re: Post an uncomfortable truth from your line of work that most people don't realize

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Just read a study that 25% of college students in remedial classes had a 4.0 GPA in high school.

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It’s exactly why standardized tests are so important. SAT and ACT scores don’t lie like GPAs can. A 4.0 at Scotlandville High isn’t a 4.0 at Jesuit. That’s just 2 random schools.

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This would have been unthinkable just 25 years ago

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My BIL is a public school teacher, over the weekend he insisted that Bush single handedly ruined public education with No Child Left Behind. He's a huge liberal btw. I think it started before NCLB, at least in Georgia, when Zell Miller's Hope Scholarship came out, so any kid in Georgia with a 3.0 in HS could get free tuition at a state college. Teachers didn't want to "ruin a kid's life" by giving them a fair grade that might knock them down to a 2.99 GPA. This was mid-90's.

Also, it coincides exactly with when college tuition at the GA state schools started to skyrocket. They saw how much was in the lottery funds and weren't going to let that go to waste. No sir.

Bad news for me is my average intelligence son makes straight As in HS with little effort, if he goes to a real school, he will flunk out in short order. The only silver lining I see is that my buddy has daughter at LSU, she says it is easier than the same HS with even less effort. So, my boy may have a shot.

Uncomfortable for democrats: The world will never run out of natural gas and oil.

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protect their kids from having any accountability.

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What I hear is it's the school admins who will lose money if not enough kids pass. So the teachers get the grief from the admins because of the money, not so much from the parents.

If a schools score is based on their students standardized testing, why hold the low scoring 6-8th graders back? They would just be on your books for an extra year.

Give them extra credit and pass them on to high school, get them off your books.

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There is a sexualization of female athletes trend happening in university marketing departments

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Uh, you need to check out the female athlete IG accounts, using the appeal of their bodies to gain followers, including reposting the official school shots that offend you so much. Nearly all of them do it to themselves already. I only know this because they're a regular feature in some sports newsletters.

Nobody wants to hear me whine like a bitch about "uncomfortable truths" in my daily life!! Lol

Only weak, low testosterone, males do such things.... IMHO

Your brother-in-law is not wrong. No child left behind tried to quantify student success, and all I did was make generations of children who know how to take them multiple-choice test.

Last weekend I was having a conversation with an education professor at UGA. She was saying the high-level students with 1400 SATs and 10 AP classes are less intelligent than the kids with 1000 SAT scores she taught when she was at the university of Arizona. They know how to answer test questions, but don’t know how to think.

Taxpayers spend a ton of money fixing up and maintaining foreclosures in the ghetto because the NAACP sued Wells Fargo and HUD years ago, saying it was racist that those houses didn't get the same attention as other areas.