Posted on 12/15/2005 4:19:53 AM PST by paudio
Who says getting Chinese food & going to a movie is not celebrating?
A friend of mine was saying that at Lodge the other night. You're a Mason, aren't you?
Many of us Masons are concerned about improper symbols. We need to stick together.
???? I never said anything about Plano schools. For all I know they are the best in Texas.
I'm just responding to Clara Sue or Clara Belle who got her knickers in a twist over a statement by chatham (#10). She has been doing her level best to prove the truth of his statement ever since.
I'm just sittin' in my rocker by the fire, sippin' my cider and watching her flame. It's been really amusing so far. You should watch.
Perhaps you have great schools in Texas.
The "Proof is in the Pudding" and the schools have to be measured by proper professional testing to insure every student can read, write and understand math.
The stats seem to be otherwise with hugh percentages of children failing and leaving school without being able to read.
This educational epidemic is spreading into the suburbs.
Schools should get out of Social Engineering and get back to teaching with reading writing and arithmetic with verification.
Unless the system is changed the inner city kids will continue to lose ground and will end up in prison or worse.
That's kind of an unfair assessment of the Texas educational system. I am not sure where you are, but I am sure your statistics do not include an overwhelming majority of children from illegal immigrants. My mom taught school at the most inner city school in Dallas and much of the drop-out rate was due to a) pregnancy b) joining the workforce to support family both locally & in Mexico and c) overall language barrier & refusal to be educated.
Until now, there has been a "Robin Hood" standard that takes from the rich school districts and gives money to the poor ones. That is why the Plano school system is taxed so severely to both compensate for their standards and to pass along monies to the poorer districts. You can pour all the riches on a community, but when the culture downgrades the value of education, it's hard to force higher education standards and therefore test scores will suffer.
I may have given the wrong impression.
My comments were made about the public schools across the whole country from information gleaned from news articles and news shows.
When my oldest child went to school it was a public school and the Teachers were magnificant and professional.
Over the years Teachers have taken on the ro;ll of Social Engineers and include their bias in their work regardless of effect on their students.
I spent the last 25 years in Westchester County New York in a suburban area and a great many of the teachers wouldn't make good firewood.
The good teachers are Intimidated by the hacks from the Unions.
Texas could have the best schools in the Nation for all I know and I hope they do.
My own feeling is Illegal alien children should not be in public schools using up limited resources.
In an earlier post I said My daughter removed her son from a public school and put him in private school which costs her about $6,000 Taxes for the public school she doesn't use, $10,000 for the new private school and about another $6ooo for traveling. That's about $22,000 she sholudn't have to pay.
So, where in the Bible does it say it's wrong to put a tree in your living room and dance around it?
My point is this: How do people who object to certain practices on the grounds that "it's not in the Bible," distinguish between, say, Lent, Holy Water, and Christmas trees, which are not in the Bible, and electric lights, trousers, and bicycles, which are also not in the Bible? It seems obvious to me that if people are to be free to use electric lights, trousers, and bicycles, there's no rational basis for objecting to Lent, Holy Water, or Christmas trees.
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