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ßöмßäяðîëя;2795269 said:
I love when my uncle (my boss) tells me I'm wrong when I know I'm right.
Sometimes you just gotta let people figure things out for themselves.



EDIT: Just saw your other post... GEEEOOOOOOD.:lol:
 

Bjerknes

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With no capital, he thinks he can create a social networking site that can compete with facebook.


He's 52.
Depends on what the main focus of the site is, along with the marketing.

Looking at how MySpace was squeezed out, I'd say facebook runs something close to a monopoly. The business plan is to get everyone hooked, and then their friends will get hooked.

Grid stands no chance. Deep down he knows it, too.
 

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you can always renew the education..make it harder for kids to pass.
In the US the public education structure is all out of whack as far as to what level kids are taught. Then add in the fact that there is no incentive or punishment available to teachers who either exceed expectations or fail to meet them and you're going to have a very mediocre core of graduates.
 

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@ aaron we have a hard education system here..tests after tests, the stupid thing is that after you finish your uni there are like 100 on a job of your field of knowledge..so eventually 1/5 of our students are going in spain or italy for agriculture (gathering strawberries, tomatos and oranges) after 16 years of school
 

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@ aaron we have a hard education system here..tests after tests, the stupid thing is that after you finish your uni there are like 100 on a job of your field of knowledge..so eventually 1/5 of our students are going in spain or italy for agriculture (gathering strawberries, tomatos and oranges) after 16 years of school
Our time in grade school to high school is spent learning how to take these dumb standardized tests instead of learning useful things. Most kids go to college and become "Business majors" or "Rec and Leisure majors" and then putter around the retail world wondering why there is so much competition for jobs.
 

Bjerknes

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In the US the public education structure is all out of whack as far as to what level kids are taught. Then add in the fact that there is no incentive or punishment available to teachers who either exceed expectations or fail to meet them and you're going to have a very mediocre core of graduates.
My mom is the hardest-working teacher I've ever seen. Her dumbass, fucktard, students at Chambersburg High wouldn't respond to anything she presented, even if it resulted in less homework in the future. All they wanted to do was get by with the least work possible. Whenever she failed someone, she received pressure from the parents and the administration to give the student a passing "C".

Lets just face it. This country is on its last legs. The kids are too concerned with bullshit, the populous is too dumbed down, the nation is going to hell. No amount of holding teachers to a "standard" is going to improve a system where there is no incentive for students to care about their own futures.

My mom left that idiocy last year. Good luck to the teachers there now, facing a bunch of clowns whose parents are either jobless or work in the fruit fields.
 

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My mom is the hardest-working teacher I've ever seen. Her dumbass, fucktard, students at Chambersburg High wouldn't respond to anything she presented, even if it resulted in less homework in the future. All they wanted to do was get by with the least work as possible. Whenever she failed someone, she received pressure from the parents and the administration to give the student a passing "C".

Lets just face it. This country is on its last legs. The kids are too concerned with bullshit, the populous is too dumbed down, the nation is going to hell. No amount of holding teachers to a "standard" is going to improve a system where there is no incentive for students to care about their own futures.

My mom left that idiocy last year. Good luck to the teachers there now, facing a bunch of clowns whose parents are either jobless or work in the fruit fields.
Yep it's a failed structure. Failed the students and failed the teachers to the point that even if they are hard working like your mother they become jaded and look at their students as poor trash and fruit pickers.
 

Bjerknes

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Yep it's a failed structure. Failed the students and failed the teachers to the point that even if they are hard working like your mother they become jaded and look at their students as poor trash and fruit pickers.
That's not how my mom looks at them. She is a bit more liberal and sympathetic. I look at them that way, just from her first-hand experience. Many of the CBurg high clowns are involved with "gangs" which aren't even that hardcore, but rather a social network for lazy motherfuckers who can't even lift a leg for futbol after school.

There is no incentive, anywhere, to work hard in this day and age. From extended unemployment benefits to student loans offered to almost anyone, with no guarantee to pay the debt back, there's nothing that encourages individuality or work ethic. Chinese children are doing arithmetic at age 6 while our students are still playing with Legos.
 

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That's not how my mom looks at them. She is a bit more liberal and sympathetic. I look at them that way, just from her first-hand experience. Many of the CBurg high clowns are involved with "gangs" which aren't even that hardcore, but rather a social network for lazy motherfuckers who can't even lift a leg for futbol after school.

There is no incentive, anywhere, to work hard in this day and age. From extended unemployment benefits to student loans offered to almost anyone, with no guarantee to pay the debt back, there's nothing that encourages individuality or work ethic. Chinese children are doing arithmetic at age 6 while our students are still playing with Legos.
Yep. Kids are screwed from the beginning.
 

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ßöмßäяðîëя;2795282 said:
With no capital, he thinks he can create a social networking site that can compete with facebook.
And he doesn't think that's an idea that a million other people have had too?
Anyone got xbox live and want to play me in fifa ?
I'll play you. Add me my usertag is: depiero
Lets just face it. This country is on its last legs. The kids are too concerned with bullshit, the populous is too dumbed down, the nation is going to hell. No amount of holding teachers to a "standard" is going to improve a system where there is no incentive for students to care about their own futures.
I think the problem is motivation. Too many poor people have reached a certain level of comfort with their lives and when offered the choice of pursuing school and working hard to make some more money or just dicking around and living off of government aid they pick the latter.

I agree with Ahnold, cut those freeloaders to the curb.
Work ethic isn't something that you're born with.
meh I don't know about that. You can't count out genetics, homes.
 

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