Just...what.

[northwind_gale]

Quote taken from Mark Slouka's essay "Dehumanized" in...Harper's Magazine? I think that's where my teacher got it...

"...even though the inability of two thirds of our college graduates to read a text and draw rational inferences could be seen as..."

AMERICA. WHAT ARE YOU TEACHING YOUR STUDENTS? IF THEY CAN'T EVEN READ SOMETHING AND GET A BASIC IDEA OF WHAT THEY'RE SAYING...

I JUST...GOD.

B/

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[pijsan.livejournal.com]

Wow.

Wow.

I just keep hearing more and more about how American education is the pits. :[
But I'm not surprised. D|

WE MUST DO SOMETHING.

...GO CRAZY, y/y?

[northwind-gale.livejournal.com]

Going crazy seems like a good thing to me.

I mean, I'm a first generation American, and I feel like a danged fool next to me mom and dad, even though they don't have my big sparkly AH-MER-I-KAN ED-YU-MA-CA-SHUN. They, at least, know what the hell they're doing.