The 1776 Commission

[mtrycrafts]

Ready to be indoctrinated, or at least you kids in school?

Twitter reacts to President Trump’s vow to instill ‘Patriotic Education’ in schools

 

[slipperybidness]

 

[highfigh]

I would be OK with a history curriculum that's accurate but, well, the victors write history so it's hard to know what was changed in order to make a country's history look good.

However, no country can move forward if everyone has a different idea of what it needs- otherwise, it's like someone poured a bucketful of ants on the ground without a queen. Constructive debate and compromise are needed, as well as some kind of common goals. This is different from hard core nationalism where everyone wants to live in a country that steamrolls its way around the globe.

 

[slipperybidness]

Go ahead and read the fine print, establishment of the Thought Police!

 

[slipperybidness]

Here is a hard truth, a responsible parent should be educating their children to the fact that "not everything you learn in public school is factual".

That is the reality of institutionalism.

As a child gets older, the parent should be teaching the child to learn for themselves and learn when to just nod and play along, but not actually believe the BS that gets shoveled down your throat.

 

[highfigh]

Here is a hard truth, a responsible parent should be educating their children to the fact that "not everything you learn in public school is factual".

That is the reality of institutionalism.

As a child gets older, the parent should be teaching the child to learn for themselves and learn when to just nod and play along, but not actually believe the BS that gets shoveled down your throat.

And they should be teaching their kids to think critically. A friend and his wife did this with their kids and those kids had some issues with what they were told in school.

I think it would be difficult to nod and play along when a paper is due, with the student's thoughts expressed in their writing.

 

[John Parks]

It is in obvious response to this total and complete дерьмо

 

[slipperybidness]

And they should be teaching their kids to think critically. A friend and his wife did this with their kids and those kids had some issues with what they were told in school.

I think it would be difficult to nod and play along when a paper is due, with the student's thoughts expressed in their writing.

Well, I think a wise person should have issues with some of the things that will be taught in school.

The role of the educator is not to "like" a student's thoughts.

In the science field, you are taught to be skeptical. You can't take anything for granted, you should be re-creating various experiments with your own data sets to prove that the equations and theories that you are taught in the classroom will hold up to scrutiny and may be recreated in the labs.

 

[panteragstk]

Am I crazy or are schools in Texas already like this? Doesn't sound a lot different than what I was taught growing up.

I did get lucky enough to have a few (very few) teachers that didn't teach BS, but teachers don't get to do their own curriculum any longer so that's probably out the window.

My first grader said something about Columbus discovering America. I just said "no he didn't" and gave a short explanation. She was happy and went about her day.

It's a wonder why hard core conservatives say that colleges are liberal breeding grounds. How would they feel going from high school to college and find out most of everything they were taught about history is a bunch of BS? It's almost like we're trying to make this happen.

Don't get me started on how school teaches kids to be good workers for someone else. That's a whole other irritating argument.