California school fails the test (Phony school teaches "53 states" & "4 branches of government!")

IOL via Reuters ^ | August 7, 2004

[Dont Mention the War]

Is it wrong of me to find this hilarious?

[Dont Mention the War]

BTW, even Reuters doesn't think we're so stupid we need the truth explained to us. The article was written for worldwide consumption.

[FormerACLUmember]

Rush nearly fell out of chair laughing as he read the insanity taught at this phoney baloney "school."

[GeronL]

You realize the left will blame all private schools collectively.

[Jet Jaguar]

Nope, it is hilarious and a bit sickening. Rush Limbaugh talked a bit about it on Friday. It was funny.

[South40]

which taught immigrants there are 53 states in the United States

There's not? :-P

[BigSkyFreeper]

What's worse, they probably wouldn't know where these 53 states were on a map.

[nickcarraway]

And this is worse than California public schools how?

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

You realize the left will blame all private schools collectively.

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)...

[GeronL]

If those public schools are run by government and unions then they pretty much are guilty to some extent. =o)

[endthematrix]

I'm glad Reuters gave us a history lesson at the end of the article...

[endthematrix]

I blame it all on the Senate for Democrats!

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[GeronL]

and the RINO's in the administrative branch too!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

The right seems to blame every public school and teacher every time some idiocy is exposed relating to a public school.

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.

[BigSkyFreeper]

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.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

If these kids are that stupid, being taught be equally stupid teachers, I have no shred of guilt either one of them.

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)...

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

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.

Document your sources for this contention. Especially the statistics underlying this assertion...

[BigSkyFreeper]

Who's teaching the kids? The 2-income parents certainly aren't.

[texasflower]

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.