BF2S Forums 'All the children are insane.'

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uziq wrote:

your room in your parents' house smells of PVA glue on account of your 1:25 scale gundam models.

LMAO

SuperJail Warden wrote:

How much school work is too much? Should kids spend more time enjoying their youth or do we need to better educate kids through classwork and homework assignments?

the correct answer is 'a whole lot less than whatever the hell koreans are doing'.

cram school culture here is insane. students attend regular government school and then go pretty much directly to after-school cramschools or language schools (hagwons). they're studying for about 12 hours a day.

there's even bars and night-spots where they will have a projector in the venue that's showing math lessons/lectures. a bit tongue-in-cheek, but many koreans seriously go to these spots to, like, passively revise.

all to get into about 4-5 universities in the seoul area. if you don't make the cut, you're out! may as well work in a chicken shop for the rest of your life.

Mayor Bill de Blasio will overhaul New York City’s highly selective, racially segregated gifted and talented education classes, a sea change for the nation’s largest public school system that may amount to the mayor’s most significant act in the waning months of his tenure.

The elementary school gifted and talented program that New York has known for the last several decades will no longer exist for incoming kindergarten students next fall, and within a few years, it will be eliminated completely, city officials told The New York Times.

Students who are currently enrolled in gifted classes will become the final cohort in the existing system, which will be replaced by a program that offers accelerated learning to all students in the later years of elementary school.

The gradual elimination of the existing program will remove a major component of what many consider to be the city’s two-tiered education system, in which one relatively small, largely white and Asian American group of students gain access to the highest-performing schools, while many Black and Latino children remain in schools that are struggling.

Via NYT. Let me know if you want the whole article posted. There's a lot to unpack there but it is behind a paywall.

Collective punishment. Gifted kids paying for the sins of men in the 1920's. I expect many parents to yank their kids out of the public school and into private.

No amount of money will change the fact that there are tons of kids who don't want to be in school and have parents who don't care either.

We should all.yry.to do better

Last edited by SuperJail Warden (2022-02-23 06:52:33)

Like I said, I obviously have no opposition to more school funding.

But I am constantly thinking of this political/cultural impasse we are at. I don't expect to see some big change in the cultural makeup of the country that would result in more liberal policies.

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Why are the children like this?

I have seen a lot of school stabbings in my day (?!) but this is clearly the worst I have ever seen.

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Since I do recognize that the US has problems with violence, I won't get offended (like you sometimes weirdly do for SK's sake, even though there is racism outside of your own experiences). But I will add though that less talked about are the times that people have nice days where they don't get shot and don't get into fights. Which for some of us is usually 365 days a year. Is there even a subreddit for that? Benign American Days. "Hey guys, back atcha with another video where I didn't get yelled at for an entire week!"

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I could easily sit back and make sweeping posts about how everyone in the UK is getting stabbed and attacked by Muslim grooming gangs lIkE HoW I SeE iN tHe PaPeRs, but that would be silly.