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[quote=Anonymous]Because parents and businesses have over optimized the process. The SATs use to be a test of what you actually learned and retained. Now folks take prep classes and review 6weeks-months before the exam then quickly forget everything. EC’s use to show actual interest, commitment and drive. Now they are just checkboxes. Teachers use to have time to give feedback and nitpick on little things. Now they’re lucky if they can get the grading gone in a reasonable time given class size and other commitments. Kids are being pushed to take on more and more, but they aren’t really being challenged to think critically or move outside the comfort zone of what seems like the college checklist. And frankly on some level it’s not their fault. We as an American society have focused on money and productivity at all cost. Now we can see the cost.[/quote]
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