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Don't blame the teachers! Blame the parents!! Teachers try to hold kids accountable, but when mommy and daddy complain to the principle that it's the teachers fault little johnny is failing, what do you suppose happens? That's right, teachers are forced to dumb it all down. Parents suck at parenting today, they have no expectations for their kids and allow them to do as they please. In what universe should a kid that is failing all their courses be allowed to have a cell phone. Yet, it happens everyday, and you blame the teachers, laughable.
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A few months ago, the OP posted an "essay" written by his nephew for a college class, and for which the nephew received a poor grade. The OP thought the nephew's poor grade was due to the professor's politics.
That’s right: Nearly half of America’s Class of 2016 are A students. Meanwhile, their average SAT score fell from 1,026 to 1,002 on a 1,600-point scale — suggesting that those A's on report cards might be fool's gold.
An average SAT score of 1,002? Somebody's gotta be kidding me.
Are all these people taking the SAT nowadays living brain donors or something?
You could almost wear a blindfold and merely mark random answers in your sleep and still score 1000 on the SAT.
And half these children are "A" students. Interesting.
News for you: This is not a liberal/conservative issue. What happens is that at an early point in school, certain students are selected and anointed as academic princes and princesses. They are kept in those positions, to serve the egos of teachers and administrators. They need not actually learn much of anything, except how to cram bits of information into short-term memory, for taking classroom tests.
But this doesn't work for long, comprehensive tests or those like the S.A.T., given by national agencies. These tests require solid knowledge and understanding of subjects and how to solve problems using it.
There are formulas and strategies for how to pass the SAT and other standardized tests.
As stated, my kid gets Cs (has even gotten a couple Ds) mostly and he scored in the 95th percentile on the ACT in 7th grade, making him eligible for "gifted" societies. He gets bad grades though because he doesn't turn in busy work. SATs and ACTs and others are the same as the blue above. You can take a SAT/ACT class and they will tell you what to study for 6-8 weeks and you can ace those tests rather easily.
The reason why the SAT scores are lower (and ACTs in some states that don't have a high SAT participation) is because all high schoolers in some states are required to take SAT or ACT before they graduate, even kids who have no interest in college and so don't study for those tests or take them seriously.
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