Comments on: College is for Dummies http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634 Also: Richard X. Thripp's Personal Development Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:39:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Richard X. Thripp http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634#comment-9375 Richard X. Thripp Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:37:50 +0000 http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/?p=634#comment-9375 It's easy to talk about what our public schools do wrong, but that doesn't get to the root of the problem: we shouldn't have state-funded schools to begin with. It's your parents' responsibility to teach you, and if they care about you (as most parents do) they'll do a far better job than government baby-sitting. Public schooling is a mass waste of citizens' money, because it's a monopoly with no competition. You have to pay for it on your property taxes and sales taxes all your life, even if you never send your children to public school. Also, high schools often have a jail-like atmosphere. If you're at school 6 hours a day 5 days a week, that's plenty of time for you to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. All else is secondary, and there's no need for homework. It’s easy to talk about what our public schools do wrong, but that doesn’t get to the root of the problem: we shouldn’t have state-funded schools to begin with. It’s your parents’ responsibility to teach you, and if they care about you (as most parents do) they’ll do a far better job than government baby-sitting.

Public schooling is a mass waste of citizens’ money, because it’s a monopoly with no competition. You have to pay for it on your property taxes and sales taxes all your life, even if you never send your children to public school.

Also, high schools often have a jail-like atmosphere.

If you’re at school 6 hours a day 5 days a week, that’s plenty of time for you to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. All else is secondary, and there’s no need for homework.

]]> By: Joe Spaghettio http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634#comment-9265 Joe Spaghettio Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:13:26 +0000 http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/?p=634#comment-9265 :grin: I agree with you on this... Especially in Pennsylvania with the PSSAs. All that kids are learning is how to take tests. They are not learning to learn anymore... This is all because of Bush's FAILED "No Child Left Behind" program. If the kids that are in learning support and those same kids score basic or below basic on the PSSAs during their senior year, they will not get a diploma. There is no point in standardized testing. Also, the kids that show that they excell in school get piled and piled with extra work on top of that the normal kids get. This is not right. If you show that you are smart, you should get different work. Not the same work with all kind of different work piled on top of it. What are your thoughts on this? :grin: I agree with you on this…
Especially in Pennsylvania with the PSSAs. All that kids are learning is how to take tests. They are not learning to learn anymore…
This is all because of Bush’s FAILED “No Child Left Behind” program. If the kids that are in learning support and those same kids score basic or below basic on the PSSAs during their senior year, they will not get a diploma.

There is no point in standardized testing.

Also, the kids that show that they excell in school get piled and piled with extra work on top of that the normal kids get. This is not right. If you show that you are smart, you should get different work. Not the same work with all kind of different work piled on top of it.

What are your thoughts on this?

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