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2021-06-12 -Great Cultural Revolution

Dennis Prager: The Best Thing to Do to Retake America

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Posted by Bobby 2021-06-12 09:29|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Even so-called STEM magnet schools are more about teaching kids to worship idiots like Hockey Stick Mann, Bill Nye, Al Gore and St. Fauxi. A really smart kid would be better of with a good polymath tutor.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-12 09:56|| 2021-06-12 09:56|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ thanks to COVID, more and more families are realizing this.

Homeschooling is soaring. Approaching 10% of American

That's about 5x the number who were homeschooled as recently as 2000.

Eventually the public schools will collapse due to the revenue shortfall when 1/3 or more of the population opts out

Posted by Beldar Shalet2673 2021-06-12 11:21|| 2021-06-12 11:21|| Front Page Top

#3 emp the grid!

Posted by Sluse Grealet9429 2021-06-12 13:35|| 2021-06-12 13:35|| Front Page Top

#4 A really smart kid would be better of with a good polymath tutor.

The Khan Academy is a good place to start:
https://www.khanacademy.org/

Posted by SteveS 2021-06-12 14:49|| 2021-06-12 14:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Just did a year with Khan and math, pre-Algebra.

Solid, especially if your math and/or teaching skills need a bit more refinement. My disagreements were philosophical in nature, such as order of teaching, but it is far superior to Common Corp.

And that disagreement is as old as time, how to show the importance, relevancy, and usefulness in math to a student who was brought up to believe in its uselessness, "I'll never use Algebra/Trig/Geometry/etc! so what's the point?"

One was a play on what an olde math teacher called "Pick up Triangles" where a series of connected triangles was shown, and side and/or angle or 2 would be presented, and you had to find all other sides and angles. 3 rectangles were positioned to form a right triangle, one rectangle side was given, solve. So I go about doing my thing, but the lesson was to pick one of the 4 answers which made most sense and confirm.

I was like, "Hold up, that isn't solving, that's picking an answer, and that isn't how real life works. "You are building an overpass in Florida, should the supporting beams be A, B, D, or D?" " Explaining this to Daughter, this she agreed it was a bit flash for the chapter "My first Triangles" she hadn't been given the proper tools, the formulas and theorems, necessary to solve it, which she found frustrating rather than inspirational, so if you know your stuff, you will still want to stay on top of the daily lessons.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-12 15:53|| 2021-06-12 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Yes. Khan Academy is the real deal. How it has not been compromised already I don't know.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-12 15:54|| 2021-06-12 15:54|| Front Page Top

#7 #% Pedagogy is one of the ancient arts, along with medicine and philosophy itself. A healthy discipline has room for disagreement but what we have nowadays is go along to get along with the cathedral of nonsense.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-12 15:57|| 2021-06-12 15:57|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ #5

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-12 15:57|| 2021-06-12 15:57|| Front Page Top

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