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2020-03-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-30 05:58|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 How fortunate we are to have New England to instruct and guide us. You couldn't find a literacy rate of 90% in virtually any inner city public school. Thanks, Horace.

Posted by Cesare 2020-03-30 07:51|| 2020-03-30 07:51|| Front Page Top

#2 state involvement was needed to ensure all children get a better, more unified education.

And there you have the prime reason. Unified.

Better serfs through chemistry.

Posted by AlanC 2020-03-30 08:14|| 2020-03-30 08:14|| Front Page Top

#3 It the teenager creche enables both parents to work which suits the establishment just fine, ok there are some costs in terms of damaged families but the establishment dont feel those..

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-03-30 08:40|| 2020-03-30 08:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Centrally planned, consolitated FEMA campuses are the key. Trains can take the students there in the Fall and bring them home in the Spring. A short 5-7 week visit with parents or authorized guardians should limit exposure and contamination.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-30 08:48|| 2020-03-30 08:48|| Front Page Top

#5 No, #4, calendar needs to be modified so the students can be sent to plant and pick the crops. Or maybe detentions and suspensions would be accrued and served then.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-03-30 10:32|| 2020-03-30 10:32|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Excellent suggestions. I will forward them to the Deep State Gosplan (central planning committee) within the hour.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-30 10:36|| 2020-03-30 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Why do we have "Kindergarden", eh? As my older sister (Education PhD and a wide career from private religious to college with a brief stop teaching at a US base in Okinawa...) told me: Our educational system was copied from the Prussian Model that had an objective of churning out productive "Citizen Workers for the Central State". And our current system was geared to provide workers "Just educated enough to work on an assembly line..."

Posted by magpie 2020-03-30 10:42|| 2020-03-30 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 ..except it has been twisted in the last couple of decades to turning out Student Loan signers to sustain the university and colleges complex. That's why trade courses pretty much dwindled while the complex churned out teachers to feed their existence with more fodder.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-30 11:57|| 2020-03-30 11:57|| Front Page Top

#9 According to Jerry Pournelle, the principal reason for K-12 is to provide employment to teachers. Since his time things are changed in such a way that I feel compelled to modify teachers with "otherwise unemployable"

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-30 13:24|| 2020-03-30 13:24|| Front Page Top

#10 If you think I'm excited about my kids knowing calculus, getting stoked about social studies an history. I'm talking calligraphy unseen for 50 years.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-03-30 13:28|| 2020-03-30 13:28|| Front Page Top

#11 ..except it has been twisted in the last couple of decades to turning out Student Loan signers to sustain the university and colleges complex.

Keeps 'em in indentured servitude too.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-30 13:32|| 2020-03-30 13:32|| Front Page Top

#12 But, but, but what will the bloated administrative staff and assistance superintendents for women's athletics and WOKE studies do for a living now ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-30 13:33|| 2020-03-30 13:33|| Front Page Top

#13 practicing diversity in their little ~~cubby~~ shithole homes?

Posted by Frank G 2020-03-30 14:03|| 2020-03-30 14:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Our educational system was copied from the Prussian Model that had an objective of churning out productive "Citizen Workers for the Central State". And our current system was geared to provide workers "Just educated enough to work on an assembly line..."

Bingo. Noted like lack of highly individualistic polymath geniuses in the last 150 or so years? The Trivium used to pop them out quite regularly. The Prussian Method? Not so much - a deliberate feature, not a bug.

Posted by Secret Master 2020-03-30 15:23|| 2020-03-30 15:23|| Front Page Top

#15 That's why trade courses pretty much dwindled while the complex churned out teachers to feed their existence with more fodder

Heard a 'new' school administrator (she'd been a teacher prior) that got up in a meeting and asked why the local high schools were teaching Welding.

Her exact words were "Nobody does that anymore."

Hilarity did NOT ensue as I noticed some others nodding their heads. I did respond and offer the names of several local businesses that employed welders and what a certified welder typically made hourly.

There were several shocked faces as they reflected on their misspent education.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-03-30 16:22|| 2020-03-30 16:22|| Front Page Top

#16 #12 But, but, but what will the bloated administrative staff and assistance superintendents for women's athletics and WOKE studies do for a living now ?

They'll be authorized to barge in anyone's homes at anytime because "child welfare".

They'll even be allowed to bunk with the kids if they're so inclined.

And Karen will be fine with it, so long as there no mean tweets involved.

Posted by charger 2020-03-30 16:26|| 2020-03-30 16:26|| Front Page Top

#17 Education has always fallen short in one key area, how to run a small business. That is why 9 out of 10 fail.

Posted by Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-03-30 18:09|| 2020-03-30 18:09|| Front Page Top

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