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Originally Posted by GGG
I don't think it is a result of public school cuts. Its a lack of accountability at the public school level. It should be okay to fail kids and the standard for passing should be higher. A good example is Mathematics, students in high school, even in advanced classes are just not taught the same level of mathematics they were in the 30's. The curiculim has been shortened. A professor at the U of S used to give his students an old test from the 30's to see who would pass. It had about a 20% success rate.
A good start would just be banning calculators from high schools. On the reading and writing side making students actually write multiple pages in high school would help. I know in university english we started with 5 paragraph essays. That was the standard they were expecting out of high schools. The standard for univeristy bound students out of high school needs to be higher.
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Do you mean accountability for the students or the schools?
In Ontario there is a very large push from the government to have high graduation rates as those are politically popular. As a result a lot of students get pushed along whether they are ready or not.