This kid has a good attitude and has worked hard throughout his school life to do well.
Hey, at least he's got the smarts to see through the dumbing down that so many others miss (yes, occupiers I'm thinking of you!)
OK, he went to a school named for Cesar Chavez, so that might have been a hint. But we all can't go to Sidwell, can we?
Anyway, I thought this was worth spreading around. I hope some here may find it interesting.
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This has come up before, that one negative consequence of affirmative action is that it can make some black students feel like they’re in a school they can’t handle.
acton boxborough region high school
public school
received the president’s flag of excellence my senior year (Reagan was in office)
went to penn state and northeastern... and was only challenged during discrete math and diffy eqs. all history and english were simplistic. my computer science classes were trivial (except compiler design... ugh). entrepreneurial classes were trivial. i worked 2 or 3 jobs going through. still had high grades throughout
i believe the main difference is... the department of ‘education’.
it hadn’t truly taken hold when i graduated... and the schools were still turning out actual education.
doesn’t seem to be the case anymore
but hey.. at least everyone seems to be on the honor roll these days /sarc
When I hit public school, I ignored school, and learned on my own. I was always marked down for 'not fitting in'.
Only school I ever respected was the military school that was focused. Whether it was Solid State Electronics or Kitchen Safety.
Eff 'em. Learn or don't. The piece of paper means crap these days anyway.
What you can do, proves what you know. And you can't fake that.
/johnny
You missed the best quote.
“Once I got to high school, I maintained good grades simply by listening to my teachers and giving them what they wanted to hear: themselves.”
The school appears to be pretty much Black so I don’t know why he’s whinning about racism and it is called “Ceasar Chevez Charter School for Public Policy.” That seems to be a clue right there.
What's he whining about, anyway?
Shohlda took the civics exam above and called it a day...
What was his SAT score, I wonder.
I give him points for working to bring himself up to speed in his freshman year, instead of giving up. Maybe he'll make something of himself. Not that it matters, except as a philosophical point, because a black Georgetown graduate will have a ticket to be a public nuisance for the rest of his life.
Being prepared for college is a state of mind and not just having been through a proper and functional education system.
more than 40 years ago, I graduated from HS and went to college where I soon realized that as an 18 yo, I wanted to have a good time and I wasn’t getting anything out of college. Since my family was poor, I was funding my own schooling to boot.
So, I left college for several years in the Navy. The service made me grow up and 5 or 6 years later, I went back to school with a grown up attitude. I’m glad I did it this way, I did quite well after the military made me an adult.
College should not start at 18, it ought to start at 25 so that it gives the students the maturity they need to succeed.