[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;28214445]do you know about black parents?[/QUOTE]
no which is why you won't see me make generalized statements about them
the FCAT is a load of shit anyways.
[QUOTE=thisispain;28217388]no which is why you won't see me make generalized statements about them[/QUOTE]
It's a well documented problem, there's news articles every week or so in Philadelphia alone about the teen dropout and failing rates, with a large majority being black and hispanics.
[QUOTE=LazyBoy;28217437]the FCAT is a load of shit anyways.[/QUOTE]
THANK YOU!
It's not like it was hard anyways, I mean really you gotta have a desire to fail if you can't pass that shit.
[QUOTE=Trumple;28210817]How ironic.
:irony:[/QUOTE]
Too bad that's spelling not grammar
FCAT in a month, fucking great.
Is that a man, a woman, or both?
i was expecting something borderline pornographic
jesus christ what has the internet done to me
No one honked.
[QUOTE=OZPruduction;28210417]"Baddest parent in the world"
Nice grammer...[/QUOTE]
Why must someone [i]always[/i] point out the slightest damn spelling mistake?
well that sucks
My mother saw that and posted this in response on her Facebook:
"On the radio this morning - all these parents complaining about their teenage kids, talking about how their kids drive them crazy. I can't believe how much they want to blame the kids! The parents are the problem. I love spending time with my daughter. She is a delight! Parents, create your own lives and create good relationships with your children! It's up to you!"
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;28213908]"I'm probably the baddest parent in the world right now"
Quite the opposite, lady.[/QUOTE]
She is the goodest parent in the world. :downs:
I hope his mother turns him into something, rather than an uneducated problem.
[QUOTE=God's Pimp Hand;28211879]Well at least she gives a shit about her son's education. A lot of black parents don't in America.[/QUOTE]
I think it's not that the parents don't care, it's probably the kids just disobey. Especially if your a young African American living in a "ghetto" where you are kind of expected to be ghetto unless then you get called "whitewashed" if you act out of the norm. So, you can't really put all the blame on the parents but more on the kids themselves.
i thought this was going to be in some fucked up country but no it was just black people
There are good and bad parents in all racial and ethnic groups. There are parents who care, and parents who don't. Sometimes that worry about a child's future is expressed in an over the top way, however I see no evidence from anywhere that this happens more often in one ethnic or racial group than another.
[QUOTE=verynicelady;28229968]There are good and bad parents in all racial and ethnic groups. There are parents who care, and parents who don't. Sometimes that worry about a child's future is expressed in an over the top way, however I see no evidence from anywhere that this happens more often in one ethnic or racial group than another.[/QUOTE]
I think it mostly depends on where you grow up, and what influence the society has on you. So generally people who live in "ghettos" tend to not give a fuck, because basically, they hang around with the wrong people, so it doesn't really matter how strict the parents are.
[QUOTE=ConvolutedLogic;28226588]My mother saw that and posted this in response on her Facebook:
"On the radio this morning - all these parents complaining about their teenage kids, talking about how their kids drive them crazy. I can't believe how much they want to blame the kids! The parents are the problem. I love spending time with my daughter. She is a delight! Parents, create your own lives and create good relationships with your children! It's up to you!"[/QUOTE]
Wait, why do I see you having 0 posts?
[QUOTE=Bathacker;28216124]Pretty much this. I grew up with the FCAT, and I can tell you that it really is horrible. They don't test how smart you are, or how well you're doing. You get the best grades if you do average. I never got good grades on the FCAT even though I did really well in school. It was especially weird because pretty much all the schools teach you is the shit that's going to be on the FCAT. It wasn't until we had a substitute teacher who happened to be an FCAT grader that we learned how to score any points at all.
They test how average you are. You aren't graded against the right answers, you're graded against the answers that a test group of students your age got. So if the correct answer is A, and most students picked C, picking A is actually counted as a WRONG ANSWER. Luckily the questions aren't that difficult so for the most part the two answers are the same, but it's still a retarded way to grade. Also, if you're ever writing an essay for the FCAT, there are things that they look for you to get wrong. Up until the 7th grade, if you fail to include some form of "This essay is about ______" and "I hope you enjoyed reading this essay" you can lose up to a full point (out of 5) from your overall grade because that's average for elementary school students.
I didn't just take this guy's word for it, either. Next time I had to take the FCAT, I deliberately picked some answers that I knew weren't right but figured that most students would have chosen. I also wrote my essay much more lackadaisically in the writing portion. Best FCAT score I ever got. They gave me a fucking certificate for it.[/QUOTE]
What the flying fuck? That is a HORRIBLE way of grading someone, Christ!
Also, the lady should teach her kid WHY he needs an education, not forcing him to do it through shame. It's the same reasoning behind why violence is inefficient, or why I support an anarchistic community instead of laws passed by an isolated government. If the citizens don't know why the law is correct (assuming they are which is very debatable, and this is another good point for anarchy, as more ideas = greater chance of passing the right law) they will commit crimes, especially if they have no say in the law-creating process.
[QUOTE=BigOwl;28211945]That is racist. :downs:[/QUOTE]
No, actually it isn't he isn't acting upon his prejudice.
[QUOTE=Bathacker;28216124]Pretty much this. I grew up with the FCAT, and I can tell you that it really is horrible. They don't test how smart you are, or how well you're doing. You get the best grades if you do average. I never got good grades on the FCAT even though I did really well in school. It was especially weird because pretty much all the schools teach you is the shit that's going to be on the FCAT. It wasn't until we had a substitute teacher who happened to be an FCAT grader that we learned how to score any points at all.
They test how average you are. You aren't graded against the right answers, you're graded against the answers that a test group of students your age got. So if the correct answer is A, and most students picked C, picking A is actually counted as a WRONG ANSWER. Luckily the questions aren't that difficult so for the most part the two answers are the same, but it's still a retarded way to grade. Also, if you're ever writing an essay for the FCAT, there are things that they look for you to get wrong. Up until the 7th grade, if you fail to include some form of "This essay is about ______" and "I hope you enjoyed reading this essay" you can lose up to a full point (out of 5) from your overall grade because that's average for elementary school students.
I didn't just take this guy's word for it, either. Next time I had to take the FCAT, I deliberately picked some answers that I knew weren't right but figured that most students would have chosen. I also wrote my essay much more lackadaisically in the writing portion. Best FCAT score I ever got. They gave me a fucking certificate for it.[/QUOTE]
Well shit, I always thought I was smart, and that the FCAT was just a really easy test. Although I always did really well in regular school too.
Uptown Tampa isn't like Compton, but it's not a great place.
[QUOTE=God's Pimp Hand;28211879]Well at least she gives a shit about her son's education. A lot of black parents don't in America.
[highlight](User was banned for this post ("Trolling or dumb" - verynicelady))[/highlight][/QUOTE]
How is this racist? Different races have different cultural tendancies, just like a lot of Asian parents are strict as fuck. Not all Asian parents, not even most Asian parents, but a lot. Not all black parents don't care about their kid's education, not even most black parents, but a lot don't. It's about as racist as saying a lot of indian families are hindu, not racist at all. But fucking hell people get touchy about race.
Because it's irrelevant to add the black part unless you're assuming that there are more black uncaring parents.
Then again, if it's true, then it's cultural, not racial.
[QUOTE=Bathacker;28216124]Pretty much this. I grew up with the FCAT, and I can tell you that it really is horrible. They don't test how smart you are, or how well you're doing. You get the best grades if you do average. I never got good grades on the FCAT even though I did really well in school. It was especially weird because pretty much all the schools teach you is the shit that's going to be on the FCAT. It wasn't until we had a substitute teacher who happened to be an FCAT grader that we learned how to score any points at all.
They test how average you are. You aren't graded against the right answers, you're graded against the answers that a test group of students your age got. So if the correct answer is A, and most students picked C, picking A is actually counted as a WRONG ANSWER. Luckily the questions aren't that difficult so for the most part the two answers are the same, but it's still a retarded way to grade. Also, if you're ever writing an essay for the FCAT, there are things that they look for you to get wrong. Up until the 7th grade, if you fail to include some form of "This essay is about ______" and "I hope you enjoyed reading this essay" you can lose up to a full point (out of 5) from your overall grade because that's average for elementary school students.
I didn't just take this guy's word for it, either. Next time I had to take the FCAT, I deliberately picked some answers that I knew weren't right but figured that most students would have chosen. I also wrote my essay much more lackadaisically in the writing portion. Best FCAT score I ever got. They gave me a fucking certificate for it.[/QUOTE]
Wow. I am going to be taking the FCAT writes soon, and I know exactly where you're coming from. I actually feel like they have tried to make me water down my essays since 7th grade. Writing is my best skill and my 7th grade teacher would always give me high scores on my essays, but then I went into the 8th grade and I feel like I'm back in 3rd! It's ridiculous, they give us these fucking idiotic cookie cutter transitional phrases/words (To illustrate me next point, on the other side, etc. etc.).
My school paid a "company" to grade our essays based off the FCAT Writes rubric and while in 4th grade I recieved a 6 out of 6, now according to them I was receiving a 3.5 at best. We're also [I]forced[/I] to use anecdotes which can be [B]fucking made up, as well as statistics![/B] I'm glad there's other users on these forums who dislike the standardized tests and I didn't know about the "score better by being average" thing. I always shot for the best answers (getting high scores too) even though I'm in Honors level courses.
that women is retarded
[QUOTE=porn;28266401]that women is retarded[/QUOTE]
As is your sense of grammar.
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;28267708]As is your sense of grammar.[/QUOTE] Oh i'm sorry I didn't bother to capitalize it or add a period because I didn't feel like it you fucking retard.
Thats why i have a 4.0!
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