I don't know if you're replying to the correct person or answering questions that are not asked?

Oh geez, it was just an example. I'd imagine the dumbest student at Harvard may know a thing or two?

I don't understand the point you are making?

You sound like a treat.

Hahaha, yeah, my 13 y/o is going to be a support/late relief pitcher.

NCLB didn't prevent competition, it handcuffed a lot of teachers. What do you suggest happens to schools that have low scores? Take their money away from them? What you fail to understand is that just by doing that, it will change the landscape of education. Your philosophy just seems to not worry about those that are…

We're good, we just have a lot of shitty students

You assume everything is equal. In America we educate everyone. Think about that for a second. Every single child has a right to education.

You sound just like every kid I have ever taught that asks questions that are answered directly in the directions. Did you read them? Nah.

hahaha, parents and humans in general lack empathy.

Hahaha, I like that one. GPA is the most thrown around inflated stat right now. Whenever a student/parents starts with GPA thrown in there, I know exactly what kind of student he/she is.

The point he/she was trying to make was that trying does not equal intelligence or competence. Yes, I think everyone should try hard. However, parents/students now believe that if a student turns in every assignment and fails every test they deserve and A or B....just because they tried hard. They think doing what is…

Yes, yes, yes...people that aren't teachers do not understand grade inflation. It's comes to the point for the teacher where it's just not worth the fight. If a parent will absolutely will not stop and/or other teachers will give them the grades anyway, why not just do it? So if you do your job correctly and stick to…

Growth?

Are you a teacher or involved in education? Standardized teaching is a really good metric to measure how a student can take a test. That's pretty much it. You're view isn't incorrect, it's just not relative. Is testing better than nothing? Yes...but barely.

Yeah, it's a shitload of work for the same pay. The pressure is funny because you start thinking: "wait, I need to do extra work to keep my shitty pay and only if the kids do good at a test?"

No, he/she is right. It is important to have a desire to be competitive. Most people do things for an outcome and that's the problem. There is a difference between wanting to be good at something and just wanting the trophies. People workout/diet all the time to get skinny for a bikini and/or flex with their bros with…

Pretty much. It's fine to be competitive if the competition is what drives the kid. If a kid wants to be the best at something because they want to be the best at something that is fine. If they are doing it for anyone else, that is where problems happen.

Yeah, pretty much. One weird thing I remember watching about countries like Finland was that countries like that were cool about paying really high taxes...but a lot of it was because poor people in general looked like them. I was like WTF? They were ok with paying taxes to help support people that looked like them…

Well it is difficult to compare countries. There are a lot of reasons why countries like Korea and Finland have better educational systems. Here is the short answer...people (most) really do not care about education. They'll say all of the right things like they really do, but they don't. It's that simple. You…