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Stupid in America: Students Are So Bad, Professor Can’t Grade Them
The New American ^ | 29 March 2016 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 03/30/2016 2:45:04 PM PDT by detective

What does it say when in two days a teacher exhausts the ink in his red pen? Since a nation cannot be “ignorant and free," as Thomas Jefferson put it, it perhaps means we face a threat graver than the Red Menace.

Apathetic or even hostile students, dumbed-down tests, often incompetent and ideologically driven teachers, Cracker Jack-box degrees, morally toxic curricula, revisionist history, the new math — education has collapsed in America. And one of the sincere educators, wandering amidst the rubble, recently provided a window into this academic apocalypse.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: commoncore; curriculum; education; learning; nea; obamanation; seiu; teaching
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To: Jan_Sobieski
Why do we need Marxists to teach our children.

Because they're in unions, and their legislative RAT buddies kill every bill that allows any diversion of the flood of taxpayer dollars to the filthy educRATs and their gilded monuments to themselves.

41 posted on 03/30/2016 4:45:28 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Ohhh....Derka derka derka!)
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To: detective

Stupid citizens are a dictator’s dream. RATS love low-info voters who can be bought off with trinkets.


42 posted on 03/30/2016 4:51:59 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: detective

Written by a student but even tho’ it doesn’t say so, I would bet it’s a foreign student - it would only be fair to clarify it if it is. It fits in with other stuff written by foreigners who believe they are speaking/writing good English.

“”Attached is the actual outline for my ruff raft. Please, account this as credit therefore I’ll prove my academic progression as acknowledgment for satisfactory of the course. The presentation shall be captivating with visualization being a current pet owner of a fish too!””


43 posted on 03/30/2016 4:55:44 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: detective

Like a blogger that can’t make his thesis statement in the first 10 pages. Dumb.


44 posted on 03/30/2016 4:56:26 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: centurion316

“We are witnesses an increasing rare phenomena.”

Wow, three grammatical errors in a seven-word sentence. FR leads the way!


45 posted on 03/30/2016 4:57:21 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: gnarledmaw

Could be. On the other hand, maybe the student doesn’t pay attention until the 10th time. My point was that one must master a concept before moving on.


46 posted on 03/30/2016 5:11:07 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: Thank You Rush

It sounds as if the student is going to do a presentation, with pictures, on the subject of his pet fish.


47 posted on 03/30/2016 5:12:10 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The world is full of wonder, but you see it only if you look." ~NicknamedBob)
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To: detective
Instead, such children today remain uncivilized and ill-behaved, becoming ever more brazen as the unanswered will, until their misbehavior crosses a line and action is finally taken

Yep.


48 posted on 03/30/2016 5:12:57 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
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To: PrairieLady2

I am blessed that I found a Charter school in my area for my kids, quite a drive, but so worth it. My third grader is learning Latin now.


49 posted on 03/30/2016 5:37:46 PM PDT by Mrsgell
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To: detective

I don’t know...my grandson scored a 32 on the ACT and he’s for Bernie, thank goodness he’s only 17.


50 posted on 03/30/2016 5:39:37 PM PDT by tiki
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To: TigerClaws

The ratings thing did shock me. My granddaughter gave them all good ratings.

My granddaughter was a little miffed this weekend because she and her aunt are in the same class and they had a very involved paper due, GD did it, aunt didn’t, aunt messages the prof, he delays the date until Wed.


51 posted on 03/30/2016 5:47:17 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Tax-chick

A professor just told my granddaughter yesterday that a paragraph can be one sentence?


52 posted on 03/30/2016 5:50:04 PM PDT by tiki
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To: tiki

He’s right. Read some Faulkner.


53 posted on 03/30/2016 5:59:28 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: PrairieLady2

While “who” and “whom” are preferred, “that” is acceptable in identifying relative clauses.


54 posted on 03/30/2016 6:04:11 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: MasterGunner01
Not working as you expected, eh? Well, that never stopped the American Left and it;s failed policies.

Seems to me; their policies are succeeding. Just as they planned. Unfortunately.

55 posted on 03/30/2016 6:43:12 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Socialism is the political version of AIDS. No Cure. Always Fatal. Contagious If Unprotected.)
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To: VanShuyten; tiki

“He’s right. Read some Faulkner.”

Or punctuation (e e cummings).


56 posted on 03/30/2016 6:47:53 PM PDT by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Tax-chick

Good plan. When they can’t run, make them walk, if they stumble there, force them to crawl until they can prove they’re ready to get back up. I’ll have to remember that for my kids.


57 posted on 03/30/2016 6:51:09 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: dfwgator
You wrote:

Those who can do, do.
Those who can’t do, teach.

I hate that saying. I won't deny that teaching is an easy profession. I have taught over 50 different courses (mostly undergraduate mathematics) while I was a professor. My first job was as a draftsman before AutoCAD. However, I quickly learned that I could make more money tutoring Physics, Calculus, and Physical Chemistry than doing drafting work. In the late 70’s I made up to $25/hour tutoring. I have also been a Store Manager, consultant, and I have testified three times in Federal court as an expert witness. I have made $10,000 in one hour because I could solve a problem that stumped over a hundred engineers. As an applied mathematician, I have created thousands of new formulas in mathematics, and I have written several papers in mathematics.

Some of us can teach and do.

However, I am not qualified to teach in a high school because I do not have(or want) a degree in education. The first step in improving our schools is to get rid of the education departments at every university, and make the teachers get a real academic degree.

58 posted on 03/30/2016 6:54:55 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: dfwgator
You wrote:

Those who can do, do.
Those who can’t do, teach.

I hate that saying. I won't deny that teaching is an easy profession. I have taught over 50 different courses (mostly undergraduate mathematics) while I was a professor. My first job was as a draftsman before AutoCAD. However, I quickly learned that I could make more money tutoring Physics, Calculus, and Physical Chemistry than doing drafting work. In the late 70’s I made up to $25/hour tutoring. I have also been a Store Manager, consultant, and I have testified three times in Federal court as an expert witness. I have made $10,000 in one hour because I could solve a problem that stumped over a hundred engineers. As an applied mathematician, I have created thousands of new formulas in mathematics, and I have written several papers in mathematics.

Some of us can teach and do.

However, I am not qualified to teach in a high school because I do not have(or want) a degree in education. The first step in improving our schools is to get rid of the education departments at every university, and make the teachers get a real academic degree.

59 posted on 03/30/2016 6:54:56 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: VanShuyten

Okay, yes but why would an assignment ask for a paragraph when a sentence will do. I’m not talking about novels or poetry, I’m talking about schoolwork.


60 posted on 03/30/2016 7:33:12 PM PDT by tiki
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