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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 196860" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>OMG, Janet! I was going to say the same thing about the Jay Leno interviews! I know they only pick the "worst cases" to show on TV, but there's way too many of them to be a coincidence! And have you noticed how many of them describe themselves as <em>college students</em>? It's just pitiful! Many of them have no earthly idea which places are states and which are cities, or who we fought in World War II, or that Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War! How could you get all the way through school and in to college and NOT know those things? Do they not teach it any more? We had History all through elementary school and junior high, plus Civics classes. Then both American History and World History in high school and they were a requirement for graduation! How could someone live 18 or 20 years and not have even <em>absorbed</em> some of this, even if they didn't have it in school!</p><p> </p><p>And something else I've noticed about the "dumbing down" of our schools! I don't want to sound like an ol' fart with the "back in my day ..." tales, but - there sure are a lot of differences now! For one thing the grading scales are different now. When I was in school, 94 and up was an 'A', 87-93 was a 'B', and so on. Now it's generally lower. And it can even vary from one school district to the next, which caused a big stir here when they were awarding lottery scholarships on the basis of a '4.0' GPA being an 'A' - it could vary by several points. </p><p> </p><p>And there used to be no such thing as "remedial" college courses to catch up with what you <em>should have learned</em> in high school but didn't! When I was a kid, the universities had very strict entry requirements and if you didn't take and pass certain courses in high school (like Physics and Chemistry and higher math subjects), and if you didn't have a certain GPA (at least 3.0 for the State universities when I went), you didn't get in to college. Period! And if you didn't learn what you should have in high school, even if you managed to pass those classes somehow, you would be behind and you would <em>fail </em>your classes in college ... too bad ... so sad! It's a whole different world today!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 196860, member: 1883"] OMG, Janet! I was going to say the same thing about the Jay Leno interviews! I know they only pick the "worst cases" to show on TV, but there's way too many of them to be a coincidence! And have you noticed how many of them describe themselves as [I]college students[/I]? It's just pitiful! Many of them have no earthly idea which places are states and which are cities, or who we fought in World War II, or that Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War! How could you get all the way through school and in to college and NOT know those things? Do they not teach it any more? We had History all through elementary school and junior high, plus Civics classes. Then both American History and World History in high school and they were a requirement for graduation! How could someone live 18 or 20 years and not have even [I]absorbed[/I] some of this, even if they didn't have it in school! And something else I've noticed about the "dumbing down" of our schools! I don't want to sound like an ol' fart with the "back in my day ..." tales, but - there sure are a lot of differences now! For one thing the grading scales are different now. When I was in school, 94 and up was an 'A', 87-93 was a 'B', and so on. Now it's generally lower. And it can even vary from one school district to the next, which caused a big stir here when they were awarding lottery scholarships on the basis of a '4.0' GPA being an 'A' - it could vary by several points. And there used to be no such thing as "remedial" college courses to catch up with what you [I]should have learned[/I] in high school but didn't! When I was a kid, the universities had very strict entry requirements and if you didn't take and pass certain courses in high school (like Physics and Chemistry and higher math subjects), and if you didn't have a certain GPA (at least 3.0 for the State universities when I went), you didn't get in to college. Period! And if you didn't learn what you should have in high school, even if you managed to pass those classes somehow, you would be behind and you would [I]fail [/I]your classes in college ... too bad ... so sad! It's a whole different world today! [/QUOTE]
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