Nope. I'm still here. But the "whoosh" was about my last comment flying way over your tiny , useless head.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH EMBER.......................AS BOOMER POINTED OUT - YOU DO KEEP RESPONDING TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE MUST STOP MEETING LIKE THIS??????????????????????
People - like Boomer - are starting to NOTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an education issue for you to ignore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And do not think for a moment that we have not noticed the very odd combination of...................................
your burned out and unresponsive intellect....................................
and your blazing hot temper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So why dont you read this article and then see if you can develop a LOGICAL REBUTTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am betting you cannot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an article illustrating the gross greed and sloppy ways of our education HOGS!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
Fraud in higher education
By Walter E. Williams, Special to Postmedia Network
Published: December 2, 2019. Updated: December 2, 2019 5:17 PM EST
Filed Under: Toronto SUN/ Opinion/ Columnists
This year’s education scandal saw parents shelling out megabucks to gain college admittance for their children. Federal prosecutors have charged more than 50 people with participating in a scheme to get their children into colleges by cheating on entrance exams or bribing athletic coaches.
They paid William Singer, a college-prep professional, more than $25 million to bribe coaches and university administrators and to change test scores on college admittance exams such as the SAT and ACT. As disgusting as this grossly dishonest behaviour is, it is only the tiny tip of fraud in higher education.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2016, only 37% of white high school graduates tested as college-ready, but colleges admitted 70% of them. Roughly 17% of black high school graduates tested as college-ready, but colleges admitted 58% of them. A 2018 Hechinger Report found, “More than four in 10 college students end up in developmental math and English classes at an annual cost of approximately $7 billion, and many of them have a worse chance of eventually graduating than if they went straight into college-level classes.”
(Williams and others have written of the shockingly LOW performance of high school students from ghetto areas!! Ugly records of how few students from Baltimore - as but one example - can actually PASS a high school standardized test have been seen in public media - and yet NOBODY speaks of this MASSIVE system wide failure!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Too many of our kids are ill-educated dimwits - filled with Socialist propaganda - totally lacking any relevance to real life - and no knowledge of history, no economics and not even an understanding of basic civil rights or legal issues!!!!!!!!!)
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, “when considering all first-time undergraduates, studies have found anywhere from 28% to 40% of students enroll in at least one remedial course. When looking at only community college students, several studies have found remediation rates surpassing 50%.” Only 25% of students who took the ACT in 2012 met the test’s readiness benchmarks in all four subjects (English, reading, math and science).
It’s clear that high schools confer diplomas that attest that a student can read, write and do math at a 12th-grade level when, in fact, most cannot. That means most diplomas represent fraudulent documents. But when high school graduates enter college, what happens?
(We know what happens - kids drop out or are flunked out for lacking the ability to do the work!! Sadly- the black kids caught in this mess are being encouraged by LIE-berals to blame “systemic white racism” for their educational failures!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To get a hint, we can turn to an article by Craig E. Klafter published in the Fall 2019 edition of Academic Questions. In 1940, only 15% of all grades awarded were A’s. By 2018, the average grade point average at some of the nation’s leading colleges was A-minus. For example, the average GPA at Brown University (3.75), Stanford (3.68), Harvard College (3.63), Yale University (3.63), Columbia University (3.6), University of California, Berkeley (3.59).
The falling standards witnessed at our primary and secondary levels are becoming increasingly the case at tertiary levels. “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses” is a study conducted by professors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. They found that 45% of 2,300 students at 24 colleges showed no significant improvement in “critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing by the end of their sophomore years.”
(LIE-berals have demonstrated extreme HOSTILITY to kids learning anything of real use!! If kids learn too much of history or economics then they will gain the knowledge needed to dispute Socialist Dogma - and that is something LIE-berals WILL NOT TOLERATE!!!!!!!!!!!)
An article in News Forum for Lawyers titled “Study Finds College Students Remarkably Incompetent” cites a study done by the American Institutes for Research that revealed that over 75% of two-year college students and 50% of four-year college students were incapable of completing everyday tasks. About 20% of four-year college students demonstrated only basic mathematical ability, while a steeper 30% of two-year college students could not progress past elementary arithmetic. NBC News reported that Fortune 500 companies spend about $3 billion annually to train employees in “basic English.”
Here is a list of some other actual college courses that have been taught at U.S. colleges in recent years: “What If Harry Potter Is Real?” “Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame,” “Philosophy and Star Trek,” “Learning from YouTube,” “How To Watch Television,” and “Oh, Look, a Chicken!” The questions that immediately come to mind are these: What kind of professor would teach such courses, and what kind of student would spend his time taking such courses? Most importantly, what kind of college president and board of trustees would permit classes in such nonsense?
(The kind of professors that teach such courses should be referred to as “Fast Buck
Artists” - or as snake oil sales vendors as they are not teaching anything useful -and they are getting EXCELLENT HOG WAGES FOR THEIR TIME - and loading kids up with debt in the process!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The fact that unscrupulous parents paid millions for special favours from college administrators to enroll their children pales in comparison to the poor educational outcomes, not to mention the gross indoctrination of young people by leftist professors.
(Our teachers see nothing wrong with allowing hand held calculators into math classes even though use of the devices ENSURES that kids do not gain any understanding of basic math principles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Also - our teachers are fond of child centred learning - which allows each kid to learn at their own pace since it is less stressful for the kids - but teachers are SILENT about the many kids WHO NOT LEARNING AT ALL and who are being pushed through the system anyway because teachers find it easier to get those HOG pay raises if there are NO REPORTS of failing education standards to make trouble for HOGS or their LIE-beral allies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(This desire to HIDE what is happening in Ontari-owe classes is behind the refusal by teachers to cooperate with EQAO standardized testing and behind the refusal to produce report cards for Ontari-owe kids - while HOG unions fight the Ford govt!!!)
(Teachers have tried and FAILED to convince the public that teachers are focused on anything except MORE GRAVY!! Teachers can and do CLAIM they have support from parents but the truth is that HOGS are such monumental BULLIES that few Cdns will speak candidly in front of HOGS for fear of retaliation against their kids by those angry squealing HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
