Future Teslas don't really need this. To be fair, Tesla wasn't exactly a straight-A student, much like a lot of people with that kind of drive.
This is clearly aimed at average—or even below-average—students, just to give them a slight leg up at the starting line. That is, assuming their parents actually have the cash to foot the bill.
What’s your take on this? What does stuff like this say about the actual state of our education system?
Personally, I think this is complete nonsense. First off, they’re teaching kids curriculum meant for first grade ahead of time—so what? They’ll probably just be bored out of their minds. Second, this is clearly reserved for wealthy families, which means anyone with enough cash can buy an unfair head start right from day one. Third, do we even actually need "prep courses" for elementary school?
wanderingbadger44 said:I’m guessing you finished Elementary School too, given how illiterate you sound. Stop trying to lecture kids on American English.
Since you work in education, I take it you're illiterate too. Please tell me you don't teach English?
You just wrote an independent complex sentence without even using a comma to separate the main clause from the subordinate clause. 🙂
driftingbear10 said:Mhm... so we end up stuck because moving to another county is off the table, and now they're just making a thing about wearing masks in enclosed spaces. Total repression and terror, honestly.
The only reason the earthquake saved us from that lockdown was because it hit; otherwise, those restrictions would have dragged on until the entire summer tourist season passed.
Amanda Diaz said:Sure, they should have consulted a lawyer first and framed this more intelligently. The kid should have shown up to Elementary School every single morning without a mask and demanded a written notice if they intended to send him home. If they tried to kick him out, the principal and the school would be facing a lawsuit because attending school is a right under US Law.
I’ve seen cases where students hit teachers and the harshest punishment they got was just being transferred to a different school.
If anyone reading this actually knows the kid, this is exactly how he needs to handle it.
"They showed up this morning, just like they have for the last 10 days. The father requested a document explicitly stating his son is barred from entering the school, but such a thing doesn't exist—there is only the general enforcement document that applies to everyone," the principal stated."
It looks like your message reached them. Except they aren't handing over that paper. It’s pretty obvious why.
mellowskipper said:If I had a kid in 5th or 8th grade, I wouldn't even send them to school on the day those tests are happening—not that it would help much. It’s just pure hyper-stress, and they aren't even using anything useful.
There's no harm done. These exam grades don't even go into the official record, and they have zero impact on high school admissions. I honestly don't see what the stress is for the students.
The teachers, however, might find it incredibly stressful. It could expose a total lack of actual knowledge. And of course, they'll blame Corona, a Cancer moon, kids who refuse to study, or—even worse—the parents.
The previous ones weren't bad either. I wasn't expecting much to begin with, but like someone else pointed out above, they probably just padded the numbers at the County level.
Sarah Hall53 said:So, here’s the thing—I was thinking about something a colleague of mine told me about ten years ago. She’s an elementary school teacher I really look up to, and she was digging through some old boxes at the bottom of her closet when she stumbled upon these old exams from back in the late eighties and early nineties. They were specifically designed for students with special needs... and honestly? The scope of the material and the types of problems in those tests were basically identical to what the entire general curriculum was covering back then. Honestly, her references are probably worth next to nothing. I mean, what does she know? She’s only got about forty years under her belt. ☕
The school curriculum today is just insanely intense—it feels like it's seven times harder than it was even ten years ago, and at least fourteen times tougher than when we were kids. The stuff these children are being expected to learn is completely incomprehensible and just way too much volume-wise. It’s actually pretty scary. Are you happy now? Feeling satisfied?
The whole truth of the matter is that back when we’re comparing eras, there wasn't this massive pressure for everyone to pull straight A's. If you pass with a B? Hey, good for you, that’s very good. You pass with a C? That’s good enough. But nowadays, everyone expects these kids to have a perfect 4.0 GPA by the time they finish fourth grade, even if it means they have to spend another four to six hours every single day after school drilling the same stuff over and over again just to keep up. But nobody wants to admit that. Instead, they just throw stones and complain about how "unreasonable" or "overloaded" the current curriculum is.
And why are people being so entitled about wanting that perfect 4.0 instead of actually seeking real knowledge regardless of the grade? Is it possible this happens because everyone is chasing the GPA, while nobody actually cares about actual learning?
They’ll finally stop acting like idiots once they actually learn how to read and write.
I don't get why everyone is in such a damn rush. There's always a seat available on a flight to Ireland or a bus heading to Germany, and at the IRS, they'll take your unemployment claim whenever you show up.
David Palmer5 said:I agree that age 7 should be the standard cutoff for starting school, but from everything I've heard and read in the news lately, it seems like anyone who asks for a delay gets it. No arguments needed, and more importantly, no having to drag people through NASA or even end up in court. You can even get it approved without needing a doctor's note to justify the delay.
It looks like you just got hit with a direct rebuttal right above you.
A kid gets a delay if it suits the school—like if they have too many students—but they’ll lose that right if they're unlucky enough to land in a year where there’s a shortage. Of course, since the administration is the top priority and students are just fuel used to secure teacher salaries, nobody actually gives a damn about the child's best interests. And the mother at the bottom of this thread would probably have to fight tooth and nail just to get what's best for her kid when it clashes with the school's agenda.
First off, we need to define exactly which migrants we’re talking about here.
You’re making the claim that migrants arriving since 2013 are already employed.
But you have to draw a line between Americans who have been coming since 2013, citizens from Mexico and Canada, and then those refugees who flooded in back in 2015.
If you actually look at those numbers side-by-side, they don't look nearly as bright as you think.
James Phillips92 said:It’s always the older generation—the ones who feel like their era is long gone—complaining about how "immoral" kids are just for hugging or kissing.
Nothing new here. The real issue is that the older generation holds all the cards. They outnumber us, they hold political power, they bend the system to fit their needs, and they dominate every election. Young people are treated like nothing more than unpaid interns for old age. We're expected to be compliant and just do whatever the elders command.
James Phillips92 said:I honestly believe the current generation of students is going to settle the score with us later—with interest—because we stayed quiet instead of stepping up to protect them from this mess.
They will, and they should. Ideally, there should be laws mandating care for the elderly, but instead, this generation has simply abandoned them to fate. If they get cast aside, society and the law will condemn them—but let's be honest: the older generation did the exact same thing to us first.
urbantinker8 said:I suppose you could say they’re barking up the wrong tree here; I wouldn't call myself a panic merchant by any means, but I honestly doubt these experts have spent more than a fraction of their careers actually working face-to-face with kids. for the most part, their entire existence seems to revolve around filling out spreadsheets, crunching numbers, and drafting endless recommendations, reports, manuals, and textbooks while hiding behind a computer screen. so, it makes sense that they're spiraling now that they're being forced to step away from their paperwork and finally engage with children in the real world, eye-to-eye.
I don't get how you can do any of that without actually seeing the kids? You can't just pull statistics out of thin air; you need data, and you have to collect that data from real life...
Same goes for the reports. They have to be based on actual facts. You can't just make things up.