Posted on 01/15/2017 6:46:19 PM PST by Bogle
By the time students enter college, they want to focus on their specific area of study or proposed career. Educators should dictate what’s best for the curriculum, not legislators.
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“There are plenty of good teachers out there”
Maybe in the hard sciences, although even those are likely to be doctrinaire Stalinists who give known conservatives lower grades.
The ones who’ve taught my kids K-12 have been uniformly stupid.
You may have heard about a 2013 survey by Public Policy Polling of Republican primary voters in Louisiana. When asked, “Who do you think was more responsible for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina: George W. Bush or Barack Obama?,” 29 percent blamed Obama, who took office in 2009; 28 percent blamed Bush, his predecessor. Bush was in office when Hurricane Katrina hammered the state in August 2005.No, Mr. Chesley: More likely the GOP primary voters knew that Public Policy Polling was the Democratic Party and were trolling the poll. But by all means, stay ignorant.
Short memories, I guess. …
You learn history if you love it. All you need is a library. I can’t remember when I wasn’t reading history ... age 5, 6, I was reading the “Young Americans Biographies,” or whatever that series was in the school library.
There is NOTHING more fun than history, unless it’s theology, which is also history and biography.
One should run when one hears the word “educator”.
Teachers taught.
Educators propagandize.
Remember, Ayers has a doctorate in “Education”.
And he’d be shlepping coffee were it not for the “education” industry.
Neither - it was Mayor Nagan and the worthless Democrat running the state that didn’t react properly to Katrina. In reality, it wasn’t the federal government’s constitutional duty to respond, and as a resident of another state, I totally RESENT the concept that my tax dollars should somehow be spent to help people that weren’t smart enough to heed the warnings of the obvious oncoming storm.
Napoleon said something like this: “History is a set of lies men have agreed on.”
People are interesting, both how and why we live the way we do is fascinating.
I thought it was impossible for someone to teach history badly, not just incorrectly but in a such a way as to snuff out any interest the child might have in the subject. I was wrong.
In school anymore they make history as dry and boring as possible. It is remote and the people in it are sucked dry of personality and motivation.
I understand that.
But given the choices on the poll question, what would GOP primary voters say? They must have shaken their heads and just let them have it.
“Neither - it was Mayor Nagan and the worthless Democrat running the state that didn’t react properly to Katrina.”
We need to carve that onto wooden stakes and drive them through the hearts of libtards any time they resurrect this lie.
I remember reading at the time that the governor told Bush to butt out, that she’d handle it.
That's what Sam Cooke was known to say...
Take, for example, the history teacher who teaches only about the evils of the McCarthy hearings
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Especially since McCarthy was correct.
Those who learn nothing from history are condemned to repeat it...
next semester.
Apparently, this guy is running a jobs program for history professors.
I read something to that effect recently. I’m sorry that I don’t remember where I read it, but they made a convincing case that you’re correct and that the left has hijacked the whole series of events for their own propaganda. I might need to start putting the word—evil—in quotation marks. In any event, your reply is appreciated.
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