Posted on 03/07/2005 5:22:14 AM PST by cinives
Looks like saving America's children is another task for Generation X!
Nice article - today, instead of allowing kids to fail at some endeavors and be strengthened by the experience, we tell them that they are successes even if they do nothing.
Now kids have to go to Pre-K and the Kindergarten, before they can get in the grades, These extrra two years arent doing them any good at all obviously, since we never had them and we learned to read and write. But what the heck it gives the parents two extra years to unload them into a failing school system,instead of raising them at home or more likely at a baby sitters.
That would be "all" as in 100%?
Holy mackarel!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1357588/posts
Good article...excellent points.
It may not represent the entire problem but its certainly one aspect of it.
Definitely food for thought.
There is an ad on TV for some prescription drug for rheumatoid arthritis.......and one of th scenes always strikes me the wrong way. It is an middle aged woman who says something along the lines of "I don't want to be know for great literature, I just want to teach my 3rd graders to read"
My daughter was able to read and write before kindergarten, as was I. what is this teaching 3rd graders to read? If they can't read what are they doing in 3rd grade?
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All applicants interviewed nationally for a position by Motorola failed tests on seventh-grade English and fifth-grade math ...
What job were they applying for? Could have been toilet cleaner, for example, thereby screening out all those who would rather not do that and would also be able to get better jobs.
Way "back then" there wasn't a Child Protective Service that took kids from parents who spanked them, or a federal Department of Education whose liberals instructed children in the "joys" of homosexuality.
In NM the legislature just passed a bill for 3-4 year olds to go to school. It's sad.
I see the result of this every day
Between this and the mainstreaming of the Hip-Hop/Rap thug "culture", there is a class of people that have plenty of self-esteem, and no knowledge base. They respect nothing, and no one, but demand respect from everyone, individuals and institutions.
Anything less than an abject display of "respect" brings an angry response that the were "dissed". Which showes a couple other things. They have cheapened the word disrepect by using it as a verb, and they're too lazy to use all the syllables.
The human race is evolving backwards in many respcts
“They do not seem to have the same traditional sense of respect and commitment for family,” he said.
Could these statements be related?
Our children are also suffering from the aftermath of a generation or so of bi-lingual education. My son was in one of those classes. The teacher told all the english speaking kids to be silent she was now speaking to the spanish kids. So how much time out of the day each day did those kids lose of the chance at an education?
A simple solution, costing nothing, change the curriculiam to The 1940"s. Eliminate garbage. Enforce disapline or go to reform schools. Also get the unions out.
Check my post (#13) on the mainstreaming of rap/hip hop.
I seriously believe them to be one of the most destructive influences in todays culture, when combined with the emphasis on "self-esteem" in child-rainsing and schooling
I believe that would work.
home school
The new CORE of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
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