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Topic	Is our school system effective?
Zeus 12/11/17 8:03:37 PM #14:	LittleRoyal posted... I told my story because its an example and its what got me thinking about it so it being anecdotal isnt a fair criticism. I set it up to be anecdotal. Are you saying you dont believe it happened? Thats ludicrous even if you dont believe me, you cant actually think people dont get stressed that badly over grades. We grade based on testing when sometimes (usually) its not perfectly correlated (testing versus real application) I'm saying your story is anecdotal and thus can't be used to claim a larger problem in the system, particularly given the weird conclusions you're drawing and -- more importantly -- given that your highlighted student was atypical. Within any given high school in the USA, you're more likely to run into students who think Mussolini is a pasta dish so the idea that kids might be studying too hard and taking things too seriously is a little absurd. More importantly, since you brought up study pills, I have to post the obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash <cite>Zeus posted [p:892036038] in Is our sch... [t:76086927]...</cite> <quote><cite>LittleRoyal posted...</cite> <quote>I told my story because its an example and its what got me thinking about it so it being anecdotal isnt a fair criticism. I set it up to be anecdotal. Are you saying you dont believe it happened? Thats ludicrous even if you dont believe me, you cant actually think people dont get stressed that badly over grades. We grade based on testing when sometimes (usually) its not perfectly correlated (testing versus real application)</quote> I'm saying your story is anecdotal and thus can't be used to claim a larger problem in the system, particularly given the weird conclusions you're drawing and -- more importantly -- given that your highlighted student was atypical. Within any given high school in the USA, you're more likely to run into students who think Mussolini is a pasta dish so the idea that kids might be studying too hard and taking things too seriously is a little absurd. More importantly, since you brought up study pills, I have to post the obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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