Is your first grade college ready?

[Anonymous]

Interesting article in the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/education/edlife/is-your-first-grader-college-ready.html

Not very relevant to the main topic of the article, but I liked this paragraph

By lunchtime, having rubbed the mascot Testudo’s nose for good luck (twice!) and piled their cafeteria trays with chicken fingers, fries and pizza slices, students were sold. David Oladimejij, 11, plans to attend. “At first I wanted to go to Harvard,” he said. “In the news I heard that Harvard is the best college, but I think Maryland is the best."

[Anonymous]

Sadly, very few of these kids from low income families will ever be able to finish college.

[Anonymous]

This is totally ridiculous. It took this teacher 10 years to get through college. She probably should have never gotten through, much less gotten to be a teacher.

Would you want your kid in her class? Listen to these kids parroting whatever she told them about going to college to "get a job". They barely have a clue about what middle school is, much less college. Let these kids have a childhood. Picking out a college, my foot.