Home school. There’s a reason God wants parents to teach their kids.
Liberals run the education system in America. The quality of education has been in in free-fall for decades while the cost escalates.
“34% of Americans say teachers, but 24% say parents should have the final say. Fifteen percent (15%) prefer giving the final say on textbooks to local government. Nine percent (9%) each designate federal and state governments as the final word.”
LOL. So 55% of people say would should spend more money on this drivel. The same people who think the point of education is to indoctrinate our kids think we should do more of it. Then there’s this stat 34%+15%+9% are basically saying the same people who think PC is the goal want the people who made that all happen to keep control. Conclusion, people are asleep.
Stop taking someone else’s money to educate your kids!
I read my kids textbooks cover-to-cover and correct any PC, lefty propaganda.
“Thirty-one percent (31%) of adults say most school history textbooks portray American history accurately. But 43% say most U.S. history textbooks are not accurate, and another 26% are not sure.”
That’s pretty much the liberal/conservative/independent divide, isn’t it?
Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI
My second grader’s school district has adopted the “Everyday Mathematics” program shown in this video. It is as bad as the lady is saying, even at the second grade level. My wife with a Bachelors degree and good grades, has a very difficult time helping him with the homework, because quite frankly this crap is hard to understand. All those old algorithms you grew up with, are not taught. They are replaced by alternative ways of finding the answer, that may work fine for math geeks who are proficient already in the old ways – but tossing away the old tried and true way and replacing it is a mistake in monstrous proportions.
His school district use to be one of the best in the State, but it has moved way down the list. Many other districts are also now teaching this, and it’s because the state wide test is based on this math.
The results are starting to come in, and the kids are failing the state wide exam. So what do they do? Return to the older books that worked? Nope. They lower the bar on the math scores for a given time, having the math scores be a smaller percentage of the total grade.
I wish we could afford a private school, there are some good ones in our area, but its impossible. And as far as home schooling, one of us would have to quit our job, and that is a “no can do” . We do after-school him though with books recommended by fellow Freepers facing the same situation.
“.. 28% of adults with children in the schools disagree and think most textbooks are more concerned with accurately providing information.”
That’s Obama’s base right there.
Political Correctness is by definition not Truth.
And the AP is worried about the content that Christian textbook publisher provide for homeschoolers.
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