Posted on 05/23/2007 2:59:55 PM PDT by george76
Not “everyone” does. I don’t.
To some of us, proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation are important.
What is WITH you? I don’t capitalize an i and you freak out! Don’t you have a life? The arrogance....
I’m a published author...get over yourselves...
My kids are learning perfect grammar and speech and language skills and math and geography and history from me, and they’re all doing great. Are any of you a single adoptive homeschooling parent to four young children?
move on, ladies....
I still think that part of the problem is that more people are going to college, and some of them are not "college material". However, the colleges want or need the tuition money, so they let marginal students in anyway, and then charge them for remedial courses that don't earn credit.
See my post #236.
The other teachers and I thought you got at least 500 for bubbling in your name correctly...we could not imagine that any college would accept anyone with scores that low.
I think you're right. The trades are being discouraged and not everyone is cut out for college, but that leaves a lot of kids in a quandry. They're told to be successful they need to go to college and have a career, but they can't do it. Besides, we need the trades people. Who's going to fix out cars, weld our buildings and bridges, grow our food, build our furniture, etc? Kids should not be fed the line that trades are beneath them. There can be a lot of pride in a job well done.
FCPS graduate with 11 APs. It seems to be an expected thing to do at least 1-3. More parents’ keeping up with joneses than kids wanting to...
TJHHST has the highest matriculation rate to MIT (sends the most undergrads there out of any single school). I went to TJHHST and am very happy with my experience (traffic was a bitch but it’s good practice for “real life”) but am sad to see the effects of the new PC quota based system and other administrative changes that will undermine the best high school in the country.
I agree completely. Besides, I know several people with college degrees who have gone into trades because they paid better. :-)
You did so well, up until that last admonitory sentence, despite your regrettable fondness for ellipses.
(For the record, chastising someone for arrogance doesn’t sit well with bragging about being published.)
You’re absolutely correct. I was sent to one of those places (high school) and I was bullied and verablly abused nonstop during my sophomore year in Interior Design. Feral kids are increasing in number and ruining the learning environment.
I wanted to be homeschooled throughout high school, but instead I was shoved in public high school. Nothing wrong with going, but I was unprepared emotionally and psychologically.
I rather agree. But don’t worry, you have Generation Y behind you to help out. The smart ones that is.
BTTT
“To force children into government schools by threats of police action and imprisonment, and then deliberately fail to discipline them is child abuse”
Not to mention leaving the vulnerable smart but shy kid in with them. Mincemeat.
I must agree. I’m amazed that almost no one writes well. I mean people holding down good jobs, white-collar jobs, with more-than-adequate paychecks. And they are challenged to peform accurate computations involving basic arithmetic.
It is terrible now.
The situation will be much worse next decade.
Sad.
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