Define 'Failing.'

[jackofallgeeks]

In short, I do think that the American educational system is failing, though all I have is empirical evidence, not numbers like in this article.

And numbers, especially statistics, never lie.</sarcasm>

Reading through it, though, I get a distinct feeling of some kind of bait-and-switch, smoke-and-mirrors argument that the schools aren't failing, despite the masses of people in America that can't recount pertinent history, use propper grammar, or even really be bothered to care about things like 'learning' and 'knowledge.'

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[dikaiosunh.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, on all counts.

Incidentally, lest you think I'm an idiot, the * was originally supposed to go to a note that I was joking about Cleveland being the first president...

[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

-laughs- I'm well aware. We all know it was Thomas Jefferson.