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American Public Schools Are Awful

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-02 16:16

I decided to quit school because I don't believe in ignorance, rudeness, dating, fornication, or the use of drugs. I also don't believe in grades being based on social and economic status, not knowledge and effort. Instead I decided to take a series of five General Educational Development (GED) Tests and I passed them with above average scores. I was awarded a High School Equivalency Diploma which certifies that I satisfactorily completed comprehensive tests selected by the Commissioner of Education for determining general educational achievement equivalent to high school graduation.

Studies have shown that most high school graduates when tested have failed the GED Tests. Ironically some of its critics who likely have never seen the test refer to it as, "too easy".

They should start training people for a trade in public school instead of this elitist higher education lie where all the wrong people are given all the wrong jobs. What relevance is it anyway if I go to school or not? If all you look at on a person are degrees then you really don't know what matters. Most people with degrees can't even do the professions that they studied in a university for 4 years any better than a 5th grader, if not worse. Yet they're the experts because they're "qualified".

College teaches you one thing how to trick and exploit poor people.

Name: Anonymous 2008-09-06 0:23

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They aren't all in the same area trying to serve the same few hundred people, numbnuts.  Who the fuck would go to the expense of building the thing and running it with such dismal prospects?

Then you turn around and say that there aren't competing schools after all, just competing contracts to run the thing.  That's not private enterprise; that is merely contracting shit out, like they do with janitor services.

So at any given time, the contract winner has the monopoly, no competition after all.  Contract winner may or may not run the place well, contract winner may or may not decide that it can afford to continue to run the place half way through the contract.  What contingency is there for defaulting on the contract?  Will government departments of education get out of the business of managing districts and states?  Because upper management tends to be the driver of the bus regardless.  Better to give more power to principals to run things -- I have seen convincing stories about schools turning around in that manner.

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