benjoshua wrote:"No Child Left Behind" should actually be called, "No Child Gets Ahead." Here's an analogy I copied.No Child Left Behind: The Football Version1. All teams must make the state playoffs, and all must win the championship.If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable.2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills at the same time and in the same conditions. No exceptions will be made for interest in football, a desire to perform athletically, or genetic abilities or disabilities.ALL KIDS WILL PLAY FOOTBALL AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL.3. Talented players will be asked to work out on their own without instruction. This is because the coaches will be using all their instructional time with the athletes who aren't interested in football, have limited athletic ability or whose parents don't like football.4. Games will be played year round, but statistics will only be kept in 4th, 8th and 11th games.5. This will create a New Age of sports where every school is expected to have the same level of talent and all teams will reach the same minimal goals.If no child gets ahead, then no child will be left behind.
bombadil wrote:...There was a pile of heads stacked up around me at the end of every day. Very cold work. No gloves, blowing snow, bloody knife handle slippery as hell...
sauromatian wrote:There's a mom at the local elementary school who's been patrolling the playground before & after school, harrasing kids to stop playing tag or catch [the ball might hit someone]. If more parents like her demand it, the schools will follow the trend. It can happen here.
gyg wrote:I recently heard, at my kids school (I'm a governor, for which read self-important busy-body ), that there is a problem with using the word 'failure' when describing a childs academic achievement - the F word should be replaced with the wonderful term 'deferred success'. Now I'm a positive, up-beat kind of guy but this is absolute fucking nonsense - 'guess what kids, it's a big hard world out there, so everything is not going to be handed to you on a plate - get over it'.Molly-coddling the youth of today will not help society in any way shape or form, everyone eventually finds there own level - the fuck-ups will remain fuck-ups and the decent,hard working ones will succeed - I realise that this is a huge generalisation but it's a pretty safe bet 99.9% of the time.Rant over - deferred success my arse
gyg wrote:everyone eventually finds there own level - the fuck-ups will remain fuck-ups and the decent,hard working ones will succeed - I realise that this is a huge generalisation but it's a pretty safe bet 99.9% of the time.
bonk! wrote:The league will later have to add an asterisk next to the entry in the recordbook though...bonk!
bonk! wrote:Oh look, Shula agrees.http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football ... htm?csp=34bonk!
FormCritic wrote:About the school shooting in Finland....MSN today ran the story under "Rare School Shooting in Finland." As if school shootings were not rare in general in every country, including the US. They are, actually. That's why they are news.
Kingofpain89 wrote:One more reason to dislike the Patriots:http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/nfl_ex ... =nfl,52422Anyone who watches NFL games on CBS knows that their sound feed sucks. You would think that they would just be happy that they won the damn game.And now the Detroit Lions are running up the score on their opponents. A sure sign that the world is coming to an end.