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[Reggie]

If our schools are so great, why do so many foreigners (Germans and Scandanavians, for example) speak English so well while Americans very rarely speak foreign languages fluently unless their parents are immigrants and they learned it at home?

While I think most of us on here are good people and are so much better than the Korean media portrays us, most of us aren't exactly going to ever perform surgery to save someone's life or build a rocket, so let's not get carried away with bragging about our educations. I'll be the first to admit my University of Tennessee diploma isn't worth the paper it's printed on. UT is first and foremost a business and minor league sports program masquerading as an educational institution. Like everything else regarding public education in the USA, it does just enough to get by academically to justify the taxpayer money it receives.

[Fox]

[Captain Corea]

FOX gets a number of points for that last post. Reggie baited, but was out-foxed.

[beck's]

Public schools concentrate on social work, building self esteem and other feel-good programmes as in the Winnipeg lap dance. They have pretty much given up providing their students with intellectual stimulation in favour of entertainments and government subsidized breakfasts.

The bar is much too low. Students are passed from one grade to another regardless of their academic progress. This is done so that they will not be left out of their peer group and lose out on the social work confidence building public school agenda. It also makes for cheaper scheduling of classes.

The result of this is that teachers are struggling to teach those who don't give a rat's ass about their education and who have lost all respect for teachers and schools. Education has simply become just another entitlement, something to be sneered at and treated with contempt. In the schools where I sub the kids complain about the free breakfasts as in, "these muffins are like so boring everyday."

The lap dancing teachers in Winnipeg are just responding to this. They probably feel like dancing monkeys anyway so why not just go with the flow in order to stop the pain of teaching in a state system which is bankrupt both intellectually and morally. Get a few laughs from the kids, maybe score with a collegue and collect the cheque at the end of the week.

[darkjedidave]

That's a Saint Louis Rams fan for you. It's not like the team plays football anymore, so learning to dance is an interesting alternative