BF2S Forums Official Mass Shooting & Suicide Bomber thread

DesertFox- wrote:

They have to read you your rights if they want to interrogate you and use that in court.

This one will be interesting, it looks as if its only intended for there to be an exception when time is really pressing - ie seconds.

If they interrogate him for months with no rights then the lawyers will have fun with it forever.

cl4u53w1t2 wrote:

the czech ambassador to the us felt the need to point out that the czech republic and chechnya are two different countries. the terrorists' origin seems to have caused some "confusion" among us citizens

one of the most popular facebook comments i saw on a leading american news article yesterday was a woman saying "they have discovered these guys are from chech, dubai". chech, dubai? these dudes will hear anything. geography is not a strong discipline in american education

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

cl4u53w1t2 wrote:

the czech ambassador to the us felt the need to point out that the czech republic and chechnya are two different countries. the terrorists' origin seems to have caused some "confusion" among us citizens

one of the most popular facebook comments i saw on a leading american news article yesterday was a woman saying "they have discovered these guys are from chech, dubai". chech, dubai? these dudes will hear anything. geography is not a strong discipline in american education

I really hope that isn't news to you. Seems like you can learn more about geography in a week of reading about it alone than you can in an entire year of American high school geography.

My dismal school for a class only went into nations and capitals, then never quizzed the students on them in the future to see if they retained anything. The bulk of the class instead went into tolerance and multiculturalism conditioning. Sadly, I learned more about world history and geography in local history than I did in their dedicated classes.

tl;dr/c.s.b. aside, there was very little focus on retention in American public schools in the 80's/90's, and I doubt much has changed since then. They continue to churn out people who can barely tell time and count their own fingers, let alone tell you "in which part of Africa does Chechnya lay" after being given sixty seconds to think.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

cl4u53w1t2 wrote:

the czech ambassador to the us felt the need to point out that the czech republic and chechnya are two different countries. the terrorists' origin seems to have caused some "confusion" among us citizens

one of the most popular facebook comments i saw on a leading american news article yesterday was a woman saying "they have discovered these guys are from chech, dubai". chech, dubai? these dudes will hear anything. geography is not a strong discipline in american education

I really hope that isn't news to you. Seems like you can learn more about geography in a week of reading about it alone than you can in an entire year of American high school geography.

My dismal school for a class only went into nations and capitals, then never quizzed the students on them in the future to see if they retained anything. The bulk of the class instead went into tolerance and multiculturalism conditioning. Sadly, I learned more about world history and geography in local history than I did in their dedicated classes.

tl;dr/c.s.b. aside, there was very little focus on retention in American public schools in the 80's/90's, and I doubt much has changed since then. They continue to churn out people who can barely tell time and count their own fingers, let alone tell you "in which part of Africa does Chechnya lay" after being given sixty seconds to think.

the funniest thing is, is that the 'name a place on the map' and 'where is this country?' is like the absolute pre-school geography material. the study and discipline of 'geography' qua geography-as-a-school-subject has nothing to do with being able to find sri lanka on a map. that's like knowing your alphabet before you go and study literature.

sounds a lot like the asian method. learning by rote / list memorization to pass exams and look 'good'... on paper. our current education minister is trying to revamp everything, against all good advice and widespread protest, towards a system like that as well. it's very victorian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … ideologues
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … e-teachers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree … ion-policy

etc.

We were never taught geography really. A little but by the time I was in school No Child Left Behind came into effect and we had to devote as much time as we could to passing those test.

i die a little when people think geography is about capitals of obscure countries, and maps.

i do love maps though!

Cybargs wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

sounds a lot like the asian method. learning by rote / list memorization to pass exams and look 'good'... on paper. our current education minister is trying to revamp everything, against all good advice and widespread protest, towards a system like that as well. it's very victorian.

but don't you know stats r lyfe and we have to show how awesome our country is compared to asians in education? lets do it like they do and have kids spend 60 hours a week on schooling!

I like finlands education system, so laid back yet they produce good results.

finnish universities worth a damn:









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FatherTed wrote:

i die a little when people think geography is about capitals of obscure countries, and maps.

Of course it isn't, but political geography is the overwhelming focus of an underdeveloped program in American schools.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

FatherTed wrote:

i die a little when people think geography is about capitals of obscure countries, and maps.

Of course it isn't, but political geography is the overwhelming focus of an underdeveloped program in American schools.

Baby steps. It is embarassing when people can confuse Chechnya with the Czech Republic and don't even have a very basic knowledge of a map.

I recall seeing several enlightened Republicunts calling for summary executions and even more surprisingly, a drone strike on the boat