tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7622853607146988721..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: American Schooling Is Getting WorseStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-75934210472890640232015-10-31T14:37:32.862-07:002015-10-31T14:37:32.862-07:00There's more to worry about when it comes to c...There's more to worry about when it comes to children: <br /><br />http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/10/28/listen-to-jared-fogles-creepy-confessions-about-child-sex/<br /><br />This man is in prison for having sex with children. <br /><br />Having sex with children is still illegal in the US. <br /><br />But consider how the entertainment industry is encouraging children to dress like hookers and hustlers. Rap music sexualizes young children with raunchy lyrics and beats. Pornography is now available to children all over the net. Walt Disney promotes slutty fashion for kids. <br /><br />US education teaches kindergarteners and elementary school children that homosexual fecal penetration is wonderful. <br /><br />When children are being so sexualized, it means children are sexual creatures too. And if we go that route, it means children should have the right to have sex. When that happens, will pedophilia become legal? Everything that is happening in our culture in entertainment and schools is headed in this direction. <br /><br />And there was a piece in Salon that tried to normalize the feelings of a pedophile. <br /><br />And there's always been a close link between the homosexual community and the pedophile community. Many prominent homos have also been pedos. Like Allen Ginsburg.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-78776482423745204172015-10-29T17:36:45.384-07:002015-10-29T17:36:45.384-07:00I think there is more to the issue than uneaten lu...I think there is more to the issue than uneaten lunches.<br /><br />My kindergartner grandson eats breakfast at home, a snack at school, and then goes to lunch. The noisy lunchroom distracts him from eating. He will sometimes eat his fruit and drink milk. The rest of his home-prepared lunch goes back home for an after school snack, at which time he is "starving", as he puts it. (He quickly refused to eat anything offered by the free school lunch program.)<br /><br />In spite of that, he is doing quite well in his class and loves kindergarten. He is quickly learning to read. He comes from a stable upper middle class home with a married mother and father, both of whom are college educated. The home environment is critical. Sure, some students can overcome it, but they have big obstacles from the beginning.<br /><br />Also, I think the common core math standards are putting the cart before the horse. This won't turn out well.tnxplantnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-31369931589062975362015-10-29T11:34:56.732-07:002015-10-29T11:34:56.732-07:00p.s. Maybe here's one good reason why Minnesot...p.s. Maybe here's one good reason why Minnesota didn't adopt the math standard. Apparently a commutativity property is too advanced for Common Core third graders. <br /><br />I can see how such testing will generate rational resentment, long before irrational numbers are explored.<br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/parents-criticise-us-common-core-maths-after-third-grade-pupil-told-solution-for-55515-is-incorrect-a6711736.html<br />-----------<br />5x3 may not look like much of a puzzle but this particular maths question may just be the most challenging one you come across today, if parents’ online reactions are anything to go by.<br /><br />According to one post doing the rounds on image sharing site, Imgur, a US third-grade school pupil correctly answered the question ‘15’ - as expected - only for the teacher to mark it incorrect as part of the country’s controversial Common Core standards.<br /><br />Having highlighted the solution behind the question as 5+5+5, the correct answer, in fact, should have shown five groups of three instead.<br />-----------Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-47595200300590689952015-10-29T11:30:35.612-07:002015-10-29T11:30:35.612-07:00When self esteem is viewed as the greatest good a ...When self esteem is viewed as the greatest good a child can have, standards go in the tank because failure to meet them is viewed as mean. That's why we're where we are. Sad, but true. Many parents cannot comprehend that emotions are fleeting. Every hiccup is viewed as the "great event" that will burn in their psyches forever.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48971717824876664592015-10-29T07:50:20.725-07:002015-10-29T07:50:20.725-07:00NYT: Education officials said that the first-time ...NYT: Education officials said that the first-time decline in math scores was unexpected, but that it could be related to changes ushered in by the Common Core standards, which have been adopted by more than 40 states. For example, some of the fourth-grade math questions on data analysis, statistics and geometry are not part of that grade’s guidelines under the Common Core and so might not have been covered in class. The largest score drops on the fourth-grade math exams were on questions related to those topics.<br /><br />If Common Core is the problem, then its good not all states have went with it. Minnesota for instance skipped the Math standards. Has the Minnesota Math scores also gone down?<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_Initiative#Adoption_and_implementation_of_Common_Core_State_Standards_by_states<br /><br />NYT: A study released Monday showed that some items included in the national assessments are not covered by the Common Core before the grades in which they are tested. “Knowing other kinds of math isn’t going to help you unless you’ve been taught it,” said Fran Stancavage, an author of the study. “The Common Core moves the sequence around, so there are lots of things that used to be taught before fourth grade that are now showing up in higher grades.”<br /><br />OOPSEE!<br /><br />It all does sound a mess. And what's most important? Do we want schools to maximize the number of students who can pass the lowest levels of proficiency, or do we want to put more effort for the most motivated and gifted students who are bored by low standards push the limits on top, like the international Mathematical Olympiads.<br /><br />Apparently our home team won the international competition.<br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/17/winning-formula-usa-tops-international-math-olympiad-for-first-time-in-21-years/<br /><br />I can almost vote against the bottom feeder standards, at least if it means wasting more and more time testing students, and then having teachers "teach the test" until the diminishing returns of that break down.<br /><br />I'd also be interested in seeing how technology helps or hinders learning. Some districts have more access to technology than others, and that pushes students into more and more one-on-computer learning, which is perhaps better for upper grades, but might help create students who are less able to listen as well as taking initiative without getting prodded on every step.<br /><br />So much responsibility, and everyone knows the right way to do things, and the teachers are left trying to satisfy everyone, and risk failing all?<br /><br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com