word_eyes Posted July 8, 2005 Report Posted July 8, 2005 They march us by the thousands, we're masked so that those who are not up to par remain annonymous we're gagged; overdosed with facts provided by teh gavernment and we're shot in the face with a standardized double barrel assumption of failure, every time we miss a question. All survivors will be separated pass: proficient will remain where they are pass: advanced will be released and re-introduced as a "someone" in society and fail: does not meet criteria, will be handcuffed to a desk in the basement of an abandoned library and forced to watch their dreams be chained to a cinder block, burned, and buried alive, they will be labeled as "hopeless," and released into the same society as the advanced population, and pegged with stones until they understand, or pretend to be "normal," with such precision, that no one could differnciate between the geniuses and the idiots. They will all then be regathered, placed in a box, and given the exact same test, until every random nobody, got the exact same number of questions right, and no questions wrong. Mentally, they would be seperated; those who guessed, and those who actually knew, but physically, they would all appear the same. It would finally be an appropriate time to let them think for themselves they would finally comprehend, they will finally be standardized. Finally, education has found a solution that works for everyone, finally, we have an alternative for students with learning disabilities, ignoring them, until they feel so abandoned, that they forget they are stupid.
word_eyes Posted July 8, 2005 Author Report Posted July 8, 2005 Personal tag: I wrote this because I am against the no child left behind policy. It's just an excuse to take money away from the schools, but what it does, is take special education programs away from people who need it.
Parmenion Posted July 17, 2005 Report Posted July 17, 2005 If you cannot be bothered enough to re-read your own posts for spelling mistakes, the question must be asked as to why you feel we should be bothered reading or replying to your posts. Its just common courtesy to have rechecked your posts after posting them and editing them where necessary. Regarding the subject matter of your poem, I would hate top live in a country where its taught that if you are not academically minded then you will amount to nothing. What kind of messed up society could brainwash its children into feeling so confused about this that they feel compelled to write a poem about it! Word_eyes, all i can say is get away from that society you are living in when you are old enough. If it makes a youth feel like that about school then I can only imagine that it would place too much emphasis on status and comparative achievement in adulthood. Thats not what life is about, and the sooner you get away from a society like that the better. It doesn't matter a jot how well you do in school. It doesn't matter how good looking you are. It doesnt matter how much you earn. What does matter is how you see yourself. How confident you are in yourself. If you can look in the eye the kind of person who thinks such things are important (and has them), with no inferiority complex then you have realised the most valuable piece of information you possibly could have. They are just another human. Nothing more, nothing less. They'll grow old and die just like you, they are essentially no different to you. Only a belief in those material things lends them any credibility. I am perfectly successful having flunked out of school. I may be bald but I pick up very good looking women and while I don't have a huge house or car like many of my peers, I have seen places and things they'll never see and I've spoken to more interesting people in this tiny community than they are ever likely to meet in their enclosed little lives. So take heart
Peredhil Posted July 18, 2005 Report Posted July 18, 2005 *nods* Heh, I guess it's personal preference on the spelling. I know I write straight without edit, so I'm a bit more tolerance I guess. To me, the important part is to get the piece *down* on to paper/Pen, and then the spelling can be caught by a computer later. I suppose it depends on if you are one of those types who can correct as you go, or lose it all if the flow breaks. Anyway, I thought it was a pretty cutting and accurate commentary on the social results of political thinking. One nice thing about it is that every four years, the U.S. of A. has a peaceful revolution which changes out the government and allows things like this policy to change.
Parmenion Posted July 18, 2005 Report Posted July 18, 2005 Hehe - i think i probably spelt a tonne of things wrong in my reply, so kudos, I am a victim of my own admonishing I don't know where word_eyes is from. I am guessing american from your reply? My thinking would be that culture is not affected by the changing of governments. But yup in relation to the policies, the best of two bad worlds usually gets in adopt representation!!!
reverie Posted July 19, 2005 Report Posted July 19, 2005 (edited) "no child left behind" is part of the Education policy of the Bush adminstration in the U.S. It's sets lot's of times tables for funding and what not... I.E. if your students fall below a certain level, then you have like 2 or 3 years to show improvement or they take away your federal funding... I believe they have all kinds of classifications for schools, like a trouble school is a "Title One" school or something like that. I'll ask mom, since she works in one... Hmm, but I wonder, what will become of a school after it's lost it's funding... Do they lose their accrediation too, and have to close up shop? Or does the State take on the remainder of the burden...via increased propriety taxes... Or do all the special programs get cut... Ya know, i have friend from Washington state, and they had a rather cool funding policy for special programs... It's something like, half the funding and profits that would normally go into the traditional sport programs like football, basketball etc, have to be distributed among the various fine arts and club organizations too. Makes for a more creative and balance atmosphere... but i'm rambling... Well, it's worth investigating... *puts on his researcher's cap* regards, rev... Edited July 19, 2005 by reverie
Parmenion Posted July 25, 2005 Report Posted July 25, 2005 That sounds like quite an anti-social policy. If its a case that school funding is going to be based on how well the students do, then by-proxy the richer schools can afford to "buy" the best teachers leaving inner cities to fend with the bottom of the barrel teacher-stock. This would lead to more and more education issues for the inner city areas with the only out being to join the military to get a decent education. Ultimately, for a country which invests more in its military than the combined investment of the other 7 members of the G-8 this sounds like a pretty smart capitalistic tool! That would mean that the country continues to draw "fodder" for its armies with the promise of reasonable education. So the personal for the military never diminsh because education is based on a capitalistic philosophy as opposed to a social one. The premise however of the capitalistic philosophy is that it serves the interest of the nation to be utilising a resource which otherwise is merely a drain on the economy via crime, unemployment benefit etc... Of course this is a similar but more subtle variation of Stalin's policies of impressing the anti-social, criminals etc.. into his forced labour camps. Still quite a brilliant strategy from a national perspective.
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