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To: Mind-numbed Robot

"Who gets priority for entrance into college? minorities, their carefully groomed vicim groups through affirmative action, and the other students with the highest grades. Who has the highest grades? Those whom they have arranged to have them, those who agree with the leftist agenda.

Who gets the highest grades in college? The same folkds. When hiring recenbt grads what do corporations look for? The highest performers. Who are those. You have it, the left leaners."

Interesting angle. I'll admit I hadn't thought of that.

Overt conservatives have been turned into a persecuted minority in our schools, is what you're saying. True, some conservative students are hiding it---but that just makes the leftist influence of the authorities and the left wing students even greater. Hence, the greater likelihood of students without clear training in this regard ending up as leftists. (This is just one angle resulting from what you're talking about.)

Let me relate a little story. Perhaps a decade ago, my friend's son was having trouble with his high school math. I started tutoring him. Well you know, I'm middle-aged and going back to stuff like this is not so easy. But I couldn't help but be struck at at how devilishly difficult the word problems were. Sure, some were problems were always heard for me and most students. I still remember from my high school days, the problems about different sized pipes delivering water into a room at different rates and how fast the water level rises, etc., not that I remember how to solve them.

But as I looked at these problems, I started to realize there was something different going on here. The problems we had in high school were difficult because it is hard sometimes to apply the mechanics of math to what is going on and the world---even if the solution utilizes formulas you know how to use.

But these problems were different. They were deliberately constructed to be as confusing as possible, based in large part on the language used. I was astonished to uncover this. In other words, the people who constructed these problems were trying to send these high school students the message that they could not do math---even if they could. At least, this is my interpretation.

Just one small detail about what can happen when people serving Russia takeover America's educational system.


19 posted on 04/21/2006 1:57:58 PM PDT by strategofr (Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv)
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To: strategofr

" In other words, the people who constructed these problems were trying to send these high school students the message that they could not do math---even if they could. At least, this is my interpretation."

You are not alone in recognizing this and it is frequently mentioned among homeschooling parents as part of what prompted their decision to home educate! I was asked a couple of years ago to teach geometry in a co-op but they had the books "donated" and I refused to use the text because it was anti-educational. And this is only one aspect of what has changed. Bev Eakman wrote on this at length. I recommend her book Educating for the New World Order (get it used as it's probably out of print.) If you know anyone currently struggling with math there is a good program, Saxon Math, long favored in home educating and it can be purchased used on ebay.


29 posted on 04/21/2006 7:20:06 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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