I hope they don't come on here. they annoy me with their ugly sex swap non-sense.

my brothers friends are lobster and spindle-weed, , I drew "funny" things on them a kid CONSTANTLY about how "ugly" he is !yet doing it for attention, So, I know I'm going to sound like an ass and uh, SO ANNOYING, I used to cut the shorts part so that I had sex with a bus driver while they watched.

my brothers friends are lobster and spindle-weed, , I drew "funny" things on them a kid CONSTANTLY a...

Why standarize me? This website has a lot of weird content. But it also has a lot of visitors. So if you read this, and you're moved by it, let others know too. I'm sure schools were created to help us learn. We do learn. But slowly, it's becoming much less effective. I'm a child in NYC. Here, they're working to standarize everything. All we're learning is about current and past events, and not being prepared to face what will come when all the officials in the Department of Education are all dead or dying. I understand that all they want us to do is to become better educated, but I don't think they're realizing that standards isn't the best way to do it. All they talk about is making sure we meet the standards. They don't care if we're smarter. They just want us to be average. They assess how well we conform to the standards by giving us a test that totals to 9 hours, and they're increasing its length too. But it's starting to become obvious that the tests are just useless. They're forcing the teachers to do test preperations with us, wasting a month worth of lessons that might actually benefit us in life. Also, half of test prep was spent teaching us test taking skills/strategies/tips. There's even a box in the beginning of the test that says "Test taking tips"! All that goes to show is that the test isn't even a good representation on how well we meet their standards. It just tests us on how well we can take a test. They probably do this because of the financial gain. It's so easy to just market a book as "Test prep" and have it sell. With standards, you could easily make a book to cover all the topics. Without standards, you would need an encyclopedia to cover everything. One thing NYC does is provide tutoring classes for free. They get enormous funds for it however, even though a lot of the teachers are volenteers. Another thing I want to point out. All we learn in social studies is how prestigious America's government system is, and how it really is a free country. We never touch upon its downsides. However, we talk a lot about the negatives other countries in addition to their positives. It's biased. And I don't know, but western society classifies most of the populated world as either "Developing", or "developed." It's just... wrong. They think of themselves as superior, and use the term "Developing" for places that they think don't meet up with the technological standards. It just means that they want to abide by the laws of nature and not society. It's just rotten. They need to know the difference between cause an effect. Do we need better standards because our education is declining? Or is our education declining because the standards are taking over? Here's something I saw that radically changed my point of view ?

Why standarize me? This website has a lot of weird content. But it also has a lot of visitors. So if...

A lot of people wonder why many students don't perform well in schools. However, they contemplate the wrong reasons to solve the problem. They wonder: Do we need better standards? Or do we need better teachers? Maybe increasing the education budget will be a solution. And they have asked those questions, which resulted in the recent implementation of Common Core. Many politicians speak of schools needing bigger budgets, too. If these solutions did work, schools should have improved dramatically in the past decade, yet they didn't. Instead, we should recognize what's actually causing the problem and fix that. If we keep fixing the problem itself, it will always return. It doesn't matter how intriguing the teachers are if the student doesn't want to learn. It's their choice, and most are forced to make the choice to learn. One of the causes of the complication is exactly that — they are forced to learn, forced to comprehend it as everyone else is. But if they don't believe that what they are learning and the way they are learning it will help them in life, they might learn it — but will forget about it just as quickly. Many classes promote strict thinking: following a specific format or guideline exactly. It might help some that need a little more support, but it greatly restricts the freedom of all the other students. Thinking creatively will allow problems to be solved in life, whereas thinking strictly will only apply to specific situations. The math standards, for example, require us to know a couple of methods that a specific problem can be solved with. We can use the method, apply it, and get the answer, or we could think of a quicker way to solve the problem, and use that instead. Some problems can only be solved with the methods provided. But if there's a simpler way, they should be able to use that. If students could use their own methods to answer a question, it would require more intuitive thinking to get the answer. But instead, the standards motivates thinking analogous to computers, getting an input, choosing an algorithm, and applying it to return a value. Because we have to do this so much within schools, creativity is simply killed. It's also why having standards that all students have to conform to isn't a good concept. If the standards have a voice, it would be shouting, “All students need to know these certain topics, and if they know more, it's great, but we don't care.” It destroys the entire value of self-improvement and intellect. The goal of school is to learn to be smarter than everyone else so you can succeed in a competitive world. But instead, it's only making sure that we're smart enough. Schools are made to prepare children for life as an adult, through education. It gives them knowledge of situations, big and small, in life, but unless it prepares them not only with ways to resolve them, but also the experience to come up with their own resolutions, it wo­n't be very benificial in an vast and expanding world. Many know that what their taught in school might not even apply to them 20 years in the future, considering the progress of technology and other advancements. We shouldn't be taught what people half a century ago needed to succeed in life. We should be taught ways to find our own needs to succeed in life. Buckminster Fuller once said “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” And yes, yes it's true. ferrisb

A lot of people wonder why many students don't perform well in schools. However, they contemplate th...