Sadly it is very much a reality, and our precipitously declining overall education level shows we've been heading in the wrong direction for a long time.
lol when is the last time you've been in school? Just like many other things, you appear to have a caricature in your mind that is nowhere near reality.
So the fact that you're a big enough douche to put other people lives at risk with your reckless driving and behavior is somehow proof of racism? Nope, it's proof you're an asshole.How selective enforcement of the law correlates with racism is something most people choose to ignore. I speed on the highways literally every day and yet haven't had a ticket in years. If I was 'smart,' by 'conservative' logic, I wouldn't say anything while others get busted. Better them than me, right? But because I actually am pretty smart, I recognize that another solution is necessary.
You didn't answer the question.Sadly it is very much a reality, and our precipitously declining overall education level shows we've been heading in the wrong direction for a long time.
Translated for honesty:Well, seeing how the general state of education has declined undeniably over the past 30 years, apparently putting educated morons doesn't work any better than uneducated morons. We'll see what she's able to get done. Hopefully start cracking the monopoly the NEA and other groups have over education.
Wasting school time and resources focusing on teaching kids what to think instead of how to think. Focus on SJW crap instead of the core important things that need to be taught in schools. That stuff needs to go, but that's not going to happen unless there's a big shakeup in the system first.
This thread is packed with people who've never taught a class yet full of self-confident ideas on how to make education right.
I'll tell you what one of my local elementaries has time for, though. A big pro-military propaganda ritual, complete with the student body memorizing and singing hymn-like songs praising people for being willing to hire on with the government to blow people up.in my very recent and ongoing experience, there is absolutely NO SJW teaching happening in school. even if they wanted to, there's no time for it.
People on the "right" like to often claim that schools are "hotbeds of liberalism" when, in fact, they're full of authoritarian propaganda, like the Pledge of Allegiance and songs like the one I posted.ugh, there's some gd indoctrination. that shit belongs at home. IMO school should = STEM, Focus on verbal and written communcation skills.
The only thing kids should be pledging to obey in a school is the scientific method.I'm ok with the Pledge, as soon as "under god" is removed.
You gotta remember, people like PokerGuy think that teaching facts is teaching people to be SJWs. Facts are an anathema to the modern conservative..
oh, i'm curious what you find important.
in my very recent and ongoing experience, there is absolutely NO SJW teaching happening in school. even if they wanted to, there's no time for it.
You mean the scientific method that allows all skeptics to question data and to make sure the data is available and hasn't been tampered with? That all data is the result of the accurate measurements, that it's reproducible and not subject to politics or policy ? That scientific method? Better call NOAA then.The only thing kids should be pledging to obey in a school is the scientific method.
Not a flag.
Funny, many courts have chimed in on this and have not found it unconstitutional.... including the SCOTUS (Zelman v Simmons-Harris). Of course that's not a blanket statement about all vouchers, but your blanket statement about using taxpayer money to fund religious education is flagrantly unconstitutional is clearly wrong.
Case in point:You gotta remember, people like PokerGuy think that teaching facts is teaching people to be SJWs. Facts are an anathema to the modern conservative.
You mean the scientific method that allows all skeptics to question data and to make sure the data is available and hasn't been tampered with? That all data is the result of the accurate measurements, that it's reproducible and not subject to politics or policy ? That scientific method? Better call NOAA then.
Wasting school time and resources focusing on teaching kids what to think instead of how to think. Focus on SJW crap instead of the core important things that need to be taught in schools. That stuff needs to go, but that's not going to happen unless there's a big shakeup in the system first.
I cannot believe you just said that. Especially when Red states are the ones teaching intelligent design in school.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-map-showing-which-u-s-public-schools-teach-creationi-1515717148
If there's one thing that corporatist Americans hate it's the idea of a level playing field.
Anything that can possibly be done to limit competition between the elites' kids and others' kids... And, really, who cares about having a stupid general public when money flows internationally?
Speaking as someone with several "STEM" degrees, that's a rather myopic view of what should be taught in school. STEM subjects are important, but so are subjects like English and history. These subjects also help develop critical thinking, writing, and communication skills. And there is the secondary benefit of these subjects enriching our lives while exploring the human condition. STEM isn't the be-all-end-all some people like to claim it is.ugh, there's some gd indoctrination. that shit belongs at home. IMO school should = STEM, Focus on verbal and written communcation skills.
The problem with your idea is that you want to drag all schools down to the level of the worst ones and DeVos wants to raise them up to the level of the best ones.If there's one thing that corporatist Americans hate it's the idea of a level playing field.
Anything that can possibly be done to limit competition between the elites' kids and others' kids... And, really, who cares about having a stupid general public when money flows internationally?
Speaking as someone with several "STEM" degrees, that's a rather myopic view of what should be taught in school. STEM subjects are important, but so are subjects like English and history. These subjects also help develop critical thinking, writing, and communication skills. And there is the secondary benefit of these subjects enriching our lives while exploring the human condition. STEM isn't the be-all-end-all some people like to claim it is.