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• 2 + 2 isn't whatever you want it to be (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  For this, some chastised me, saying all people make language errors, and we shouldn't judge people based on their cultural writing styles.

  At some point in the last 20 years, "how a person feels" overtook "whether or not the work is effective" in our school system. Not sure how, or precisely when. But this is the result. We've got a bunch of people who temporarily feel happy, but then go on to lead miserable lives because they aren't told that some things work and other things don't, and that life isn

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  • Re:2 + 2 isn't whatever you want it to be (Score:1)

    by jdporter (36)

    There was a big article in a recent Readers' Digest (not sure exactly which issue) about how cheating is now officially o.k. in a lot of schools. (They were specifically discussing plagiarism.) Idiotic education "experts" pontificate that it's more important to protect and nurture the teacher-student relationship, and that making a big deal of (i.e. penalizing) cheating endangers that relationship.
    
    Not just sad. Disgusting.
    
    Is it any wonder, really, that homeschooling has experienced explosive growth in
    • Re:2 + 2 isn't whatever you want it to be (Score:1)

      by pudge (1)

      Several of my nieces/nephews are being homeschooled, or their parents are considering it. We are considering it, too. Homeschooling really seems to have got its footing because of religious reasons; it seems to be taking off because so many affordable schools suck.
      
      • Re:2 + 2 isn't whatever you want it to be (Score:1)

        by mary.poppins (3530) on 2002.10.01 4:46 (#13465) Homepage Journal

        Wonderful! (no sarcasm)
        
        The whole concept of forcing a group of children into a holding pen for eight hours or so is pretty heinous. We should not be surprised when people treated in this way periodically do something horrible [nothingness.org].
        
        

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