What distinguishes Black Americans who have attained success to those who have not?

[Samm]

@Eagle-Keeper

@Samm

@Eagle-Keeper

On a practical level most of what students do in high school and college is virtually useless. It’s utterly pathetic that we are still working off this decades old cookie cutter approach that serves little to no practical value to most students.

Yeah, who needs a High School degree when you have the Internet to tell you everything you need to know?

A high school degree on a practical level is simply a piece of paper that indicates one sat through 4 years of classes and passed said classes through largely arbitrary scoring methodologies. Remember I was a part of this system and it was my time in it that opened my eyes.

As I said … everything you need to know is on the Internet.

[Eagle-Keeper]

@Samm

As I said … everything you need to know is on the Internet.

Absolutely. The days of carrying around big heavy textbooks are now obsolete.

[Samm]

@WildRose

Bull ■■■■ seems to be acceptable. Who knows from day to day now.

Does bull scat pass muster?

[WuWei]

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@WuWei

My son was in a High School AP class in public school. His teacher sent him out to collect bugs and pin them to styrofoam. Took one look at it, gave him an A and told him to throw it away.

My colleagues and I would have students do a number of different types of posters and time lines that would all just go into the garbage shortly after they were graded.

In front of the students?

[Eagle-Keeper]

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@WuWei

My son was in a High School AP class in public school. His teacher sent him out to collect bugs and pin them to styrofoam. Took one look at it, gave him an A and told him to throw it away.
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My colleagues and I would have students do a number of different types of posters and time lines that would all just go into the garbage shortly after they were graded.

In front of the students?

Sometimes, although I would ask if anyone wants to keep theirs. Most of my job as a high school teacher was largely focused on trying to keep the students busy without them getting too bored.

[Ben_Natuf]

@WuWei

My son was in a High School AP class in public school. His teacher sent him out to collect bugs and pin them to styrofoam

What a sadistic witch! Oh… the Horror!

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@Ben_Natuf

@WuWei

My son was in a High School AP class in public school. His teacher sent him out to collect bugs and pin them to styrofoam

What a sadistic witch! Oh… the Horror!

Not horrible, just a waste of time and resources. We should knock two years off of both High School and College. And guess what, no one would notice a thing.

[WuWei]

@Ben_Natuf

@WuWei

My son was in a High School AP class in public school. His teacher sent him out to collect bugs and pin them to styrofoam

What a sadistic witch! Oh… the Horror!