Posted on 01/30/2015 9:37:06 AM PST by Reverend Saltine
Moving in exactly the wrong direction. Eliminate all that fluff and those subjective evaluations and grade on a no-curve basis for English, Math, and Science. Make all the other junk pass/fail.
So, how mad would you get at your kid for failing his mandatory “voluntary” community service requirements in order to graduate? Used to be that people got sentenced to “community service” for smallish crimes. LOL!
I could maybe understand “attitude” but “gratitude”?? So wrong.
Give me a high enough grade and I’ll give you gratitude. Is that how that works?
I’m dating myself but when I was in elementary school, we got graded on the subject. On the back of the report card was a handwritten paragraph from the teacher. It was then that any educational or behavioral issues were noted (except in the case they called home if you didn’t something “really” bad). For example. “Johnny is doing well in math but we have discussed that classroom participation could improve his grade” or “Suzy and I have discussed that talking during class instruction is hindering the education of her and those around her”. I never once remember a thing about gratitude or sensitivity toward others.
We’re becoming the Soviet state where political commissars police our every thought and anyone exhibiting counter-revolutionary ideas is automatically determined to be mentally unfit.
We can absolutely expect these ridiculous measurements of children to be used to discriminate against children who express Christian, conservative, or American ideas.
The left are waging war against us. And like that ghoul Anders Breivik in Norway they’re starting their war by attacking our children first.
“So, how mad would you get at your kid for failing his mandatory “voluntary” community service requirements in order to graduate? Used to be that people got sentenced to “community service” for smallish crimes. LOL!”
Try getting into a college without “community service” on your sheets these days. I would have put down: “I broke my ass working, saving for college so that the ‘less fortunate’ can get scholarships, and I paid taxes on top of that. There’s my F^$%## community service”.
Not to worry, now shotgun jojo biteme is saying 4 year college needs to be free. While we’re at it, let’s go ahead and inform all those tenured profs that they’ll no longer be getting big paychecks. :>} Amazing what some of them get paid to destroy children’s minds.
“Grit”. Interesting word choice. It is the word Obama’s speech writers keep throwing into his speeches. Interesting the same, rather odd, word has found its way into the official curriculum. I’m sure it’s pure coincidence. Yup. Just a chance. Not orchestrated in the least. No siree.
Schools now have to teach kids to be nice because it’s not taught at home, and/or people are not so religious anymore. Used to be, kids were taught by their parents and by Sunday school teachers to be nice. Kids’ TV shows also stressed this lesson. Now, you see kids in school acting like wild, foul-mouthed brats, and the parents side with the kids, not the teachers.
Back in the 1950s my school was one of the best in the world. Recently however, it produced tina fey....
Gratitude = groveling to your government masters.
Minus 5pts for being white and minus another 5 for being white male.
Next will be servility.
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