They have figured it out. They spend the first 80 percent on a new building for them and poay raises for them, the other 20% goes to the schools. Cut the budget by 10% and they'll just spend the first 90% on them and 10% on the schools.
The problem is them. Kick their asses out if you want to solve the problem.
It's also madness to set the kids up for failure. How about the 2nd graders learn arithmetic WELL so they have a decent foundation to build on, rather than learning that they hate math and don't understand it, so they can keep hating math and not understanding it?
We're not behind because the old objectives didn't set the bar high enough. We're behind because they've muddled things so much that the old objectives aren't being met.
If you want the teacher to gently introduce the commutative and associative properties, they can do so easily enough without making the kids do simple arithmetic in such a kooky way that it looks like the stereotypical physics professor filling the board with equations just to add 2 single digit numbers.
If the teachers expect the parents to help, then they have to teach in a way that the parents CAN help. And if each teacher has a different method, then the grading must be about the final result, not how it was arrived at (barring copying from someone else).
That doesn't help parents who are supposed to help the kids with their homework. Now imagine that instead of Java, the boss wants it in the new language he just invented yesterday, but he has no documentation for it other than a hello world you can look at.
And the essay the teacher wants? Must be written phonetically in Cyrillic for some unknown reason but parents are expected to proof read it.
You think work software is expensive, try educational software.
Meanwhile, if 15 kids have to share and 5 kids have parents who can buy them their own, you're back to the unlevel playing field that public school is supposed to solve.
The correct answer is to demand that the administrators be fired, not the already proven failure of trying to "starve the beast" knowing that the wasters at the top will be the last to starve long after the teachers resort to using chalk like rocks found outside to draw on the board.
Except, I saw Rush on the Colbert Report attempt their own song on Guitar Hero and earn "Epic Fail". So apparently actual ability to play the real instrument is at least unhelpful to playing Guitar Hero.
I guess that makes you the guy who thinks he's an actual guitar hero because he gets high scores in the game.
So your contention is that all parents should go back to elementary school to learn flavor of the week arithmetic even if they have been using plain old arithmetic successfully for decades as a daily part of their work?
Or, barring that, that the school bears no responsibility for expecting parents to help their kids with math homework but not sending out a booklet "Super duper double secret new math for parents who already know how to add"?
What's really funny is people pushing "common core" in exactly the same way they used to push the now discredited "new math" as the obviously correct solution. By the time the kids graduate and have kids, it will be something else and they will be just as befuddled trying to help their kids.
The thing is, if the comm,on core creates the mandate and then just handwaves the practical matter of actually teaching the material, then by virtue of being incomplete, it is deserving of the criticism.
It's like telling the teachers, "Look, just make the kids talk gooder" and then wondering what went wrong.
Ideally, yes. But not all parents actually know the material themselves. Even where they do, schools have a bad habit of expecting the knowledge in a specific form and marking off on correct answers if the reasoning doesn't parrot the book.
Math (arithmetic) is a classic example. It's not enough to be good at arithmetic, you have to understand "new math" or they'll get marked wrong even with correct answers. So even a parent who excels in the subject may not be much help.
Then there are single parents with more than one job. They may simply not have enough left at the end of their day to be much help to the kids.
Or, perhaps they got the same crappy "education" when they were in school.
If they choose not to, that's on them, not everyone else. The fact remains, France has a TLD that is entirely under it's control. If they want an official government domain, that's a good place to put it.
NO, that is only the most minor effect. They also have only 4 or 5 teeth, all abnormal. But more seriously, no sweat glands. That means they seriously overheat at the slightest provocation. As in medical emergency, not need to sit down for a minute.
As genetic diseases go, it's not the worst of the lot, but it's a lot more than missing hair.
The difference is that you're assuming police use the test appropriately. Evidence from the news suggests that far too often police jump at the first test that shows positive for anything. Kinda like the guy whose Krispy Kreme crumbs tested positive for meth using a notoriously inaccurate field test.
We HOPE so, but consider that by "exact match" they do not mean pair by pair over the whole genome. They mean as many as 12 sequences from the broken up DNA matched by mass.
But this does make it worse. It adds one more way a completely innocent person can be wrongly sucked into a system where even being accused has harmful consequences.
If you need to bust up a driveway, a jackhammer is a much better tool than a hammer. You're damned right I'm inclined to deny that better tool to a bunch of 8 year olds who want to look for treasure.
But it doesn't make it more accurate at all. It allows them to create a larger base of synthetic pseudo samples with a lower fidelity. Given good police work, they can then go on to weed out red herrings and get better samples from likely suspects, but given bad police work a lot of people who had nothing to do with any crime at all can be put through hell.
In this case, it looks like good police work (though the trial may tell a different story, stay tuned).
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They have figured it out. They spend the first 80 percent on a new building for them and poay raises for them, the other 20% goes to the schools. Cut the budget by 10% and they'll just spend the first 90% on them and 10% on the schools.
The problem is them. Kick their asses out if you want to solve the problem.
It's also madness to set the kids up for failure. How about the 2nd graders learn arithmetic WELL so they have a decent foundation to build on, rather than learning that they hate math and don't understand it, so they can keep hating math and not understanding it?
We're not behind because the old objectives didn't set the bar high enough. We're behind because they've muddled things so much that the old objectives aren't being met.
If you want the teacher to gently introduce the commutative and associative properties, they can do so easily enough without making the kids do simple arithmetic in such a kooky way that it looks like the stereotypical physics professor filling the board with equations just to add 2 single digit numbers.
No, it's not harder, it's just not done in lockstep with the regimented way you learned it.
If the teachers expect the parents to help, then they have to teach in a way that the parents CAN help. And if each teacher has a different method, then the grading must be about the final result, not how it was arrived at (barring copying from someone else).
That doesn't help parents who are supposed to help the kids with their homework. Now imagine that instead of Java, the boss wants it in the new language he just invented yesterday, but he has no documentation for it other than a hello world you can look at.
And the essay the teacher wants? Must be written phonetically in Cyrillic for some unknown reason but parents are expected to proof read it.
You think work software is expensive, try educational software.
Meanwhile, if 15 kids have to share and 5 kids have parents who can buy them their own, you're back to the unlevel playing field that public school is supposed to solve.
The correct answer is to demand that the administrators be fired, not the already proven failure of trying to "starve the beast" knowing that the wasters at the top will be the last to starve long after the teachers resort to using chalk like rocks found outside to draw on the board.
Except, I saw Rush on the Colbert Report attempt their own song on Guitar Hero and earn "Epic Fail". So apparently actual ability to play the real instrument is at least unhelpful to playing Guitar Hero.
I guess that makes you the guy who thinks he's an actual guitar hero because he gets high scores in the game.
So your contention is that all parents should go back to elementary school to learn flavor of the week arithmetic even if they have been using plain old arithmetic successfully for decades as a daily part of their work?
Or, barring that, that the school bears no responsibility for expecting parents to help their kids with math homework but not sending out a booklet "Super duper double secret new math for parents who already know how to add"?
What's really funny is people pushing "common core" in exactly the same way they used to push the now discredited "new math" as the obviously correct solution. By the time the kids graduate and have kids, it will be something else and they will be just as befuddled trying to help their kids.
Yes, by all means cover that in 2nd grade calculus.
The thing is, if the comm,on core creates the mandate and then just handwaves the practical matter of actually teaching the material, then by virtue of being incomplete, it is deserving of the criticism.
It's like telling the teachers, "Look, just make the kids talk gooder" and then wondering what went wrong.
So 7+5 = 10+5-3 = 12 is "wrong"? Just remembering that 7+5=12 is "wrong"?
If you want to solve that problem, don't just look at the teachers and school supplies. The problem is at the administrative level.
Ideally, yes. But not all parents actually know the material themselves. Even where they do, schools have a bad habit of expecting the knowledge in a specific form and marking off on correct answers if the reasoning doesn't parrot the book.
Math (arithmetic) is a classic example. It's not enough to be good at arithmetic, you have to understand "new math" or they'll get marked wrong even with correct answers. So even a parent who excels in the subject may not be much help.
Then there are single parents with more than one job. They may simply not have enough left at the end of their day to be much help to the kids.
Or, perhaps they got the same crappy "education" when they were in school.
You also aren't also buying supplies for 100 other people (lowball of 5 classes @ 20 students/class).
So the solution is let the kids remain ignorant? Do you suppose not teaching them a lesson will teach the politicians a lesson?
If they choose not to, that's on them, not everyone else. The fact remains, France has a TLD that is entirely under it's control. If they want an official government domain, that's a good place to put it.
It seems the streaming services that are eating cable's lunch managed to give the Mouse the finger just fine.
You DO know there are other pesticides that aren't banned, don't you?
As for swift moves, it'd been a decade or so. Just how slowly do you want them to move?
NO, that is only the most minor effect. They also have only 4 or 5 teeth, all abnormal. But more seriously, no sweat glands. That means they seriously overheat at the slightest provocation. As in medical emergency, not need to sit down for a minute.
As genetic diseases go, it's not the worst of the lot, but it's a lot more than missing hair.
The difference is that you're assuming police use the test appropriately. Evidence from the news suggests that far too often police jump at the first test that shows positive for anything. Kinda like the guy whose Krispy Kreme crumbs tested positive for meth using a notoriously inaccurate field test.
We HOPE so, but consider that by "exact match" they do not mean pair by pair over the whole genome. They mean as many as 12 sequences from the broken up DNA matched by mass.
But this does make it worse. It adds one more way a completely innocent person can be wrongly sucked into a system where even being accused has harmful consequences.
If you need to bust up a driveway, a jackhammer is a much better tool than a hammer. You're damned right I'm inclined to deny that better tool to a bunch of 8 year olds who want to look for treasure.
Or, if you can't afford the test, you're screwed.
But it doesn't make it more accurate at all. It allows them to create a larger base of synthetic pseudo samples with a lower fidelity. Given good police work, they can then go on to weed out red herrings and get better samples from likely suspects, but given bad police work a lot of people who had nothing to do with any crime at all can be put through hell.
In this case, it looks like good police work (though the trial may tell a different story, stay tuned).