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Man do we have some dumb teachers teaching students
onlinewsj ^ | 6-15-2011 | edcoil

Posted on 06/15/2011 6:55:12 AM PDT by edcoil

Only 35% of fourth-graders knew the purpose of the Declaration of Independence. The news was even more dire in high school, where 12% of 12th-graders were proficient.

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KEYWORDS: education; historyeducation; socialstudies; teachers
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To: Leaning Right
So not all teachers are Marxists!
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**ALL** government teachers in government owned and run government K-12 schools support the following merely by **willingly** agreeing to work in them. ( Last I checked, no one was holding a gun to their heads.)

** Socialism. All government owned and run schools are funded by threat of armed police action against citizens. ( Socialism is Marxism lite.) Merely by attending children learn to be comfortable with taking money from a neighbor for a service that their parents want for free.

** Collectivist and voter mob run schools. Merely by attending learn to be comfortable with the collectivist voting mob control their daily lives and even the thoughts they are forced to think.

** Godlessness. ALL ( that means every) government owned and run school in this nation establishes godless secular humanism. Children will learn to think and reason godlessly. They must simply to cooperate with the classroom instruction and complete assignments.

** Government compulsion. Any parent who can not afford to ransom their children from the godless, collectivist, voter mob run, socialist government schools is under armed police threat to send their children to the godless government schools. ( Too bad if the government schools work tirelessly to destroy the political, cultural, and religious worldview taught in the home.) Oh!...And since government is running a price -fixed monopoly and giving schooling away for free, this makes private schools scarce! ( My county has NO private schools of any kind.)

So?....ALL government teachers **willingly** accept a paycheck for establishing godless schools that establish the religion of godless secular humanism, and teach children to be comfortable with taking money from a neighbor by way of armed police threat, collectivism, voter mobs, and government compulsion.

Yet...Some claim not to be Marxists. ( Yeah right!) ( eye roll!)

81 posted on 06/15/2011 11:04:24 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: Leaning Right

So not all teachers are Marxists!
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Oh! And...If any conservative and/or Christian thinks they can sneak in a little conservatism or Christianity they are, **indeed**, teaching an important lesson!

Lesson learned: Conservatives and Christians are sneaky!


82 posted on 06/15/2011 11:06:27 AM PDT by wintertime
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To: tcrlaf

“I personally don’t blame the teachers themselves.”

Well, I do. Only a major character flaw would permit someone to believe they’re entitled to be highly compensated for worse-than-inferior work.

I guess it’s a chicken/egg kind of thing — unions/politicians. Whichever came “first”, they’re both screwing the taxpayers.


83 posted on 06/15/2011 11:20:31 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: lyby
Teacher is here again... by GPS (Global Positioning System) did you actually mean GPA (Grade Point Average)?
Argh! Of course I did.

GPA. Grade point Average

(I did say theirs, not mine :))

84 posted on 06/15/2011 11:38:46 AM PDT by China Clipper (My favorite animals usually are found next to the rice on my plate.)
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To: China Clipper

place marker


85 posted on 06/15/2011 12:03:06 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: AppyPappy

Elite liberals accept prejudice when it’s against any white person from the South .


86 posted on 06/15/2011 1:43:49 PM PDT by GOPJ (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. - - Orwell)
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To: GOPJ

They eventually added “regionalism” to the list of harassing behaviors. Of course they meant the bashing of Yankees.


87 posted on 06/15/2011 1:50:46 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: driftless2

They who control the present, control the past; they who control the past, control the future. (George Orwell - 1984)


88 posted on 06/15/2011 3:35:05 PM PDT by Studebaker Hawk (These geeks are a dime-a-dozen. I'm looking for the man with the dimes. Freddy Blassy)
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To: Leaning Right

History teacher here. I have a real history degree. Agree with you wholeheartedly.

No sense in complaining about the system, the system is what it is. Just have to buckle down and make sure that your kids are not part of the statistics.

I love teaching and thankfully my supervisor is well aware of my conservative leanings.


89 posted on 06/15/2011 5:08:54 PM PDT by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman!)
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To: ctdonath2

I failed two for the same reason. Insufficient effort. Their parents were not happy and I told them that I was happy to sit down and discuss with them why they were getting failed.

I told the parents that my job was to teach the kids, and if they weren’t learning or making the effort to learn, then I would be doing them a favour by giving them a wakeup call now.

I told them that failure is an opportunity to improve and that I wasn’t going to pass anyone that I felt wasn’t ready for the next step up. I actually got a gift from one of the parents a couple weeks later thanking me. She said that I had given her son plenty of warning throughout the year and that she had been trying to impress on him the need to study. He had expected me to just pass everyone.


90 posted on 06/15/2011 5:15:14 PM PDT by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman!)
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To: China Clipper

Did you stand there going, “anyone? Anyone? Axis Powers were...anyone?”


91 posted on 06/15/2011 5:24:31 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Mitt Romney makes Nelson Rockefeller look like Ronald Reagan. NO MITT 2012.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I strongly believe that the Federal Government is TOO BIG. The Department of Education, for one, should be abolished. Public schools should “belong” to the people of the local community whose children attend those schools and whose taxes support those schools. I cannot agree that educating our children should even be considered “for profit”.


92 posted on 06/16/2011 8:59:36 AM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: lyby

“For profit” education is good enough for rich people, why not the rest of us?


93 posted on 06/16/2011 9:18:42 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The Sixteenth Amendment - a.k.a. - The Slavery Amendment)
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To: Gabz
Same here during “testing season” - teachers are “not allowed” to present any new material, give homework, quizzes, or tests. Which I understand, as that time is stressful enough for students - well, at least those who take testing seriously!

However, I have learned that I can incorporate the extension lessons that I do not have time to include prior to testing. So, we learn about M.C. Escher and students create their own tessellations, using their knowledge related to transformations (they also are required to write a paragraph using correct mathematical terms to describe their tessellation); we learn about Vitruvius and Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, then explore the ratio of arm span to height and the Golden Ratio. We also explore the Fibonnacci Sequence and other patterns; and we “play” with the graphing calculators and CBRs. (They think it's “cool” that I have found some “neat” videos on YouTube about these topics.)

Did I mention that I thoroughly ENJOY teaching 7th grade Math? :-)

94 posted on 06/16/2011 9:20:34 AM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I need you to elaborate... what do you mean by “...good enough for rich people, why not the rest of us?”


95 posted on 06/16/2011 9:29:18 AM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
Last year my daughter was in first grade, she memorized the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. We homeschool : )

Excellent! My daughter goes to a private school. Every morning they recite three prayers, one in English, one in French, one in Spanish (they are conversant in French and Spanish by the time they graduate 8th grade). They also recite the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States.

Kids are capable of so much more than the public schools offer.

96 posted on 06/16/2011 9:29:31 AM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Task 1: Accomplished, Task 2: Hold them Accountable!)
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To: lyby
Did I mention that I thoroughly ENJOY teaching 7th grade Math? :-)

No, but it is kind of obvious :)

97 posted on 06/16/2011 9:56:17 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: lyby
Did I mention that I thoroughly ENJOY teaching 7th grade Math? :-)

No, but it is kind of obvious :)

98 posted on 06/16/2011 10:02:12 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: lyby
The wealthy do not send their children to public schools, by and large. There exists an elite school system attended by the wealthy and another public system for the rabble (that would be us).

Entrance into the most prestigious colleges requires attendance in these elite elementary schools.

Can you think of any example of a public service being offered that is superior to the private counterpart?

99 posted on 06/17/2011 4:47:55 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The Sixteenth Amendment - a.k.a. - The Slavery Amendment)
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