Thanks for the information Guys. I think I understand your meanings but I am still not sure that "teaching to the test" is a bad idea.
Either way, I don't think that today's kids are getting a REAL EDUCATION and I feel something more must be done AND I DON'T MEAN BY THE GOVERNMENT. It does seem to me that our education system(s) is DUMBING DOWN the students, from pre-school through College Graduate School. And don't try to blame NO CHILD LEFT BEHING because that program was instituted to try to overcome the problems in the education system that were evident and existing long before that progrom started.
I really don't understand why with all of the supposed advancements in educatiion, people are graduating from High School and College and still can't read & write and can't do simple math, such as making change at a cash register (on either side of the cash register). The education of children now starts in DAY CARE with pre-pre-pre-Kindergarten and at an early age they begin using Computer education programs which progress and advance all the way through High School and College, yet, in my opinion, a great many of the students that are graduating are DUMBER THAN ROCKS.
Not only are they not able to do reading, writing and 'rithmatic, the don't seem to be able to think and definately can't carry on a decent coversation.
I am not looking for an answer, I just wanted to vent about what I see is a big problem for our country.
Grumpy
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