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Everyone must be equally ignorant, it’s only fair!
If you cannot bring the savage immigrant hordes up to the level of the French, than you must knock the French children down to the level of the immigrant, uneducable invading hordes!
This is insane!
The end of France.
In the USA, we have ‘race-norming’, another brilliant innovation of left-wing academia whereby a black student missing 50% of the questions on a test gets a higher grade than an Asian or white student missing only, say, 25% of the questions on the same test.
Now Florida is passing some stupid new law to ‘fix’ racial differences.
The left is insane.
Next he will lower French age to vote to perhaps 8? Very clever man.
This is from The Onion, right?
H/T monkeyshine
This is a truly stupid system designed by leftists to brainwash little kids. For the convenience of parents, little children, as young as five, in France put in 8 hour days, and cram it into four days a week. No athletics, no gym, no music or art, just rote memorization.
Preparing them, among other things, for a 35 hour work week.
They are taught by the parrot method: memorizing and regurgitating information, not learning critical or creative thinking.
The system needs reform, but this is ridiculous!
Is this not disordered reasoning? Should he not be working on correcting the problem with too many "disadvantaged" families?
Instead he is watering down the education of all the children.
Could it be that an ignorant populace are easier to control and manage?
Those little rug rats only go to school 4 days a week?
That is so not fair to the rest of the world’s children.
I am really glad I’m not 12 years old right now, I would be steamed!
Hollande and the Florida Board of Education should put their heads together. As a team, they’d be able to concoct some sure-fire winning education policies. Just imagine the possibilities; race-based grading combined with no homework.
That’s a sure-fire recipe to create the next generation of millionaires from whom Hollande can steal wealth for The State.
I never was a fan of homework for school kids....if you spend 6 or 7 hours per day in school...you should never need homework....our schools waste so much time and money if they cannot educate kids with that many hours per day/week/year/lifetime
If there is so much homework...you are better off home-schooling instead
Hollande’s reasons are wrong....but homework really needs to be reduced. In this day and age of computers...I want kids to their schoolwork in school...not at home on a computer
Holy crap, batman! Francois Hollande must have been studying Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”, even though by Hollande’s own standards this would seem unfair, the studying part that is.
They have to pass an act to ban doing a math, too.
Well, Hollande is a socialist. Growing ignorance means growing vote base.
What will happen if some parents rebel against this an give their children educational work to do anyway? Will the gendarmes be called out against the parents?
“He (France’s Socialist Prez) doesn’t think it is fair that some kids get help from their parents at home while children who come from disadvantaged families don’t.”
If you care about your kids, if you want the best for them, if you (THEIR PARENT) help them learn: YOU TAKING SOMETHING FROM OTHER KIDS!
Sorry for shouting but this is the best illustration of where socialism leads us. If it wasn’t so serious it would indeed be funny IMHO
That’s what the Socialist Prez of France says. Saddly I believe this is at the core of all socialism, including Obama’s.
It’s not about helping, encouraging all people to improve. It’s about crippling the healthy so the unhealthy don’t feel bad. Mind numbing, and all to common.
Years ago when I first moved to Los Angeles I use to teach chess for this after school program at the liberal Sequoia school, grades K - 8 in Pasadena, CA. They did not give their students homework there either.....until they found out that almost 50% of their 8th graders were having a hard time getting into high school because they didn’t have the reading or math skills to move on the level. Parents started pulling their kids out and they just cut our program out, even though the parents paid for it separately from the school tuition. I didn’t think any of the students were very sharp there. One parent wanted me to teach them how to play to a draw or a stalemate so that way their would be no winners or losers. I said no...the only way they’ll learn to win is from losing and from there mistakes.