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.... what socialism means.
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I served 4 years as an Air Force recruiter in Sacramento CA with responsibility for about 15 high school areas. I interviewed kids with their high school diploma in hand who could not spell their middle name or didn't even KNOW their middle name, only the initial. I ran across kids who could not spell the name of the school that gave them the diploma. A couple did not know their Mom's real name. Social Security number was a mystery to many. Many flunked the ASVAB with a score of less than 10. Kids from certain high schools would ace the ASVAB while others would be almost certain to fail miserably. The Teachers UNION on Full Display
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
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Knowing the Constitution....LOL
As is typical I assume, our High School History and US Government teacher was the basketball coach. Pretty good coach (I was given to understand), not much for a teacher.
Senior Year Government Class: Split into two groups, House and Senate W/ committees in each. Each committee presented a bill.
Coach Teacher: Um, Mr Shooter. What subject does your bill pertain to?
Idaho: Euthanasia and circumstances where it shall be legal.
Coach Teacher: Why in the heck would it be illegal for kids to visit the Far East?
No, he was not the brightest bulb in the box, but he got the Varsity boys to State for about six years running.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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I will start.
How to count change?
Ohm's law? Guess it depends on the High School, but I had never heard of ohm's law until I went to tech school for electronics. I would be surprised to find many high school grads that knew what it was. I learned some basic electricity concepts in high school physics but I'm sure a lot of high school graduates didn't take such a course.
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I will start.
How to count change?
Ohm's law? That they voted by mail but we're not yet 18. If you wish to denigrate the education of others, please use words properly. It adds effect.
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Our Government teacher was one of the best teaches I had. Tough, but good.
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I will start.
How to count change?
Ohm's law? Guess it depends on the High School, but I had never heard of ohm's law until I went to tech school for electronics. I would be surprised to find many high school grads that knew what it was. When I was in school we learned that in junior high science. My wife is 17 years younger than I. We are both astounded at how much was omitted from high school between the years I went and when she went. (We went to the same school, by the way.) As a college professor today, she is dismayed at the lack of skills and knowledge so many come to her with.
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Our Government teacher was one of the best teaches I had. Tough, but good. Should be mandatory in every High School.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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That they "graduated from high school", not "graduated high school"?
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
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Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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I will start.
How to count change?
Ohm's law? Guess it depends on the High School, but I had never heard of ohm's law until I went to tech school for electronics. I would be surprised to find many high school grads that knew what it was. When I was in school we learned that in junior high science. My wife is 17 years younger than I. We are both astounded at how much was omitted from high school between the years I went and when she went. (We went to the same school, by the way.) As a college professor today, she is dismayed at the lack of skills and knowledge so many come to her with. Like I said, depends on the High School. I graduated in 1975 at a small school with out many choices of classes. We did have physics, but I didn't take it. Didn't learn Ohms Law till tech school. Then made a living with it.
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Easy and quick answer.... Public Education.... It's not there to teach the 3 R's it's there to indoctrinate people to rely on government assistance in order to survive!!!
Schools in predominantly WHITE towns still teach for success while schools in predominantly black towns teach victimhood!!! FACT 💥
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Our Government teacher was one of the best teaches I had. Tough, but good. Should be mandatory in every High School. I thought it was. It was required at our school. Just assumed it was everywhere. Maybe not?
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I have a confession to make. I graduated with a BFA from UC College Conservatory of Music with honors in 1980. Much to my chagrin, I had to re-learn how to do long division by hand after taking a Christmas job at Radio Shack. I'd just not needed it. It was very embarrassing. Mind you, I'd taken Astronomy labs where I'd had to calculate the height of craters on the moon and the transit times of stars and even calculated the rotational velocity of the rings of Saturn, (all with a fancy scientific calculator) but somehow I'd lost the ability to do 4-function math in my head. Most of my time in college had been spent learning to write novels, short stories, and movie scripts.
It has a happy ending. That was 1980. I was so backward in math that I ended up programming computers for a living. By 1987, I had been forced to teach myself Calculus to comprehend the inner workings of the Yield-to-Maturity method of bond amortization and my mutual fund company was the first to do it programmatically when other houses were still having their portfolio managers crank it out on a special bond calculator. I'd had to dissect how this calculator did its internal rounding so I could match the calculations.
So, I did recover from this lousy math deficit. My warning is: use it or lose it.
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How does one graduate HS without knowing ??? Simple answer.
The diploma now officially is a participation trophy. Designed by teacher unions, supported by weak-kneed school officials and school boards - paid for by uninvolved parents.
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Ohms law, Boyles law and what ever the C1V1=C2V2 thing is called were well drilled into us by our high school physics and chem teachers. I also knew I lived in a constitutional republic ( though I am not so sure about the last one anymore), but I am fairly sure the others still work.
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them. Coolidge
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Socialism doesn't work.
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In college we were asked to fill out reviews of our professors. I did one for my English professor and in the write in section I wrote, "He teaches English real Good." They were anonymous but the professor received copies of them. One day in class he broke it out and said do I even need to ask who wrote this as he walked across class to my desk and put his foot up on my desk and glared at me. The whole class was rolling as he read it.
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When I read student reviews of college algebra classes I taught I noticed a strong correlation between positive reviews and good writing. There was also strong correlation between negative reviews and poor writing.
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Socialism doesn't work.
Bb That about sums it up in more ways than one.
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Piss poor parents, piss poor teachers.
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