Posted on 06/08/2014 7:07:52 PM PDT by massmike
Edited on 06/08/2014 7:46:06 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
At least one pair of parents is fuming after their eighth-grade daughter came home from school saying that every student in her class had to indicate
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The Doors, Back Door Man.
Second Hint:
With Gay Men, it replaces Home Plate, since there is no Home Plate between two Gay Guys. Something is missing from the equation and can only be provided by the Opposite Sex.
That's the best I can do with this being a Family oriented Site.
Sodomy is bad and unhealthy male or female.
I bet if you count to 100 and take a deep breath and use anonymous email you can do it.
I just sent mine out and copied the superintendent. The worst I did was call him a pervert.
Sounds like a great lesson. I know that as an 8th grade boy I would have loved hearing the answers from all the 8th grade girls. I would even have taken notes. What could go wrong?
I would like to see the permission slip and what was actually described for this class before calling the parents failures.
That being said, if you care about your children and their futures, get them out of public schools.
There’s a difference between agreeing to allow your kid to be in such a class with such a curriculum—and the school asking for students to make such statements publicly to their classmates.
Er, ya mean the dugout?
Back in the day I think Back Door Man meant they guy you were cheating with (sneaking out the back door as your husband comes in the front).
“The parents sign permission slips for the class and can look at the curriculum prior,” the Woodland Park Middle School told KGTV. “The purpose of the lesson was to open the lines of communication between parents and students about dating expectations.”
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Yeah, the good old days. Now we have Children being propagandized in the “New School” of thought.
I’m afraid the Genie is out of the Bottle, never to return.
This story sounds really preposterous. It it true?
Yup. Also made it that far without cars, websites, or modern medicine. Makes sense to me, let’s go back!
Modeling your life on a world that doesn’t exist anymore is silly. The trick is to make what we have better.
John Gatto is a three-time teacher of the year, NY City, who claims our public ed system is a total disaster. He notes that it is based on a Prussian model which was intended to produce cannon fodder and bricks in the wall, and not self-reliant people.
"... It is the great triumph of compulsory government monopoly mass-schooling that among even the best of my fellow teachers, and among the best of my students' parents, only a small number can imagine a different way to do things. "The kids have to know how to read and write, don't they?" "They have to know how to add and subtract, don't they?" "They have to learn to follow orders if they ever expect to keep a job."Only a few lifetimes ago things were very different in the United States. Originality and variety were common currency; our freedom from regimentation made us the miracle of the world; social-class boundaries were relatively easy to cross; our citizenry was marvelously confident, inventive, and able to do much for themselves independently, and to think for themselves. We were something special, we Americans, all by ourselves, without government sticking its nose into our lives, without institutions and social agencies telling us how to think and feel. We were something special, as individuals, as Americans.
But we've had a society essentially under central control in the United States since just before the Civil War, and such a society requires compulsory schooling, government monopoly schooling, to maintain itself. Before this development schooling wasn't very important anywhere. We had it, but not too much of it, and only as much as an individual wanted. People learned to read, write, and do arithmetic just fine anyway; there are some studies that suggest literacy at the time of the American Revolution, at least for non-slaves on the Eastern seaboard, was close to total. Thomas Paine's Common Sense sold 600,000 copies to a population of 3,000,000, twenty percent of whom were slaves, and fifty percent indentured servants.
Were the colonists geniuses? No, the truth is that reading, writing, and arithmetic only take about one hundred hours to transmit as long as the audience is eager and willing to learn. The trick is to wait until someone asks and then move fast while the mood is on. Millions of people teach themselves these things, it really isn't very hard. Pick up a fifth-grade math or rhetoric textbook from 1850 and you'll see that the texts were pitched then on what would today be considered college level. The continuing cry for "basic skills" practice is a smoke screen behind which schools preempt the time of children for twelve years and teach them the seven lessons I've just described to you....
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