Gotta get the basics out of the way so the real marxist indoctrination can begin.
Sure...they teach them everything but how to think for themselves. At least they aren’t making them sit through “An Inconvenient Truth” anymore.
We do everything backwards. We try to stuff academic knowledge into little kids who should be learning to play games on the playground, but when kids get to the prime learning age of 10-14, we let them go off and do their own thing.
If they aren’t up here in Massachusetts, they probably aren’t teaching them about homosexuality yet, either.
Yet.
Out in Orange, MA, they prohibited an 11 year old kid from hanging his picture of an American flag on the wall because it might offend “one of the other students”.
No lie.
Kids who watch Sesame Street learn this knowledge quite quicklyM
. It’s visual repetition.
It’s almost like they know more in third-fourth grade than any future grade. The lack of real moral guideline and training means that the kids become feral once the hormones start kicking in.
I’m speaking from my experiences during two recent years doing substitute teaching in all grades in over a dozen schools.
Yes, the technology is really great, far more information and educational materials available to anyone anywhere. But the textbooks are horrid, the moral guidance absent, the classroom demeanor too chaotic to learn in many classes.
Still up to third grade, it’s reasonably good. After that — shameful, except that the modern school establishment knows shame not.
It really depends on where you live. Here in rural West Virginia where the teachers tend to be nearly as socially conservative as the general population, the liberal indoctrination crap is slim to none. The teachers at my kids school even ignore the stupid nutrition rules the state passed that bans candy and “unhealthy” snacks at school parties, they just let the parents pass them out and pretend not to notice.
Since the kids need to know it before starting school, it sound more like the parents are doing the teaching.
It gives the school more time to indoctrinate the young minds about Heather’s two momies.
Don’t worry. After 12 years, they’ll be totally illiterate.
As I recall, not only did we know colors shapes ABCs and numbers. we had to know how to read basic words and sentences. Of course that was the 60s....... My children just graduated HS and the senior year sole requirement was to eat lunch.(no actual classes were required!)
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Learning the basics has been pushed down so that kids are now expected to learn what they used to learn a grade or two early.
Five year-olds should be playing and learning how to get along, not academics. As a sweet friend (preschool teacher) of mine once said, “Future employers can train people to do the job, they need people who can get along together.”
They really do of themselves alot and have to resort to contrived studies alot.
Last chance to learn before the union teachers get their claws into them.
My kindergarten was only half a day and we had to write our name, count(to ten I think), and know our address and phone number to get to first grade. Some kids knew more than the minimum. I remember being angry that I didn’t know the days of the week when a girl in my class did.
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My granddaughters school.
Cyrillic or Chinese?
know how to write their name,
How else can they sign away their rights?
be able to count to 20,
How else will they know how many full meals in a month?
and know all of the basic colors
Mostly red.
and shapes
You know, hammers, ... sickles, ... that kind of thing.
They want them to know it so that the teachers won’t have to do their jobs.
I agree. Our 2nd grade grandson in AK has already learned fractions ~ in 2nd grade! And he has weekly book reports due plus an hour of homework nightly.
I was shocked.
when i started kindergarten in the early seventies, i had to know my abc’s, count to 20, know my full name, phone number, and how to tie my shoes.
a few months ago i called that same public school and asked what sort of stuff my 5 yr old needed to know when she starts k this year and i was told “oh you know, basically just the stuff she is already learning in pre-school.” i informed this individual that my child does not go to pre-school, or daycare, and i needed to know what i should work with her on. the dingbat on the other end of the phone said “well, i don’t know really, it’s just the stuff she should have learned in pre-school.”
hubbymayhem and i took the girl in for registration and a teacher talked to us and to our daughter. she pulled the girl aside and spent about 20 minutes giving her a “quiz”. my never went to pre-school kid scored 87 out of 100 on a quiz that is specifically designed so that no one gets 100%. the teacher was a bit surprised that no pre-school was involved. alphabet,check; count to 10, check; shapes, check; matching,check; write her name, check; name the picture, check; eventually blow the bell curve all to hell, damn right!