From an article at Intellectual Takeout...what say You? https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/public-schools-tearing-human-minds-pieces/?fbclid=IwAR3tWajafQi95R1zb0d-hNVpsvi7IEUavyFX4V2kGB82G0PWUkfkHkzvrLc Recently CNN and the Human Rights Campaign partnered to present an hours long forum with the Democratic presidential candidates on LGBT issues and the proposed Equality Bill. Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and the rest all endorsed the bill, which would, among other things, repress biblical teaching and remove tax-exempt status from churches holding traditional beliefs regarding marriage. During the event, this exchange took place: ‘In California we’re already starting … [Read more...]
U.S. kids are doing progressively worse at math, reading, and more, but it’s not their fault
Common Core is just a set of standards...right? Just because a private group came up with a set of standards that they created, have never been tested, are "licensed" to generate profit and push views of liberals...they are ok because they are just standards...right? In the following article re-published at The New American and written by Alex Newman & Dr. Duke Pesta they talk about: Insanity In the Classroom: Government Schools Today. Give it a read and then...reach out to your local school district and school board and tell them what you think and demand action. Despite major funding, U.S. kids are doing progressively worse at math, reading, and more, but it’s not their … [Read more...]
Stop Humiliating Teachers
From an article in The New Yorker ...... The U.S. has a tendency, when there’s an economic or social crisis, to affix unfair blame on public-school teachers. A necessary commonplace: Almost everyone we know has been turned around, or at least seriously shaken, by a teacher—in college, maybe, but often in high school, often by a man or a woman who drove home a point or two about physics, literature, or ethics, and looked at us sternly and said, in effect, You could be more than what you are. At their best, teachers are everyday gods, standing at the entryway to the world. If they are fair and good, they are possibly the most morally impressive adults that their students will ever know. … [Read more...]