Posted on 10/05/2009 9:05:59 PM PDT by jazusamo
It does my heart good to know that there are still thinking adults in this country.
Children are sacred!
There’s a place for civics exercises, although not at the expense of reading, writing, and arithmetic. We don’t know from this if the letter that Mr. Sowell got was from a program that was abusing school time.
And... the kid could have done much worse than to contact Sowell.
My wife taught math in Christian Schools. The last two did not renew her contract because she was not touchy feely enough for them.
She was told at the last one her heart was not right. She gave up a good career to work for next to nothing at these schools. She was very good with Male high school students, getting them to grasp facts and figures.
I personally think it was a very loving thing to do.
Correct...Sowell should be required reading in all middle schools and above.
He should be Obama's Safe School Czar!!!!!Instead of the homoerotic, NAMBLA Supporting pedophile Obama has in the position now.
Mark him well, Kevin( Pro Homo life style education) Jennings, the enemy:
If he is to be anywhere near your children, KEEP THEM HOME!!!!
If that was the case her heart was in the right place, math is not a touchy feely subject and too few students have a grasp of it when graduating HS.
Excellent article by Thomas Sowell. He points out the essential lack of respect for the individual that the Left has. To them, people are only pawns to be manipulated in Socialist power plays. And if a few tens or hundreds of millions of them get killed in the process, so what? Just rewrite your classroom history books to cover up the atrocities like the Soviets, Nazis and Chinese Communists have tried to do.
You should print this out.
Agreed, Jennings is a sicko and should probably be in jail.
Interesting & a great points.
A teacher in New York asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans.
Not really knowing what an Obama fan was, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.
The teacher asked Little Johnny why he decided to be Different... again.
Little Johnny said, ‘Because I’m not an Obama fan.’
The teacher said, ‘Why aren’t you an Obama fan?’
Johnny said, ‘Because I’m a Republican.’
The teacher asked why he’s a Republican. Little Johnny answered, ‘Well, My Mom’s a Republican and my Dad’s a Republican, so I’m a Republican.’
The teacher asks, ‘If your Mom was a moron and your Dad was an idiot, what would that make you?’
With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, ‘That Would make me an Obama fan.’
LOL! A smart kid.
I have a fairly low tolerance for little kids and their antics, but I find kids like little Johnny to be delightful.
I was once told by a Black teacher that my presentation to the class was not “meaningful for their lives”. In other words the history was presented to them as exciting and facinating but I did not connect to early teen “needs”.
Sowell’s book, INSIDE AMERICAN EDUCATION is great!
This sounds like an apocryphal story.
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