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.. the actual figure is prolly more like 75%.
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Colorado failed politics is spreading into education now also.
I graduated in 1976 with virtually no math skills. The only way I satisfied my college math requirement was through a class called Statistics of Political Science.
This is because schools priority is no longer the three R’s, the priority is Socialization, Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, and Self Esteem.
A good education is not so important anyway, since there are no jobs.
Just ignore me, as many are want to do, I’m a conspiracy theorist.
By the state’s elected representation, I would say their failure rate is probably up there with New York’s.
There is going to be a huge hiccup to this decline is several years, due in large part to the Khan Academy.
The non-profit KA has provided something like 240 million free online, subject oriented, “micro lessons”, out of the 4000 or so they offer.
Basically, it is education without the b.s. Parents love it because it brings their kids up to where their parents think they should be; and the kids love it for the logical reason that it does not waste their time with b.s., but actually teaches them something useful.
Students learn at their own pace, and they actually learn.
It is also of huge future benefit to home schooling, because students have a contrast between efficient education and how the teachers’ unions want teaching to be.
And yet, we are constantly scolded that we are not “investing” enough in education. It’s always, “We need more, More, MORE!”
Liberal control ruins a states educational system; in competent E.O.P. teachers, E.O.P. students, lowered standards for the non E.O.P. The California educational system collapsed under the weight of lowered standards; there is no reason why Colorado’s system shall not follow the same path.
I took algebra I&II, geo, and Trig in HS. When I went to college, Calc and Diff Equations was a snap.
Duuude, just wait until for the new marijuana laws and see what the scores are.