Posted on 08/15/2006 5:54:24 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
Many did. The statistic you are seeing do not include those numbers.
Their names were; Tameeka, LaSonya, Reshonda, Atari, Lashonda, Lerhonda, Amahalia,........and Beth.
Try the books from the 30's and 40's. They were really hard and so were the teachers. To graduate from high school in those times was more than equivalent to getting a college degree. It was much tougher yet in the early 1900's. To get out of high school then they had a final test that many college professors these days could not pass.
10-1 says the ACLU and NOW goes after them for mentioning abstinence...
Sounds like they did the "extra credit" as well.
This is one class where the students will know more than the teachers.
Timken High School is 42% Black. 70% of out-of-wedlock births are black. Do the math, and it is obvious what's happening here.
The article would NEVER mention this, as it's so un-PC, yet it is the root of the problem in the lack of responsiblity exhibited here. Wanna guess how many of the new pregnancies are those who are from "single parent" homes?
Math and English haven't changed since 1988, just the ability to teach it has.
More Sex Education just like more money is always the answer for schools.
Oh yes, they are now written in Spanish.
Oh but that had nothing to do with it. It is all the result of not passing out free condoms to everyone and showing them how to use them. People don't need two parents, they need condoms and condom education.
Oh...that's right....I must be "old-fashioned"....silly me.
And now they don't have problems with definitive answers, just excercises that evaluate students on how well they work with each other advancing social causes.
Good to meet you.
I live in southern Georgia. I doubt there is much left for me to learn regarding this subject.
Hi....there's still a few traditional values people left down there, I know. We've got too many who will just ignore the assault on morality because they're too busy with their lives. Somehow, we will start to turn this out-of-control depravity and dependency on the gubmint around, hopefully, before it's TOO late.
The final exam...
Sex is like fire. It can be a very good thing, vital and sustaining, or it can be a very bad thing, horribly painful, crippling and destructive. The difference between the two is where the fire burns.
If the fire is kept in a fireplace, where it belongs, then it's a wonderful thing. If it's not in a fireplace, it can destroy your home and your life, and often the homes and lives of others.
The "fireplace" for sex is a committed marriage.
So would I. I've gone online and visited used book and even antique stores to find some good old-fashioned math textbooks, but I just can't find them.
I will have to share that with my daughters when they begin dating.
So, yeah, I would be upset if my kids school were using texts from the 80s, the height of the garbage period.
Similarly, schools have returned to real reading, and sounding out words. Texts from the 80s were based on sight reading, and hence are worthless.
Not that this has anything to do with sex ed, of course...
It's already too late. I hate to sound pessimistic, but I'm a realist. Our grandchildren are headed for an economic collapse that will make the 1930s seem like an all expense paid vacation to a Disney park due to people voting themselves access to other people's money, yet radically overspending even that level.
EVERYONE in the USA is lined up for their handouts; Medicaid/Medicare, Social Security, crop subsidies, etc.
The only possible way out is for a RADICAL currency devaluation to occur through printing more fiat money, thus causing runaway inflation to come, thus making government debt "smaller".
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