Posted on 09/15/2015 8:29:26 AM PDT by yoe
“The first five problems were wrong and when we told her, she informed us those five were the examples her math teacher put on the black board for the class to copy.”
I have tutored kids in math many times over the years from basic algebra through differential equations. Perhaps I am getting old and crotchety, but it seems to me that even the “best” of schools are circling the drain. My last experience was one of my friends kids in high school Algebra II, (he was from a very sought after district in Texas). I had tutored him many times over the years while he was visiting his mom in Reno. This particular time it was a section on graphing rational equations things like y=(x+1)/(x^2 - 2x + 1) type of things. Basically a display of limits and asymptotic lines, etc. It was a section the class had spent weeks on and he just was not getting it. I had not thought about this particular subject in decades, but I formulated a plan in my head to teach him how to do this, but the very first thing I did was ask him to explain precisely how the teacher taught the class how to graph these. I was dumbfounded at how bassackwards and complicated the teacher made this, and I was totally able to understand why the poor kid just wasn’t getting it. The first thing I showed him was, solve the numerator for zero...that is where the curves cross the x axis. the next thing I showed him was solve the denominator for zero, that is where the curve either approaches positive or negative infinity. On either end of those the curve will be approaching the constant from either the positive or negative side. Then I had him create a grid displaying where the function was either positive or negative relative to where it crossed the axis. With that drawing the curves was trivial. He looked at me with that teenage skeptical face. He would say over and over, no, it is not that simple, it cannot possibly be that simple. I made him do all of the assignments and ‘wow’ each and every single time it mystically came out to the correct answer. My final assignment for him was when he got home, before he took the test, he was to teach his buddy how to do this. Him and his buddy both got A’s on the test.
Now,nobody can do math except the Asian kids!
This is an important story that no one is talking about.
Stanley Kurtz at NRO has done good work exposing how the College Board’s AP History Framework, which will create a de facto national American History standard to which everyone who wants to take the AP test will be taught, is leftist revisionism designed to break down notions of American identity and American exceptionalism.
See http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/386202/how-college-board-politicized-us-history-stanley-kurtz, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/419192/55-scholars-protest-ap-us-history-changes-stanley-kurtz
Funny side note: Her mother was born in Alexandria, Egypt and I was pure blood American with ancestors all the way back to the Jamestown settlement. That makes my Lilly white kids more African-American than most blacks that spew racism.
It was more than lowering the standards, he designed the test to give them an advantage over the non-favored demographic students to negate their "white privilege". Unfortunately, the more intelligent students outperformed by the same margin as always, providing additional evidence that the differences are not cultural.
Reminds me of the nonsense my nieces talk about.
Be careful my friend...your daughter is already half way indoctrinated.
When she starts talking “Justice”, you are too late.
So true. I've posted the thing below before, but it's germane to this discussion, too.
How I Got My "White Privilege":
Go to bed on time.
Say your prayers.
Clean your room.
Take care of your belongings.
Address your elders as “Ma’am” and “Sir”.
Do your chores before you play.
Respect your parents and the house rules.
Eat what’s put in front of you.
Sit up/stand up straight.
Do your homework.
Get good grades.
Go to Sunday School and church.
Attend confirmation classes and learn your religion.
Obey the Ten Commandments.
Be home on time.
Boys do not hit girls.
Girls do not chase boys.
Avoid a bad crowd.
Do not smoke, drink or swear. If you do, do not let any authority figure catch you.
Obey all driving laws and get a job to pay for your insurance.
Graduate from high school.
Get a job or go to college; if you go to college, also get a job.
Save money for the future.
Wait to get married before having sex.
If you don’t wait, you will have to give up the child or give up school and marry that person. So choose carefully.
Being married is teamwork.
Keep your finances simple and clean.
Work hard and respect your spouse and/or your boss, even if he/she is a jerk.
House, feed, clothe and love your child.
Being a parent involves sacrifice.
Discipline your child fairly; do not spoil, do not abuse.
Read to your child.
Pray with your spouse and your child.
Don’t ignore your spouse or your personal grooming because you’re now married or a parent.
Stay married.
Settle fights with your spouse before going to sleep at night.
Use credit only for a mortgage, a car payment, or emergencies.
If life throws you a lemon, make lemonade.
Repair, reuse, make do. Be grateful for what you've got.
Save money for old age.
Don't try to run your grown kids' lives.
Take care of your elders.
Expect the above values also of your chlldren.
The West has renounced God since the middle of the last century. And it's been steadily downhill ever since.
I thought he taught at Granite State College.
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Dr. David Pook is a professor at Granite State College and chair of the History department at The Derryfield School in Manchester, New Hampshire, who argued in favor of Common Core.
According to Dr. Pook, he helped write it to balance the scales because he, and many others, are benefiting from some mythical ‘white privilege’ that was not earned.
“The reason why I helped write the standards and the reason why I am here today is that as a white male in society I am given a lot of privilege that I didn’t earn.”
Ironically, the $28,535 per year Derryfield School that Dr. Pook teaches at considers the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) inferior and does not use them on the student body that is 91% white.
Dr. David Pook was a guest at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics when he opened up on his reasons for participating in the creation of the Common Core standards.”
https://www.facebook.com/2MillionBikersDC/posts/826194317443416
Thanks—what an ***hole this guy is.
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Of course melanin does not seem to be related to intelligence. The latter is largely biological in its basis. Certain demographics seem to be shorted out in the IQ department. The latter statement based upon admittedly defective tests and common observation; i.e looking and listening.
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
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There are counties and even whole states where, if conservatives and Christians removed their children from the government schools, the whole rotten system of government schooling would immediately and totally collapse. That would be a good thing.
FYI from Boston Magazine’s current issue.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2015/08/25/homeschooling-in-boston/
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Thanks Mears.
That’s an interesting article. I like the home-school process, but I will have to admit that I get a bit suspicious when a parent starts talking about a kid directing what path their education should take at an early age.
I believe there is a core set of knowledge we must have to deal with life. Deciding you like creative arts is fine, but only after you have a very sound grasp of English, Match, Geography, and global dynamics.
If kids show an interest in certain side programs, I say add that to their process, but use it as the recess. If they like it, it will scrub the cobwebs out of their mind like physical activity would. (to an extent)
They also need some physical activity every other day.
They do need social skills, but they don’t need the school experience to get it.
Peer pressure is a very real threat. I hate to address it like that, but anyone who has kids in school knows the extent of peer pressure by grade 3. It’s more powerful than the child parent bond in many instances.
At any ratee, great food for thought.
Thank you.
BTW: Folks need to be aware that public schools are now promoting their own home schooling programs.
I would be very cautious about that. There’s very little doubt in my mind that they would try to slip in the same globalist U. N. psychobabble into the mix.
Avoid that nonsense.
Trump is very vocally anti-Common Core... just sayin’. ;)
“-———— I get a bit suspicious when a parent starts talking about a kid directing what path their education should take at an early age.”
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Me too.
I used to volunteer at Mass Audubon and home-schoolers would bring their children in for nature classes.
One of the instructors said she was having a difficult time teaching 10 year olds because her course included some written material.
One of the 10 year olds couldn’t read because his mother said she would teach him to read when he expressed an interest in learning to read——and he wasn’t interested yet.
I found this a bit bewildering.
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