Message #13215

[uselesslegs]

Our "tomorrow" is tech, whether we like it or not as a people.  It is the future.  Matter as fact, it's already here.  We're falling further behind with our continued robotic *business* approach in determining children's education.  I, and many other people like me, can memorize and crunch for an FCAT, it doesn't mean I learned a fuck'in thing as I forget the material a week or a month later, after I've already passed the test with flying colors.  It doesn't mean I learned to analytically or critically think...it just means I can pass the Test, the same Test that's suppose to determine whether I'm learning and growing as a student. 

The same test that says I'm ready to go out in the world or onto higher education.  Testing is ONE of the means to determine, in part, whether a child is learning or not.  To hold it as THE key component of determination is like saying our GDP being up should be the only consideration as to whether our economy is good.

All that aside...NOW mix in even MORE rungs down the ladder in education with *knowledge* that not only doesn't prepare a child for a modern tech world, but it actually disassociates them from being tomorrows tech leaders...hell...today's tech leaders.  Innovation in biology won't be found in someone who is taught to ignore how biology works. Innovation in tech won't be found in someone who is taught that everything that makes tech work, isn't real or is a lie.  When you set up opposing dynamics that say, "The advances in modern medicine don't have anything to do with our understanding of evolution and nothing else within biological medical/science explains how things work, better than evolution, but ignore it anyway and go help people!"...you aren't helping shit.