interference said:depends how u interpret goals of the law.RamFan503 said:interference said:"No Child Left Behind' LawRamFan503 said:But then if you understand the origination of the public education system then you know that the major push was to create a steady flow of worker drones that would not challenge the elites. Pretty fucked up if you ask me. Seems to be working as planned.
Talkin' a LOOOOOOONNGGGGG time before that.
Yup!RamFan503 said:interference said:depends how u interpret goals of the law.RamFan503 said:interference said:"No Child Left Behind' LawRamFan503 said:But then if you understand the origination of the public education system then you know that the major push was to create a steady flow of worker drones that would not challenge the elites. Pretty fucked up if you ask me. Seems to be working as planned.
Talkin' a LOOOOOOONNGGGGG time before that.
You mean when at the end of the 19th century, industrialists giving millions to those pushing and propagating a public education system in order to provide industry with a force educated enough to read, write, and do basic math but not educated enough to question those in power? The goals of THOSE laws?
As a bit of background, the industrial titans of the 1890's began to think that not only could the production line be engineered, but people's lives could be engineered as well, in order to work like homogeneous robots with the machines. Rockefeller and Carnegie gave huge sums to prominent academics to see if this could be realized through the educational system. They found that to a considerable extent it could, and it is still being done today as evidenced in the Congressional Record during the Clinton administration.
interference said:As you can probably tell from many of my posts, I didn't attend institutionalized schooling. Unfortunately, just about all those school programs were shut down by the start of the 1980's, and I'm not really even aware of private options any longer. Whatever you call it, after some 150 years of relentless attack on education, all of us are worse off, even those attending $50K/yr private schools.
RamFan503 said:Heaven forbid that schools are made to inform parents when they are failing to educate and then give the parents a choice as to where their kids will go to school.
My kids ended up going to a charter school after their HS was demonstrating its uselessness. My oldest ended up as the Valedictorian of his graduating class and is attending OSU's engineering program. My youngest is taking college classes two days a week as a Junior in HS. He has one class requirement for his entire senior year and will be getting many of his entry level classes out of the way before he goes on to Oregon.
If you ignore the smear campaign waged by the NEA and gov't employee unions, you might see that "No Child Left Behind" while imperfect, has actually benefited those who will get involved in their kids' education. Is it flawed? Sure. Were we better off without it? Not in my opinion.
Angry Ram said:So today I got to ask the group of 7th graders. When I asked "how many think the whole story, the love angle AND the actual boat is made up?" Not a hand raised. When I asked "how many think there really was a ship called Titanic and hundreds of people really died?" every single hand rose. So there is some hope!
Next goal is w/ the 6th graders.
I would really appreciate it if you would also ask them "where do we (ie Americans) get our rights from"? I don't know many adults who know the right answer to this question, as the media does such a good job of propagating falsehoods in this regard.Angry Ram said:So today I got to ask the group of 7th graders. When I asked "how many think the whole story, the love angle AND the actual boat is made up?" Not a hand raised. When I asked "how many think there really was a ship called Titanic and hundreds of people really died?" every single hand rose. So there is some hope!
Next goal is w/ the 6th graders.
President Obama gives me my rights. He also gives me his money from his stach.interference said:I would really appreciate it if you would also ask them "where do we (ie Americans) get our rights from"? I don't know many adults who know the right answer to this question, as the media does such a good job of propagating falsehoods in this regard.Angry Ram said:So today I got to ask the group of 7th graders. When I asked "how many think the whole story, the love angle AND the actual boat is made up?" Not a hand raised. When I asked "how many think there really was a ship called Titanic and hundreds of people really died?" every single hand rose. So there is some hope!
Next goal is w/ the 6th graders.
steferfootball said:President Obama gives me my rights. He also gives me his money from his stach.interference said:I would really appreciate it if you would also ask them "where do we (ie Americans) get our rights from"? I don't know many adults who know the right answer to this question, as the media does such a good job of propagating falsehoods in this regard.Angry Ram said:So today I got to ask the group of 7th graders. When I asked "how many think the whole story, the love angle AND the actual boat is made up?" Not a hand raised. When I asked "how many think there really was a ship called Titanic and hundreds of people really died?" every single hand rose. So there is some hope!
Next goal is w/ the 6th graders.