Posted on 03/13/2015 5:43:39 AM PDT by iowamark
Oh. I know. Literature is a core subject. I’m talking about people who invented computers, figured out fighter jets, aircraft carriers, the space program. I knew some of them and still do. THey were educated. THey hated to read just like anyone, but they learned it. As a result, they could not only communicate and discern away from those who could not and cannot, they knew about virtue.
There’s no greater teacher, along with tradition and hard knocks, of virtue and evil, than literature.
Heck, if people knew Shakespeare like these people did and do, they would, 1) have Hillary’s number, which they do not, and 2) not allow the crap coming out of Hollywood to continue poisoning their kids.
Parents are the educators. that kids are uneducated is the fault of parents.
there.
I said it.
Anyway, basic math true science and history It’s not that difficult to teach they did it in the ‘40s.
Yes, access to certain technologies can build some bad intellectual habits. But it's awfully nice to be able to Google and Wiki stuff up. The key isn't fact retention anymore, it's how it all fits together, and if you can't retain facts you can't hook 'em up. The 'puter can't do that for you.
I do wish they'd stay off my lawn, though.
Without measuring the tutoring ( paid and unpaid), study clubs, and “after-schooling done by the parents and the children outside of the school it is impossible to know if any school is good or not.
I came to this conclusion because it is my anecdotal observation that academically successful homeschoolers and successful institutionalized children are doing the **same** amount of work in the HOME.
Well, gee! Both the home and institutionalized academically successful children are doing the same work in the home, maybe the school has **nothing** to do with their success! Maybe the only thing the school is doing is sending home a very, very, very expensive curriculum. Is a “duh” needed here?
I never had a low paying job. I learned about honesty an ethics from my father, the Boy Scouts, and the military. Good work habits extend from that base when combined with self motivation.
Did I nail it?
It's hard, it really is. I have one Honors class that keeps me alive. Really sweet kids, reasonably alert and good-humored... they are why I hang in there. But the low-skills ones... many of them aren't just low-skills; they have really rotten personalities. They taunt each other. They're irritable and bratty. Arrogant. Mind-numbingly arrogant, some of them. Administration just croons that the poor darlings have low self-esteem. I think "If they do, they are at least assessing themselves correctly." Nasty bunch. (Not all of them, of course. There are some sweet kids trapped in hell with the little monsters. But only a few.)
Ill be glad when boomers leave politics and leadership. Im a boomer and we dont impress me much
You seem to think that low paying jobs are the ONLY way to develop work ethics. I am proof that such is not the case.
My ethics came from my father, the Boy Scouts, and the United States Army. Showing up late to army events generally results in something much worse than being fired from a job you don't really want.
Illegals do take away the jobs youngsters used to make their own money. That is tragic.
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