"Adopt New Math", "because 2+2=4 is so old fashioned..."
Posted on 01/14/2005 10:42:18 AM PST by LarkNeelie
Remember when parents trying to videotape the school events of "Transgender, Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day" were thrown off school property?
That very same Mass. school district is once again in the news for negative reasons.
School Superintendent J. Young presides over the failing math program of an elementary school in his district - a school now subject to the NCLB program.
Could the school's failure to teach the children be due to the Mr. Young's new math curriculum otherwise known as
anti-racist multicultural math?Big elections like state and national aren't the only ones conservatives ought to mobilize for. Conservatism starts right in our own neighborhoods, with local school boards, mayors, planning commissions and so on.
People who insist on dismissing the tried and true successes of the past while inexplicably embracing the failures and cramming those down our throats should not be allowed to make decisions for our children and society.
It seems as if the implicit goal of the public school system is to provide future prisons inmates.
"Students will: Consistently analyze their experiences and the curriculum for bias and discrimination; Take effective anti-bias action when bias or discrimination is identified; Work with people of different backgrounds and tell how the experience affected them; Demonstrate how their membership in different groups has advantages and disadvantages that affect how they see the world and the way they are perceived by others..."
Long live chairman Mao!
We have been discussing inexpensive ways to fast track kids through high school to avoid the liberal agenda:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315730/posts?page=84#84
The thread title was not well thought out, because some parents might instinctively skip over it due to attached stigma, whether real or imagined.
don't get what you're saying. Why would parents feel a 'stigma'? And a stigma in reference to what, specifically?
There's been some discussion on the stigma attached to having a GED. Here's an example on that thread. You can search over there for more discussion...
To: Motherbear
"Homeschooled kids in most states don't take the GED. It's the kiss of death, and tars you as a bad student. You just 'graduate' from homeschool."
***That's why I'm proposing the Free Republic High School Diploma, not only for homeschoolers but for those kids whose parents can't afford it or "choose not to" afford it.
I still am having trouble understanding this stigma attached to the GED when the kids have moved onto college and have done well. Even if they haven't done well, no one really cares about the high school. This is one of those unquantifiable social aspects that just exists, you can't really define why, you just have to deal with it.
164 posted on 01/10/2005 8:08:36 PM PST by Kevin OMalley (No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
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The trouble is, if
we embrace this principle,
then only Freepers
would be allowed to
hold public office. (And then
only some of us . . .)
I agree. The flight of hundreds of thousands of conservative christian families into homeschooling is one voice that's making itself known, so perhaps my proposal would be an additional whammy.
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