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   From: grammatim@worldnet.att.net   
      
   mjoann wrote:   
   >   
   > Bob wrote:   
   > > "Rosskolnikov"  wrote in message   
   > > news:Xebjf.2213$YT3.1160@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...   
   > >>Not an O'Reilly fan, but Ward Churchill is an absolute nut.  The quality   
   > >>of his "scholarship" is exceptionally poor.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > He's just another example of the extremely poor education that is being   
   > > offered to today's students. How he was allowed to teach is beyond all   
   > > explanation. Just another wacko milking today's society without any   
   > > conscience .   
   > > Bob   
   >   
   > The state of education in the United States is horrifying. My city sent   
   > out a newsletter about the great schools (that I pay huge property taxes   
   > to support!) 20% of the 2005 students were valedictorians of their   
   > class,   
      
   Your "city" is so tiny that each class has only five students? (There's   
   only one valedictorian per class.)   
      
   > and the school was using that as proof that the millions of   
   > dollars of levies were "worth it". To me, that isn't proof that the   
   > school is great, it is proof that they have serious grade inflation and   
   > that those straight A's don't mean a thing. It takes the top 2% of IQ to   
   > get into MENSA, yet supposedly 20% of my city's seniors had perfect   
      
   Mensa is ridiculous. A place for geeks to congregate before there was   
   fantasy gaming.   
      
   > grades. I feel sorry for the 1 or 2 students who truly were outstanding,   
   > because their honor was degraded when other students were given A's they   
   > didn't deserve.   
   >   
   > Anyway, my point is, even undeserving people make it through the system   
   > because no liberal wants to see a kid get less than an A. I know darn   
   > well, that 20% of that class was not geniuses! And I know darn well that   
      
   But 80% was?   
      
   > morons like ward churchill and the kiddies that like him are pushed   
   > through a system that prefers high passing numbers to true academics.   
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