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antithesis
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Posted 1:21 am, 08/12/2024
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Funny aside, I just saw this in the JP...
Johnson said that as a whole, student-athletes in the middle schools and high schools have considerably higher grade point averages. "Sports have a super positive effect on individual students and the overall student body." Nineteen varsity teams at East Wilkes High, 19 at West Wilkes High, 18 at Wilkes Central High and 18 at North Wilkes High received team scholar-athlete awards in 2023-24 for having at least a 3.1 team grade point average (unweighted).
We all know that these kids aren't doing better because they're in sports... no, the teachers make it easier for them because they're in sports! How many of us saw kids get away with no doing homework because they had a game, or getting better grades on a test so they could still play?
And again, they're not doing the kids any favors. All they're doing is boosting their own numbers, and giving the kid an inferior education.
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antithesis
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Posted 1:14 am, 08/12/2024
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I've watched over the years, and seen the same thing... classes get easier and easier, making it so that just about everyone has an A. They all think they're geniuses, without realizing that the game has been rigged in their favor.
Then they go to college where they learn virtually nothing, and come out thinking they're even more incredible than before.
Then they get a job and it bursts their bubble. But by then its too late, the damage is done.
They're not doing the kids any favors, it's just about boosting numbers and getting funding...
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DLD
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Posted 2:06 pm, 08/11/2024
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udfred is exactly right. My grandson graduated high school an went to a school on climbing light poles. He was only in the school for three months. He knocks down over a 100 thousand today an is only 19 years old.Seeing it is believeing it.He was working up there on River road by the Lowes, but I think they have about completed that project. I hadnt talked to him about it lately. Hes got girls on his mind.
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Acumen
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Posted 12:02 pm, 08/11/2024
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The simple answer is the school system is trying to create mire republicans.
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udfred
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Posted 9:36 am, 08/11/2024
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No project requirements when I didn't graduate. It should be optional you can go to trade school and still make 6 figures 🙂
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1goddess
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Posted 9:25 am, 08/11/2024
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"These students do not even have to thumb through encyclopedias or library books they can just used their phones or the school computer."
Well obviously those "students" don't wanna even do that, thus the reduction of graduation requirements...hmmm
Hopefully there are other resources that will be used to ensure...that these "student's"...will meet the minimum of graduation standards!!!!
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browneyes53
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Posted 8:57 am, 08/11/2024
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The Wilkes County School Board continued the dumbing down of the public schools. Doing away with the requirement of a simple project to graduate? Really? In the dark ages we were required to do numerous projects. What is so difficult about identifying some plants. or writing about a local historical event? These students do not even have to thumb through encyclopedias or library books they can just used their phones or the school computer.
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