Posted on 03/13/2008 7:05:05 AM PDT by captjanaway
I would have done the Professor Kingsfield, "Here is a dime, go call your mother..." routine.
IE, this problem is a result of liberalism.
Spot on.
And don’t forget basic math skills. I always sucked at math, but even I know how to count out change. I was at KFC the other day, and the total for the food was $22.51. I give this kid $40.51. He starts to pull coins from the drawer, I asked him, “wasn’t the total $22.51?”. He said yes. I said, “why are you pulling out coins?”. The other kid behind the counter tells him I should get $18.00 in change. Mind you, he has plenty of ones, fives and tens. But he gives me 8 singles and two fives, and just hands them to me. I showed him how he should’ve counted it out. Maybe he learned something, maybe he didn’t. I was floored. If you punch in whatever total the customer gives you the register tells you exactly how much change to give...it’s a no brainer. I was floored. This kid would have to take a step up in order to be dumbed down.
But Lindbergh was a pilot/NAZI sypathizer. That should be the historical context of Charles Lindbergh, not the kidnapping.
I don’t know about other states but I beleive that in Texas this can be traced back to the TAKS test. TAKS is just the latest moniker for it it seems every 3 or 4 years they change the name but THE TEST remains the same. THE TEST was originally imposed because of low SAT scores. Interestingly SAT scores have gone down since THE TEST was instigated but THE TEST survives. Originally we were told that we would definitely not be teaching to THE TEST, that it would be a tool we would use to identify where the weaknesses were. Today they don’t even try to deny that we are to teach to THE TEST and our jobs are on the line if the students do not do well on THE TEST.
Parents are squarely to blame.
Not true Texas has a very large role in the selection of text books.
The media, publick ejacashun, their parents, our culture of glorified idiocy, and THEMSELVES. There’s no reason they can’t read a damn book on their own. We have public libraries where anybody can read anything they want for free.
Didn't this case cause kidnapping to become a federal rap?
Lindbergh was not a Nazi sympathizer. He was an isolationist, and staunch anti-communist, and a believer in eugenics, but he was not a Nazi.
Ultimately, it’s a parent’s job to educate their children. Parents have given over the privilege of educating their children to others, but this does not release them from being responsible for their child’s education.
Nothing close to CA.
Google CA/textbooks/standards etc and read up on it.
Its just like all the mileage robbing crap on every car now, It all started in CA and everyone got stuck with it.
and Republican party presidential hopeful
My vote goes to: “The greatest Generation”
They went to foreign lands to fight for freedom and came home and never fought for their own country. This generation allowed the largest expansion and taxation of its people. It created horrible schools, burdening laws, taxes and regulations.
They killed both, the kaiser and their own countries future.
Visited Nazi Germany three times in the thirties, was decorated with the verdienstkreuz by Goering, never renounced it or returned it. Hard to say he was not a sympathizer, even if perhaps not an outright Nazi.
Baba Booey. Baba Booey
Parents and teachers.
Not so, That odious distinction belongs to my generation. the baby boomers.
If you know the test is (for example) going to have specific questions about the Civil War on it, and you teach those specific facts. That's better than what seems to be happening otherwise - kids aren't learning anything.
Them damn hippies.
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