Are we in the top 5 among first world countries and if so where in the top 5?
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When I was st secondary school, calculators were not used and we had slide rules. My oldest left school 17 years ago not long before this thread was written. My youngest but for my new daughter left this summer in the U.K. he was part of the A level debacle due to Corona. "He done good!" I wonder what it's going to be like for my grand kids and daughter when they grow up?
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If the path we are on continues they won't even use pens or pencils:P Plus with programs like grammerly and spell check/grammar check on all the platforms expect that their knowlegde of english might change:P Same with math
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This is a website of a writer who shows how education has been deliberately degraded. The website shows a few books but the important one is the deliberate dumbing down of america.
Isn't that why no child left behind fudges the figures? It sounds to me that you just said black/hispanic schools are doing poorly and probably underfunded (they are) and I recall Bush cut education. Did he cut black/hispanic schools but made sure whites weren't left behind?
Because that sounds like systematic racism beyond Katrina level.
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Yeah, it doesn't hold up in many European nations where white working class boys do least well. Which kind of toasts the whole no racism in America thing. It also brings in gender bias in the UK lol.
We know that on average boys consistently underperform against girls, and white boys from disadvantaged backgrounds underperform against boys of all other races and ethnicities. I will reel off some statistics: by age five, white boys from disadvantaged backgrounds are already 13% behind disadvantaged black boys and 23% behind disadvantaged Asian girls in their phonics, for example; only around a third of white working-class boys pass their maths and English GCSEs; disadvantaged white working-class boys are 40% less likely to go into higher education than disadvantaged black boys; and in fact, according to UCAS, only 9% of these boys will go to university, compared with around half of the general population. I could go on forever if I had more time, but as it stands these white working-class boys are being let down by an in-built and inherent disadvantage.
But you know, the UK is more classist and the US more racist it is what it is. Gender bias is prevalent in both.
And remember to underline the fact, this comes from the UK where White men from non disadvantaged backgrounds invented everything from Gravity, to Magnetism and Electricity [SPOILER - highlight to read]: some will say we only discovered these things, but we are British and if I say we invented them being part of the Master Race we must have
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[SPOILER - highlight to read]: some will say we only discovered these things, but we are British and if I say we invented them being part of the Master Race we must have
