No doubt they graduated you anyway.I was told by a teacher that I would not be able to graduate HS due to my lack of ability to spell.
I was told by a teacher that I would not be able to graduate HS due to my lack of ability to spell.
You appear to be backing off your position that you took in post 2. Do you believe that 'too many go to college' or not?![]()
See, this is just stupid. Sure, I like to make fun of you every once in a while for your spelling, or lack thereof, but for a teacher to make such a comment is ... .... to me it's a firing offense. There are many more indicators to look for in a student to see likely future success or failure. I even encourage kids that fail my classes assuring them that knowing or not knowing the Pythagorean Theorem or Quadratic Formula is not what will get them through college. The teacher that told you that was an idiot.
No doubt they graduated you anyway.
The fact that you would consider such a question tells me that my accusation was correct.You need to work on your reading comprehension skills. It very well may be the case that on the whole too many people go to college. I don't know and really have no factual basis for asserting an opinion one way or the other.
My point in that post is that even if too many people go to college on the whole, at the individual level it is in the individual's best interest to go to college.
You know why this happens? They don't have much choice. To fail a student takes effort and mountains of paperwork on the part of the teacher and the school. Now you tell me, is that the teacher's fault or the state's?
I was just given a new form today at a staff meeting: Justification For Giving A Student A Failing Grade
Has to be filled out in triplicate, designated to the proper authorities and on file before you can give a kid an "F." What happened to my grade book record being proof enough of a kid's performance?
So because its hard, don't do it. I'm glad that I didn't have that philosophy when I was struggling through engineering school or making my first house payments.
Why don't you shut your pie hole and let the man speak for himself?
how are too many people going when the wage benefit to going is still expanding?
Its not that anyone is saying those who have the skills and the drive should not go.
But there are plenty of kids out there that do not have either. They would be better served by a quality technical education. The problem is that the trade schools are seen as bad, so no one pushed them.
The fact that you would consider such a question tells me that my accusation was correct.
Your belligerence is obviously due to your embarrassment at exposing your ignorance of economics.The fact that you still cannot comprehend my meaning notwithstanding that I have explained it to you (when any reasonably intelligent person would not need it explained to him) tells me that either you have serious reading comprehension deficiencies or you just want to be a dick or both. I'm leaning towards both.
Your belligerence is obviously due to your embarrassment at exposing your ignorance of economics.
I explained that in post 13. Perhaps you could point out where I mentioned Mr. Ponnuru, never mind called him a Democrat.You still haven't really explained my ignorance of economics. Instead, you lashed out with some silly diatribe about how Ramesh Ponnuru is a Democrat.