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Article #624976Re: 1958 Crisis in education
From: JimP
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:59
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:59
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On 17 Jul 2018 16:32:13 -0300, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote: [snip] >So everybody wants to go to college to ensure they'll get a decent >job. Adapting to that perspective, both public schools and >colleges/universities (possibly excluding the the elite $75,000 per >annum ones) have watered down their curricula to be digital era >vo-tech. And people who got all 'A's in high school English arrive at >university unable to write a simple paragraph in correct English. I saw this as far back as 1975. High school grads, straight As, knew next to nothing. A high school grad from a different nearby town, B student, knew lots more than the other one. Not so bad, from the ones I encountered, in the late 1980s when I was at a 4-year university. But saw a big jump in people who were close to being illiterate, with high school diplomas, in the early 2000s. Some in the US military. Some sergeants and some officers. I used an apparently terribly difficult word a few months ago out in public. Only my sibling standing nearby had heard the word. The word was 'sibling'. I had to explain it. To adults. Ages varying from 30s to 60s.
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