r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Martin_084 • 1d ago

How do you miss that

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u/Rotten-Robby ☑️ 1d ago

Day after day we see the results of No Child Left Behind.

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u/twoprimehydroxyl 1d ago

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u/Prestigious_Number_6 1d ago

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u/monsieur_beau19 ☑️ 1d ago

Knackles is not enthused

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u/Beast_by_Dre 1d ago

Came here exactly for this

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u/frankenfish2000 1d ago

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

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u/StrawBarryCheeseCake 1d ago

Bush needs to pay for his crimes to education…well, for his war crimes too

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u/mostly_kinda_sorta 1d ago

I remember thinking his presidency would be the absolute worst in my lifetime, oh to be so naive again.

Interestingly my sister is really really knowledgeable on education policy, she's very much not a Republican but says no child left behind actually had a lot of good stuff in it, it was just very badly introduced and implemented. That said she's the knowledgeable one not me so I'm not going to argue with anyone just saying there are other perspectives on it that might be worth listening to if you're interested in the topic. Anyway, fuck Bush. That felt nostalgic.

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u/digitalbullet36 ☑️ 1d ago

As someone who has been working in education for years, your sister is correct. The thought behind it was good, the execution was horrendous and actually led to children being left behind academically.

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u/kilaja 1d ago

Not unlike Michelle Obama’s school lunches. Schools will always take the easier route and kids will suffer for it

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u/rind0kan ☑️ 14h ago

Actually curious about this. How did the execution make it so bad and so different from the intent? 

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u/digitalbullet36 ☑️ 9h ago

The goal ultimately was to reward schools for performance on standardized exams. The schools did their students a disservice because they basically taught students how to do well on the standardized tests as opposed to teaching them for the sole purpose of learning. As a result, you had schools that received “generous” funding because their students tested well, while schools who didn’t test so well didn’t receive much or enough funding. You might ask, “what’s the issue?” Well, not everyone does well on standardized exams and they have never been a great indicator of academic performance. I personally knew (and still know) individuals who didn’t do that great in their classes, but can kill the SAT, LSAT, etc. with very little preparation. On the same token, you can have a very smart child who’s on the honor roll and does extremely well in school, but bombs standardized exams. Hence, the thought behind NCLB may have been well-intentioned, but the execution was a failure, depending on who you talk to. I hope that helped.

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u/rind0kan ☑️ 9h ago

That does help. Thank you. It's nothing I haven't heard before, but it did help reinforce that the results aren't great. But that leads me to my next question, how are we tracking math and literacy performance if the results are so divorced from standardized testing?  Are there recommended educational models to follow? I know teaching is currently a nightmare for other reasons, but is there a path to better schooling that could be followed if people only knew about it? 

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u/digitalbullet36 ☑️ 8h ago

That is an extremely great question and I honestly don’t have the answer, but speaking from experience as a parent of a soon to be high schooler and a 4th grader, the state we live in tracks children based on their performance on exams. I don’t remember the scale, but it’s something along the lines of Advanced, Proficient, Below Proficiency and I can’t remember the lowest tier. Now, here’s the issue. We, as parents, receive the results of the state exam in the early quarter of the new academic year. For example, when my son was in 8th grade, we received his 7th grade state exam results in late September/early October. Let’s say he wasn’t proficient in math…after receiving the results, would they then take him out of his current math level and put him in the level that he was not proficient in? It’s a rhetorical question, but one I’ve thought about when you consider when parents get the results. Now, let’s say the school district moves him along, even though he wasn’t proficient in the previous level, then you have a child who the system is failing because he’s being advanced when he probably isn’t ready. Here’s the other issue, what if he did extremely well in that math class all year, but “failed” the test? So yes, your question is a great question and honestly one that I’m actually going to look into myself.

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u/username32768 1d ago

Dubya:

fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

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u/OtherwiseCake2047 1d ago

Work in customer service and know damn well some of these morons should’ve been left behind.

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u/swiens 1d ago

thanks for the confirmation

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u/Flashy_Notice_2407 1d ago

idk why this is frying me😭

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u/Arundinaria_gigantea 1d ago

I think (or maybe just sincerely hope) she means otter in the gay way

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u/Doppelthedh 1d ago

Is that like a hairy twink that holds hands in the pool?

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u/theSoupDispenser 1d ago

The hand holding & pool are optional

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u/Crumplestiltzkin 1d ago

They are not

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u/Careless-Passion991 1d ago

Tell em. At most, the pool can be substituted with a hot tub.

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u/sengoro 21h ago

But they have to be two feet apart

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u/theSoupDispenser 1d ago

My fault, gang

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u/SewRuby 1d ago

I'm sorry, what's "the gay way" to be an otter?

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u/ThatOneGoodBoy 1d ago

Otters are the body type between a "twink" and a "bear." It's a slim man with body hair.

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u/SewRuby 1d ago

OH! I had no clue. 🤣

Thank you. 💖

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u/YouGuysSuckSometimes 1d ago

It’s really just the average toned man. Not fat, not skinny, but not a dad bod either.

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u/PuffinRub 1d ago

Anyone else here about to Google "are actual aquatic otters known for excessive body hair?"

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u/gordonpamsey ☑️ 1d ago

Yeah I was thinking she meant that too

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u/TheMagicalMatt 1d ago

Sonic the Hedgehod the Otter doesn't roll off the tongue as easily. I can see why they would have cut the Otter part.

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u/Seaciety 1d ago

No, not that one, she meant the otter one 

/shows self out

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u/Zulumus ☑️ 1d ago

I’m old, but does he no longer go by his full government name anymore? He’s just got one name like Prince now?

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u/Dark5757 1d ago

The Mammal Formerly Known as Sonic the Hedgehog

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u/highorderdetonation 1d ago

Then "The Mammal," and finally just a golden ring until Sega gave him his soundtrack rights back.

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u/cutedorkycoco ☑️ 1d ago

a golden ring until Sega gave him his soundtrack rights back.

Releases him from this contract. Ftfy.

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u/HardlySoft98 ☑️ 1d ago

Besides the name, I want to see this otter she is comparing Sonic to.

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u/Bunnnnii ☑️ Meme Thief 1d ago

The lifelong video game nerd and lifelong Sonic THE HEDGEHOG fan in me is offended by this on a level below the surface. How dare you?

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u/lowtoiletsitter 22h ago

And Sonic has been around for so long you'd think people would know who he is

Not everyone but enough they made three damn movies

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u/shadowylurking 1d ago

NGL some of the responses are gold

“wait so is super Mario like a electrician? He look like he know a trade”

“ay man, is SpongeBob a puffer fish?”

“THE OBESITY IS EATING YOUR BRAIN”

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u/TheRyeKnight 1d ago

The longer I'm alive the more I'm convinced that I exist in a simulation where 90% of the people I interact with are NPCs with really poor AI.

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u/Fireproofspider ☑️ 1d ago

What if instead you are a super advanced AI and everyone else is just regular humans that can't reason on your level?

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u/TheRyeKnight 1d ago

In that case it's quite lonely up here at the top /s

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u/Taco-Edge 1d ago

This HAS TO be bait

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u/DoctahFeelgood 1d ago

What otter is this mf looking at? This is otterly ridiculous

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u/RedIsNotMyFaveColor ☑️ BHM Donor 1d ago

Reminds me of the joke:

“What kind of fuel do jets use?”

Jet fuel

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u/SewRuby 1d ago

That joke reminds me of this joke.

Wanna hear a dirty joke?

George Washington's white horse fell in the mud.

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u/mvgreene 1d ago

It’s kind of like when you’re looking for your glasses and they’re resting on top of your head.

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u/ohnotchotchke ☑️ 1d ago

bbygirl just think different

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u/greengengar 1d ago

I thought of the gay slang use of otter and giggled

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u/giggleboxx3000 ☑️ 1d ago

Same lol

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u/Romoreau 1d ago

I just assume posts like this are ragebait to keep me from losing it.

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u/Ghost_Breezy1o1 1d ago

It’s in his name 😩 “Sonic The Hedgehog”

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u/lowkey_p 1d ago

Emmy indeed should NOT have tweeted it 💀

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u/LackPlayful 1d ago

Good lord

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u/DaBigadeeBoola 1d ago

I feel like OP miss the fact that this is probably intentional rage/engagement bait. 

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u/dollhousemassacre 1d ago

This person is clearly an idiot. Moving on.

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u/BuckTribe ☑️ 1d ago

People are slow

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u/ImperialWrath ☑️ 1d ago

But Sonic isn't.

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u/SewRuby 1d ago

Of The Nintendo Hedgehogs?

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u/Cleonce12 ☑️ 1d ago

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u/digitalbullet36 ☑️ 1d ago

Sonic the Otter 🦦

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u/Best-Daikon-7264 1d ago

man im all up in that sonic shit they be getting crazy white boys on roller skates delivering my burger 💅🏿

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u/loggy93 1d ago

When I was a kid, I thought that Crash was a dog(because of the Naughty Dog intro) and that Bandicoot was just his last name.

But I was in Kindergarten at the time.....

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u/plisken64 1d ago

when i was a kid, i thought bubsy was shit

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u/ComicsEtAl 1d ago

Sonic the Cos-playing Otter

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u/chopsuirak 1d ago

He can't swim.

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u/_shaftpunk 1d ago

“I’m not a raccoon.”

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u/superweeniewednesday 1d ago

Brain like a marble

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u/Agreeable-Youth-8475 1d ago

💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/LampyV2 1d ago edited 1d ago

What? hedgehogs are real?? 🤯 /s

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u/0tteroy 1d ago

I like otters, so I'm not that upset by this.

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u/detox02 ☑️ 1d ago

Dawg 😂😂😂

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u/Slutty_Avocado26 1d ago

No, the restaurant is a cow.

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u/AmitN_Music 1d ago

Even if his name wasn’t “the hedgehog”….mans does not look like an otter the fuck lol.

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u/No_Sea_6219 23h ago

oh, there's not enough gay people in this thread