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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Philip Ogston writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Shiri Dori writes:
> > In case you're wondering-- I was thinking of boycotting the MCAS myself, but
> > decided against it for personal reasons, regarding the choices I'll have to
> > make two years from now.
>
> Keep on truckin', man! You gotta make the best out of school. They like to
> do
> it backwards here: instead of teaching you useful stuff and letting you
> practice it on your own, they have you perform a bunch of essentially
> meaningless tasks and let you figure out how to learn from them.
Uh, yeah, I noticed. I have a lot to rant about the US school system, and for
that matter the Israeli one too. I do think the Israeli one (in which I spent
most of my years) is slightly better, but not by much.
The school I went to for the past two years (1997-1999) was such a good
school, tho', that I find it extra hard to adjust to anything else. It was an
experimental school, what you americans call an "anarchist school". And the
thing is, it wasn't only *fun* to be there, or just "cool"... but I actually
learned more in those two years than any other two years of my school
education. And I *remember* and _understand_ the things I learned (not so much
the things I was taught-- I learned a lot on my own, with slight guidiance
from teachers), and that, IMHO, is FAR more important than getting straight
A's (which, frankly, I did and still do).
> You can get something out of standardized tests if you apply yourself - like
> me, I can draw bullets for bulleted lists like no one else (#2 pencil no
> less)!
> Seriously, look at the kids planning the boycot, they're learning to get
> themselves heard, to be their own spokes-people, to organize thmeselves. I
> learned a lot about deductive reasoning from multiple choice tests.
That's true.
> And you
> can learn how to please people who don't actually know how to recognize high
> quality work (like corporate managers and human resources departments).
If that works, I won't have any trouble finding a job. ;-)
> Of course it's not fair to poorer schools, but there really shouldn't be poor
> schools should there? Why is school funding based on local property tax?
> It's
> because rich people deserve a better education. Why? Because they're rich,
> and they hold the political and economic power in this country. Now you
> wouldn't want the ruling class to be stupid, would you? How would we ever get
> along with stupid leaders? They might waste all our precious money on poor
> people.
Youch. I know you're kidding (OK, I hope you're kidding) but still, that's why
I hate capitalism. It goes hand in hand with democracy, which is the stupidest
thing ever. All people are equal, but the rich people are better. Yuck.
> PS. Why are you writing Lugnet posts in the middle of the day, Shiri? Don't
> you have classes to boycot?
Well, as Frank said - it's spring break here. Although I *should* go help my
mom prepare for the Seder... but no school, anyhow. Yay!
-Shiri
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