My experience in a couple of American public school systems during the sixties and early seventies was terrific, largely because of wonderful teachers and the substantial curriculum they taught.
As a parent who participates across a broad spectrum of my children's educational milieu (parent-teacher conferences, School Board, and especially budget-related meetings) I know all too well about the government funding associated with these tests.
In my experience, public school problems usually have either disastrous parenting or a terrible academic environment as the source. From your description, the former school probably had both.
Sadly, lots of public schools have disintegrated into badly run day care catering to the lowest common denominator.
Worse, they call cramming for the standardized tests mandated as measures of education quality, "teaching," which is worse than a misnomer.
Parental advocacy is the only way to go, even in a relatively strong public school system like the one my children attend.
Despite its quality, there are occasions where somebody with a little authority decides to cross the line of good judgement and make an example out of one of the good kids--usually as a sacrifice at the altar of political correctness.
What rights could be retained by such a license, exactly?
While the spirit of the BSD license is refreshing, the unfortunate reality is that this license represents a one-way trip from the coder to industry, at no cost to industry.
Why do you think Ballmer stated Microsoft's relative affinity for OpenBSD some time ago?
In practice corporate collaboration on campus means little more than extremely low cost labor for the corporation.
It sounds to me like this person doesn't particularly mind the work produced by these students being absorbed by corporate interests.
That's quite a sentiment for somebody supposedly thinking about the advancement of an economy.
It reads more like a paid shill for industry working for the subjugation of an entire generation of students.
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Care to elaborate about the extras you find convenient?
"we don't want to feed trolls here"
What?
SlashDot is Trolls. Don't you ever bother to read this mush?
AC, yeah, I still ritually stop by and scan slashdot
C'mon AC we don't want to feed trolls here
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Declaring martial law has never happened in the US. Doing so would have huge negative political ramifications, as it should.
Ah, no.
As long as $PRESIDENT can immediately point at $FRINGEGROUP as a scapegoat, there will be few public or political consequences.
Yes, this is sad.
Never forget, Microsoft markets to PHB's NOT to the actual techs who will have to implement whatever the PHB's inevitably sign off on.
I certainly meant no offense to teachers.
My experience in a couple of American public school systems during the sixties and early seventies was terrific, largely because of wonderful teachers and the substantial curriculum they taught.
As a parent who participates across a broad spectrum of my children's educational milieu (parent-teacher conferences, School Board, and especially budget-related meetings) I know all too well about the government funding associated with these tests.
Good for you for standing up for your child!
In my experience, public school problems usually have either disastrous parenting or a terrible academic environment as the source. From your description, the former school probably had both.
Sadly, lots of public schools have disintegrated into badly run day care catering to the lowest common denominator.
Worse, they call cramming for the standardized tests mandated as measures of education quality, "teaching," which is worse than a misnomer.
Parental advocacy is the only way to go, even in a relatively strong public school system like the one my children attend.
Despite its quality, there are occasions where somebody with a little authority decides to cross the line of good judgement and make an example out of one of the good kids--usually as a sacrifice at the altar of political correctness.
Ciao!
JJBSr
While the spirit of the BSD license is refreshing, the unfortunate reality is that this license represents a one-way trip from the coder to industry, at no cost to industry.
Why do you think Ballmer stated Microsoft's relative affinity for OpenBSD some time ago?
In practice corporate collaboration on campus means little more than extremely low cost labor for the corporation.
It sounds to me like this person doesn't particularly mind the work produced by these students being absorbed by corporate interests.
That's quite a sentiment for somebody supposedly thinking about the advancement of an economy.
It reads more like a paid shill for industry working for the subjugation of an entire generation of students.
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Microsoft was actually able to pull off appearing as the, "good guy," when it first took on Netscape. That's how badly Netscape bungled things!