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> the very rational fear that large swaths of the student population will fail if expected to perform at the prior standards of rigor. Why is this a rational f
by acchow 5y ago
> the very rational fear that large swaths of the student population will fail if expected to perform at the prior standards of rigor.
Why is this a rational fear? It seems shocking to me that students can't perform at the same prior standards given their parents are more educated than the prior generation's parents.
- frostburg 5y agoAre the teachers as good?
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoHard to know. The public perception of public employment as a whole has gone considerably down since about the Reagan era. The pay is mostly not very good, and states and the feds have much more power over things that were traditionally local.
- falcolas 5y agoPotential reason it's rational: The shoulders of those giants are higher than ever before. Climbing to those heights is correspondingly harder to do. Speaking for myself, I had to worry very little about computers until late in high school (Senior year, specifically). There were no spreadsheet or word processing classes, and the typing classes were only for the girls. There was Algebra (up through Calculus as an optional course), but many others that my niece has that I didn't.