On 2/13/2012 4:08 PM, Han wrote:
Keith wrote in news:jhbpcv$hh3$1
@speranza.aioe.org:

On 2/13/2012 12:21 PM, Swingman wrote:
gs have changed since a ninth grade in 1957.


But they now graduate (at least those the graduate) have good self esteem

English is my second language, can you please explain more clearly? I
really prefer Dutch, but that may be too much to ask ...



I worded it so poorly. I forget sometime that these groups are
international and sarcasm does not translate well from one language to
the other, sometimes not even from American to British.

This was a comment on a previous post about graduating from school.

Self esteem = "having a good opinion of yourself"

Many schools and teachers in America feel that it is more important for
the student to have a good opinion of themselves than to know subjects
like Math, history, language, etc.

Hence they pass students on to the next grade when they have not learned
the subjects in their current grade. (Should have failed and been
required to retake the courses.) In these cases even though they
graduate from high school or college, the only thing they have when they
graduate is that they think highly of themselves but have no knowledge
of the subject matter they were suppose to have learned.