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Puggles said:
I'm to the point where I actively avoid news and especially politics; nothing can be trusted anymore, false information, misinformation, and flat-out lies. It's so sad that, in a nutshell, it has come to being extremely divided and not to the point of doing it respectfully, either. It's past the point of violence. I'm not saying your Australia thing isn't true, I'm just saying in general, mostly pertaining to the U.S. and the garbage media situation here.

Also, is the rumor true that in Australia, your toilets flush the other way?
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Me too, I just removed my subscription from WSJ recently. I have been reading this financial newspaper since my first job out of college.
 
Puggles said:
No, I think there was a misinterpretation. I don't drink. At all.
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Okay, well you posted beer emojis above with the pizza, I suppose you were just being considerate to those of us who like to imbibe. Maybe you were just tired, IDK.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Okay, well you posted beer emojis above with the pizza, I suppose you were just being considerate to those of us who like to imbibe. Maybe you were just tired, IDK.
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To clear it up once and for all, I'm saying education in the U.S. (and some other places as well) is abysmal, and the youngest generation is suffering from it. They would rather try to get famous on TikTok or YouTube via viral videos and not actually learn something. Just thinking that one day an "iPad kid" is going to be president terrifies me.
 
Puggles said:
To clear it up once and for all, I'm saying education in the U.S. (and some other places as well) is abysmal, and the youngest generation is suffering from it. They would rather try to get famous on TikTok or YouTube via viral videos and not actually learn something. Just thinking that one day an "iPad kid" is going to be president terrifies me.
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Very good point indeed. To be totally honest, when my kids were growing up, I was terrified of what they teach and don't teach at school so I do check out a lot of books from the libraries for them to read. One time I complained to the school principal or vice principal about something and he didn’t know the term Amish either, go figure.
 
Puggles said:
I'm to the point where I actively avoid news and especially politics; nothing can be trusted anymore, false information, misinformation, and flat-out lies. It's so sad that, in a nutshell, it has come to being extremely divided and not to the point of doing it respectfully, either. It's past the point of violence. I'm not saying your Australia thing isn't true, I'm just saying in general, mostly pertaining to the U.S. and the garbage media situation here.

Also, is the rumor true that in Australia, your toilets flush the other way?
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It's all there for public "steerage".
 
Puggles said:
To clear it up once and for all, I'm saying education in the U.S. (and some other places as well) is abysmal, and the youngest generation is suffering from it. They would rather try to get famous on TikTok or YouTube via viral videos and not actually learn something. Just thinking that one day an "iPad kid" is going to be president terrifies me.
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It isn't just nowadays either Puggles - my youngest step son was struggling with english (Grade 12) 15 years ago so we had a "parent/teacher" meeting with the school principle and some so called special ed teacher. I told them that he needed more attention with spelling ......... the response I got from the special ed moron was "why - he has spell check" and she was serious! So apparently all teachers were doing were to teach kids how to push a button on a computerised thing. He graduated high school despite being illiterate and inumerate and that isn't a slur at him, it IS a shot at the education system in this state at least.

I don't about elsewhere in the country but in NYS - a teacher has to pass a certain number of her/his students or they risk being fired - or so I was told. I believe it because of kids getting credits for going to church or to a school sports event, or putting their hands up in class etc etc etc.

Instead of trying to raise the standard of education it is easier to reduce the educational requirements for things. You worry about having an IPad trained person as a president - I'd be more worried about going over a bridge or into a building built or designed by one of those IPad trained individuals .........
 
I always live in a school district that is ranked in the top 100 for USA, so that was really surprised to me.
However, when my youngest was in high school, it was very strict, homework has to be submitted and checked for plagiarism.
When my daughter was a TA in college, she found a couple cheaters too, they were getting Fs for the assignment. They copy verbatim.
 
Social Media has made plagerism much easier ...... it now becomes a simple matter of cut and paste :( When I went to school we had things called exams - 100 questions and you needed to get 60% correct to pass. You had to do english and a math and if you failed english, you failed the year and had to repeat it. Computers were an extra curricula activity - NOT apart of the teaching format.
 
Wombat457 said:
Social Media has made plagerism much easier ...... it now becomes a simple matter of cut and paste :( When I went to school we had things called exams - 100 questions and you needed to get 60% correct to pass. You had to do english and a math and if you failed english, you failed the year and had to repeat it. Computers were an extra curricula activity - NOT apart of the teaching format.
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Well in one advanced math class in college where the 60% is need to pass a class, the majority of them failed, I remember this because my daughter aced the class, she’s a math person, but this is a requirement in order to graduate and become an engineer, software engineer where math is very important.
 
Puggles said:
Just thinking that one day an "iPad kid" is going to be president terrifies me.
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That’s always been the complaint of every “older” generation - just sub in a different “younger” generation archetype:

“Just think, one of these greasers is going to be president someday!” - 1950’s
“Just think, one of these hippies is going to be president someday!” - 1960’s
“Just think, one of these punks is going to be president someday!” - 1970’s

…and on and on and on. We’ll live.
 
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