Posted on 03/25/2002 4:46:13 PM PST by xsysmgr
I agree with your post # 18, BTW.
Where has he been sleeping for the past twenty (or was it thirty?) years?
How do I know this ? I know, because I am from N.Y.C. and my family went to school ( a public & private mix ) there and some have been in education, in one capacity or another,for over 100 years. At one time, getting good grades on the Regents exams ( state wide exams, which they have so watered down now, that they are just about useless, and STILL many can't pass them ) , were an automatic " GET IN FREE " card, to every ELITE college and univesity in this country. Though younger than Powell, I DO know what and how he was taught in grammar school. It wasn't anywhere near as rigorous, as what my grandmother did , in her day ; but it was still far superior to what is being taught in the vast majority of today's schools.
Instead of all of this feel good coddling, we need to go back to a point in time, when schools actualy taught subjects and demanded students learned ; or were left back.
We need to go back to ending all government involvement with schooling.
Bush is president SOLELY because of his father and paternal grandfather ? What about the fact that his maternal great + granfather was also a president of the USA ? Perhaps it is because he is by nature and nurture predisposed to be an able, capable president .
How many millions of Ivy League grads have NOT been president ? Is that the failure of those schools ?
Reagan's father was a nasty , mean drunk and an abect failure. Bush's father was born into priviledge. All this means, is that America is a wonderful nation, where everyone has a chance to become anything ; still.
Your MARXIST class warfare has no place on FR !
Says the censor.
One of the things that not only makes many of those who proudly call themselves "conservatives" look like goddamned fools time and again, but more importantly does grievous damage to the principles the "conservatives" claim to champion, is their insistence on calling anyone talking about class warfare a Marxist. Folks at different points on the political spectrum hear such pathetic red-baiting, and figure, "Well, if they'll lie about that, you can't trust them to give you the correct time of day!" Then they decide, they'd better protect themselves against such dangerously dishonest or stupid people, and go either with the socialists or with some variation on Buchananism.
Everything I know about class warfare, was taught to me not by Marx, but by rich folk, and by those who were not quite rich, but who desperately wanted to be. I know of only two explanations why a grown-up would deny the reality of class warfare: dishonesty or stupidity. Which is it, with you?
The SAT wasn't designed to measure intelligence. There are many good intelligence tests for that, and some of them don't use written language at all.
The SAT was designed for one reason: to set up another entrance criterion for admission to an Ivy League university based on something *other* than ancestry and "legacy." The SAT was specifically designed to predict *good grades in the freshman year.* At a difficult school, high SAT scores will almost certainly translate into good grades freshman year. That's IT. It doesn't measure intelligence, or how much money you're going to make 20 years after graduation, or even what your final GPA at graduation will be.
If vocabulary and language expressions aren't important on a college entrance exam any longer, that probably says more about the dumbing-down of freshman level courses than the SAT's validity as a good predictor of who will do well in their freshman year.
Washington is a very incestuous place and as someone who usually votes Republican, I am very tired of seeing the names Bush and Dole again and again on our national tickets.
I agree.
There has been a Bush or a Dole on every ticket since 1976, and it looks like it won't stop until 2016 or so. I can only hope that empty suit from NC, gets cut off before she can get a presidential nomination.
I loathe this practice of failing to mentally expand acronyms. SAT = Scholastic Aptitude TEST. Therefore, SAT test = Scholastic Aptitude Test test. Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department. < /vent>
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