Crusading to keep kids clueless

TownHall.com ^ | 8/23/2002 | Michelle Malkin

[dd5339]

Home school ping!

Semper Fi

[Hugin]

art teachers masquerading as history teachers

Reminds me of my 7th grade history class which was taught by a Home Ec teacher. She told the class that WWI was started when Germany invaded Poland. I pointed out that there was no Poland when WWI started, and was told I was wrong and be quiet.

[EggsAckley]

Indeed! How dare they?


I have a sister-in-law who holds a teaching credential in Calif. She is absolutely mud-fence dumb, box-a-rocks. Her youngest child (20 yrs.) is still border-line illiterate, and I believe she herself is too.

California desperately needs help.

[RAT Patrol]

Whew! She did a great job!

[tcostell]

Introduction to Physical sciences 9th grade public high school:

The teacher (a PHD in education), said that when a liquid is heated it will always turn to a gas, and up went my hand.

"what about an egg?" I said respectfully.

He thought for a few seconds then told me that I had no business being so disrespectful, and sent me to the principals office.

I know now that a different reaction occurs when you heat an egg so no physics flames please, but at the time it was an innocent question posed by a 14 year old. He didn't know, so I wasn't supposed to ask.

Thanks NEA.

[LiteKeeper]

bump for later

[hattend]

Who's winning most/all of those national Bees? Mostly homeschooled kids. BTTT

[alloysteel]

On a purely objective basis, children who have been home-schooled through the eighth grade level, when tested on a comparative basis with even the best of public school students, almost invariably prove to be equally or better educated in the basic skills (reading comprehension, language skills like spelling and pronunciation, computational skills, history, geography, basic science and probably most importantly, people skills like simple courtesy and manners). As a group, home-schooled children have a much lower rate of delinquencies (hardly surprising) and achieve much higher personal goals sooner in life. In short, there is NO downside, except that it becomes readily apparent that public school students are shortchanged in every conceivable way. Even the smartest. The more challenged the student, the greater the disparity.

[TxBec]

Homeschool bump

-Bec who was "taught" Algebra in high school by a football coach.

[Congressman Billybob]

This article is one more proof, if any be needed, that reforming American society requireis educational reform as a central element. Because the calendar is inexorable, in another generation the next generation will inherit the leadership of America. They will inherit it whether or not they are dumb as a bag of hammers on what America is and how we got to this point.

Second link, below, for more on this.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest column: "The Truth of a Gravel Road."

Click for latest book: "to Restore Trust in America"

[toenail]

"I have a sister-in-law who holds a teaching credential in Calif. She is absolutely mud-fence dumb, box-a-rocks. Her youngest child (20 yrs.) is still border-line illiterate, and I believe she herself is too."

I have a sister-in-law, credentialed by Missouri, who is one of the biggest airheads I've ever met. Someone here on FR made the observation that it's rare to hold an intelligent conversation with a public school teacher. Personally, when talking to public school teachers (dippy elementary school teachers), I count the number of times they use the phrase "lesson plan." It's funny (and sad and despicable) that all conversations approaching intelligent discourse immediately fall back into the "I had a lesson plan once about [something irrelevant]."

[dasboot]

Wow....shaping up to be a very interesting set of circumstances:

Will the FedGov under the direction of Bush step in to protect the common-law rights of parents from the tyranny of the State?

If not, will parents with homeschoolers begin to leave the state in droves? (I think yes)

Will the state child-protection agencies then obtain warrants for the prosecution of parents who want to leave because they're placing their children at-risk, and skirting the CA law?

Will there be a lot of folks doing the "von Trapp" over the Sierra Nevadas, chased by truant officers and community police?

Could happen!

Wow!

Bush and Ashcroft could put a quick kabosh on this foolishness: I think, under the 14th Amendment and precedent of 2000 years of Common Law, there's a clear violation to be addressed. Will they do the right thing? Or are they too busy protecting us from Arab terrorists to give it a thought?

[madvlad]

Of course!!!!!

If you heat the egg to a sufficiently high temp,
you will get a gas! All that carbon, hydrogen
and oxygen (plus sulfur) has to go somewhere!!

Oxidation rules!!!!

Mad Vlad

[Types_with_Fist]

I have three children and every single experience I had with public education was BAD. I finally yanked the kids out after my son came home to tell me of his teacher's lectures on his life as a "pagan." The creep gave the kids a homework assignment to "write a spell." That wasn't the worst thing my wife and I saw, just the last one.

We can settle for nothing less than the elimination of the Department of Education and completely localized school choice for the future of our country.

[toenail]

Never trust a Rockefeller Republican.

Bush has a 21st Century Workforce that will need even more borderline-illiterate, docile, cheap serfs who shut up and do what their manager tells them to do. When he says "Leave No Child Alone," I'm inclined to believe he means exactly what he says.

[agrace]

For my last 3 years of HS, Latin 2,3 &4 were taught by a guy who doubled as Dean of Students. All tests were open book, and at some point during my sophomore year, he collected 5 bucks from each kid for Latin Club dues, for which we never did a single thing. My entire senior year was spent "translating" the Aenied while he sat at his desk reading something or other. We all thought it was a complete joke, which it was, and even though we claimed it was great that we got off so easy, we all knew what a lousy, lazy teacher he was.

[Tired of Taxes]

Reading article after article here about the persecution of California homeschoolers, I feel so bad for all of them. I'm wishing you all the best of luck in this latest development! I was outraged when our local school principal threatened me with truancy charges for our then four-year-old son. Luckily, the law is on our side in NJ.

[homeschool mama]

Many public school teachers I know have a disturbing type of arrogance about them. Then again, I know others who are wonderfully refreshing...they're the ones that send their own kiddos to private school.

[stlrocket]

A graphic demonstration depicting Home Schooling & Public Education:

WHICH SPIDER WOULD YOU RATHER BE?