Re: Runaway Global Warming Possible!

From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:22:59 +0000 (UTC)

Joshua Halpern (vze23qvd@verizon.net) wrote:
: Eric Chomko wrote:
: > Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal@org.trash) wrote:
: > : On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:18:41 +0000 (UTC), in a place far, far away,
: > : echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu (Eric Chomko) made the phosphor on my
: > : monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
: >
: > : >: "Eric Chomko" <echomko_at_@polaris.umuc.edu> wrote
: > : >: > Perhaps, but our primary education system is second to none.
: > : >
: > : >: The American systemof primary education ranks at the bottom of the heap
: > : >: compared to the civilized world.
: > : >
: > : >: Every study on education quality confirms this.
: > : >
: > : >Please provide a reference to this. You do realize that "primary" is
: > : >college and "secondary is "K-12", right.
: >
: > : You're probably one of the few people who "realizes" that, since it's
: > : wrong (as usual for you).
: >
: > : "Primary" education refers to elementary school, also known as "grade
: > : school." Secondary education is high school.
: >
: > See this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_education
: >
: > I lived in West Germany 8 of my first 18 years. I never recalled, even in
: > American schools abroad, the term "primary education".

: In Germany, they call it Primarstufe, and it is pretty much Grundschule
: (grades 1-6), and yes there is a Sekondarstufe which is pretty much
: academic HS and vocational schools.

: http://www.bildung-brandenburg.de/bbs/schule/faecher/stufen.htm

: for examples of curricula in Brandenburg, although you could find
: similar for all German states.

I went to a German kindergarten in Partenkirchen (Garmisch) and Frankfurt
American High School. Hadn't heard the terms "primary" and "secondary"
used at those times.

This is like when someone berated me for not knowing "civics". "Say
what?!" Civics. Heck I had to look that up and the closest thing I recall
was "Social Studies", though it seem quite broader.

Eric

: josh halpern

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