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To: supremedoctrine
How could our math skills be sliding when the Media puts forth someone like Snoop Dog as an Icon?

Parental guidance has far more to do with it than media influence. The kids of immigrants excel at math because their parents insist that they study, review their homework and demand good grades, not because they avoid rap music. If schools let down, it's up to parents to pick it up.
30 posted on 10/11/2008 10:00:13 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
> Parental guidance has far more to do with it than media influence. The kids of immigrants excel at math because their parents insist that they study, review their homework and demand good grades, not because they avoid rap music. If schools let down, it's up to parents to pick it up.

All academically successful children are homeschooled. If they are institutionalized for their schooling, the parents are doing tons of "afterschooling" ( AKA "homeschooling") at home.

What government schools are really doing is sending home a free curriculum for the parents and child to follow. Little learning actually happens in the school. It is the parent and child who are doing 99% of the work **at home**.

Odd isn't it? When kids do poorly government teachers are quick to blame the parent. When good parents do a great job of "afterschooling" the teachers are right there to take the credit.

In truth, academically successful children do well **in spite** of being imprisoned and being treated like prisoners in their government indoctrination camps. This is true even in immigrant families. These parents find mentors ( cousins, aunts, uncles, neighbors) to teach their children at home.

36 posted on 10/11/2008 10:55:59 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I was being facetious about Snoop Dog....
but he and this whole ugly pothead Thug culture and its imagery just gets worse and worse by the day, and must have an audience, or it wouldn’t be there. The big question mark is, just what constitutes that audience? Where does its money come from , to make these morons multi-millionaires?


38 posted on 10/11/2008 11:42:59 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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