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  • Posted by VictorianMedievalist 9 years, 7 months ago
    It is things like this that make me SO glad I was home-schooled. If I ever have children of my own, they will never see the inside of a public school.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    minus eleven. I still go shopping with a fairly large ruck sack. and bring back 30 - 40 kilos of whatever. and two shopping bags at 10 kilo each. But those days are starting to go. I think get half as much and make two trips to the store. Probably why everyone thinks I'm younger. But the next morning it really hurts to move!!! Either that or I'm going to dial back to 29 when people ask.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah -- isn't that a hoot? First there's nothing and then in the next fraction of a second there is an entire universe bursting forth to a size beyond imagining. The bible's Genesis seems like a Lego version of the big bang.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My mind is 39, my body is 81. If I could only get the body to do what the mind commands.....
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 9 years, 7 months ago
    I got as far in the article as the quote from Wilfred McClay: "“How can we call forth the acts of sacrifice that our democracy needs, not only on the battlefield but also in our daily lives—the acts of dedication to the common good that are at the heart of civilized life—" If history is being used as a propaganda platform in the public schools to teach altruistic sacrifice for the common good, perhaps its removal is a mixed blessing. Fortunately, for those who actually want to learn it, American and world history is more accessible than it has ever been.
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  • Posted by Lysander 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Absolutely! Public schools are nearly better? than the university system. It's a system of PC garbage.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's exactly what those with only a brain and no mind, no identity, no sole, do...everything is the fault or at cause of something outside themselves.
    They themselves are NEVER accountable.

    Now you know the creatures your dealing with right down to the sub atomic level...
    They are just not human.
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  • Posted by Lysander 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree! I teach in the system, and we just finished Anthem by Rand and Harrison Bergeron by Vonnegut. Nearly every one of them said this was the FIRST novel they read. They are sophomore. I told them today how this pubically indoctrination keeps me up at night wondering what kind of world we are being dragged to? A Road to Serfdom!
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When you are as old as we are you first ask which version of the Bible and take care especially if it's KOV Bible. Then you learn to say, "Don't teach your grampaw how to suck eggs."
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Listen here, youngster. I read Genesis many times I also twist things around to fit my commentary to make a point when not speaking strictly seriously. (I'm so old that almost everyone is a youngster)
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh dear. No Sports? No Big Gov?

    Whatever shall I do? (turns pale and fans herself)

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's one of my trademarks when I keep money out of the hands of wastrels especially in school districts. Sheep to the slaughter. It is a difficult job. only takes a vote of one to nothing to pass a budget. Invariably twelve years worth of parents can be frightened into carrying water for the ....moochers in that profession all without exception found in the administration offices. Those that can do those that can't teach those that can't teach administrate. Those that ant administrate become professors or work for the Department of Education. The usual winning threat equal in validity to shutting down government is cutting band, music, choir (no reaction yet?) and SPORTS!

    Being a fan of Mr. Holland's Opus I would go straight to sports and turn the school into the far superior European or for that matter Mexican system.

    So now it's my turn to have a leftist look in the mirror and describe himself in reference to me. I have truly arrived and am honored by the compliment. BwahahaHAHAhahahahhhhaHHAAHHAHA. What evil lurks in the minds of man? The Shadow knows.

    That's a real one. you want more echo effect.
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I prefer to believe that you are an Evil Overlord with the characteristic Evil Overlord laugh.

    Jan (though I think you should add a "w", as in BWAHAHAHAHAhahahahah!)
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  • Posted by blackswan 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you want to EDUCATE your kids, home school them. Download all the original documents from history, so the kids can learn what the original actors were looking at and thinking, not someone's interpretation of it. Go back thousands of years, to the Egyptians, Greeks, Chinese, Indians, Romans, etc., through the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, etc. They'll learn and UNDERSTAND a hell of a lot more than what they'll "learn" in a typical classroom.
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  • Posted by blackswan 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Adam & Eve didn't just "spring" into existence, if you'd bother to read Genesis. A more apt comparison would be Isis "springing" from the lotus.
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  • Posted by blackswan 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They don't babysit, unless it's to let the inmates run the asylum. Babysitting used to mean that certain mores were taught and enforced, unlike the circus that's now accepted as "good" teaching.
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