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Originally Posted by Sinestra

unfortunately this is becoming more and more standard. The American educational system along with many other areas needs to be revamp badly. I dont know what happen but the kids i see today do not learn nearly as much as my generation or the ones before mine did. American kids are falling behind many other industrialized countries in two important categories Math and Science. Also, the drop out rate has started to climb and the amount of patents issued has declined. Its very worrisome that people arent even being creative anymore.

I personally blame it on stuff like NCLB. They're more concerned and focused on students passing their end of the year standardized test as opposed to them learning and retaining the actual material.