82 percent of US schools may be labeled 'failing'

[grumbler]

Since no one is going to mention the elephant as usual, I'm going to go ahead and say it:

This is what you get when you integrate the Negro Community into your schools.

  Uh, okay, Crunchy.  Whatever you say.  You are seeing elephants of what color?

[Slargos]

Since no one is going to mention the elephant as usual, I'm going to go ahead and say it:

This is what you get when you integrate the Negro Community into your schools.

  Uh, okay, Crunchy.  Whatever you say.  You are seeing elephants of what color?

It's a figure of speech. You will be unfamiliar with this concept, and I doubt it is possible to possess the eloquence to explain it to you. Go back to your den, you freak of nature.

[grumbler]

Seems like you implied it.  Either that or you posted your response to the wrong person.

No, I didn't imply that this was your position, but I may have mocked your simplistic approach to a complex problem.

[grumbler]

It's a figure of speech. You will be unfamiliar with this concept, and I doubt it is possible to possess the eloquence to explain it to you. Go back to your den, you freak of nature.

Which is the figure of speech:  the "elephant", the "Negro community," or "you"?

I am aware that you lack the both the wits and the language skills to explain yourself.  My questions to you are to mock your positions, not to try to extract a series of grunts that is somehow actually intelligible to the rest of us.

In other words, I know it is a schtick, so am playing along.

[The Brain]

There is no elephant in the room. Believe me I have looked for it.

[KRonn]

There is no elephant in the room. Believe me I have looked for it.

They often hide under couch cushions, looking for loose change... sneaky critters.

[garbon]

Since no one is going to mention the elephant as usual, I'm going to go ahead and say it:

This is what you get when you integrate the Negro Community into your schools.

When do you think schools were integrated? The 2000s?

[derspiess]

Seems like you implied it.  Either that or you posted your response to the wrong person.

No, I didn't imply that this was your position, but I may have mocked your simplistic approach to a complex problem.

What do you want-- a position paper?

[Slargos]

It's a figure of speech. You will be unfamiliar with this concept, and I doubt it is possible to possess the eloquence to explain it to you. Go back to your den, you freak of nature.

Which is the figure of speech:  the "elephant", the "Negro community," or "you"?

I am aware that you lack the both the wits and the language skills to explain yourself.  My questions to you are to mock your positions, not to try to extract a series of grunts that is somehow actually intelligible to the rest of us.

In other words, I know it is a schtick, so am playing along.

The only way to win is not to play.

[Ed Anger]

[Slargos]

Hey, Statistics don't lie. At least not more than 38% of the time.

[dps]

If 82% of American schools are labelled as failing, the other 18% must be mis-labelled.

OK, that's not literally true, but I suspect that less than 18% of our schools are truly doing a good job educating their students.  OTOH, I think that for the most part, the reason many students fail to learn what the schools are supposed to be teaching them is that the students don't want to learn, and their parents don't care enough to make sure that they do.

[Admiral Yi]

If 82% of American schools are labelled as failing, the other 18% must be mis-labelled.

OK, that's not literally true, but I suspect that less than 18% of our schools are truly doing a good job educating their students.  OTOH, I think that for the most part, the reason many students fail to learn what the schools are supposed to be teaching them is that the students don't want to learn, and their parents don't care enough to make sure that they do.

I think it just means that 18% of schools have 100% of their students meeting the No Child Left Behind standards.  I.e., not necessarily Mensa material.

[Razgovory]

Since no one is going to mention the elephant as usual, I'm going to go ahead and say it:

This is what you get when you integrate the Negro Community into your schools.

Yes, but we only have so many Negroes.  It's not practical to bus smart African American students all the way to cousin fucking towns in Alaska or Montana.  They are already carrying 18% of the schools (despite being only 10% of the public).  I don't think it's fair to ask that much more from them.

[derspiess]

Could we just pick a number for the % of kids we're okay with being left behind?  Schools in my local district are hitting about 95% proficiency overall, and I think that is about as good as you're gonna get without cooking the books somehow.

Education is one case where I seriously wish we were more like Europe.