Community Colleges and Remedial needs

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Ummmm, yes. But think about the way children learned in the past.
No, of course I do not have first hand experience, but I read Little Women, the Anne (of Green Gables) series, the Little House series, the What Katy Did series.

Things in the good old days were learned by repetition.
This does not equate understanding.
Exams were couched in terms that reflected learning.
Times and dates and places were important, yes.
So the old crusties that write comments now think children are SO ignorant. But mostly, if you asked them questions relevant to today, the fogies wear their ignorance with pride.

"No child left behind" should mean that all children are educated regardless of what their parents earn. There are enough things compromising the sobriquet "Land of the free and the home of the brave" without making reading and writing income dependent. Even my parents' newspaper stops short of the idea that poor children should be shoved up chimneys - but only just - they simply use Sir Alan Sugar (like an English Donald Trump) as a reason why everyone should be millionaires without any Govt funding.

Odd, when they're pulling down paltry journo salaries.
If it was possible for everyone to do everything and get paid top dolllars, how come they still have a job?!

FTR - if Jamie is right and the system is failing nearly 50% of children, then it needs to be fixed. Even given a margin of error we should know better by now. That's the issue. It's not WORSE (as Labour claimed under the Tories; as the Tories caimed under Labour) we just have more tests now.

I had a first class education at two state schools.
Didn't get me anywhere.
But I got a love of learning.