when I was in school we had the Iowa Tests every 3 years and the CAT...California Achievement Tests I think every year...I am assuming these were phased out?
OT: Should cursive still be taught in schools
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how about chopping all the time that the schools are spending beating kids over the head silly barraging them with the constant refrain of NO BULLYING
Yeah! We're the most free country in the world. Anyone who engages in introspection and self-critique should get out.
Latin, Spanish, and Mandarin are the three most important languages to offer.
Yeah, god forbid smart kids can focus on education without worrying about being terrorized by the future junior high dropouts that happen to be their peers.
Things were definitely better in your glory days ... beating up the frail kids that dared affront you by wearing glasses. Smart stuff.
Great.. all WWII based and one was a joke. Even Flags of our Fathers was paired with a movie from the Japanese perspective "Letters from Iwo Jima". Moral relativism. Inglorious Bastards? really? Why didn't you just go with Dirty Dozen. So we haven't gone so far as to make movies making the Nazi's looking like misunderstood people who were forced to fight due to our own brand of capitalism run amok. Great. That's one for your side.
Well said. And the worst thing is that it makes it so easy to guess the plot. "Oh, let me guess, the ultimate bad guy is an American Industrialist seeking endless war to feather his nest or to actually control the world." Time after time this is the end plot.
And that tells you what Hollywood is buying. I wonder how many scripts they have altered to fit this scheme. You mentioned Ironman 3. China is busy building up the military and especially the navy to support how it is pushing its way around in various island chains to grab water rights for drilling and god know how many air bases to project power but in no way can the be presented as the threat they may end up being.
China was ultimately behind the plot in the original Manchurian Candidate and they could easily have been recast as the bad guys in the 2004 version. And their state-controlled movie industry has no problem presenting Americans as greedy, chain-smoking mustachioed bad guys... so I have read.
The end result of all this "introspection" is that when something like 9-11 happens we get the media all asking "what did we do to deserve this" instead of "the evil fkkers who did this need to die now".
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If you want movies about American foreign policy directives that don't question the wisdom or morality of our national actions you have to start with actions that aren't questionable and nearly every major action since WW2 has been highly questionable. Unfortunately people like Henry Kissinger existed and acted in ways that are horrific. It is difficult to tell stories about these events in a way that paints our nation as infallible without appearing fantastic and negligent of the facts.
It seems that you would prefer to watch propoganda regarding these events rather than insist on just and moral action to begin with.
Wow there is a whole lotta crazy going on in this thread...
You are the one who focused on "jingoistic" movies. And if you want to use that accurately, you should be pointing out all those pro-American movies that are encouraging us to go to war somewhere for some fervently patriotic reason. You couldn't come up with any so you resorted to WWII movies.
I am not even saying we need jingoism. We don't. That was your attempt to deflect from the very real trend of blaming America and Capitalism for every ill in the world.. even when we are attacked in real life.
You have a desire to see America portrayed uncritically. That is jingoistic. There are plenty of movies where the country is presented mostly positively but you want something that is purely pro American.
What planet or decade are you from?
The entire millennial and younger generations are nothing but socially inept robots already. Take a look around at anyone high school age or younger these days. It's nothing but staring at the screen of some kind of electronic device 24/7. Nobody engages in small talk anymore unless you're a certified fossil. You send a text message or e-mail if you want to communicate with someone.
Your entire way of looking at the world is quickly becoming outdated. Someone like you won't even be able to function in society 15 years from now.
The Declaration of Independence & US Constitution are written in cursive - a good way to forget your past...an agenda is behind it!
Those things are not supposed to be taught in schools, they're supposed to be taught at home.
You sound like a shitty parent.
I see 2 reasons. The first is a handwritten note makes a bigger impact than a typed email in thank yous (ex. Job interview). To me, it comes across more professional than printing. It is classy which is why the 1% get it and still learn it. The second is it helps with developing hand coordination. There are different movements in cursive versus printing. I work in computers and type all day, but still find handwritten thank yous have more of an impact than an email in building business relationships.
I've been called a lot of things on this board--many of them deserved--but unable to function in society is a new one.
And how many people think the first line of the DOI was written as "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necefsary for one people to difsolve"
I guess it depends where you go to school.
SPP 2 years is still mandatory. When I was there, year 3 was an honors course and the teacher was awesome. So it was a relatively painless A. And honor's courses were +3 at SPP. We had numeric grades on our reports. So, if you had an honors course and your average was a 90 you got a 93 added into your GPA calc ;)
Very important.It is far better to learn to curse in a controlled environment than to pick it up on the street.At least in my F-ING opinion.
Sorry, I'd been meaning to tell you about your fossilized socialization skills problem. But damned if I can't figure out how to make that newfangled email and text-messaging stuff work.
The irony of all this "millennium" bashing is the folks doing the bashing are the folks that raised them.
What the hell happened to you while I was gone? Too much time spent on the CE board?
Ain't that the truth. Earlier generations wanted their children to be more successful. The millennial generation was raised by patents who wanted better for themselves so they could punch down their own children. It is really delightful.
LOL. You do realize this is not the first generation to complain about their kids.
So when someone writes in cursive like a doctor or lawyer and the young person tries to interpret it, it'll be like they can't read...great idea.
The Julie thing really got to him although her fingerprints all over the Yankees deal may provide closure.
50 years ago people were saying "hell in time they won't even know how to use a slide rule."
The difference of course is that the Boomer's parents fought and survived through WW2. The boomers didn't. Many of them walked out of high school and into well paying jobs.
That is why they are truly the "me" generation. They turned from taking heat about the Beatles and hippy music and then disco into now whining louder than their parents ever did about EDM. They are the generation that benefited from the safety net given their veteran parents who now desperately tear it away and bemoan it despite that causing a recession. And the ones who attended college at the NYC or CA state colleges paid no tuition, and then claim their children are in debt because they didn't study the right thing.
In my experience the "Greatest Generation" may behind on race and sex versus today, but they whine way, way less. The difference is mostly the hypocrisy, and they show the same intransigence towards millenials they showed to their parents.
Plenty of NJ schools offer Latin.
But few people take it, because they have career and travel aspirations that don't involve attending mass in a Catholic-breakoff church. And the SAT vocabulary section isn't structured like it was. And many professions that used Latin terms have started moving away from doing so. And learning another Romance language, which is most of what is on offer, gives a similar foundation but more use. Being fluent in Spanish has gotten me everything from jobs to free drinks and cigars to directions to off the beaten path amazing sights to getting service while monoligual Americans sat around to girls' numbers and I could go on here...you're not getting that with a dead language.
Instead, all students should start by learning Spanish, once you have that down you can easily move into Portuguese and French which is a significant chunk of the world right there. Then kids who can handle it should take Chinese, Arabic or Russian.
But few people take it, because they have career and travel aspirations that don't involve attending mass in a Catholic-breakoff church. And the SAT vocabulary section isn't structured like it was. And many professions that used Latin terms have started moving away from doing so. And learning another Romance language, which is most of what is on offer, gives a similar foundation but more use. Being fluent in Spanish has gotten me everything from jobs to free drinks and cigars to directions to off the beaten path amazing sights to getting service while monoligual Americans sat around to girls' numbers and I could go on here...you're not getting that with a dead language.
Instead, all students should start by learning Spanish, once you have that down you can easily move into Portuguese and French which is a significant chunk of the world right there. Then kids who can handle it should take Chinese, Arabic or Russian.
LOL. You truly have no historical perspective.
So what about baby boomer's grandparents complaining about baby boomer's parents?
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