Posted on 03/06/2011 3:27:10 PM PST by IbJensen
Many of the idiots went to work for the government; many went into politics where they found a home. Many of the latter forget where home is and stay in DC.
** people who can’t read a cereal box... **
Ah, but more importantly, can they read a tweet or a text? (omg!)
My mother, whose education ended at the 8th grade, taught me to read, write, and do basic arithmatic well before I started school. She did well enough that I was promoted to 3rd grade after one year. She had good materials however, those being a supply of No. 2 lead pencils and a Big Chief tablet. I would love to hear a teacher, any teacher, defend the load of crap that goes on in our public schools.
This sounds like someone’s Ph.D. dissertation trying to improve on an older system that has decades of proven success. The idea that, if it’s new, it has to be better, needs to be placed where the elephants go to die.
The system works as it was planned. A slave/serf society depends on ruined minds and inculcating a dislike of learning amongst the Nouveau slaves.
“Bad Schools” are the feature, not a bug.
Well, they may be illiterate, but at least it costs a fortune to teach them illiteracy.
With the dawn of computer screens with little icons on them literacy is no longer a top priority for American business. The intellectual cream will be taught to read and write; the vast bulk of the population will touch little icons which will order the hamburger and make change at the same time.
America is marching along the twisted, evil path that was trod by Mexico’s leaders long ago. They realized that an uneducated populace was a lot easier to run roughshod over and to rule.
Kicking out the Spaniards and the Catholic Church was, as far as the general populace was concerned, a one way ticket to palookaville. The Church was teaching everyone how to read and function as literate humans.
Phonics is not the universal panacea. I had a son with a learning disability around reading. I spent hours until we were both in tears trying to coach him using phonics. It just didn’t work. Most people “file” things and concepts by sounds of words in their brain. He files them by pictures. So when he reads “the cow jumped over the fence. He creates a picture of a cow, a cow jumping, a cow jumping and a fence. He has no pictire for “the” and “over” guides the placement of the cow relative to the fence. Every time he comes to an abstract in a sentence, he has to stop, ignore, and go on. Making things very slow. Speed reading eventually helped him skip over words.
As I’ve told y’all before... I work for the EPA. I have a coworker, black, female, 29 years old, currently working on her SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! master’s degree. She had to ask me if there were 50, 51, or 52 states in the Union, and she cannot read the word “gauge”. She looked at it funny and said “godge”, rhyming with “lodge.” Her degrees are from “historically black colleges.”
It's been reported that 30% of 8th graders read at the proficient level.
So?....How many of this 30% were taught IN THE HOME by their parents, relatives, tutors, or friends how to read? Hm?...My guess: **ALL** of them!
So?...How many of this literate 30% were taught by their government teachers?...My guess: NONE!
Where are the studies that show precisely **where** and **how** children are learning? **Who** is doing the teaching? ( The parent, the child himself, or government teacher)? Exactly how much does a child learn from a teacher in a typical government school?
If you know an academically successful child, chances are that the child has been **AFTERSCHOOLED** or **HOMESCHOOLED**. There is likely NO difference in the amount of time, or habits, between the academically successful institutionalized child and the successful homeschooler!
The only thing the government is doing is sending home a tuition-free curriculum!
I would think the answer to these questions above are critical! We are not only spending thousands of dollars a year per child but, worse, we may be WASTING HIS LIFE by forcing him to go to a government school that is teaching him NOTHING ( except how to love communism and think and reason godlessly)!
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Have you ever seen the curriculum for this "McDegree?"
African American Studies Educational Goals General Competencies Critical analysis: Ability to use the African-centered perspective to interpret and analyze and critique ideas, texts, social, historical and cultural phenomena. Disciplinary knowledge: Understand the history of Black Studies, the social-political and academic arena in which it developed, its major contributors, and how Black Studies’ distinctive treatment of subject matter has been affected by its historical evolution
I. Critical Analysis •Define African philosophy. •Discuss the interconnections (or lack of) between African philosophy and African-American philosophy. •Define African centeredness and explain its transformation of the Black Studies discipline. •Apply the dentition of African philosophy to the cultural, social, economic, political, and spiritual Black global issues. •Describe/define the role of the Black intellectual. •Discuss the differences between the role of the mainstream Black intellectual and the African centered intellectual. •Discuss the uses of the anthropological, political, social, and economic uses of the concept of race. •Define and discuss the affective approach to knowledge. •Discuss bow the concept of race has affected the development of African and diasporan literature. •How do we defend the validity of an Afrocentric theory of Black personality? Outline a method of research analysis for scholarly investigation of a topic in the Black Studies social science/behavioral curriculum. •Outline the processes involved in conducting a specific study using ethnographic methods.
IV. Understanding Human and Cultural Diversity •Ability to work as consultants for Black Studies issues and to assist high-school teachers and administrators in developing Black Studies curricula. •Ability to use quantitative data to improve quality of secondary education, •Assist grassroots community organizations in understanding the psychological, sociological, economical, and health issues that relate to spouse and drug abuse in the Black community. •Lead dialogue inside and outside the academy on recent "Whiteness Studies.
Obama’s resume?
It’s surprisingly easy to get by without being able to read. I have friend who I didn’t know couldn’t read for 30 years that I knew him. His wife helped with legal papers, and he has been very successful. I’m guessing it’s even easier to get by these days. Heck, it can be very profitable to not speak or read English, or to pretend not to, because government workers are more than happy to help you take our money.
Our son was born in 1983. When he was around 3, I began to read to him from the “recently re-released” McGuffey Reader. HE picked it up and by the time he was 4, he was reading and speaking in complete complex sentences. I rage against the teaching methods for language used today. I’m a retired English teacher by the way. I was stunned by the poetic and lyric qualities of letters written home by Civil War combatants as chronicled by Ken Burns. Why can we not teach the same qualities today? Our schools are well lit and well heated and way too well funded. Mid 19th century pupils froze in their one classroom and learned soaring rhetoric. I guess unionization has supplanted calling. sd
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