Posted on 08/11/2020 7:09:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
All white people are racist which is why I don’t allow white people to lecture me on race. They are usually the only people rude enough to do it
That was fascinating!
Fingernails on a blackboard, isn’t it?
(And yes...I went there: Blackboard.)
Although they were mostly green by the time I got to grammar school. Still black in high school.
Poet Edgar Allan Poe, an amateur astronomer, suggested that the finite size of the observable universe resolves the apparent paradox: because the universe is finitely old and the speed of light is finite, only finitely many stars can be observed within a given volume of space visible from Earth. The density of stars reached by any line of sight from the Earth within this finite volume is low.
Leni
It is racist to expect black people to meet any standard of education or morality established by white people. It is racist to expect black males to pull up their pants. It is racist to expect black women to remain calm in the face of an incomplete fast food order. It is ok to talk to your boss’s boss just like you’d talk to any other hood rat. Good gracious how some have been miseducated!
RE: Rutgers used to be bad at sports but you could get a good education there if you took real classes instead of stupid stuff like womyn studies.
And to think that Rutgers was the alma mater of the great Nobel Prize winning economist — Milton Friedman ( but then, it was a private university receiving limited support from the State of New Jersey ).
I wish I had known math was “racist” before I retired....my 40 hour work week at $50 per hour came to only $2000 per week...
Without “racism” it would’ve been $5000 per week...
Damn “racists”......
Leni
Let’s cripple math and english teaching so we can join the virtue signaling woke parade. Who cares if students lives are destroyed in the process. There is a term for this: child abuse.
I used to teach Spanish. I discovered that the only hint, whiff or slight inkling of grammar that most of my students had was when they found out about it from learning Spanish. Oh well, it was an opportunity to teach them English grammar for comparison purposes.
If I believed a tenth of the liberal/ leftist horse $h!+, I would be at home curled up in the fetal position.
That was one of the great purposes for teaching Latin, back when good schools routinely had a Latin requirement. Lots of grammar. It was intended to carry over to English — and of course they taught English grammar too, back in the day. The ability to compare English grammar with Latin grammar helped on both topics.
But they largely dropped Latin. And they largely dropped English grammar. Spanish may be about the best chance a kid has to find out that languages actually have rules.
If you sound as poorly educated when you graduate from college as when you went in, what is the point of going, particularly since you will have accumulated a great debt with nothing to show for it?
I took Latin I as a Freshman in 1954 while in Catholic School.
I didn’t grasp it as well as I should but Sister passed me as she knew I wasn’t going to be in CS the next year but she did make me ‘vow’ to never take Latin II. She needn’t have worried BUT surprisingly the New York State Regents System recognized it as my ‘language’ qual and when got moved to Cal for Senior year the question of a Language ‘major’ never came up.
It’s not only grammar and math that are being “deconstructed” in schools; it’s virtually every aspect of a good education.
When in elementary school, I recall that our principal at the beginning of each day played classical music over the loudspeaker. We became well acquainted with Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Strauss. Every year students were invited to a concert by the city orchestra.
Each year in elementary school we would have a special theme/topic to explore, be it American history, agriculture or local business (oil business in Texas). This involved field trips, guest lectures, etc. Grades 5 and 6 got visiting lectures on art with explanations/critiques of the great paintings. The favorite was the week spent in a local camp with boating as well as farm visits and lectures under the stars on astronomy.
Math is not subjective. How can it be,,,,,oh never mind.
Don’t forget, cursive writing is racist too.
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