Forbidden Donut

Additionally, requirements to pass the California High School Exit Exam have been dropped quite a lot because a bunch of Latino chicks were too dumb to meet the old ones.

It's as if the US is trying to encourage (and damn near enforce) mediocrity. And then celebrate it copiously.

This is amusing, simply because we're discussing this kind of stuff in my Government class. Falling standards due to public laziness, etc.

-dan

This thread was in trouble of being completely lame, but Andrew has won the internet with an Idiocracy reference.

http://www.doubleviking.com/videos/page0.html/8034.html

I couldn't finish that. I wanna say that it's fake as well.

A couple of minor issues... Last I checked the SAT's didn't have a pass mark... Aka, whatever you get is your score but not on a pass fail basis, and is only important in relevance to which school you are applying to. Also, if you read the actual article... Things like "But the Tories accused the Government of "fiddling" the figures." and the fact that they're talking about 11 to 14 year olds, and Ministers, and what have you... I'm pretty sure they're talking about a different test, from the UK. So, not the SATs that we all know and hate, but the Sats, in the UK... So a different test, in a different country. I think.


Bill

yeah, plus its a UK website.....

I would like it known my post pertains solely to the US, and is really just poking fun at the general decline in expectations... because upon reviewing it, it seemed ambiguous.

I smell... $5 being bet on this being called a test.

I understood it as a british news source flaming the us for it's failing education system. But the whole reason they added a new section to the damn thing was to see a rise in averages. It didn't work so I figured they were fiddling with the numbers to make us look better while the last sentence of the article says that more british students are doing poorly and they don't try to hide it.

but the article has nothing to do with america....