Posted on 05/20/2008 1:59:07 PM PDT by connell
A couple of stories in the San Francisco Chronicle caught our attention yesterday.
1. Suspensions point to trouble in schools
California public school educators suspended students more than 332,000 times for violence or drugs last year - a jump of nearly 16,000 from the prior year....
2. Study contradicts myth of how teens avoid intercourse
Please see article link for text...
Thank you, Bill Clinton, for normalizing the casual version of that behavior. Thank you to the political/social left for creating the self-fulfilling prophesy of teen sex. (Like the wife who says to her husband, on his way out the door for a week-long business junket, "honey, I don't want you to cheat on me, but just in case you can't control yourself, here are some condoms...")
Our schools are a mess. It's pathetic, frankly.
Look at the statistics here:
The longer students are in school, the worse things get. Among fourth graders, U.S. students rank high on the International Test of Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Despite this head start, by eighth grade, American adolescents have slipped to the midpoint on the TIMSS; by age 17, their scores trail all but those in a few developing countries....
That is appalling.
Those stats are listed at the movie website for the education documentary Flunked. The message of Flunked is a good one: There are serious problems with education, but creative and concerned teachers can and do find ways—without government mandates—to raise the quality of education for their students.
Take a look at their trailer at YouTube. Maybe parents should start asking some more questions!
(Also, the movie has Joe Mantegna in it!)
(Excerpt) Read more at modernconservative.com ...
Thank you to the political/social left for sticking the responsible folks (the ones who didn't have sex outside of marriage, etc.) with the bill for the consequences.
Yeah, no doubt!
Thank Bill for the free Penthouse Forum done by Ken Starr!
No kidding! An Indian co-worker (I think US citizen now) is quitting and returning to India because the schools there are far better than American schools! His 6th-grader is already two years behind his counterparts in India.
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