Schools have gone insane

[Burroughs]

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blog...un-threat-174618051--abc-news-topstories.html

As the US falls further into idiocracy

 

[evan12]

It is nation governed by insecurity of women , they have to stop listening to women and man up their men whose their fathers built America

 

[Desdinova]

The kindergartner was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation during her 10-day suspension, which was later reduced to two days. The evaluation deemed the girl normal and not a threat to others, Ficker said.

Well that's a fvcking relief. If she was psycho, perhaps she would have talked about shooting someone with a water gun.

 

[Down Low]

The girl's family is considering a lawsuit against the school to get the blemish - all because of bubbles - off their daughter's record.

"The mother has tried to get the girl in another school since this time, and they won't take the little girl because of this mark on her record," Ficker said.

Yeah, I'd try to get my kid out of that school too. The administrators are nuts.

 

[Scaramouche]

Dear Burroughs,
You think its bad in the States....See whats happening in France...http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/12/17/121217taco_talk_menand Francoise Hollande intends to ban Homework!.....how will they ever turn out people who can be competitive in the new World Economy?

 

[Down Low]

Dear Burroughs,
You think its bad in the States....See whats happening in France...http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/12/17/121217taco_talk_menand Francoise Hollande intends to ban Homework!.....how will they ever turn out people who can be competitive in the new World Economy?

Homework is a joke nowadays.

"Reading" in all cases, whether at the library, at school, or as homework, means entertaining kids by reading to them. That's right. It doesn't mean that the students take time to read. It means that parents read a book to a kid playing a Nintendo, and then put another gold star on the assignment page.

You know how our generation all learned the "new math" (in other words, we did 60 abstract problems like 2x + 0 = 16, in class every day, and that's how we learned how to do math). Well, nowadays it's all word problems. Really convoluted word problems. Like "a girl walks to the market at six mph carrying six apples, five oranges, and seven cherries, so how many dogs ate her homework?" No rote memorization, no drills, just a few make-or-break showpiece problems that are supposed to demonstrate ten different principles all at one time. Problem is, the students don't know the principles to begin with. So they solve the problems willy-nilly, by social cues and verbal gestures such as "think about it" when the teacher means "circle B for the answer."

One GFs kid started kindergarten, and got several pages of homework every night. The first week of class was spent memorizing songs and dances to be recited before the parents on Friday morning -- to "prove" how much the students learned. It's like those silly after-school art classes that use cheat techniques to mimic a few well-known art "greats," so we get seven year olds making two giant eyes on one side of the head like Picasso, and their parents think the school uncovered "genius."

"Homework" really means "parents here's some busy work for you to do for the kid and let's all pretend the kid did it -- it's your fault now if the kid doesn't get As."

If you want your kid to sail through school, get some old textbooks from the 1960s, and have your kid do all that grade's work, all the way through the back of the book to the end, during the summer before the school year. Do that every year, and your kid will get advanced a grade or two, and put in "honors" courses in high school. If you can't find old textbooks, then at least get the same books your school will use.

And for heaven's sake, get him out of public school. Those places are death for scholarship.

 

[Desdinova]

"Homework" really means "parents here's some busy work for you to do for the kid and let's all pretend the kid did it -- it's your fault now if the kid doesn't get As."

This is unfortunately true. I discovered this when my child started school. I've been suddenly bombarded with reading and word review. I never put extra work upon my parents when I was in grade one. School work should belong in the school, and the evenings / weekends should be left for playing or doing activities as a family.

I've said it before: our school system is trying to cram WAY too much information into children's brains, and much of it is information that they'll never use. If they cut out the crap that SHOULD be left for college and university, they could actually teach children useful things, have them live more fulfilling childhoods, and even cut down the amount of grades they need to complete before finishing school. If I could have went full-force into the work field when I was 15, I would have, but you NEED to have that grade 12 education so you can get a diploma stating you were willing to go all the way and learn stuff you'll never use.

As you can tell, I hate the education system.

 

[BMX]

http://www.killology.com/art_mass_slaughter.htm

"Rassa claimed that floor plans for half a dozen schools in Virginia, Texas and New Jersey have been recovered from terrorist hands in Iraq."--from the article.

These administrators wouldn't know who is bad until they struck them in the face.