nah.....threats in canada are listening to celine dion's cd's on repeat

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Originally posted by Flec hey piggy what school do you go to? i go to thornhill secondary

I go to Unionville High School

oh really? we might be playing you guys in soccer so if unionville plays Thornhill then look for #20

sighs.....

wishes he could still play soccer without pain......damn cartilage.

Cool!

Hmm I know what would bring these test scores up, exactly what they did to me in Germany, they smacked me with a ruler. I don;t know if u gys beleive in discipline liek that but it worked for me. When Iw as 12 years old I realized why they did that to me because I sw what happened to the kids that did not have that. they were flunking n stuff and doin g really bad things like smoking already and weed. I am not saying EVERY child needs this. but It hink the troublesome could use it. Just my opnion anyway. not flaming any Highschool tas here don;t worry I am sure u are all good students.

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in canada we have laws agaisnt that :P

with our school funding, our schools can't afford rulers!

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Originally posted by E*Master Hmm I know what would bring these test scores up, exactly what they did to me in Germany, they smacked me with a ruler. I don;t know if u gys beleive in discipline liek that but it worked for me. When Iw as 12 years old I realized why they did that to me because I sw what happened to the kids that did not have that. they were flunking n stuff and doin g really bad things like smoking already and weed. I am not saying EVERY child needs this. but It hink the troublesome could use it. Just my opnion anyway. not flaming any Highschool tas here don;t worry I am sure u are all good students.

omg, if any teacher did that to me these days, i would rape him/her in the ass right there on the spot just cuz i'm evil.

sorry, couldn't pass up and opportunity to be gross and obscene

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Originally posted by torontotrance i think it is a possibility that the stats don't tell the truth. I assume that we have a decent number of people that are in canada in grade 10 that are new to speaking english or their english skills suck. You need english to succeed in life...

True, but there it is possible to be 'functionally illiterate'. That is you can read and write, but very poorly, and still get by. I write for a living. I am often hired by companies to rewrite documents that have been written originally by executives, and when I get the document you could swear it was written by a five year old. I don't pretend to be a great writer. I consider myself to posess basic english skills.

What some people pass off as passing is appaling. People who make 6 or 7 figure salaries, who are born and raised here, would fail these exams. Not because the tests are flawed or the stats are skewed, but because the people are just getting by on basic skills. Now you can argue that as long you are getting by everything is good. But do we really want to live in a society where the bare minimum is standard? God know's that worked so well for the residents of Walkerton...

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Originally posted by torontotrance errrrrr i did not make myself clear. ROFL.... there are a lot of new people to canada that are in school with weak english skills, that probably accounts for some of them. But also i wonder what the standards are for the this testing.

well...possibly. But common sense would have it that those people wouldn't write those tests, no?

then again, common sense and the canadian government don't go together...