Posted on 02/03/2010 3:51:04 PM PST by khnyny
The public school system should be systematically dismantled...
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From wikepedia:
“Eco-socialism, green socialism or socialist ecology is an ideology merging aspects of Marxism, socialism, green politics, ecology and alter-globalization. Eco-socialists generally believe that the expansion of the capitalist system is the cause of social exclusion, poverty and environmental degradation through globalization and imperialism, under the supervision of repressive states and transnational structures; they advocate the dismantling of capitalism and the state, focusing on collective ownership of the means of production by freely associated producers and restoration of the commons.”
I would say that most of the extreme environmental groups that appeal on projects on federal lands or sue on endangered species and environmental causes in the Western United States embrace tenets of ecosocialism. They commonly have ties with education. http://portland.indymedia.org/
Perhaps she can be persuaded.
When Carter formed the Department of Education in '77, it was widely viewed as political payback to the educational establishment for it's support of his quest for the presidency. Thus viewed, at the time the move was deemed acceptable (believe it or not!).
However, times have changed. The political winds are changing, too. No one owes them anything nowadays. More starkly, we have no need of them today!
So, yes, maybe Sarah can be persuaded.
CA....
It makes perfect sense to me why the Founding Fathers should be left out of the American History being taught in our nation’s public schools. After all, since BEFORE 9/11 FEMA instructors have been teaching that the Founding fathers were our nation’s first TERRORISTS. Click link...
http://sbynews.blogspot.com/2009/12/shocking-fema-training-video-founding.html
WHERE am I living?
I can no longer recognize the America I’ve known all my life.
EU history will be all the history taught in schools UK
The latest initiative by our "Children's Secretary", Ed Balls, is to abolish what remains of fact-based teaching of history and geography in our schools. He plans to "roll them together into themed lessons on social issues such as global warming"
The ruthless drive of educational progressives to eliminate history-teaching from schools has been under way since the 1960s. aim is to ensure that children know nothing about their country's past or how the world came to be as it is, leaving their minds blankly open to whatever vacuous progressive claptrap is fed to them.
In his desire to chuck history onto what Lenin called "the scrapheap of history",
I tutor in an afterschool program that is being heavily funded by the feds for intervention in math for k-5 kids. We were specifically told not to spend time on basic facts. We are encouraged to use “rich” problems like....If I am building a neighborhood of homes and can use the numbers 3, 5, and 6 for the addresses, how many homes can I build? It is so sad to see these kids being pushed to do fractions and higher level algebra everyday when they are counting on their fingers for every addition and subtraction step and don’t know the basic steps of a multiple digit multiplication and division problems.
Here’s something that may be of interest. It appears that all the presidents listed and linked to on this site take you to the current White House.
Apparently it was put together by Jim Britton, from the UNC School of Information and Library Science.
http://www.ibiblio.org/lia/president/pressites/PresidentS-list2.html#11to20
NC is very liberal. I lived there for 8 years and finally left 5 years ago because of the horrible schools. One AP English teacher who was a big John Edwards fan verbally and academically abused my child one time too many. Luckily, my husband has very transferable job skills but we took a major loss on the house we had to sell. It was worth it to get out of that state. I am not surprised by this development at all.
If the education system were on our way, we’d teach U.S. history from the colonial era onward.
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Give the quality of public school history instruction, that might not be such a bad thing.
I’m a tutor, and thank God, I’m not bound by those regulations. I start with the basics and then move on. Sure it takes longer but I get results.
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“I wish that after Sarah is elected that she would can the federal dept. of ed.”
Yeah, I wished that Reagan and two Bushes would do that.
“Apparently it was put together by Jim Britton, from the UNC School of Information and Library Science.”
Shirley it must have been hacked.
My daughter just started 5th grade. When she was in 3rd she could add subtract multiply and divide. However, she only knew the algorithms and she didn’t really have an understanding of what she was doing. She really didn’t understand our base ten system and place value.
We found an incredible math program and started over. It was very childish for her at the beginning but the program is based on an asian model of math and was very different than anything we had been exposed to before.
If she had been in public school they would have kept pushing her through and she would have been math illiterate like I was until I started to teach her this program. Now she is understanding math and doing well.
Without a strong foundation there is no hope of moving on to higher levels with understanding.
Already read it, sigh. Homeschool is the answer.
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