On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:42:15 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:17:22 +0000, Spalted Walt
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On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:40:02 +0000, Spalted Walt
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:59:07 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
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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/

So, if the "good 'ol USA" was "just a little bit more socialist" we too,
could climb up the list... OK. Got it.

Except, back in the '60s, I'm pretty sure the "good 'ol USA" was near the
top of the 'list' (certainly in the top 5), yet we were inarguably far less
"socialist" than we are now. So yea, John "facts matter".


You're using beliefs and opinions again ..
Without going back 60 years, I also suspect that the USA is
trending downward - but I'll stop short of blaming the teachers
or their unions for everything that is wrong with the system.

Sixty years ago *we* were trending downward into socialism. Teachers
were already indoctrinated, particularly in the humanities and "soft
sciences" (anything with "science" in it's title, isn't).

I was there. As he said, facts matter.