Quote:So taking money away from schools that are already poor is a good idea? How does that help?


Not in Duval so I am unfamiliar. I am told they have very good magnet schools? No?

 

The Public school system here sucks. Public education sucks in general in our country for the most part. We're not really teaching our kids anything that will be relevant within the next three to four years after they've graduated or been handicapped into stupidity. Since schools are lowering passing grades in order to make themselves look good. 

 

I paid attention in school. But it would get to the point at Sandalwood where you had gym teachers and coaches teaching you math and history at times. And it was so pathetic that often times it felt like you were just being babysat and we were allowed to take open book tests and quizzes. OPEN BOOK. You don't even have to study, retain information or memorize anything half the time. You were guaranteed to at least pass with a "C" average just by showing up on time and not missing easy assignments.

 

All I learned was conditioning during my 12 years of schooling. And the older I got the less interested it seemed the teachers cared to actually teach or educate. I learned more about economics, world history, reading and writing and US history during my late elementary and middle school years than I ever did in high school. I just learned what it was like to get up early every day, and go to an establishment for eight hours a day during my last 4 years of school. 

 

The two biggest skills and classes I learned in high school that actually helped me in the real world was key and business class which taught me how to be a good typist and increase my words per minute for corporate type work and how to properly formulate paragraphs and graphs and reports. And then DCT class which just taught you how to properly present yourself to get a job during an interview and how to create a resume. 

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