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Devious asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Didn't Romney learn that Competitiveness in schools doesn't work well from Finland?

Romney still thinks education is a competition. Finland cut the all competitiveness of their system and is thriving.

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  • 9 years ago
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    Nope he didn't learn it when his Mass school voucher plan was was a disaster either

  • 9 years ago

    Milwaukee Public Schools are up from 52% graduation rate. http://www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/dept/superintenden...

    Illinois public schools have a dropout rate of 11%. Woooo public education!

  • 9 years ago

    This is America. Not Finland.. Our educational, economic, and social systems are not by any means identical

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Education is a competition. It is used to weed out those who have what it takes to be successful to ones that don't.

    Good luck getting into medical school, law school, pharmacy school, optometry school, even a masters or PhD program, without a competitive drive.

    You need a competitive edge and passion to get to those places.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Thriving? Their economy is ready to crash. Their young people leave in droves. Yes, they do extremely well on international comparison tests.

  • d.k.
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    QUICK!!

    Name 6 Finnish scientists/businessmen/mathematicians that we've all heard of.

    Come On --- Hop to it!!

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    This isn't Finland.

  • Lan
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Doesn't matter here...we still number one in producing incompetent and lazy workers.

  • meg
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Your facts are wrong. You didn't site anything of course, because of that.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    move to finland.....

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