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To: weegee

Can anyone tell me what the purpose of public education is anymore?

Parents send their kids to Sylvan Learning Centers because their kids can't do math or read (we have several tutoring centers in my town). Kids are indoctrinated with the homosexual lifestyle (can be damaging to physical, mental, and emotional health), and kids get a warped view of America in their history classes (are we supposed to hate ourselves?). And then this love affair with Islam after Islamofacists destroyed 3,000 Americans, and that's only in this country.

Just what is the point of it all? To destroy America from within?


24 posted on 09/21/2004 7:32:50 AM PDT by ladylib
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To: ladylib

What happened to the days when School was about learning Math, English Science and History that included the Presidents, (American History, the Pilgrims, Lewis and Clark's expedition, Christopher Columbus? Has it now changed to "The loving Mohammed Janey has 2 Mommies,"


27 posted on 09/21/2004 7:40:15 AM PDT by missyme (<imgsrc=http://www.cat-domain.com/cats_long/yoni-rmans.jpg>)
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To: ladylib
Parents send their kids to Sylvan Learning Centers because their kids can't do math or read (we have several tutoring centers in my town).

When we were homeschooling our son, he was having a great deal of difficulty learning to read. (I had already taught one child to read at home with no difficulty.) We were using Sam Blumenfeld's phonics program as well as other supporting phonics materials.

We took him to Sylvan for about a year. It was a big time commitment (2-3 sessions per week); cost an arm & a leg but was worth it. As he went through middle school he tested in or about the 95th percentile routinely on reading.

The tutoring centers have received a huge windfall from the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind law. Schools pay for students "at risk" to get tutored by these centers; it's one of the things schools have to do under NCLB to avoid ultimately having their districts disbanded.

What I learned from this experience is that even in a good homeschooling environment, with phonics-based hands-on learning geared toward the student's individual learning style (kinetic in this case), some kids *still* find it very hard to learn to read at the same pace as their peers. It's not all "the teacher's fault" or "the school's fault."

29 posted on 09/21/2004 7:40:52 AM PDT by valkyrieanne
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To: ladylib
Can anyone tell me what the purpose of public education is anymore?

It's always been about indoctrination.

The Underground History of American Education

32 posted on 09/21/2004 7:46:09 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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