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  • Posted by gonzo309 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Looking back on it now, do you feel he taught you what you really needed to know and saved you from the socialist brainwashing that had been going on, or do you still feel it was worse?
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I just worried because he did the same thing to me when I was younger, and I actually felt like the education I received prior to 5th grade (which is when I finally started attending public school) was WORSE than what I would have gotten had I been in public school from the beginning.

    A lot of people complain about the so called "problems" with public school, but from my own personal experience, private schools are in no way guaranteed to provide a better education.

    Of course that was all back in the early to mid 90s, way before any of this "Common Core" crap started proliferating through public education, so it's difficult to make the same judgement calls today.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't think he's ever thought about it. He mostly just promotes the ideology of his church.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, the author of the article was either being facetious, or made some unmentioned assumptions about data that is not given in the problem. The problem can't be solved rationally with the information given.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    One thing we have to learn is that even our closest allies and friends will not agree with everything we believe. Of course you will apply your own rational judgement, but it isn't sensible to throw out the good rational points just because of a disagreement on unrelated issues.

    Even if I don't agree with you on vaccines today, we may agree on many other issues. Over time, our positions of disagreement may also change.
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  • Posted by gonzo309 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Some of the smartest kids were (are) home schooled. Your father was wise to do that for your family. All of my family was public schooled and suffered for it, including myself.

    The socialization can be accomplished by interactions in extracurricular activities and outside groups such as church activities and/or boy/girl scouts or classes at school that welcomes home schoolers.
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  • Posted by Abaco 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, you are mistaken. That's ok. Nobody's right about everything. And, if you get warm cozy feelings about the vaccine schedule more power to you. Like I said, you can trust the government to do the right thing with that...
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well obviously a citizenship that lacks basic mathematical ability is going to have all kinds of problems. My point was simply that the anti-vaccine crowd is irrational.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, I have no idea, and it is definitely concerning.

    I don't have any kids myself, but I do have a younger half-sister and half-brother (ages 12 and 11 respectively), who my father chose to keep out of public school for social reasons. His excuse was that he thought public schools were a bad environment, which I think is BS, but that's what he believes.

    Anyway, I was concerned that they wouldn't be receiving a quality education if they were kept out of public school, but apparently keeping them out is the best way to ensure that they DO get a quality education if this is the kind of nonsense that's being taught in public schools now. My father's reasoning for keeping my brother and sister out of public school may have been irrational, but it still apparently led to good consequences because now they won't be subjected to this Common Core crap.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The part about molding citizens to be complacent to government authority is a valid argument. The part about vaccines is not.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't think public schools are inherently bad. In fact, I actually fully support the idea of public schools. I just don't think Common Core sets good standards (or even comprehensible standards, for that matter).

    I personally think public schools are a great concept, just so long as the system adheres to traditional methods and standards for education.
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  • Posted by iroseland 11 years, 10 months ago
    The kids are learning something useful. They are learning that the public schools are full of crap and that the teachers are not a part of the solution.
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  • Posted by Abaco 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, don't believe it. There's no way our neglect of basic math could have ever made its way into the CDC vaccine schedule. That is one area where we can surely trust our government to keep us safe.
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  • Posted by gonzo309 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Don't let true facts about mercury in the vaccines distract you from the main thrust of the article. The educational system is creating a curriculum and homework that parents can't help with, making the school the only authority to depend on for clarification. The kids are being set up to fail by their own thinking because you have to be brain damaged to write the material that's shown, hence the effects of mercury in vaccines.

    My grandson brought home a homework assignment in kindergarten that my wife and myself couldn't figure out what the teacher wanted and my wife has a Masters degree. If the child and parent can't figure it out, the child will be inadequate and will tend to make decisions by consensus to feel safer. This what the elite wants; a docile, confused citizen that can be molded into anything that the consensus is manipulated into believing, just like in the UN Agenda 21.
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 10 months ago
    Conspiracy theory time!

    The worksheets are intentionally designed to be confusing to any adult who looked at them. The questions only make sense when accompanied by oral instructions from the teacher, and are really about getting children to divulge sensitive information about their private home life.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The problem is-more and more of these are coming to light. It's beginning to be a trend not just an anomaly. Why?
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  • Posted by $ Maphesdus 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Critically thinking child? I pretty sure the whole point of school is to TEACH children critical thinking skills...

    I suppose if they're getting home lessons from their parents on top of these CC lessons from school, then they could learn critical thinking that way. Otherwise I don't see how they'd ever develop the trait.
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