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To: Zakeet

Article states that nationwide only 31% can pass a science test, a subject that is measurable and not subject to touchy-feelly interpretation.

We pay the education industry to take students from point A to point B and they are getting LESS THAN A THIRD to their destination.

Now imagine if the airlines had the same record. Congress, especially the left, would be up in arms against those profiteering private companies.

Where is the outrage? Where are the calls to shut down these schools and take away their access to taxpayer funds? Crickets...


16 posted on 08/22/2012 9:13:01 AM PDT by anonsquared
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Article states that nationwide only 31% can pass a science test, a subject that is measurable and not subject to touchy-feelly interpretation.

Even worse, science taught in schools these days consists largely of ecology, space exploration and evolutionary biology. Useful subjects like chemistry and physics are largely ignored.

In fact, the majority of the youngsters I've talked to have no idea how electricity is generated, how internal combustion engines work, or how a lever can help move a heavy object.

This is indeed tragic.

20 posted on 08/22/2012 9:31:41 AM PDT by Zakeet (A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar - H. L. Mencken)
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