Posted on 09/06/2013 4:47:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence, and it's right there in the name," she said.
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"The more I read and the more I listen, the more apparent it is that our society suffers from an alarming degree of public ignorance," O'Connor said.
That ignorance starts in the earliest years of a child's schooling, she said, but often continues all the way through college and graduate school.
O'Connor argued that learning about citizenship is just as important for American children as learning multiplication or how to write their names.
"We have to ensure that our citizens are well informed and prepared to face tough challenges," she said. "If there is a single child not learning about civics or not being exposed to what they must do as citizens, then all our lives are poorer for that."
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No, it’s the ignorance of the court and the elected politicians.
Ok, Sandra, who controls public education in the USA? Liberals and liberal teacher unions.
Welcome to the democratic party’s plantation...you can check out but you can never leave.
there’s a spiritual problem here not a schooling problem.
Ignorance of the sheeple was desired by people on her side.
Probably the quote of the century.
I think the old Liberal is more concerned about all of us who do know what they’re up to, ya think?
Maybe there’s both but there is DEFINITELY a schooling problem, a very very large one that keeps getting worse.
Dear Sandra, not like you did anything to encourage reading.
After all, didn’t you affirm “abortion” being settled penumbra?
Why worry about reading when people who say they can read see things that aren’t there?
Actually, I was struck by this quote: “learning about citizenship is just as important for American children as learning multiplication or how to write their names”.
SDO must not have received word that our public schools no longer teach either mathematics or cursive writing.
Our federal takeover of our educational system is working as planned.
I remember a number of years ago when a female conservative talker, can’t remember who, said that she had gone to her niece’s high school graduation. She asked many of the newly minted graduates questions like this. None got the answers right to her questions. She asked a few of them who America had won its independence from. One answered that it was Vietnam. Yikes! We in trouble.
Not for those who would conquer us. They want Americans to be ignorant -- in all areas of academia, not just history and citizenship. And they're winning.
Bingo!
Waters World
well i mean all the other problems cluster around the spiritual problem. it used to be that people believed in a God who cared about comprehending the world around because that stuff all reflected God’s glory. now folks are all lost in their own private worlds in spite of technology that has made it easy to get at whole libraries’ worth of information.
You had your hand in this debacle sandra old girl.
At Ellis Island a handful of years ago, I asked someone who was a teacher of American History, what the most recent events she taught. Was it WW2? Vietnam? 9/11? I then asked “What about the Korean War?” Her response was “Well, no, remember, I only teach American History.” Boo yeah!
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