Trinikid - You Have To Watch This

[seabeyond]

it is long. but, i think very good.

[reusrename]

1. Shades of Jerry Farber in that one.

I love this kind of stuff.

[Warpy]

2. Yep, he's got part of it right

Having one's life determined by numerical test scores is ridiculous. Some people, like me, are very good at tests. Other people freeze, people who might have learned even more than I did. I've been infuriated by that stuff all my life. Other people didn't learn a thing in school since they forgot it five minutes after the ink was dry on the tests but their intelligence lies in their hands, in music, in simple appreciation of what is real.

However, out of the jumble of useless factoids and idiotic, jingoistic white man's history classes, I've found many things I'd dismissed as utterly useless when I was a teenager becoming useful later on because they provide cultural reference points. And that is what I'd tell a kid who'd seen through the jingoism, racism and sexism and pronounced the whole thing useless. I'd also provide a copy of "Lies My Teacher Told Me" to start that kid on a journey of real learning.

[fasttense]

3. He's right about tests not measuring your real abilities.

Tests don't teach anything except how to take tests and how to cheat.

Most kids have cheated at least once on a test by the time they are out of High School.

But grading your education based on what job you end up getting is also a bad way of evaluating your education.

The capitalist economic system is all about cheating, lying, being cruel, manipulating and conning. So I guess learning to cheat on tests does prepare you for a job.

[MrMickeysMom]

4. I connected to Trinikid as a member of the class of 71...

I under-achieved in a high school curriculum that didn't require too much of me as a somewhat aloof kid who felt uncomfortable around all those "achievers". I took the long way to my career path, supported by jobs that allowed a pay as I went system. Now, there are FAR less career paths from which to support oneself on the way to self-reliance… That sucks for this generation.

A few years ago I ran into some of the high society "achievers" at my 40th HS reunion. I discovered my coming of age after high school and the achievers who had more advantages over me in that they went right on to college wasn't too much different. The ones who went on and on about high school memories has VERY LITTLE to say about what went on AFTER high school.

What the hell have we done to clear a path for this generation coming of age? That's the part I wished I had discussed during the reunion, but no one seemed too concerned.