Comments on: Damning with faint praise http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/01/07/damning-with-faint-praise/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:16:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Tim L. http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/01/07/damning-with-faint-praise/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Tim L. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:59:33 +0000 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/01/07/damning-with-faint-praise/#comment-203 I guess me need trash pick-up and ditch diggers, but damm, I don't care about if a child is giviing his or her all, our children are our future and if it takes lowering to a 3.0. so be it. People don't under stand is that WE are making the future of what we leave behind. We can't take it with us! What gets to me is giving scholarships to "anything other than whites, no matter what the income or grade. Don't get me wrong. It's giving these scholarships to person other than a white family is getting , well I will not go there. But, I will say .. We are all past that! This not the 60s. We today are " = ". I'm sick of all these programs! and mad as hell when someone gets pass over because they meet the income level, but the child is white. I guess me need trash pick-up and ditch diggers, but damm, I don’t care about if a child is giviing his or her all, our children are our future and if it takes lowering to a 3.0. so be it. People don’t under stand is that WE are making the future of what we leave behind. We can’t take it with us! What gets to me is giving scholarships to “anything other than whites, no matter what the income or grade. Don’t get me wrong. It’s giving these scholarships to person other than a white family is getting , well I will not go there. But, I will say .. We are all past that! This not the 60s. We today are ” = “.
I’m sick of all these programs! and mad as hell when someone gets pass over because they meet the income level, but the child is white.

]]> By: Cathy http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/01/07/damning-with-faint-praise/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Cathy Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:53:12 +0000 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/01/07/damning-with-faint-praise/#comment-140 Scholarships are for the exceptionally performing and the capable but financially needy. The standard should remain 3.0. "B" is what is expected from college students. "C" students are below average in college. Scholarships are for the exceptionally performing and the capable but financially needy. The standard should remain 3.0. “B” is what is expected from college students. “C” students are below average in college.

]]> By: jonathan hickman http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/01/07/damning-with-faint-praise/comment-page-1/#comment-139 jonathan hickman Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:04:49 +0000 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/01/07/damning-with-faint-praise/#comment-139 "Average" and "barely get by" are hardly the same thing. Sounds more like "encouraging mediocrity" to me. “Average” and “barely get by” are hardly the same thing.

Sounds more like “encouraging mediocrity” to me.

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