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Intelsys Posts: 168 Registered: 2007-11-29 New Braunfels, Tx 
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I am continually amazed at how far down the tubes the public schools have gone. Here's a little personal history to illustrate how long this decline has been in force. I hated high school. In 1970, I dropped out of my senior year and obtained my GED. In 1983, I decided I would like to go to college. By this time, the colleges were implementing entrance tests for English and College Algebra to determine if remedial training was needed. I took the algebra test with along with approximately thirty recent high school graduates. I and one other young man tested out. There were similar results with the English test; I and two other young people tested out. Neither of these subjects were something I liked in high school or did particularly well at, yet I retained enough of what I was taught that I did not need remedial training. If it was like this twenty-nine years ago, imagine how much worse it is today. 2012-05-17 10:51:57
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