I work for a Fortune 500 company and provide tech support for 167 people.
At least a third of them are functionally illiterate; they can’t read with any comprehension and they can’t successfully express themselves with the written word.
A result, no doubt, “ of teachers lowering standards in classrooms to inflate GPA’s.”
P.S. It’s a major telecommunications company.... and 33% of it’s employees can’t communicate Ouch!...and you wonder why it takes 5 fucking days to get your DSL repaired....
Joel - 01:05am on 05/26/2007
Joel, how many of these illiterates were hired because of diversity and race quotas?
docdave - 02:05am on 05/26/2007
Two observations:
1. Did anyone read the sign the girl is holding?
Let are kids walk…
2. TAKS stands for Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. The purpose of the test is to make sure that kids are actually learning basics and the test is extremely basic. I just received the scores for my two Princes and both were off the chart score wise. They have an entire day set aside for the test and my guys just take lots of reading material because they usually finish a 3 hour section in about 30 minutes.
Both complain that it is a very easy test. If you cannot pass this test, you truly should not be allowed to graduate.
King of Fools - 06:05am on 05/26/2007
They should give these kids diploma’s and let them go straight into the teaching profession.
The Whistler - 06:05am on 05/26/2007
This country is going to pay heavily for raising an entitlement generation. We’ve told every child they are special and a success no matter whether they succeed or not, try or not, just by virtue of their breathing we have convinced them they are special and deserve to get what ever they want.
Hard work, dedication, honesty, virtue, the lessons learned by failure, personal responsibility and a host of other things have been left out of this generation’s life lessons, and they and we will pay the price for our over indulgence of our children.
Neiman - 07:05am on 05/26/2007
Wouldn’t it be cool if all of us—ALL of us—had to take a standardized test every year? And were all required to wear a badge on our clothes with our score proudly displayed for all to see?
At least then we’d all know who we were dealing with…
Not all diplomas, nor all 3.5 GPA’s are equal. Thus the need for a standardized test.
Marty - 08:05am on 05/26/2007
I feel a need to point that of the 5 commenters before me, 2 of them (that would be 40%) incorrectly punctuated the nouns “diploma” and “it.”
Greg Griffith - 08:05am on 05/26/2007
I’m pretty sure that “it” is a pronoun.
Not that we don’t all make typos and grammatical errors when writing in the comments section of a blog....
Rob - 08:05am on 05/26/2007
2 of them (that would be 40%) incorrectly punctuated the nouns “diploma” and “it.”
ouch, but I pretty much let the spell check do my proofreading on comments.
It’s funny how you just let your fingers fly when you’ve done this stuff enough.
The Whistler - 10:05am on 05/26/2007
Not that we don’t all make typos and grammatical errors when writing in the comments section of a blog....
I don’t. Then again, I read books without pictures.
I work for a Fortune 500 company and provide tech support for 167 people.
At least a third of them are functionally illiterate; they can’t read with any comprehension and they can’t successfully express themselves with the written word.
A result, no doubt, “ of teachers lowering standards in classrooms to inflate GPA’s.”
P.S. It’s a major telecommunications company.... and 33% of it’s employees can’t communicate
Ouch!...and you wonder why it takes 5 fucking days to get your DSL repaired....
Joel, how many of these illiterates were hired because of diversity and race quotas?
Two observations:
1. Did anyone read the sign the girl is holding?
2. TAKS stands for Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. The purpose of the test is to make sure that kids are actually learning basics and the test is extremely basic. I just received the scores for my two Princes and both were off the chart score wise. They have an entire day set aside for the test and my guys just take lots of reading material because they usually finish a 3 hour section in about 30 minutes.
Both complain that it is a very easy test. If you cannot pass this test, you truly should not be allowed to graduate.
They should give these kids diploma’s and let them go straight into the teaching profession.
This country is going to pay heavily for raising an entitlement generation. We’ve told every child they are special and a success no matter whether they succeed or not, try or not, just by virtue of their breathing we have convinced them they are special and deserve to get what ever they want.
Hard work, dedication, honesty, virtue, the lessons learned by failure, personal responsibility and a host of other things have been left out of this generation’s life lessons, and they and we will pay the price for our over indulgence of our children.
Wouldn’t it be cool if all of us—ALL of us—had to take a standardized test every year? And were all required to wear a badge on our clothes with our score proudly displayed for all to see?
At least then we’d all know who we were dealing with…
Not all diplomas, nor all 3.5 GPA’s are equal. Thus the need for a standardized test.
I feel a need to point that of the 5 commenters before me, 2 of them (that would be 40%) incorrectly punctuated the nouns “diploma” and “it.”
I’m pretty sure that “it” is a pronoun.
Not that we don’t all make typos and grammatical errors when writing in the comments section of a blog....
ouch, but I pretty much let the spell check do my proofreading on comments.
It’s funny how you just let your fingers fly when you’ve done this stuff enough.