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Jan 13, 2006 22:20

everyone should turn on ABC and watch this 20/20 special called "Stupid in America"

It's.. heartwrentching.

I want to move SO badly.

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superstitions__ January 14 2006, 03:39:58 UTC
Thank you for posting this.

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dizzyflower January 14 2006, 03:41:09 UTC
i am just sorry i posted it so late; it started at 10.

but man.. it astounding.. but not TOO surprising, sadly.

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5p3nc312 January 14 2006, 03:44:51 UTC
lol take me with you!

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dizzyflower January 14 2006, 03:47:10 UTC
seriously concidering belgium or canada or something

::sighs:: i hate HATE america.

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changed_4good January 14 2006, 06:22:03 UTC
Belgium? What is this Belgium talk?
COME TO CANADA!
Seroiusly, come to Toronto sometime, let us show yuo around :D

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dizzyflower January 14 2006, 11:52:14 UTC
I seriously will. As soon as I get a job going and have some extra money. Probably by this summer!

How's the school system up there? More than likely a LOT better than it is here.

As that show was saying, other countries treat the schools like a business. Like the U.S., a kid is anoted with a certain amount of money. Well, they say "It's 10,000$ a year per student", whatever that means. I certainly don't know where that money goes. But in other countries, it FOLLOWS the student and the student/parents get to PICK which school thier child goes to, instead of getting shipped to one like in the U.S. - thus making each of the schools/teachers/principals work harder so that you'll want your kid to go to thier school, or they'll have to shut down.

i think that is brilliant, and it onviously works, but govenors have tried to get it going here in the states, but the teacher's union and others protest it and it never can get through.

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gotti_sis42 January 14 2006, 04:25:08 UTC
Hey I saw you comment on trxgedy"'s journal..

Add me? ♥

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dizzyflower January 14 2006, 11:39:28 UTC
Hey, definately!

I see you live in the Philippines?? My Fiancee' is Filippino and was adopted from there =)

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gotti_sis42 January 14 2006, 11:43:29 UTC
Haha yeah I do, but I was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. hehehe :) but thats pretty cool! ♥

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dizzyflower January 14 2006, 11:53:05 UTC
Oh wow. That's awesome!

I'd love to talk to you on AIM some time

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newjerseyreject January 14 2006, 04:35:15 UTC
Didn't catch the special..what was it regarding?

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dizzyflower January 14 2006, 11:40:46 UTC
How American schools/education is SO much worse and SO far behind than other countries. And it showed how ignorant everyone is about it.

It's SO bad. I am going to try to find a copy of it and i'll burn you one if i do.

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gotti_sis42 January 14 2006, 11:44:18 UTC
Actually, I'm not saying this to offend anyone, but the schooling here in the Philippines is MUCH harder than the schooling in the States. Thats why I transferred here in 2004.

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dizzyflower January 14 2006, 11:55:52 UTC
You're SO very lucky to have had that oppertunity. I can't stand it here and I fear for my child's LIFE. He'll he 1 years old in July, and I want to be out of here [the US] by the time he turns 5 so that he doesn't have to attend school here.

Now we just have to decide where to go!!

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westbanjo09 January 14 2006, 04:45:01 UTC
the corrupt school system we have.

yeah, mom and i watched it together. coming from russia, my moms really dissapointed in school systems here. shes actually a tacher in 6th grade at FGMS. it seems like shes the only taeaching them everyday.. she has discipline in her class, her classes have the highest scores in the school, yet she teaches regular kids, not even the gifted, etc. shes applying stuff from when she was a techer from back in her country and really trying to make these kids learn. and seeing the teachers around her and my teachers just makes her want to cry, to see how all these potential kids could be doctors, lawyers, u name it, yet no one is supporting them. no one cares. its scary.

hope this didnt offend anyone =/

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dizzyflower January 14 2006, 11:43:49 UTC
It certaily didn't offend me.

I feel totally jipped. I feel like I could have occomplished so much more and had so much more intellect had I NOT participated in American schooling and lived somewhere else. It isn't fair. Kids in Europe excel so much further, faster, than us, graduate at age 15/16, then go right on to college. And here, we graduate at 18 [well, SOME of us do. Most don't graduate at all] and them MAYBE we'll go on to college, but more than likely not.

If it weren't for my family, I would have moved out of the US already. I am so sick of this country.

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