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School District Drops 'D' Grades
Students in one New Jersey school district will no longer be able to squeak by in class after the Morris County School Board approved dropping the D grade. Beginning in the fall students who don't get a C or higher will get an F on their report card. "I'm tired of kids coming to school and not learning and getting credit for it," said Superintendent Larrie Reynolds in a Daily Record report.
Point it at the parents who do nothing to help or encourage their kids and expect the schools to make up for the daily 4+ hours of TV and gaming that the kids get.
Yeah, because the schools only have the children for 6 to 8 hours per day to educate them. What they are being paid to do and are ostensibly trained and qualified to do. No, better to blame the parents that have to work 2 jobs to keep food on the table that they are not spending enough time teaching their kids in the 1 to 2 hours they get to see them each day that doesn't involve sleep. TEACHERS AND THE TEACHING PROFESSION ARE COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT! Teachers are the whiniest most ill performing of any professsion. They consistently fail to make a difference. The kids that learn would've learned without their useless help anyway. The ones who struggle, struggle and are written off as being lazy, stupid, or the result of poor parenting. FUCK TEACHERS, THE SCHOOLS, AND ALL THEIR SUPPORTERS. Those who can do, those who can't teach, those who can't teach teach teachers!
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Rest assured, their "AP" (read: affluent pricks) students will still get a 6.7 GPA.
One day our children will live in a world where winning and losing are both the same. Where individual achievement is not rewarded. Where failure just receives a "bailout" so all can be equal. Where the whole world is one temperature and all people have exactly the same amount of money in their bank accounts and no doctor is better than any other. All of our cars will be silver. On that day you will be happy. The rest of us will commit suicide. Fuck you and your world.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Superintendent Larrie Reynolds sounds like a "D" bag.
For starters, only a D-bag would spell LARRY that way!
Hello reality dictates you are either successful or a failure. You don't have a middle ground there. It's how the world works, get used to it.
Dave came in 15th place in the race! He's such an average driver! Horray for mediocre!
When being hired they don't take all the resumes and pick the most common and mediocre ones.
Women certainly don't choose to mate with the mediocre plain guy.
A fact of life is you either succeed or you fail. getting kids used to this earlier instead of the coddling is a good thing.
Little Johnny, Life sucks, the world sucks, and your friends will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat if it gives them an advantage.... get used to it.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
and start accepting the fact that intelligence is not evenly distributed. Not in groups, not even in individuals. People of average or below average are never going to be engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc. They're not going to compete for jobs in high-paying, intelligence and education-heavy fields because you cannot educate a mind of low capacity.
The fact is that our policies are being set by a bunch of arrogant elitists who think that if they cram down enough education, they can make a clean, office-dwelling, never-get-your-hands-dirty, middle class hipster society and outsource all of the menial labor, manufacturing and other jobs that people of average and below average intelligence used to do. Well, you can't because most people aren't cut out for that work, and our society cannot continue to maintain the facade of so many people who would have been working in the fields, working in factories, etc. being middle and upper-middle class professionals.
Part of the reason we are so close to national bankruptcy is that we don't respect hard-working blue collar workers. Whether they are digging ditches or doing intricate plumbing work, their work is as necessary as 95% of the white collar labor force. How about instead of cramming down unnecessary education, people start actually respecting each other for what they do with their lives rather than a bunch of pieces of paper for diploma mills like the average high school or college.
It's ironic that your post makes you sound like an arrogant elitist. Guaranteed, expression of intelligence is not evenly distributed but I don't think it's fair to make a claim about what the intelligence capacity of a group of people is. There's just too many factors such as poverty and upbringing that influence that. You really should research and/or watch "Stand and Deliver." It's about a group of students of "low capacity" intelligence that were able to pass AP Calculus.
So the article you quoted calls it the Mount Olive school board, which ... is pretty much one and the same if you're in Morris county and its the only school is in Mount Olive isn't it. When more schools are added at some point in the distant future, will you finally stop trying to be a pedantic douche and think its the Morris county school board then? Considering one of the members of said school board references 'morris county' and not 'mount olive', I'd say that you're just a ramble jackass who's a shining example of the stupidity that particular school produced.
You suck at details, and apparently 5 other morons from your ignorant county do too so you got modded up.
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