Posted by Guest (Post 1247393)

What about your teachers? Were you home schooled?

Posted by Guest (Post 1247338)

The reason the kids today need a BA/BS degree for entry level is because their degree is equivalent to one of our High School diplomas. When today's college graduate can't even write a coherent sentence or do simple math, there is something radically wrong with the education system. Today's basic liberal arts degree does nothing that a decent HS education should be able to give you. And the jobs they perform do not need it anyway.

Posted by Guest (Post 1247341)

Condescending? Is there a word for people who feel superior to people who insult and look down on others?

Isaac Newton said "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." That's how I feel. Newton didn't say--"I'm a self made man who amoung other things invented the reflecting telescope with nobody helping me out at all. In fact I'm probably the best telescope maker who ever lived."

I do feel responsible for the failures of others.


I still think the GI Bill is an example of the government trying to pay back the military but it's not affirmative action. I was wrong about that.
affirmative action
an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination, especially in relation to employment or education; positive discrimination.

And I still think we all get help. That doesn't make us helpless if we also help others.

Posted by Guest (Post 1247359)

That's the problem, isn't it? What do middle class jobs look like?

I told my kids in high school to prepare for college but also take the Cisco Networking Courses the high school offered and pass the CNA exam. This way you have options. They did not pass the exam but took the courses, became engineers and they are the gurus at work.

Maybe Trump is overlooking his best idea to make America Great Again, The Apprentice Concept.

After the eighth grade kids should shadow an adult for 1 year. It could be an adult with bedpan duty or a surgeon, a HVAC helper or the librarian's assistant. And when they start high school they will not waste so much time. They would see the light at the end of the tunnel and know the clock is ticking.

You couldn't do that in our society. There would be all kinds of liabilities. That really requires an open mind and less government regulations.

But isn't that how children used to learn? And if you go in a lot of mom and pop shops it still goes on. Losing the mom and pop shops is the hurt that keeps on hurting.

Posted by Guest (Post 1247400)

Teachers provide a service for compensation, do they not? Then what make them any more special than anyone else providing a service for compensation?

Posted by Guest (Post 1247429)

And WHY is that? Because education has been dumbed down so the dark minorities can "compete". We dropped from #1 in the world to #17 because of quotas, affirmative action, and dumbing down standards so they could get in. It's "racist" to have standards they can't attain. So we lowered them.

MOST jobs don't need a degree. It's required to weed out the minorities who even with all the free school and lowered standards, usually don't make it to graduation.



But I bet that's what he was thinking...and he should have.



It would end up being racist as nobody would want to mentor the black kids. After a while we'd learn, like we have in the education system, that they're not up to snuff. They can't compete with the others. Lincoln said it...we're too different to ever live together.

Facts aren't racist and neither is the speaking of facts. If I made stuff up, it would be one thing, I don't, it's all facts. Facts we should all be aware of.

Posted by Guest (Post 1247388)

I don't care what people call me...I drive a Prius.

Posted by Guest (Post 1247593)

I have never seen an attractive person driving a Prius. Toyota must have a rule to only sell that car to ugly people. When someone ugly walks in the showroom the sales people probably throw blankets over all the other cars and usher the ugly person over to the Prius chanting "you will reduce global warming, you will reduce global warming". Hillary is definitely ugly enough to drive one..

As for Obamma - he sucks!

Posted by Guest (Post 1247393)

What about your teachers? Were you home schooled?

Posted by Guest (Post 1247637)

The rules say to not attack another poster, yet it is done here,,,,,,,,,,,, calling someone a liar, liar??

Posted by Guest (Post 1247637)

The rules say to not attack another poster, yet it is done here,,,,,,,,,,,, calling someone a liar, liar??

Posted by Guest (Post 1247645)

It's not an attack if it's true.

Posted by Guest (Post 1247736)

Oh, but they'll say it is. It's "hateful" to call someone out on their lie.

Posted by Guest (Post 1247145)

Technically...yes. Someone else did the labor for the "benefits" you received for "free".

You're SUPPOSED to "pay it forward" by being a good, productive citizen repaying it to society tenfold. That's the original intent of scholarships.