No wonder kids can't learn (Page 2): The lack of general knowledge by the millenium generation is downright scary, you would believe with all the very easy accès to information via...

Fotoserj Loc: St calixte Qc Ca

The lack of general knowledge by the millenium generation is downright scary, you would believe with all the very easy accès to information via internet they would be ore inform but to think they will be teaching the next generation is even scarier

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

cochese wrote:

Six years ago my daughter graduated high school with a 3.84. She could do calculus in her head. She could not nalance a check book and had no idea what a resume or cover letter were. I feel they need to go back to teaching some real life skills in the school system instead of rocket science mathematics.

I graduated from high school 58 years ago and they were teaching calculus then. But it was elective so if you wanted to be a rocket scientist it was available to you. No one was forced to take it and I doubt they are today. However, I don't know how to nalance my checkbook either.

gerdog

My big frustration with how history is taught was in my high school days in the 70's. The school year would always end before the class got through the whole book, right around the beginning of World War I. Same thing happened at 2 different schools for me. Had to educate myself about all of the modern history. Just a couple of years ago, I read the results of a survey of high school seniors about history. The majority thought that Germany and Italy fought on our side, and that Russia was the big enemy who started the war. Very sad.

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

gerdog wrote:

My big frustration with how history is taught was ... (show quote)

Well, that only makes sense - history is getting longer every year.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Fotoserj wrote:

The lack of general knowledge by the millenium generation is downright scary, you would believe with all the very easy accès to information via internet they would be ore inform but to think they will be teaching the next generation is even scarier

Bunko.T Loc: Western Australia.

[quote=Huey Driver][quote=Hassie]Huey Driver -
Don't know where you got your history from but Dutch van Kirk died on July 28th, 2014.
This might have happened, but it wasn't last week.
He was a very humble man according to what I have read about him.
He was from Northumberland, PA which is about 18 miles from my home in Mifflinburg.[/quo

It was sent to me but considering our education system and what it is today it counds like it could have haoppened. Exactly when really doesn't matter does it?[/quote]

Sounds like you were a bit off key too, Huey???

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Huey Driver wrote:

No wonder kids can't learn br br Young people can... (show quote)

Nice story, no proof it really happened.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Architect1776 wrote:

Nice story, no proof it really happened.

Agree -

Reference The Schoolteacher Who Thought it was World War Eleven from Truth or Fiction

SueScott Loc: Hammondsville, Ohio

splitload wrote:

In my area of Flordia, if it isn't part of the State Standards test, it isn't taught. The schools are graded on the student's scores and the higher the school grade the more money that school gets. It is just like everything else, money is the goal, not education.

Students are not being educated, they are being taught to take tests and math scores have plummeted b/c of Common Core. Government schools are producing a semi-literate proletariat, not educated, useful citizens. I'm a firm believer in homeschooling, and if that is not possible, a good private school.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

SueScott wrote:

Students are not being educated, they are being taught to take tests and math scores have plummeted b/c of Common Core. Government schools are producing a semi-literate proletariat, not educated, useful citizens. I'm a firm believer in homeschooling, and if that is not possible, a good private school.

I agree with a "good" private school - one that teaches the basics and then builds on the basics...

I see too many private schools focus on social status and money - the kids are not getting a good education but since they are part of the entitled crowd, they get into college to waste another four years before entering the entitled world...

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

Huey Driver wrote:

No wonder kids can't learn br br Young people can... (show quote)

I've always thought it's just a natural right of passing for the older generations to complain about the younger generations, especially about their schooling. I'm quite certain that people of my grandparents generations said the same thing about my generation growing up in the '40s and '50s. Things change, and we don't always appreciate that. I have no doubt that my grandkids will complain about the younger generations when (hopefully) they get older 40-50 years from now.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I wonder if that actually happened.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

SueScott wrote:

Students are not being educated, they are being taught to take tests...

That's not an unreasonable statement. The public likes to see results, and they think that tests are a good way to do that because tests provide a number. If someone get 85 and someone else gets 95, it's easy to see who's "better." The pressure to see results leads to governments mandating standardized tests. Schools want their kids to do well on these tests, so that's where the emphasis goes. Blame the public.

berchman Loc: South Central PA

will47 wrote:

It may not have happened last week but probably true. I bet that teacher COULD recite the socialist democrats' ideology or her union contract terms correctly though.

It's to be hoped that the students also learn from that teacher how the socialist FDR gave us Social Security to make us all lazy and the socialist Lyndon Johnson gave us Medicare to make us all sicker and how unions deprived kids of the experience of mining coal and working dawn to dusk in factories.

Woodworm65 Loc: Lombard, IL

And all I have to say is heaven help us with the new generation, and that teacher should be shoveling bull crap somewhere not teaching.