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You have to remember that the public schools in America are highly ineffective. They pump billions of dollars into public schools and they can't get the test scores up. The focus of schools these days is bringing technology into the classroom. I think if anything the schools are probably illiterate students who want to spend their lives interacting in front of screens (TV and video game screens, computer screens and cell phone screens). Public schools are focusing on getting their students to graduate and private schools focus on getting their students to enroll in college.

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We blew the shit out of Japan and had to save South Korea's ass, so that tells you what high school graduation rates are worth. Squat.

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There's going to be a whole lot of stupid in this thread, as evidenced by the two posts directly above mine.

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"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Making kids wear uniforms and ties in school will get test scores up.

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Actually, I think in a lot of cases, it has.

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But one knows that before reading anything they write.

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- Henry George

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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that's an awesome gif holy shit

Any concrete policy ideas on how to "transfer our obsessive intensity"?

I have no affiliation with nor affinity for high school sports, but this reads like another overwrought strawvillain in THE WAR FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN (see also: teacher's unions, short school days, lack of "moral education," Gladwell's halfcocked race-baiting about Asians using better numerals than us, etc.), which is unfortunate, because this is a pretty simple issue. Maybe let's quit treating public education like a Randian wet dream and see where we end up in five years.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

I think a lot of school districts are trying to improve education through technology. However, I feel that using technology for everything hurts the students ability to learn and use critical thinking. They should go back to the days where students would take a class a week or a day on computers and typing, but the rest of the time they have to use books and pencils and their brains.

Instead of teaching kids to learn, they are merely teaching them how to use computers to get answers for everything.

I don't know if we can do that, but start by reallocating the money spent on organized sub-concussive head trauma to cash-strapped academic/performing arts departments.

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Yeah, same thing with calculators and digital watches and artificial lighting ... candlepower is good enough, dagnabbit.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

read a story about some rich bastard in the WSJ. runs a big placement firm. says he can find a job for anyone if they have:
1. integrity
2. work ethic
3. ability to pass a drug test

He can't find enough people with these traits.

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That's fine, but how much money are we spending on athletics? Not being snarky, this is honestly a topic I don't know much about.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

There are many students whose only incentive to come to school and get decent grades is a sport.

I am troubled the way high school sports have increased in stature over the last decade or so. I see no reason why high schoolers need to travel long distances when classes are in session in order to compete. I don't just say this for the public school league team that travels across country for an ESPN matchup. I think the same thing for the catholic league team that travels to Ireland for a football game. I don't understand why a high school needs to have a school wide ceremony on signing day for an athlete when several other students will be getting their acceptance letter to far more impressive schools resulting in a diploma that will provide them far more earning potential. I don't like that coaches are not otherwise gainfully employed and core members of a faculty at which they coach. I dislike the proliferation of transfers rather than students who have 4 stable years at a school in which to learn about community.

Elimination isn't the answer but de emphasis is in order and would be fairly simple

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Very well said.

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I think their should be a case against eliminating the band from high school sporting events....


But sports isn't the reason our schools do not do as well as they do. Low standards, poor parenting and lazy tenured teachers (not all teachers of course) are the problem.

If parents do not read and work with their kids in the early developmental stages 2-5 those kids by and large never recover academically.

Which is why more money should be into kindergarten and preschool programs. Throwing money into high schools is by and large too late to make a real impact.

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well, from the article,



and that's at what seems to be a shitty impoverished district in rural south Texas. I imagine it comes out to more than that at Conant.

At my high school, we had a state-of-the-art, four-court gymnasium, but the hallways had holes in the ceiling and the auditorium/music rooms were in shameful disrepair until 2003. Academically, we were mediocre at best, but the athletic department always seemed to be taken care of.

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Is this case against high school sports anything like the fight against the JDRF?

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no

Yeah, I agree, fuck the Cubs or something.

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Texas is a completely different animal when it comes to high school football. Coaching staffs are hired and fired like colleges.

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I certainly agree that music education (or any academic subject, for that matter) should take precedence over athletics, though I think athletics are valuable (not in the monetize-everything way; in the actual way). I guess I just resent the persistent idea that education is a zero-sum game in which departments and schools and districts and students all have to compete with one another because competition makes everything better. "Sorry, gonna have to pack 35 kids in every classroom if we want textbooks that know how World War I ended. You guys know how it is!" Fuck that.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

I don't think it's a matter of competition so much as it is the fact that budgets are finite and shrinking.

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I didnt realize we would be back to "Sorry, you cant use search right now" status so, maybe not Ten pages


Man, that shit is killing this board. Not a complaint. Just a fact. That shit has to drive more people away from posting than anything else