Posted on 02/22/2005 12:32:58 PM PST by Pendragon_6
And that's supposed to make things all better?
Hey, Chancellor, what if that box of hate arrived in your nephew's hooch, you think he'd be appreciative of your students' "love"?
No ... the teacher is interviewing at CU in Boulder. If hired, which is a given, the teacher will be put on the fast track for tenure.
Not down here they're not.
Are you kidding? This nutcase is a government school teacher. Who do you think was originally intended in the phrases
You have to f*** up to move up
and
Rise to the level of your incompetence
Hang the kid's teacher up by his thumbnails. Jerkoff!
I would ask them to reconsider. Perhaps they can't afford NOT to homeschool. Public school has costs not entirely apparent in the early years.
While I'm at it I would ask parents of public schooled children to ask their children this: "Do you ever sing patriotic songs in school? Ever hear 'America the Beautiful' or 'Star-Spangled Banner?' How about 'Battle Hymn of the Republic?'" Go ahead, see if your children ever learned the lyrics to any of them. I asked a 10-year-old friend of my homeschooled child this question, in a town in rural PA. The answer was: Never.
If you don't have the dollars for private school, which are overrated, then homeschool. Anything you're not capable of teaching requires you to hire a tutor. Still you can't afford NOT to homeschool your kid.
I think we know what this "social studies" teacher is teaching, and it isn't history.
That's the least they can do.
Another reason why home-schooling is picking up steam . . .
That reminds me. In this rural community in PA, the 3rd graders studied a topic in history exactly ONE day in the whole school year.
I'd laugh but it could happen in this upside down world.
CU should put this "teacher's" number on speedial to replace Ward Churchill just in case, by some freak accident, their "investigatory panel" decides to dump Ward, aka the little old lady from Texas namded Midge.
It shouldn't be hard to find by using reversephonedirectory.com
Yes, the NY Post is known for such headlines.
Homeschooling requires one parent to forgo income from a full-time job. The vast majority of NYC public school students are from working class (or below) families who are barely making ends meet with both parents working, or have only one parent. The reality is that they cannot afford to pay for even the cheapest private school, and cannot afford to homeschool. Everyone, including these barely-surviving-financially families, is being taxed at a very high rate, with quite a lot of the tax revenues being poured into these hopeless excuses for schools. Let the parents have the money to pay for private school or achievement-monitored homeschooling, and everybody would be better off (NYC is spending over $20,000 a year per student these days).
I fully agree.
Not necessarily...barter is alive and well in the homeschooling community, so are study groups. One of the dads in our group met with our kids (12-13 yrs) once a week and then gave them assignments until they met again (he was available in the evenings if they got stuck and they could always call each other. This dad just LOVED apple pie, so each family (there were 4 of us) took turns baking him a fresh apple pie each week. Other parents I know have bartered bread baking classes, soap making, spinning and etiquette.
When a bunch of us (children from 10 to adults) wanted to learn Latin, we researched the best resources to meet our needs (a combo of Cambridge Latin and the Internet)and with the help of a couple in the group who had Latin in college, we taught ourselves, with each person taking a turn at leading. Most homeschooling texts also have excellent teachers guides so if you have to you can teach an unfamiliar subject if you're willing to work at it yourself (and why would you be homeschooling if you weren't).
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