The Glade 4.0

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Interesting. In that case, it's really a scam, although it's the parents being scammed out of money. Allow me to present an alternate perspective that probably hasn't come up, yet.

Any student who purchases a letter grade improvement will have one of two things happen. The first is that it will be readily apparent, upon looking at his entrance exams (SAT or ACT), that the student is not actually an A student. The second is that the student practically aces said exams and was only a B student because it was never worth his time to do homework assignments.

High school grades are complete bullshit. Students are graded, not by how well they do, but by how hard they "try," or some other nonsense. I had a biology class my freshman year of high school where some essay on a black scientist was worth half of our grade. It was some stupid Black History Month assignment. High school classes do **** like that. In most high school courses, students are graded primarily (sometimes exclusively) on homework. Exams are given as a token gesture. They don't effect your grade any. This was something that perennially frosted me.

So is the school actually selling better grades, or are they just holding the kids hostage for the grades they might have actually earned? "We realize that your child is very bright, and is actually at the top of all of his classes. For $150, we'll let him have his A in trigonometry without making him write that report on breast cancer awareness." You might be wondering what breast cancer has to do with trigonometry that makes it worth a full letter grade.

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Any student who purchases a letter grade improvement will have one of two things happen. The first is that it will be readily apparent, upon looking at his entrance exams (SAT or ACT), that the student is not actually an A student.

High school grades are complete bullshit. Students are graded, not by how well they do, but by how hard they "try," or some other nonsense.

SAT scores are not an indicator of grades.

High school grades are complete bullshit. Students are graded, not by how well they do, but by how hard they "try," or some other nonsense. I had a biology class my freshman year of high school where some essay on a black scientist was worth half of our grade. It was some stupid Black History Month assignment. High school classes do **** like that. In most high school courses, students are graded primarily (sometimes exclusively) on homework. Exams are given as a token gesture. They don't effect your grade any. This was something that perennially frosted me.

They are a great indicator of grades. A student with a high GPA score has developed strong verbal and mathematical skills. These skills come from a mixture of intellect and practice... the practice being school work throughout the years. Usually the people with low SAT scores have habitually skirted this school work, and also have low grades.

I have found this to be absolutely not the case. Good grades can be achieved through hard work, with minimal talent. Same grades can be achieved by less work with greater talent.

You can't "work hard" on the SAT. It's about measuring the talent.

Hell, I'm still trying to figure out why handing out bachelor's degrees like Pop Tarts and Go-Gurt at an elementary school breakfast is a good idea.

No one in this thread has suggested doing anything even remotely like this.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Didn't really say anyone did either. It is, however, the actual policy direction our nation adopted with regard to post-secondary education.

I don't believe that is an accurate statement at all. At most there has been an increased emphasis on getting a post-secondary degree. Now capitalism being what it is, there most certainly are less credible schools out there trying to pass off shoddy education on the unsuspecting, but the vast majority of our post-secondary schools are producing a decent quality product and degrees/grades that are earned.

Considering how ****-ily funded public schools are, this does not surprise me in the least.

You can't "work hard" on the SAT. It's about measuring the talent.

Sure you can.

This is why and how study guides exist for both it and the ACT, and why modern versions of neither test are qualifiers for MENSA. Conversely, there is no "IQ Test Study Guide," because IQ tests examine "talent."

Also, English degrees are the most common? Really? The two 3000-level English classes I had to take in college were the hardest classes I took. None of my science courses ever required me to produce a document in a week's time where fifty citations was the minimum to not fail.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

I'm honestly wondering what the product that colleges are selling these days is. Remember, instead of going to college, you could go to employers in your chosen field and offer to work for them for free for four years. So college has to provide something that's better than those four years of experience.

No one would take you up on that deal because of the possibility of it being perceived as slavery or indentured servitude. If this were realistic, people would actually do it.

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