Educational Issues

» tinemarie - Fascinating

Your blog on college entrance trends was very interseting! Public schools are so test-oriented now, that this seems to be becoming our students' biggest asset! Loss of creativity is a bad thing for society.
Even though the focus was not test taking when I was in school, it was still about the GPA. I knew lots of smart kids who only took easy classes to have a good GPA. I liked to challenge myself. I ended up somewhere around 170 out of a class of about 1000. Not bad, but waaaay behind all my other "AP" and "advanced class" friends, who padded their schedules with blow-off classes. I even dropped out of National Honor Society because all anyone cared about was their transcripts and how good they looked with all their activities. I found an alternative group that really cared about doing good to take their place.
Anyways - great blog!

-- posted by tinemarie