Posted on 01/23/2015 8:12:46 AM PST by knarf
I heard a sound byte today from the FOX internet ...
And I thought about it for a minute and decided ... graduating from High School is nothing but the imrimatur from everything society can input into a child
Now, at 18 or 19 years old, in time past, that was an age to marry and start farmin' or ranchin' or something ... and in my opinion ... nothing has changed
So WHAT do I, as a member of society want from a new entry ?
I want someone who can read, write, do basic arithmetic (a rat in the house may eat the ice cream), KNOW who and WHAT they are, and have an idea about their political/social position as a member in society (not OF society)
In my opinion, those are the basics and all the additional formulation will develop because of experience.
So ..
To graduate from high school they should be tested in;
readin'
writin'
'rithmetic
world history freshmen
American history last 3 yrs (which would include civics)
religion and comparative religion in the last two years
In my opinion, a well grounded person will know how to communicate, know God, know themselves and be a productive member FOR society
The specialties .. trades and professions .. were not included because I think it would be understood that some kind of training would be provided for that decision
As a school board member, I see a lot of what appears to be what I have stated, but the end result doesn't seem to be a secure citizen of a community, desiring to live life and provide for American posterity ... instead, I see a lot of insecurity and indecision about who and what they are and what are they supposed to do now.
THAT is the failing of the public HS system and I'll do my best to change it
You graduate from high school when you stop paying for it.
The Left wants ‘equal outcomes’.
In order to do that they must lower the standards.
Free people are not equal.
Equal people are not free...................
idiots that hug trees, abortion and vote liberal/communist/socialist continue to force us to pay anyway ... nip it in the bud ... don’t train nor educate them in the first place.
Your views are repugnant. You want public money to be used to teach religion?!? The Comparative Religion course is a Trojan horse used by leftists to undermine Christianity. Look up what is going on in Quebec.
Something I’ve often thought about since my own school days (long ago) is that it was never really directly expressed that school was FOR ME, preparing me the rest of my life, & I could expect to get out of it what I put into it. I think that’s the first thing that should be said in class, & they need to have a good response when a kid asks ‘why do I have to know this?’
Good for you for getting on the school board!
How about closing all public schools? Let private schools teach what they want. Government should have no say.
It isn't if it is taught right. I still have a text from the 1970s by Leo Rosten (a Jewish guy, but a fair one) which is excellent and scholarly.
Look him up. He would be run out of any PC classroom today precisely because he is fair and scholarly in his approach which consists mainly of asking leaders in the various brands of religion the same set of questions and sometimes probing further when he smells BS.
Canada already IS a state (government) religious / political structure
But comparative is just that ... compare
During four years of high school, the history of the US will co-mingle with all other education and the history will prove, the accepted and acceptable religious practice (not practices) of people lent itself to a moral, honest and civic social structure.
that ... and guns
How many religions are you planning teaching? There are too many to teach.
I was raised in a Catholic girl’s school ... but I don’t want my kids learning other religions. That should be a matter for a family ... NOT school.
You forget impimp’s axiom #43 on government initiatives - any government program that is a good idea IF it is done the right way will eventually be only done the wrong way and lead to the long-term loss of liberty.
Exactly!
Yes!
Too many peopl, when discussing religion shudder because of islam ... the definition of the word, "islam" is .. submit (or submission)
THAT is not the underlying force of ANY religion
All legitimate religions depend on the individual voluntarily making their own decisions based on what some religion has determined should be a way of thought, or a way of life (as a man thinketh, so is he)
islam is a dictatorial process ... it is not a religion ... not even a politic ... it is a process by which a force (or government) gets and maintains control
So I say ... LET the muzzies in ... and prove them to be wrong and then ignore them.
If they refuse to "submit" .. kill 'em ...I'll face God some day and my punishment will not be because I decided incorrectly about another's motivation ... just my act of killing him.
I took comparative religion courses, and they just bolstered my belief in my Catholicism. Trust me, I wasn’t going to become a Muslim after that course. No matter what a teacher says, you read the text of the Koran. Case closed for me! It’s those that don’t look into the religion that are clueless and say “all religions are the same.”
In logic class, you'll learn that "Catholic" and "non-Catholic" cover all the possible religions. ;-)
I would add two years of foreign language, preferable Latin.
Then two years of Spanish.
Some school districts are so corrupt that they shouldn't even be running a pop stand, let alone a school system. Others could set up a very competitive and worthwhile program to attract outsiders.
History is important. In high school they d not teach much about WW2 as an example or of course nothing on how the democrats lose wars. It was only because the communists were attacked that the left supported the war against the germans.
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