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| Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for killing Boumerdes teachers |
| 2009-06-09 |
 [Maghrebia] In a statement posted on Islamist websites, al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for killing 8 police officers and two teachers last Tuesday in Boumerdès, AP reported on Monday (June 8th). The teachers were delivering BEM (middle school) examination papers in Timezrit when terrorists detonated a bomb near their passing convoy and attacked them with automatic guns. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Education should be important to the West too, but mostly we just pay it lip service and allow our own pseudo-intellectuals to control the whole process, from pre-K to grad school. Why don't we see the danger? We're blind, I guess. Note that almost 8 years have passed since 9/11 without a national crash program to teach a generation of native born Americans the languages of the countries most likely to send us terror attacks, e.g., Dari, Pushto, Arabic, and the language of our chief trading partner & most likely world adversary, China. The State Dept. & DOD are still having problems getting enough qualified interpreters & translators. What does it take to make a fully qualified language expert? 15 years? The USA hasn't even tried. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-06-09 14:34 |
| #7 Redneck Jim, your mother sounds like a delight. And as parents the opposite of a couple we knew in Brussels -- he was the CFO of Ikea, she had been one of the best high school swimmers in Denmark -- their daughters were the same ages as the trailing daughters, and went together to the very prestigious and expensive American-style international school there (Mr. Wife's company paid the td's tuition, on the order of $20,00 for one full-time kindergartner and one part-time preschooler). Mrs. CFO, upon being informed that elder daughter could not properly draw a face -- eyes, nose, mouth properly situated emoticon style :-) -- and therefore was hindered in learning to read and write, announced it was the job of the school to teach her to do so, why else was she paying so much? Thereafter I quietly made a point to encourage the children to draw when they were at my house, and later write little stories together. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-06-09 14:13 |
| #6 Glenmore, in the old days it required an investment in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, at the very least. Nowadays, with the internet, it's both easier and considerably cheaper. Rantburg helps an awful lot, too. (Make sure to introduce your grandchildren to us, when the time comes -- and they will teach their parents.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-06-09 14:02 |
| #5 Education at home is essential, When I (And my brothers) First went to school, they were astounded we could read and write (Mom bought such things as "Little Golden Books' we enjoyed reading aloud). Mom and Dad were exceptionally smart and as a result of "pre-Schooling" So are we all. By the way, Mom's still going strong at 94 and counting. and still sharp as a tack. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-06-09 13:54 |
| #4 TW, I agree with you that an important aspect of education is the training to recognize propaganda. Unfortunately many parents are unwilling or unable to do so - to the detriment of their children, and all of us. Furthermore, many other parents are unsuccessful in overcoming the mis-education carried out by so many schools (to a substantial degree I count myself in that number.) The most important and achievable political goal for the average person should be to regain control, or at least influence, over the public education system. Important, and I think achievable, but not easy. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-06-09 13:04 |
| #3 Concerned parents enrich their children's education at home in ways that offset the miseducation occurring at school. In fact, the training in recognizing and seeing through the propaganda is a very important part of a proper education, as important as facts and figures, grammar and logic. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-06-09 08:05 |
| #2 Attacks like this are fairly common and demonstrate clearly just how important control over the education of the youth is to the Islamists. Education should be important to the West too, but mostly we just pay it lip service and allow our own pseudo-intellectuals to control the whole process, from pre-K to grad school. Why don't we see the danger? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-06-09 07:46 |
| #1 allan the merciful. Yup, that's him allright. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2009-06-09 00:53 |