Bang on.

the last time that I saw the flying spaghetti monster,
he was attacking my right shoe!!! -- j

p.s. I think that kids should explore all of the predominant
spaghetti monsters, to know what they are and that
they are out there lurking.......
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OW!

I do like the way they couched teaching creationism into a bill called Academic Freedom. It is an excellent example of 'freedom' being spun until it is dizzy. Makes you want to teach the flying spaghetti monster, doesn't it?

Jan

the last time I sat on a fence, it was damned uncomfortable! -- j
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A quick scan via a search engine leads me to believe that SD is all over the board on the issue of evolution - they defeated a creationist bill (called Bill for Academic Freedom or some such) but there seems to be a lot of pushback on that.

Jan

they might sit on the fence and say, "The science tells us
all about evolution, and some think in terms of creation;;;
we will explore them in that order." -- j
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Perhaps you should write an article for a SD newspaper, congratulating them on their apartheid stance...

Jan

So, you think it was sorted by 'controversial' vs 'non-controversial'? Interesting - could be the case. One must wonder what they will do when it comes to teaching evolution,

Jan

It is not "the lack of cognitive and reasoning ability", it is the deliberate erasure of the ability of our children to think for themselves. John Dewey, the father of modern education, wrote

"I believe that we violate the child's nature and render difficult the best ethical results, by introducing the child too abruptly to a number of special studies, of reading, writing, geography, etc., out of relation to this social life" and.

" I believe, therefore, that the true centre of correlation of the school subjects is not science, nor literature, nor history, nor geography, but the child's own social activities."

Though long dead, his ideas still rule our classrooms.
http://dewey.pragmatism.org/creed.htm

First question that pops into my mind is, "What is the motivation for such a change."

Then...I get chills.

Too bad there isn't a Venezuela channel right now. Maybe the AS tv series will focus in real time how socialism destroys a society and maybe goes into how to rebuild one. AS itself stops short of the rebuilding phase

and if they reach into the cabinet and get a splinter,
they probably go to the E.R. over it. -- j
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they must have found that avoiding the difficult stuff
was a way to have more friendly classrooms. . all of
the kids get participation ribbons the first day!!! -- j
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Interesting you mentioned the Hitler Channel documentaries. I got a great laugh from that one.

But seriously, I have watched them to no end because the reality of that history scares the crap out of me. And always has since being a kid in the 60's. I got enough history from school as a kid to be aware enough, but the in-depth history is intense.

In some ways the fact that these Hitler and WWII documentaries are so popular is that there is a healthy interest coming from the younger generations in that history. A lot of it starts with the basic question of Daddy (now granddaddy), what did you do during the war? And it just goes from there. But in that, there is a good sign for hope.

There is also another mechanism I have found. I have made it a point on many matters, particularly civics, to actually acquire an edition that was published back in the day.

Example: I acquired a high school civics textbook published in 1894 written by a Constitutional scholar from Iowa. In it, he laid out how when the soon-to-become State of Utah would be admitted into the Union, the federal government would be "relieved" of the responsibility of managing the public lands within the new State. You guessed it - there is no Constitutional authority for the federal government to keep these lands upon statehood.

And this was being taught in High School. Gee.

Well...as the old saying goes, "If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself."

Did you hear Rush Limbaugh today talk about the college kid who called 911 because she saw a mouse in her apartment? The parents and teachers of these kids have turned them into the most babied and mindless generation ever. They have no life skills. But boy, do they know about global warming and endangered species.

Yeah, except the recruiters are all BA's, so they just write "Bachelor's Degree required" on everything and the high-level engineer who finds himself out of a job - and who didn't finish those last 3 hours of college and thus has no BSc - cannot convince them that being able to TEACH the damn classes is just as good as having TAKEN them 40 years ago and is thus unemployable. Letters after your name do not make you able to reason, as we see all around us.
I've never really believed in teaching, and I may be getting more militant about the entire educational "area behind the curtain". morons.

I thought it was your gran'ma........at least, that was what she said.

My age is determined by how much whatever I'm contemplating doing is going to hurt, starting tomorrow, and for how long. I still pay the price, but the last few weeks have compelled me to add "sometimes" to that, some of the time. Bette Davis was right, growing old is not for sissies. or, 80 is the new 60.

I know, right? That bothered me too!