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I had a Jay Bennish teaching my tenth-grade "social studies" class in 1973 (note the subject name that already reveals the non-academic nature of the pursuit).
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Mary Grabar teaches at Clayton State University located in Atlanta, Georgia.
Teaches what? Mythology?
Thomas Sowell's "Inside American Education" documents numerous ways teachers attack parental authority.
Teachers have asked third-graders, "How many of you ever wanted to beat up your parents?"
In a high school health class, students were asked, "How many of you hate your parents?"
My schooling took place in the 30s and 40s. I graduated from high school when I was 15. We didn't have kindergarden and no 12th grade. Anyway, there was no foolishness in classes back then. I had history teachers that could throw a piece of chalk so close to your ear if you were caught not listening it made your ear flicker. Schooling was serious business.
In the sixties universities were diploma mills, fortunate for me because I never had a chance at college. Corporations didn't even ask if you had a degree. I had to fight for every chance I got, but I made it. I was told too many times by engineers that if I had a degree, I would be frightening. If I didn't know something, I researched it until I knew it.
Too many parents today are passified by teachers who give out bumper stickers and use big words to describe what they are teaching and go away happy. Teachers have learned to play the system and know what will make parents happy without asking too many questions. I have said it a thousand times; parents better start finding out what their kids are being taught in public schools.
I just wonder how many parents know about "governor schools" in their states.
OB