The grade of C, 70%-80%. In school they called it "Average." An A was "Excellent", B was "Above Average" but a C was supposed to be average. This is the system that most of us went to school under. The problem with average being 70% is, do you want to go to an "Average" doctor that only learned 70% of what they needed know?? Do you want someone working on your car that can only do the job right 70% of the time??
But, we teach just that to everyone in school. You can scrape through school at 70%! If you get a C you are average and that is ok. Even if you can't get a 70, a D or 60% is still passing in most schools! WHAT!!! Then you throw in multiple choice tests where a monkey can get a 25% and then what do you have. I'm sorry but this is pathetic.
Then the Federal Government sticks their nose in it and we get "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND!" Well, with W. Bush leading the way with this program we can guess what type of student he was! So we dumb down the education level for everyone so the trouble maker, bully, and drug addicts can keep up too. No wonder we are behind the rest of the world.
School needs to mean something. A High School Diploma needs to mean something, and getting one is not a "Right." If you can't or won't do the work for it, you don't deserve it. 60%, 70% doesn't cut it in the real world. We need to teach our kids that you can't be successful in life with a "C" attitude. But we don't, or not enough of us. So we complain about the poor level of education and intelligence of students now, and the young graduates from college. But they just did what was expected of them.
We forget that people rise to whatever level they need to to survive. When you expect more out of someone you usually get it. We need to raise the bar in our schools or we, as a nation, won't be able to keep up with the rest of the world. Yes, we will have more dropouts. Yes, we will have a lower percentage of people with a High School Diploma. But we have no choice in the matter. If we try to drag everyone kicking and screaming across the High School finish line we will come in last. Each individual needs to be responsible for their own actions. If you choose not to do the work or ditch school you will suffer the consequences of your choices later in life.
We have the basic framework in our education system, but aren't using it right. Most schools have honors classes for students that excel. We have the average classes where most students fit, and we have the slower classes for the few that need extra help. We just need to use them properly. Just by kicking out the 1 or 2 trouble makers and drug addicts you will raise the level of education in the average classes. The 1 jerk in class does not have the right to destroy the education of the other 30. Don't put them in the slow classes, that is unfair to the students that need those classes. They need to be kicked out. They need to learn if you don't work, you get fired. I'm sorry but not everyone will be an engineer or a doctor. If you don't work in school you will end up cleaning their offices.
This is the only way we will be able to get enough students with enough of an education to compete with the world. It is a pure numbers game, but we are cheating right now giving out HS diplomas to everyone. The world runs on a Bell Curve. Right now our bell doesn't just have a crack in it, it sags in the center and bulges on the wrong side. We need to be honest with ourselves or we will all lose. Earning a 70% in a school that is only teaching half of what it should is loosing! And right now we are loosing. . .
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I think our declining youth (and programs) are just a symptom of where we stand on the cycle that has created and destroyed civilizations throughout the worlds history. Obviously we have reached the "pride and wickedness" phase. I'm afraid to see what comes next.
Morality is just a joke anymore. The family is broken and dying. Most children are raised by girls making minimum wage at the day-care across the street. It would surprise you how many of Erins students parents plainly didn't care about their kids. Parents just expect the school system to somehow turn their kids into upstanding contributing members of society with zero effort on their part. I think you would have to kick out about 50% of the kids to make a difference in the current system.
Most people today grow up expecting to be graced with some wonderful high paying job. They demand fancy houses, cars, boats, cloths, and toys. I fear we as a nation got too rich for our own good. People are not willing to work hard anymore yet expect to inherit the highest standard of living ever known to man.
I was shocked when I just read that 40 million children are now aborted in the world every year. That's more than all the military casualties of both World War I and World War II combined - but EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR.
“I know of nothing in the history of the Church or in the history of the world to compare with our present circumstances. Nothing happened in Sodom and Gomorrah which exceeds in wickedness and depravity that which surrounds us now.” - Boyd K. Packer
"The worst fear that I have about this people is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and His people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church and go to hell. This people will stand mobbing, robbing, poverty, and all manner of persecution, and be true. But my greatest fear for them is that they cannot stand wealth; and yet they have to be tried with riches, for they will become the richest people on this earth" -Brigham Young
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” -Abraham Lincoln
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