Oh My God, I cannot believe that they can be this stupid.

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thread starter Mageman22 Feb 16 2010 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Entering rant... So, In California you have to take the CAHSEE (California High School Exit exam), and pass, to get a high school diploma. So since so many people, surprisingly fail this test, my school district thinks its a great idea to stop normal curriculum for two days and "practice". So when my English teacher gave me the test I saw the essay we had to do: Basically, you have to write a persuasive essay for your newspaper where you convince readers of the importance of taking action to decrease energy usage. The rubric says to "State your position and support it with specific details, reasons, anecdotes, and examples." OK there's at least 2 things wrong with that: In the prompt it does not give you a choice to "state your position". Automatically, the prompt tells you that you are for reducing energy usage. How is it a persuasive essay when we are forced to take a side? Also, we are supposed to magically KNOW EVERYTHING about reducing energy usage and we are supposed to have already MEMORIZED "specific details, reasons, anecdotes, and examples." I MEAN WTF? No wonder the State is broke. It is full of idiots like the people who made up this essay. UGH END RANT!

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TheSundayBest 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Even the stupid people in my school passes that.. your school must be double stupid of our stupid. That is so stupid..

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Mageman22 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] TheSundayBest : Even the stupid people in my school passes that.. your school must be double stupid of our stupid. That is so stupid.. [/quote] My school is 65% Hispanic, most of which are immigrants from Latin America so they don't know much English. It isn't surprising that many people don't pass.

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MattHeafy 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Yeah, really.. the CAHSEE's a joke going by how easy it is.

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PinoyMatt 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Okay, you get two days off of regular work to practice a test you know will pass. Seems great to me...

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konfooshus 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

boston ftw

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lncognito 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Stating your position should be fairly easy then and I am pretty sure you should just get the basic jist of the facts. NOT the down to the wire facts.

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ih34l4u 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Our essay for the CAHSEE was to describe something reallly noticeable; I did a smelly guy! :D But yea the CAHSEE was pretty dang easy, finished math in about ~50mins(was supposed to take 3 hours). But yea, energy usage, GL with that :o

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TheJokerKid 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

Your essay was straightforward. Mine was "Some things in the world are obvious, and everybody notices them. Describe something that is obvious and everybody notices, and make the reader feel as though they are experiencing it at the moment."

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Flare0080 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

My guess is that you have to choose a particular way of decreasing energy usage (let's say...turning off household appliances and lights when not in use for example) and then list details on why that would be most efficient. You don't have to be the authority on energy usage, but you simply have to provide convincing justification as to why you chose that in particular. Also, you can sum up your essay by speaking about why the other methods fail in comparison to your method. I love grading student's persuasive essays. Just be clear, creative, and check your grammar because it counts and you'll do fine. @TheJokerKid - That's an awesome essay topic! I'll have to steal that one for my classes.

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hiim 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] Mageman22 : My school is 65% Hispanic, most of which are immigrants from Latin America so they don't know much English. It isn't surprising that many people don't pass. [/quote] my school is 99% hispanic most of us passed.

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Mageman22 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] Flare0080 : My guess is that you have to choose a particular way of decreasing energy usage (let's say...turning off household appliances and lights when not in use for example) and then list details on why that would be most efficient. You don't have to be the authority on energy usage, but you simply have to provide convincing justification as to why you chose that in particular. Also, you can sum up your essay by speaking about why the other methods fail in comparison to your method. I love grading student's persuasive essays. Just be clear, creative, and check your grammar because it counts and you'll do fine. @TheJokerKid - That's an awesome essay topic! I'll have to steal that one for my classes. [/quote] That;s what I thought as I was doing it. But then I realized that the prompt states: "Write a persuasive essay for your school paper in which you convince readers of the importance of taking action to decrease energy usage." So it isn't about ways to conserve energy, it is about the environmental factors and problems that could occur if we don't, etc. @above with the obvious thing. yeah, that sounds like a crap essay as well.

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Bramblestar 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

[quote] TheJokerKid : Your essay was straightforward. Mine was "Some things in the world are obvious, and everybody notices them. Describe something that is obvious and everybody notices, and make the reader feel as though they are experiencing it at the moment." [/quote] Gravity, life, breathing, and the possibilities are endless. Until you reach the end of course.

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Bystander 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

My school's 10th graders have a 100% passing rate so far. Can't be that bad, even our teachers made fun of the test.

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5o4B0i 02/16/10 + PM | QUOTE | PERMALINK | REPORT

for a second i thought this was about that white guy beating up that black guy

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