Originally posted by: rhino78 Date: April 23, 2013 at 09:32 AM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region...es-back-minimum-requirements-eases-graduation
Florida just made it easier to graduate. HS students are no longer required to take a Math higher than Algebra I (most 8th graders take that) and don't have to take higher sciences either.
Idiocracy anyone. Where's President Camacho!!!!
Originally posted by: osubuckeye4 Date: April 23, 2013 at 09:34 AM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Originally posted by: rhino78 Date: April 23, 2013 at 09:39 AM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Originally posted by: JW1978 Date: April 23, 2013 at 11:14 AM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Stupid people are easier to exploit, and this is exactly what politicians and their corporate sponsors want--to create an easily exploited wage-slave class of people.
Now watch Rick Scott trot out the smoke and mirrors in a couple of years and brag about how he managed to increase the graduation rate. And of course, now that the population of the state is even dumber, they'll lap it up like hogs at a trough.
Originally posted by: imhungry4444 Date: April 23, 2013 at 11:14 AM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Originally posted by: osubuckeye4 Date: April 23, 2013 at 11:25 AM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
JW1978 said:
Stupid people are easier to exploit, and this is exactly what politicians and their corporate sponsors want--to create an easily exploited wage-slave class of people.
Now watch Rick Scott trot out the smoke and mirrors in a couple of years and
brag about how he managed to increase the graduation rate.
And of course, now that the population of the state is even dumber, they'll lap it up like hogs at a trough.
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Disagree with paragraph one.
Agree with paragraph two.
Originally posted by: NicoSuave Date: April 23, 2013 at 10:58 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Originally posted by: madictionary Date: April 23, 2013 at 11:06 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Originally posted by: mma_momma Date: May 01, 2013 at 12:34 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
rhino78 said:
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region...es-back-minimum-requirements-eases-graduation
Florida just made it easier to graduate. HS students are no longer required to take a Math higher than Algebra I (most 8th graders take that) and don't have to take higher sciences either.
Idiocracy anyone. Where's President Camacho!!!!
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I went to school in Boston for most of my education. My parents divorced and my mom moved to Florida where I had to finish half of my junior year and my senior year. I met my husband in Florida (junior year), we have this argument all the time. I say the school systems in Boston have a higher quality of education and my husband disagrees (since he went to Florida public schools all his life). During the junior year I spent in Florida, 50 % of it was spent in Physical education classes. I had to take 2! Which I spent with mostly freshman girls. The other half of my day was spent with more freshman in other mandatory classes, such as home economics. I did transfer schools for my senior year, my step-father worked near by so he would drop me off and pick me up (45 minutes drive home). Since most of the kids at this high school had succesful parents (doctors, lawyers, horse trainers) I figured it had to be better, it was slightly better. But I was in English class one day and this kid had to read aloud. The sentence was "The wind blew the leaves into the lake." What he said was " The
wined
blew the leaves into the lake". WINED!!! Friggin seriously!! You are a senior in high school and about to graduate and you can't pronounce a simple word!! Needless to say I have my own personal opinion of the Florida public school system.
Originally posted by: rhino78 Date: May 01, 2013 at 01:21 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Originally posted by: mma_momma Date: May 01, 2013 at 01:56 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
rhino78 said:
Horse trainers? Sounds like Ocala or the Stuart or PAlm Beach area.
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Nice guess! Ocala.... I just got back from having my daughters birthday down there and I just can't live in that town. Everyone is sooooo sssssllooowww!! I got stuff to do people!
Originally posted by: rhino78 Date: May 01, 2013 at 02:40 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
mma_momma said:
Nice guess! Ocala.... I just got back from having my daughters birthday down there and I just can't live in that town. Everyone is sooooo sssssllooowww!! I got stuff to do people!
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I use to live in Gainesville (go Gators), so i know the area well.
Originally posted by: rhino78 Date: May 01, 2013 at 02:43 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
I just read that Brevard Co. or Bavard Co. is going to vote on whether or not 50% is the lowest grade they can give to a student. This means that if you put your name on a paper and turn it in, you get an auotmatic 50%, not the standard 0%. Crazy!!!
This will help the graduation rate, thus helping with funding and getting fatter paychecks for the school board and superintendent, not teachers by the way. By the time the vultures get through with the $$$, there is never enough for the teachers and they get their salaries frozen or take a pay cut.
Originally posted by: mma_momma Date: May 01, 2013 at 03:14 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
rhino78 said:
I just read that Brevard Co. or Bavard Co. is going to vote on whether or not 50% is the lowest grade they can give to a student. This means that if you put your name on a paper and turn it in, you get an auotmatic 50%, not the standard 0%. Crazy!!!
This will help the graduation rate, thus helping with funding and getting fatter paychecks for the school board and superintendent, not teachers by the way. By the time the vultures get through with the $$$, there is never enough for the teachers and they get their salaries frozen or take a pay cut.
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I can't stand politicians!! That's exactly what they are going to do. I live in Maryland now and they want to tax anybody who owns a roof... seriously.. Here is their genius reason why.... Because it rains and this said rain falls on your roof which may contain chemicals and pour down to the ground where it will eventually go into the Bay... they must tax us so they can put that money towards the Bay. But I already get taxed twice for the "Save the Bay" reason. So this would make it number 3 because they can't budget their money. I know they are not lacking money because they just put this 50 foot crash test dummie in front of the DMV for seatbelt safety awareness!!
Originally posted by: NicoSuave Date: May 01, 2013 at 03:21 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
mma_momma said:
I can't stand politician's!! That's exactly what they are going to do. I live in Maryland now and they want to tax anybody who owns a roof... seriously.. Here is their genius reason why.... Because it rains and this said rain falls on your roof which may contain chemicals and pour down to the ground where it will eventually go into the Bay... they must tax us so they can put that money towards the Bay. But I already get taxed twice for the "Save the Bay" reason. So this would make it number 3 because they can't budget their money. I know they are not lacking money because they just put this 50 foot crash test dummie in front of the DMV for seatbelt safety awareness!!
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I feel the same way about my Governor. All he's done is follow the bidding of the lobbyists who helped finance his negative campaign. Doesn't give a s--- about how he impacts my high school's finances.
Originally posted by: cmvideo75 Date: November 12, 2015 at 12:39 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Florida school threatening a 9-year-old with sexual harrassment for writing love notes to a girl in his class.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...arassment-charges-love-note-article-1.2432300
Originally posted by: NicoSuave Date: November 12, 2015 at 01:00 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
cmvideo75 said:
Florida school threatening a 9-year-old with sexual harrassment for writing love notes to a girl in his class.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...arassment-charges-love-note-article-1.2432300
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I had a high school crush on my best friend, and because I was still learning at the time how to control my autistic lack of a filter, some of the things I said (considering we were at lunch, and her boyfriend and all of our other friends were present at the table) could easily be considered as inappropriate. Granted, I wasn't the only one hitting on her, but I definitely took it too far in that I was unsuccessfully trying too hard to be funny, so everything I said came out as very awkward. The fact that I put her through that, and yet we're still such close friends to this day amazes me.
The reason why I'm bringing that up is because if I were to compare my approach to this 9-year-old boy's approach, I'd say this kid doesn't deserve to be teased and threatened with a lawsuit, he deserves a politeness award for how sweet the compliments in his notes were.
Originally posted by: Sapper Date: November 12, 2015 at 01:06 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Originally posted by: Gnarcore Date: November 12, 2015 at 01:09 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
Originally posted by: Sapper Date: November 12, 2015 at 09:09 PM Source: https://forum.mmajunkie.com/threads/florida-making-kids-dumber-1-step-at-a-time.54015/
