FYI: Death Star To Open Day Care Centre (fwd)

I laughed, you probably will too...

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Unfortunately, coming from the California school system, this is what
"educators" have been preaching for quite a few years over here. Help build up
a false sense of esteem, even though the kids in the class know who are smart
students, average students and dummies. Don't give out grades, because it
might fracture their fragile egos. As a result, the unpromotable gets promoted
to the next grade and an ever increasing portion of the student population
cannot read or write properly, do math, or know naything about history or
geography.

Yes, that's all very good, but is it "Outcome-Based Education"?

Out here.

        -monty

PS.  For you non-Yanks, OBE is the latest twaddle being passed off
by the public school system. Making the child feel good about
him/herself takes precedence over having them learn anything.
Actually, that's probably exactly what the Empire _would_ be using--
producing self-confident idiots who don't know enough to question
anything.

Oh, sorry. I'm bringing the "real world" into this. My apologies.

> MCCLURE@force.litc.lockheed.com writes:
@:) Unfortunately, coming from the California school system, this is what @:)
"educators" have been preaching for quite a few years over here.
@:)
@:) [ ... ]
@:)
@:) As a result, the unpromotable gets promoted to the next grade and @:) an
ever increasing portion of the student population cannot read @:) or write
properly, do math, or know naything about history or @:) geography.

  Oh, so does _that_ explain the rather unremarkable performance of
the Imperials in the Star Wars movies? Perhaps one of the future chapters of
the story will involve an Imperial Edict to massively
reform the educational system - hey, this would make a great kids'
movie - have little kiddie rebels and little kiddie stormtroopers (but
newly educated and thus much more dangerous) running around shooting rubber
bands and the like at each other.

8-)

This was originally published in May in a satirical paper called "The Onion"
published here in Boulder, Colorado. It's always good for a laugh, although I
thought this was one of their better pieces. This week's headline was "Chick
Corea Falls to Communists."

> or write properly, do math, or know naything about history or
Or spelling, apparently.

In any case, I suspect there are far more substantive questions about reform
in California's educational system than we need (or want) to get into on this
list.