Here's the view of someone who actully *goes* to public school: It Fails.<br>I have 3 AP classes, 1 science, and 2 required classes. I can (hopefully) give an unbias view of the education system.<br><br>First of all, half of the people in public schools (at least where i live) aren't really motivated at all and for financial reasons, counsolers *Recommend* them to take PE and "bussy work" classes where they can get a higher score instead of a slightly challenging classes. My AP History class got cancled 2 weeks into the year because they needed the seats for a bussy work class. (I origionally signed up for 6 AP classes, but, Surprise! not enough funding for 6 AP classes at school, but their seems to be enough funding for 18 Gym classes every day.)
<br><br>The computer classes are Extremely simple (*point* *click* *done). HTML, is teached threw DreamWeaver-the students never learn the HTML itself. Same thing with programming which is taught on VB. No A++ exists. I'm schedured for an "Introduction to Technology" class next semester. Do you think i need to learn about Spywear?
<br><br>Ugh, i'll just stop here and sum it up this way: School doesn't challenge the elite, and it doesn't push the unmotivated.<br><br>Also, OOo would be great at school, but, OOo needs more development. I was trying to do my Stats homework last week on OOo and found that the 4 step way of making a Histogram on Excel is Much faster and easier OOo.
<br><br>btw, KCTC has dual boot PCs with Linux and XP on them, but, the majority of people I know that goes to KCTC for computers dont know a thing besides *point* and *click*.<br><br>:-/<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">
On 9/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ron Lauzon</b> <<a href="mailto:rlauzon@gmail.com">rlauzon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Benjamin Eavey wrote:<br>> Then again, do you know how cheap those products are for schools to<br>> purchase? Microsoft practically gives them away. Still, every little<br>> bit would help...<br>><br><br>Actually, that's not true. While they get a "deal", they still pay more
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