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DerbyDad03 wrote:

On Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 4:56:57 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote:
On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:34:02 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:40:02 +0000, Spalted Walt
wrote:

wrote:

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:59:07 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

It's OK, my daughter and her partner will just dig deeper into their pockets to buy
basic supplies for their students. Then they can load the supplies into their cars
and drive to school on the crappy roads that didn't get repaired because we all
protested our assessments to lower our county taxes.

It has nothing to do with supplies or anything else tangible. There
is no interest in teaching kids anything. The purpose of "education"
is to enrich unions (not teachers) and indoctrinate (not teach)
children. Answer me this - why is civics no longer taught, when
"Heather has Two Mommies" is? Or, how our mathematics scores are
among the lowest in the western world, and getting worse. Speaking of
"western world", why is that such an evil thing in education today.

+1

Children are our future. Indoctrination has always been a vital element
with every Communist revolution. By far the worst mistake this country
has made yet was not guarding our children from the leftists agenda sooner.



Facts are scary - to those who have such hard-felt "beliefs" -
but facts matter ...

Look at the 24 countries ranking better than good 'ol US of A
and decide which of those are .. just a little bit more socialist ..

https://factsmaps.com/pisa-2018-worl...ience-reading/

I'll never stand-and-defend the big-fat-cat public service unions
but will not blame the teachers ! In my experience they are a
very dedicated bunch. The good ones can often rank above
the parents - for positive influence on the kids - and will be
remembered for life by their grateful students.
.. the few bad ones will also be well remembered ..
and it wasn't the union that made them that way.
John T.

The Nazis were very dedicated. Being dedicated is not enough--being
dedicated in a direction that improves society is what is needed.
Unfortunately the teachers are the products of colleges and
universities and those colleges and universities are dominated by
"professors" whose only real skill is professing and who have very
little touch with the reality of life outside of academia.

The unions need to go but more importantly the "professors" need a
good hard dose of reality beaten into them.


When you paint an entire group with one broad brush, you do a
disservice to many, maybe even to the majority.

I've got 2 daughters and 2 semi-daughters-in-law who all work in
the educational arena. One has her Doctorate, the rest have Masters.
One daughter has a Dual-Masters. All four are in different segments
of the educational space and all 4 are making a difference. That
"direction that improves society" type of difference.

They all went to different universities. A total of 9 different universities.
They are all making that positive difference because they all had
professors that were dedicated to "improving society". The one
with the PhD just accepted an Assistant Professor position at
Purdue where she will be teaching and running a lab doing studies
on certain health issues. She is dedicated to "improving society".

Coincidence? Did these 4 women just happen to stumble into the
only programs (across 9 universities) that were run by professors
dedicated to "improving society" or is it possible that it's not as dire
a situation as you believe?


Paul Rossi, the former math teacher at Grace Church High School:
https://pdst.fm/e/chtbl.com/track/384D27/traffic.megaphone.fm/MKA9554446066.mp3