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Edmundo Braverman's picture
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(Human, 11,075
 
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 on 9/3/10 at 2:30am

This is just shocking. It appears the educational system in America is failing our most vulnerable students, and robbing them of their opportunity to inflict mediocrity on the ranks of middle management. What are these poor kids to do when there are no consulting gigs left?

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M-001's picture

"taught me how to pretend to

IB
(Orangutan, 255
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 3:00am

"taught me how to pretend to give a shit about things" hahaha.. good material

loki276's picture

lol I was expecting something

IB
(Orangutan, 369
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 5:40am

lol I was expecting something serious until I saw the onion sign

Frieds's picture

Edmundo, Despite the humor

AM
(Neanderthal, 2,129
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 8:34am

Edmundo,

Despite the humor in this (and I found it hysterical), the sad part is that the US education system, at least in New Jersey, is failing a majority of the students in it. I'll be back with a further explanation, but as of now, I'm a bit late, so expect it coming.

blastoise's picture

they must be talking about

O
(Neanderthal, 3,700
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 8:36am

they must be talking about state kids

eokpar02's picture

I ain't snitchin'.

EN
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 8:37am

I ain't snitchin'.

I am not cocky, I am confident, and when you tell me I am the best it is a compliment.
-Styles P

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I think schools do suck, but

O
(Human, 11,678
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 9:35am

I think schools do suck, but lets face it, there is so much free information online that anyone who is clueless is because they don't want to get off their ass and learn.

Don't know about US history, do a google search. Students expect to have information pumped into their brains. It is passive learning. As much as I love crapping on our public school system a good share of the blame must be on the individuals.

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Anthony . wrote: I think

O
(Baboon, 145
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 10:06am
Anthony .:

I think schools do suck, but lets face it, there is so much free information online that anyone who is clueless is because they don't want to get off their ass and learn.

Don't know about US history, do a google search. Students expect to have information pumped into their brains. It is passive learning. As much as I love crapping on our public school system a good share of the blame must be on the individuals.

Ugh could you be any more self-righteous?

sofib09's picture

LOL...not bothering to read

VC
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 11:17am

LOL...not bothering to read until the end of the word problem...

in its own way, this video explains everything that is wrong with our public education system.

"And in the real world, people don't give a shit."

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then those that dont give a

IB
(Orangutan, 255
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 12:11pm

then those that dont give a shit try to take down or expect handouts from those who did give a shit and have now made something of themselves..

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surferdude867 wrote: Anthony

O
(Human, 11,678
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 12:36pm
surferdude867:
Anthony .:

I think schools do suck, but lets face it, there is so much free information online that anyone who is clueless is because they don't want to get off their ass and learn.

Don't know about US history, do a google search. Students expect to have information pumped into their brains. It is passive learning. As much as I love crapping on our public school system a good share of the blame must be on the individuals.

Ugh could you be any more self-righteous?

How is expecting people to learn being self righteous? Teachers teach and kids screw off. Are you telling me that no one should ever seek out knowledge on their own? I think you need to look up the definition of self righteous or maybe you are waiting for someone to tell you what it means.

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San Franciscan's picture

God, I wish some of the users

 
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  on 9/3/10 at 9:15pm

God, I wish some of the users of this site were less aware! The best part of The Onion is the off comment from the idiot that thinks it's real.

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J. Paul Getty

timli1987's picture

it happens in China,

O
(Chimp, 3
 
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  on 9/3/10 at 9:24pm

it happens in China, too.
When I was in hgih school, we had to learn many things, many subjects, and has less time.
One quiz was just over, the other quiz came.
So I was very tired at that time.
And I always slept in the lessons that I wasn't insterested in.

I think we have to accept them.

All the things, you can control.
If you don't want to control, then nothing will happen.

Because we cannot change the envirenment, so we have to learn how to be in the envirenment.

Maybe the words are a little Chenglish. I am sorry for that.

I am a .net developer.
I am insteresting in reading

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Anthony . wrote: I think

(Monkey, 35
 
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  on 9/5/10 at 10:27am
Anthony .:

I think schools do suck, but lets face it, there is so much free information online that anyone who is clueless is because they don't want to get off their ass and learn.

Don't know about US history, do a google search. Students expect to have information pumped into their brains. It is passive learning. As much as I love crapping on our public school system a good share of the blame must be on the individuals.

When you were in elementary school how often did you go google something that you didn't learn in school? That is completely impractical. The point of a school is for things to be pumped into ur brain. School is cumulative so by the time kids are in middle school, if they have had shitty schools their whole lives (which many many kids do), they are really hopelessly behind. And our overcrowded school systems are filled with TEACHERS who don't give a fuck. so try catching up on 3 years of math that you didn't learn when you were in elementary school when you are surrounded by teachers who are overburdened and dont give a shit... Its a set up for failure and kids are already pretty much screwed by age 10 or 11.