the sobering reality of our education system.
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Link: https://x.com/justinskycak/status/2022128844166103168?s=46
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There are many people that shouldn't go beyond high school, society shames people into going to
college, many are better off going into a trade
that and the fact kids are getting a’s and AP credit for undeserving work
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Had your "X" source been more diligent, he would have found that the root cause was COVID, which
negated the use of objective SAT/ACT test scores in Math, thus forcing Universities/Colleges to rely more on GPAs, with all their imperfections. As a result, more institutions (MIT for example) are re-instituting those tests for acceptance.
You're welcome.
that's an AI answer, this is happening in CA due to politics, they were supposed the UC Regents said
they would com up with their own test, but that's not going to happen, they want to send as many unqualified LCFF+ applicants to UCs rather than actual students
Even when I use AI, I research articles to verify accuracy...I notice you didn't provide anything to
refute my post ;-)...
Attached is just one of many, many articles on the subject of COVID's effect on College Admissions...
Link: https://industryinsights.act.org/2024/05/course-placement-research
This completely destroys another of your pet narratives
That school closures for Covid were a good thing. We were told that a whole generation of students would be permanently harmed by this, but you thought it was a better idea to keep them out of school to protect 85-year-old Grandma.
'WestCoast's' source failed to account for COVID's impact on student math results, which hit the
higher Elementary grades in 2020 the most (those applying to college in 2024 and later) as the attached analysis shows.
Don't forget that vaccines didn't arrive until Dec. 2020 and not widely until the middle of 2021, thus leaving ALL teachers, parents and grandparents vulnerable to super-spreaders like schoolchildren...and anyone with kids knows this reality. btw, thanks for volunteering in one of those trials...it helped a lot of people.
Link: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/learning-curves-post-covid-learning-trajectories-differ-by-the-grade-a-student-was-in-when-the-pandemic-hit/
In my opinion, a lot of these issues are as a result of piss poor parenting…
My kids had a good public educational experience. My wife and I, of course, were very involved and supportive. I noticed the kids without involved parents tended to struggle.
#1 determinant of educational success: parental involvement
A lot of the people who have kids shouldn’t
Correct, but there have always been a lot bad parents, and the children of those parents performed
better in the past. 50 years ago, even those parents read, whether it was the newspaper every day or periodicals. Now, they read nothing except social media on their phones. That puts their kids at a huge disadvantage. When a parent reads, it changes how they converse with their kids and introduces abstract concepts that the children of non-readers never receive.
Many English teachers have given up. Instead of actual literature, they have their classes read moden garbage, or they only read parts of actual literature. Imagine pulling out 50 pages of Huck Finn and thinking that anyone will get anything out of it? If you read, you can write. If you read nothing, you will struggle to write anything. Reading is essential in any subject area, even math.
My school is like an increasing number that have a "skills-based" math curriculum centered on group work and "real life" applications. Most of these similar approaches too quickly jump over the fundamentals and the rote memorization that is necessary to engage in higher-level application of concepts. This isn't opinion. There is plenty of science behind the determination that an awful lot of memorization must happen before moving on to complex, abstract cognition. The group work part presents problems most people can figure out on their own. First, you have the students who do nothing and rely on other group members to do the work for them. Second, it increases the amount of socializing around topics unrelated to classwork. Then, to top it off, when it comes time for tests, these students who have done everything in groups are then expected to perform individually. It's not difficult to understand why this doesn't work. Consequently, at my school, a majority of students, and usually a super-majority of students, have to "retake" their tests because they failed, to the point that they treat to initial test as a practice run, knowing they can retake and retake and retake until they receive a "3" or a "4" on the standards-based grading 4-point scale.
Smart kids with supportive parents will usually succeed, regardless how misguided the curricula or even the incompetence of their teachers. Plus, they will tend to be the ones in AP or college credit courses, where they will be surrounded by similarly intelligent and disciplined students. Meanwhile, the other kids will be surrounded by other kids who perform in math and English at several grade levels below where they should be, and will be in classrooms where disruptive student behavior is a daily occurrence. You can easily find data on the increases in disruptions and violence in America's classrooms, and it has been answered with ridiculous approaches to school discipline that only make the situation worse. We have abandoned many/most time-tested approaches to education, and this is the primary failing in modern public schools. Yes, we returned to phonics, but only when the failure of "whole language" was so brutally obvious and pronounced. It can take decades to eradicate such kinds of educational weeds.
it's a vicious cycle, the parents are bad, leading to worse children, that become even worse parents
and society looks the other way and just keeps lowering standards.
My home schooled son does very well in math. Can tell time correctly, write in cursive and can
Count money. All things we added into his daily courses he was taking online. We basically went back to how we were taught and added those things in. Truly amazing how many kids his age cant read/write cursive. Want to confuse the hell out of them, give them a time like quarter to 6. The look of confusion is sad.
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