Posted on 01/07/2015 9:20:51 AM PST by C19fan
Students here study math by calculating the benefits of government land takeovers. They practice English by reciting where late President Hugo Chavez was born and learn civics by explaining why the elderly should give him thanks.
Pro-administration messages scattered through the pages of Venezuela's textbooks have become yet another point of conflict in this hyper-polarized country, where Chavez's socialist party won a bare majority in the presidential elections of 2013.
Parents recently tossed books into the streets in front of some schools and burned them, acts the loyalist media compared to censorship by the Nazis in 1930s Germany. As children head back to school after winter break, many Venezuelans remain outraged over texts that treat the founder of a deeply divisive socialist revolution with the sort of reverence U.S. textbooks reserve for George Washington.
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How is this different than the US? The education establishment everywhere is infested with statism.
Math, science, socialism.
With a melody please:
“One of these things is not like the others....”
Ah, they’re using Common Core down there, too.
lol
No. It’s not quite that bad there. For example, they do actually manage to include some real math and science...
How is it different?
Well, for one thing, the U.S. puts less emphasis on math and science.
;-)
“How is this different than the US? The education establishment everywhere is infested with statism.”
The US doesn’t teach math or science anymore, we have common core, 3 + 4 = 11.
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