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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]They got a much better education back then - much more content and rigor. But then things went downhill, and for the last couple of decades, the content a student was exposed to by 8th grade has been nowhere near what it was back then. Common Core is trying to raise the bar again.[/quote]

There was a totally different culture in the US back then.  My parents who are in their 90's were part of this.  They had very, very strict families (single parent was shameful back then) and recited many things in school.  It was stand and recite or answer or be humiliated.  The schools were allowed to give corporal punishment.  Parents gave corporal punishment.  People were much more likely to grow up in small towns (less urbanization) where they were much less anonymous.  Reputations mattered.  There was no Special Education or learning disabilities or emotional disturbance, etc.  If you had those problems you were pretty much hidden at home or in an institution.  Life was harder in many ways and people didn't have a computer or a calculator.  Those kids were pretty much responding to their environment just like kids do now.  The standards were not and are not the major drivers of achievement.

And I don't agree that the content that a student was exposed to has been "nowhere near what it was back then".  There is far more content to be exposed to now and students are exposed to a heck of a lot through technology.  They only had a few books back then.   Exposure to content is more now.  [/quote]

Our schools have grown softer, but the demands for graduates with knowledge have gone the opposite direction - they have only INCREASED since then, and continue to increase geometrically.  Nowadays, someone with an 8th grade education is virtually unemployable for anything other than minimum wage manual labor - jobs that we hire Mexicans for.

Forget that Pulitzer prize winning gig that your great uncle or whoever that was.  That doesn't exist anymore, that doesn't happen anymore, and won't ever happen again.[/quote]

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