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2019-02-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

Politicized Schools Are Radically Transforming Our Nation

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-25 04:21|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Depends on a few things. Smart kinds are bored sh*tless in pubic school.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-25 06:59|| 2019-02-25 06:59|| Front Page Top

#2 When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school,
It's a wonder I can thing at all.
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none,
I can read the writing on the wall.

- Paul Simon

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-25 07:01|| 2019-02-25 07:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Smart kinds are bored sh*tless in pubic school.

Gosh, does that mean I'm smart? I can't think of a time in my life when I was so badly, desperately bored as when I was in high school.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-02-25 12:03|| 2019-02-25 12:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Gosh, does that mean I'm smart? Yes, relatively speaking. You were "smarter" than your environment allowed for. As we are learning, that is not saying much.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-25 16:25|| 2019-02-25 16:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep. Which is also why the teacher unions and politicians go after charter schools and homeschooling so vigorously.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-02-25 17:07|| 2019-02-25 17:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Regression to the mean anyone? anyone? Bueller?

Posted by Warthog 2019-02-25 17:36|| 2019-02-25 17:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Smart kinds are bored sh*tless in pubic school.

Some are. I loved my schools and my teachers, and mostly was well challenged, even if it meant I was in a reading group of one reading books the teacher had put aside for the purpose. And at home my mother encouraged us to use her university text books as research materials for our homework. Trailng daughter #1 was like me; trailing daughter #2 was bored to tears at being forced to waste so much time. The two fosterlings were also one of each, though since they pushed hard to graduate early with high honours, they were going faster than normal anyway.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-02-25 19:20|| 2019-02-25 19:20|| Front Page Top

#8 I "always finished my assigned work early and bothered others". My Mom said: "Give him more work"

How Un-PC

Posted by Frank G 2019-02-25 20:38|| 2019-02-25 20:38|| Front Page Top

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