Posted on 03/29/2012 7:51:55 PM PDT by indianrightwinger
I was checking my 8-yr old son's classwork assignment grades. He was so demoralized that he was getting C, D and F on many assignments. I was shocked and delved deeper. Turns out he is assiged a letter grade on these assignments even though he is "making progress" getting up to 70 or even 80 percent of the questions right. Worse, he was assigned an F grade on an assignment because he did not get the meaning for terms "Human Rights" and "Tolerance".
WTF is an 8-yr old supposed to know this shtuff?
Damn....I am seriously considering pulling him out of school and home schooling.
I don’t know if you have seen The Pioneer Woman on Food network but she homeschools and has a link on her website for fellow homeschoolers. Pretty awesome stuff there.
(Oh and FWIW, in elementary school, my history classes never got past the Civil War. Now, I can tell you all about the Underground Railroad, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Dred Scott but virtually nothing about anything that happened after that. I bet you can guess where my teacher’s interests were.)
http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeschooling/
“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”
Joseph Stalin
I know a retired public school teacher that is of the opinion that sending a child to public school is a form of child abuse.
My 16 year old daughter is a university sophomore. Homeschooling can seem daunting, but it really isn’t that hard to do. There are many, many resources readily available with the iternet. Public school will indoctrinate and demoralize your son, potentially destroying a promising future. I wish you the best.
Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing.
Your instincts are, of course, correct. Get him out of the government schools.
I have both friends and relatives in education. Every single one of them despises no child left behind. All that means is kids get shoved up and out, ready or not. Along the way it had dumbed-down the classroom so that they can be shoved up and out. Mix in a healthy dose of socialism via the teachers unions... Public "schools" are worthless.
Here is a human right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGPe0jDCUqI&feature=fvst
Here is tolerance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXXkeppex3Y
To paraphrase....
Government Education is a monster.
Do not feed it your children.
My friends kid was up from Texas (where he is actually in a very good school). She told me he was having some trouble in his algebra 2 class (mostly in graphing rational functions stuff like (X^2 - x + 6)/(X^2 -4)), and asked if I could help. Though I use fairly high level math all the time, I hadn’t done that particular kind of thing since I was his age 28 years ago. I thought about it for a while, and formulated a plan in my head. The next day, as we got started, I asked him how his teacher explained how to do it. I was entertained with the most complicated explanation I had ever seen. I proceeded to show him the simple steps I had formulated in my head the night before, and one hour later he had fully got it. He was amazed that in one hour I made him fully understand with simple concise rules what his teacher was unable to explain in 3 weeks.
oops, X^2 -4 is irrational, meant X^2 + 4, lol
You might be better off demanding the principal teach the value of capitalization, grammar, and punctuation.
If you love your children, then how can you entrust their education to these godless left wing brainwashers? If you aren’t working outside the home, then who better to educate them than you?
The irony of your post is delicious...
Short version:
My daughter had to do a History final essay on the American revolution. She came home with a respectable grade and I smile.
The essay ENDED at Paul Revere’s ride.
I asked her where the actual ‘war’ was in her essay She said, “Dad, that’s all they taught us.”
That’s all you will ever need to know to understand why this country is screwed. Apply that knowledge accordingly.
Hey man.
make that school hear you roar
mine hears me...they know we are suffer no lib fool righties
and they tread with care around my kids
i raise hell at them...
and wifey is even worse about than me
little secret:
even the most daft poster here is more informed than the numbnut fembots in charge of teaching your kids and trying to make little queers out of your male kids and Faludis out of yer girls
anywhere in the US...even in Dixie...the textbooks are eat up with political correctness
man hating, white hating and Christ bashing and most teachers just regurgitate
but if you challenge them, they fold out of fear and ignorance immediately
or you can homeschool ..
private Christian schools are barely less PC except maybe some fundie ones....but here in Middle TN the Church of Christ schools still plaster Mandela and MLK all over the walls in February like public
and secular private schools are actually even more liberal
anyhow...you can train yer kid to know BS from school on history and lit and environmental crap...make sure to stay on top of it and help them train the teacher
she gives out bad grades just for disagreeing then get yer butt down there and let em hear ya
54
father of 5 from 5-23
who grew up when America really was beautiful and safe and kids had both parents and the vast majority of minorities were not anti white and behaved
it was Leave it to Beaver largely or The Brady Bunch or My Three Sons
be prepared and get tough
political correctness made a loud protective Jewish momma outta me at my kids school...they know I will respond
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