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| jfung79 - Brendon, Rachel, Hayden, Kathy, Ragan, Enzo, and others in backyard talking about education system. |
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#13735504 2:55PM 18/07/2010 |
Brendon thinks education has become too geared toward testing. He talks about his experiences substitute teaching. In California they spend the whole year preparing students to pass the high school exit exam. Kathy asks if teachers get to keep their jobs based on how many students pass the test, and Brendon says yes. Brendon thinks a test does not show the whole story of student potential. It's only useful as a gauge. He only took the general GRE, not the Physics GRE, because he was worried the Physics GRE would hurt him, but then in his master's program, he had a 90-plus page thesis and a published journal article. Brendon thinks kids with learning disabilities get lost in the crowd, with expanding class sizes, especially when they aren't athletes who can get extra help, as Lane did who was able to take tests orally due to a learning disability. Hayden said athletes have some ridiculous advantages.
Rachel thinks some kids don't want to learn. Brendon thinks some of them have shitty home lives and you want to keep them off the streets. Rachel talks about having a high dropout rate in Nevada, high school dropouts in Nevada who go work in casinos -- geared toward making money instead of education.
Ragan thinks schools are too focused on grades instead of building skills. Rachel says in school they don't talk about the job market. Ragan says in California so many students have to work when they go to school, compared to other places where it's harder. Brendon talks about their being no trades programs in his mom's school districts now. Ragan talks about corporations funding the university system now instead of it coming from public funding. Rachel says PE, arts classes also being cut.
Brendon is saying they need to focus on education. Rachel says all the other countries in the world, like Japan, China, Europe, are investing in education. Ragan thinks they need major campaign finance reform. Brendon says lobbyists need to go away and are overpaid. Rachel says even universities are training people with liberal arts, communication degrees, but not science or mathematics. Rachel says it's rare for females to come out with degrees in those fields. Rachel says it's scary, they're not going to have scientists in 10 years. |
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