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Comment: What is a "vocational school?" (Score 1) 141

by westlake (#46475171) Attached to: Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing?

Many of the most successful countries with test results, have a school system where only the best continue on to more schooling the rest go to vocational schools.

I am not sure what a "vocational school" is in a post-industrial environment. I am not even sure any more what "best" means in this context.

Comment: Re:Becuz (Score 3, Interesting) 141

by Marxist Hacker 42 (#46475129) Attached to: Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing?

Where to begin? Denial of reading the classics. The elimination of poetry and Shakespeare. Replacement with texts designed to limit vocabulary and more importantly, limit thinking. The almost assured dropout rate of at least 34% as the kids too stupid to achieve common core drop out from frustration and the kids too smart for common core drop out from boredom.

It's likely great for the 68% of the kids in the middle of the bell curve, but universal literacy is not going to be accomplished under it anymore.

Comment: Re:I went back to corporate America because Obamac (Score 1) 400

by operagost (#46473953) Attached to: White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups

Because $6,700 is real chump change. I know families where both parents work for at least 40 hours a week, and they have outstanding medical bills of just a few thousand dollars that they can't pay. Racking up $6,700 a year, plus the few hundred a month, is only going to make things worse.

This is absolutely NOT helping the people who the administration claimed it would.
