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<blockquote data-quote="SDarkRage" data-source="post: 1470983" data-attributes="member: 3492"><p>Exactly. Back in the 50's when my pops was growing up, schools were ran locally by the towns. They paid to bring in the best teachers and demanded quality from them. If the teachers where short, the community got together and help provide things like supplies and other. He was telling me about one of his teachers had lost her husband due to some sickness and the town all got together and paid for his funeral and memorium. When's the last time that's happened?</p><p></p><p>I'm sorry, because kids today are coming out totally stupid. When i was going to high school back in the early 90's, they started this equal opportunity BS about kids being treated equally. There would be no bad students and no excelling students. That took all the drive out of us. They took away all of our Honors programs and the special trips we got for achieving greatness. The courses took a hit and became super easy so the not so smart D students were now making B's and A's. It made it to where I'd sleep through class, wouldn't read or do my "homework", do my projects the night before and I still pulled off straight A's. I started taking college classes my Junior year because I was so far ahead. I'm not bragging because what we've done as a country to our school system is tragic. We've dumbed down America. Where is the drive to excell when all you have to do is show up? What does that do for our future leaders mindsets? I'm sorry, but we've ruined this country and no matter how much we through money at it, its not going to fix it. When no one is held accountable then why bother?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SDarkRage, post: 1470983, member: 3492"] Exactly. Back in the 50's when my pops was growing up, schools were ran locally by the towns. They paid to bring in the best teachers and demanded quality from them. If the teachers where short, the community got together and help provide things like supplies and other. He was telling me about one of his teachers had lost her husband due to some sickness and the town all got together and paid for his funeral and memorium. When's the last time that's happened? I'm sorry, because kids today are coming out totally stupid. When i was going to high school back in the early 90's, they started this equal opportunity BS about kids being treated equally. There would be no bad students and no excelling students. That took all the drive out of us. They took away all of our Honors programs and the special trips we got for achieving greatness. The courses took a hit and became super easy so the not so smart D students were now making B's and A's. It made it to where I'd sleep through class, wouldn't read or do my "homework", do my projects the night before and I still pulled off straight A's. I started taking college classes my Junior year because I was so far ahead. I'm not bragging because what we've done as a country to our school system is tragic. We've dumbed down America. Where is the drive to excell when all you have to do is show up? What does that do for our future leaders mindsets? I'm sorry, but we've ruined this country and no matter how much we through money at it, its not going to fix it. When no one is held accountable then why bother? [/QUOTE]
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