I can't believe they actually expect 9th grade students to be able to decide what they want to do later in life..... It's completely absurd! I mean, when I was in 9th grade I knew that I was going to go to college, but I had really no idea what I wanted to do.
As to giving them a greater interest in school...that's a load of hogwash. Students who don't like school anyways are not going to enjoy it anymore if you force them to pick a career path, and make them stick to it through school. The way to get more students interested is to get them more involved in the classes they already have. If they're still not interested, the school and the parents need to work together to help the student....giving them work in a "specific field" isn't going to make it more interesting for them.
Of course, there would be a few students that this would help, but there'll be a lot more that it wouldn't...
Like much that has been mentioned, it does seem like a good idea if you just glance at it and don't think too hard.....(think of the children....) When I really look at it, I see a little more clearly. What I see is another tool that, just like the V-chip (or other things along the same line), could "take away" some of the responsibility of being a parent; something that could give a false sense of security that children aren't coming into contact with these things. Now I'm not saying it's a "bad" thing as such. The intentions are good (at least initially), but what I see is that it could make the parents feel like there's less (or no) need to monitor what their children are seeing/doing. It is the responsibility of the parents to educate their children as to what they should or should not be seeing and to be "good parents". Of course, that education isn't fail-safe or foolproof, but neither is a filter, and the education is worth quite a bit more in the long run, I should think.
Well....can't say as I'm surprised.... China does (as the article makes clear) copy quite a lot of western technology. As it also said though, they put it out to a much larger market, and it's usually cheaper.
Sometimes it almost looks like China is "taking over the world", which seems to be kind of true in a way...they have advanced rather quickly in the past few years, and it doesn't look like they'll slow down anytime soon. I always knew that there was quite a lot "made in China" but I never really realized until I read that article how much they actually copy (and sometimes improve) what is designed in other countries. The part that scared me the most was the bit about how badly the QQ performed compared to it's "parent" in a crash test....
I did think the part where they said that "In the south, one cloning operation didn't just copy a technology company's product line--it duplicated the entire company, creating a shadow enterprise with corporate headquarters, factories, and sales and support staff." was pretty amusing....
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I can't believe they actually expect 9th grade students to be able to decide what they want to do later in life..... It's completely absurd! I mean, when I was in 9th grade I knew that I was going to go to college, but I had really no idea what I wanted to do.
As to giving them a greater interest in school...that's a load of hogwash. Students who don't like school anyways are not going to enjoy it anymore if you force them to pick a career path, and make them stick to it through school. The way to get more students interested is to get them more involved in the classes they already have. If they're still not interested, the school and the parents need to work together to help the student....giving them work in a "specific field" isn't going to make it more interesting for them.
Of course, there would be a few students that this would help, but there'll be a lot more that it wouldn't...
I agree... The quality of the recording or the playback shouldn't dictate the quality of the music.
Like much that has been mentioned, it does seem like a good idea if you just glance at it and don't think too hard.....(think of the children....) When I really look at it, I see a little more clearly.
What I see is another tool that, just like the V-chip (or other things along the same line), could "take away" some of the responsibility of being a parent; something that could give a false sense of security that children aren't coming into contact with these things. Now I'm not saying it's a "bad" thing as such. The intentions are good (at least initially), but what I see is that it could make the parents feel like there's less (or no) need to monitor what their children are seeing/doing. It is the responsibility of the parents to educate their children as to what they should or should not be seeing and to be "good parents". Of course, that education isn't fail-safe or foolproof, but neither is a filter, and the education is worth quite a bit more in the long run, I should think.
Well....can't say as I'm surprised.... China does (as the article makes clear) copy quite a lot of western technology. As it also said though, they put it out to a much larger market, and it's usually cheaper.
Sometimes it almost looks like China is "taking over the world", which seems to be kind of true in a way...they have advanced rather quickly in the past few years, and it doesn't look like they'll slow down anytime soon. I always knew that there was quite a lot "made in China" but I never really realized until I read that article how much they actually copy (and sometimes improve) what is designed in other countries. The part that scared me the most was the bit about how badly the QQ performed compared to it's "parent" in a crash test....
I did think the part where they said that "In the south, one cloning operation didn't just copy a technology company's product line--it duplicated the entire company, creating a shadow enterprise with corporate headquarters, factories, and sales and support staff." was pretty amusing....
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