thought was good enough to my child right up their butts!

Many of our kids are going to have to leave school and WORK for a living and these nitwits who supposedly teach them AREN'T doing the same! I'd be ashamed to show my face in public if I got only half the questions on a history test right, yet THESE GOOFS would give me an "A" for that...Humiliating!

[Prodigal Daughter]

I know that Florida is supposed to be one of the best states for homeschooling. They can participate in ROTC and sports at the public schools while homeschooling.

[Prodigal Daughter]

They probably want everybody so stupid that when they have children, the state has another excuse to confiscate them.

[staytrue]

Great Cartoon.

I am wondering if one of the questions on the exam was "in the 2000 presidential election, who was elected president ? -Answer: Al Gore".

[Texbob]

They want to keep the sheeple so dumb they cannot vote the idiots running the schools out of bussiness.

[mattdono]

I am sooooooooooo glad that I no longer live there. I was educated in a public school in Palm Beach county and I don't remember EVER being able to get by with that crap. I had an English teacher who I thought (at the time) was Satan's cousin; everyone thought that she was looking for a reason, any reason, to flunk us. Now, I look back and know that she was doing her job: teaching us and expecting more from us.

Just goes to show how the lack of leadership and the "justify-anything-and-do-nothing-to-identify-the-truth-even-when-it-stares-you-right-in-the-face" mentality of the Klintoon years has permeated our educational system.

One Word: HOMESCHOOL

Is that one word or two? Pardon me, after all, I was edjumakated in Pam Bech Konty.

[another cricket]

Gee I wonder if I can get a well paying executive job ($100,000 per year) while failing 70% of the interview questions?

If you find such a place be sure to freepmail me. ;~)

a.cricket

[Phantom Lord]

I shall expand on your NC post. Did you see recently that the just administered final exams didnt turn out the way the schools were hoping so they decided not to release the scores AT ALL. Not even to the students who took the tests. They still dont know if they passed or failed.

[Phantom Lord]

Someone needs to get their hands on this test and post it.

[rdavis84]

"Sadly, there aren't enough jobs at McDonalds for all the dipsticks the schools are turning out. We're in trouble."

'Specially since Burger King gets all of the Sharp Ones!