On: Small Learning Communities

J: it's because they're trying to raise all their test scores so they don't get ridiculed for being dumb shits and thus introduce all this bogus teaching shit that hasn't been proven or works but only in schools with completely different demographics
R: I just don't get how any of it is supposed to raise test scores
J: It doesn't which is why it isn't working. haha.
R: but what's the theory behind it?
R: "In fact, smaller learning environments positively affect grades, test scores, attendance rates, graduation rates, drug and alcohol use, and school safety. Moreover, smaller, more personalized learning structures seem to provide the setting for other high school reforms, perhaps because change is easier to implement in a smaller setting."
R: ... so what?
R: I can see how that MIGHT make sense for really big schools
R: but they're talking about schools with more than 1000 kids, and we barely ever have graduating classes top 200
J: OOPS
R: it doesn't make sense...
R: what they're saying is BLAHBLAHBLAH SMALLER, INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION
R: but we GET THAT already
R: PS - the attendance, drug use and "school safety" thing is all bullshit
J: uh huh.
R: you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who DOESN'T do drugs
J: like, i understand it would be better if more kids graduate
J: but it's not the school infrastructure that's the problem
R: most kids don't graduate because they drop out
J: it's the poverty levels, it's the crime rate, it's the drug circuits- it's outside influence that forces these kids to lose interest
R: it's fucking Sullivan County.
R: Everything here is going to shit
R: there are no jobs
R: no businesses can stay open for more than a year
R: gas prices are up
R: poverty is WAY up
J: yeah, Wurtsboro's a ghost town
R: kids are dropping out to work, which they can't find, so they're doing drugs and trying to make money illegally and going to prison or getting killed
R: maybe if somebody noticed that and GAVE a shit


If I ever felt something was a worthy cause, I think it's only right that it would be home.