Posted on 08/08/2004 10:39:45 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
Los Angeles - A chain of private California schools - which taught immigrants there are 53 states in the United States and four branches of the US government - was ordered to stop handing out phony diplomas this week, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Friday.
Authorities seized the assets of California Alternative High School and asked a judge to stop the company's 30 schools statewide from handing out "high school diplomas" to students dreaming of a better life through education, Lockyer said.
The company charged its mainly Latino students between $450 and $1,450 for a 10-week course based on a 54-page book that was riddled with errors, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.
Students learned that Congress had two houses - the Senate for Democrats and the House for Republicans; that the US flag had not been updated to reflect the addition of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico to the "original" 50 states; that the federal "administrative" branch oversees the Treasury Department; and that World War Two occurred from 1938 to 1942.
There are, in fact, 50 US states - including Alaska and Hawaii, which are represented on the US. flag. Puerto Rico is a US territory, not a state. There is no "administrative" branch of the US government. The three branches are judicial, executive and legislative. World War Two was fought between 1939 and 1945, although the United States did not enter the war until 1941.
The workbook also refers to the play, Death of a Traveling Salesman, not Arthur Miller's classic Death of a Salesman.
The company claimed to have 78 locations nationwide and said it was actively expanding operations despite court orders in two other states that sought to block it from claiming the diplomas were "official," Lockyer said.
Published on the Web by IOL on 2004-08-07 09:48:03
BTW, even Reuters doesn't think we're so stupid we need the truth explained to us. The article was written for worldwide consumption.
Rush nearly fell out of chair laughing as he read the insanity taught at this phoney baloney "school."
You realize the left will blame all private schools collectively.
There's not? :-P
What's worse, they probably wouldn't know where these 53 states were on a map.
And this is worse than California public schools how?
Why not? The right seems to blame every public school and teacher every time some idiocy is exposed relating to a public school. Collective guilt is garbage (one would think that the push for reparations for slavery would prove that point conclusively)...
If those public schools are run by government and unions then they pretty much are guilty to some extent. =o)
I'm glad Reuters gave us a history lesson at the end of the article...
I blame it all on the Senate for Democrats!
BTTT
and the RINO's in the administrative branch too!!
Some of it is justified. Most teachers indoctrinate kids into Liberalism, and teachers unions back Democrats, and it is the Democrats who squeal the loudest about school funding. If these kids are that stupid, being taught be equally stupid teachers, I have no shred of guilt either one of them.
If little Johnny was asked to answer "2+2", and he said "5", the teacher will just say "Very good Johnny!! Your Mommy and Daddy must be very proud of you!! I know I am!!" without reinforcing the fact that 2+2 does not equal 5. Most teachers couldn't care less, as long as they get a paycheck once or twice a month, they're happy. It's not their kid they're teaching at school.
Pot, meet kettle?
Seriously, though, the tactic of substituting "all" or "most" for "some" is intellectual laziness at its height. I daresay I know more than the vast majority of freepers about this particular occupation and its challenges. As someone who has worked in both sectors, the proportion of incompetent teachers is probably equivalent to the proportion of incompetent workers in the average workplace. The issue is systemic, not individual (See my post HERE for a lengthier treatment of the issue)...
Document your sources for this contention. Especially the statistics underlying this assertion...
Who's teaching the kids? The 2-income parents certainly aren't.
My 18 year old daughter has a friend that thinks we have 52 states. She is dead set on Alaska and Hawaii being 51 and 52.
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