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To: neverdem

It’s easy to do well when you fudge the numbers.


2 posted on 08/01/2010 7:07:46 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
the Great Expectations School

Maybe they should have tried naming the school the Objective Results School.

3 posted on 08/01/2010 7:09:32 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

You mean that theory wherein nobody loses and everyone gets a trophy didn’t work out so well?


4 posted on 08/01/2010 7:13:10 PM PDT by ScoopAmma (We are led by the Resident -in Chief; aka part-time member of Webelo Troop 44)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

It’s easy to do well when you fudge the numbers.

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Just ask Senator Franken.


5 posted on 08/01/2010 7:14:13 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die. - Samuel Adams)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Schools and so-called educators have managed to water down the term ‘gifted.’

Mozart was gifted, not little Timmy who passed a few exams.

When there is a ‘gifted’ program in every school or system and they manage to find students to fill it every year, then nobody is ‘gifted.’

Ironically, having a ‘gifted’ program for students working slightly ahead of grade level simply provides a contrast to the bog-standard lowest-common-denominator quality of everyday public education.


14 posted on 08/01/2010 7:41:29 PM PDT by relictele (Me lumen vos umbra regit)
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