To: Virginia Ridgerunner
So a GED is not acceptable anymore? A graduate of these cyber-schools should have no problem acing that test.
I got my GED in 10th grade so I could join the Navy at age 17.
3 posted on
03/08/2011 5:53:04 PM PST by
Ronin
("Dismantle the TSA and send the screeners back to Wal-Mart.")
To: Ronin
I got my GED in the 10th grade too.
But just to get the hell out of there...
5 posted on
03/08/2011 5:56:36 PM PST by
DB
To: Ronin
Would someone who never had the social skills to spend 6 hours a day in a classroom be any good in a bunker or a submarine. Maybe a nuke silo in Nebraska. Do we still have those?
7 posted on
03/08/2011 5:59:55 PM PST by
Calusa
(The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles. Quoth Bob Dylan.)
To: Ronin
The main problem I see is that in many of the cyber-schools, such as www.academicearth.org , you can simply view the videos without taking tests, doing outside reading, or doing assignments. If there were some way of showing mastery of the material, they courses might be more respectable. Otherwise it is like claiming an M.D degree by simply watching the entire run of the old E.R. and House series.
30 posted on
03/08/2011 6:27:02 PM PST by
jmcenanly
( "We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him." -Samuel)
To: Ronin
I got my GED in 10th grade so I could join the Navy at age 17. I did the same thing, except I left home at 16 joined the Navy at 17 and then got my GED.(in 1971 you could join without a GED). How things have changed.
66 posted on
03/08/2011 7:48:48 PM PST by
WesternPacific
(Deafness has its Advantages)
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