Consti here! Sitting in the underground bunker class room trying to coax a 5 year old to sing songs of Regan, Carter, or JFK. So far the shock therapy isn’t working.
I ran across this article from BIGHOLLYWOOD today and it just furthers my point that this cult of personality is rampant in our schools. “Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?!!”
11 more songs in praise of the ONE. That’s a grand total now of 13 songs! K-Tel will be releasing them all on a two disk set in December!! Now let s get this straight before you try to flame me in the comments. I DO NOT BELIEVE that the President of the United States is personally behind these videos. It’s the unionized teachers who promote this dribble. Children as young as kindergarten should not be singing the praise of a sitting president. “But Consti they sing about George Washington!” Which, of course, you are right. However, Washington is not a SITTING president. This just smacks of the indoctrination of our youth. This is not what you send your children to school for. And the fact that they are pushing their politics on children is reprehensible. “But they should learn civics Consti!” And I agree, but not dogma about a sitting president that has accomplished NOTHING but a voting record of “present”. Look up the word civics and you will see it has nothing to do with the administration or politics for that matter.
Main Entry: civ·ics
Pronunciation: \ˈsi-viks\
Function: noun plural but singular or plural in construction
Date: 1886
: a social science dealing with the rights and duties of citizens
Pasted from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civics
Not the science of government and what it can or can’t do for its citizens. Civics is about personal responsibility, not about ONE man, party, group, or socio-economic affiliation, and their vision. Civics is about the American People, not the American President!
Some of our most vulnerable citizens are exposed to this political brain washing without their parent s approval or proper context. Children should be learning not reciting political dogma about a man that has yet to prove his leadership. And if the recent GOP gains say anything it’s that the One’s leadership is weak. He can t even get his own party to agree to his healthcare dream.
Parents I ask you this. With test scores lower than the rest of the world, and classes about Venezuelan basket weaving with Hugo Chavez do you feel your children are getting the education they deserve? Or are academics dumbing down the curriculum to promote “self confidence?” Self confidence is not about always being right or in the top 10%. Self confidence cannot be taught it is learned through failure. It is learned through the process of failing and trying again.
Why do we fall down? So we can learn to pick ourselves up again.
Consti.
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Only in Kalifornia kids… only in kalifornia. Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students.
The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High’s School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley’s dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.
Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.
Science teachers were understandably horrified by the proposal. “The majority of the science department believes that this major policy decision affecting the entire student body, the faculty, and the community has been made without any notification, without a hearing,” said Mardi Sicular-Mertens, the senior member of Berkeley High School’s science department, at last week’s school board meeting.
Sincular-Mertens, who has taught science at BHS for 24 years, said the possible cuts will impact her black students as well. She says there are twelve African-American males in her AP classes and that her four environmental science classes are 17.5 percent African American and 13.9 percent Latino. “As teachers, we are greatly saddened at the thought of losing the opportunity to help all of our students master the skills they need to find satisfaction and success in their education,” she told the board.
Aside from the repulsive racism of this move, the broader issue to be considered is whether society is better-served by cutting down the achievers and investing in the stragglers — or whether everyone benefits from the achievements of those who apply themselves enough to excel. I have no hesitation in saying that I am in the latter camp. How does it benefit anyone to have an America made up of mediocre minds?
As a matter of simple justice, it makes no sense to favor those who do not adapt to the norms and expectations of schooling and persist in behaviors that lead to failure. Berkeley High’s worse-than-average performance among black and Latino students almost certainly has something to do with the ideology informing its approach to racial problems. Teaching people that they are victims does nothing to encourage excellence. But rather than reconsider its failing efforts, Berkeley High is doubling the dosage of a medicine that isn’t working, and which carries bad side effects.
If the Berkeley public schools go ahead with this plan, they deserve condemnation and ridicule on a national scale.
I am going to “flame” you. (Erik the Red reaches into his pocket, grabs his lighter (if he had one), flicks it on and holds it up in the air!)
Check out this YouTube video. It is totally relevant to what you are saying but makes another haunting point as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPSqL9_mfM