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2005-02-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

Student Seeks To End Summertime Mental Enslavement

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Posted by Fred 2005-02-12 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Left behind? they're all left behind these days. When the professional educators dumbed down studies and scores so everyone graduates with a piece of paper, then the kids who could master circa 1960's courses at the 12th grade level are now just being challenged by 9th grade materials today for that graduate diploma. See, say the educators, so many now qualify. Its the old practice of debasing the coin. The king would begin adding alloy to the gold or silver till the point was reached that the coin was the alloy and not the original metal and of far less value.

Posted by Floting Shang5398 2005-02-12 3:37:50 PM|| 2005-02-12 3:37:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Bull. My oldest is a junior in a Catholic high school honors program. I cringe when I see some of the details of the math and science and other courses he's taking. A lot of it is stuff I never saw until college. And he has had summer homework (typically one or two books to read and a paper to write) every summer for as long as I can remember. My youngest is in 8th grade -- his last year in Catholic elementary school. He too has had summer reading routinely. And there's a test that counts just a few days after arriving back at school in September.

I'm not saying that there aren't big problems out there, but I hear parents in my area complaining and they have good schools available if they can afford it. And they have expensive SUVs, so if they can't afford it, where are their priorities?

You don't even need to bother to try to improve the public schools if you're not even going to do your parenting. I know bright, affluent kids in my area who are wasting away their lives on instant messaging, computer games, and hanging out at the mall. Their parents don't even know what they're studying at school or doing on-line or doing at the mall. They are free to fail and they do.

"For what other lesson do students learn from summertime homework than that, even when not on duty, their lives belong to those running the New World Order?"
That's right, MY kids learn that, even when not on duty, their lives belong to ME. When I've finished educating them to MY standards for a high school degree, then they are free to fail. Not before then.

Posted by Tom 2005-02-12 4:07:12 PM|| 2005-02-12 4:07:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "My oldest is a junior in a Catholic high school.."
Fine, let me clarify - public schools. The Catholics haven't appeared to have been swayed by the hip-in nuances of education theory implemented in the last quarter century in the public schools.

Posted by Floting Shang5398 2005-02-12 6:01:14 PM|| 2005-02-12 6:01:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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