Education ( post rated:R)
I believe that education, teaching individuals how to think, plan, prepare, build and create while performing the essential tasks of communication, has been an indispensable factor in the rise of the United States of America to the greatest Nation on Earth.
Schools of the past must have, according to the evidence, done an effective job. We did not arrive where we are by chance.
Now we are losing out in the race for “best.” Other Nations score better in testing in multiple areas of academic pursuit, especially at the lower levels (where, of course, initial learning occurs). We can contest the tests, or we can recognize that foolish people are leading us in a dangerous direction.
In a report by Bill Bumpass, OneNewsNow, I read the following:
Diane Schneider, a representative with the National Education Association (NEA), said that graphic sex education needs to be taught in the classroom.
Speaking to a panel on combating “homophobia” and “transphobia,” Schneider stated: “Oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education.” The NEA representative did not stop there. “She went on to say that comprehensive sex education is — quote – ‘the only way to combat heterosexism and gender conformity.'” “She said that ‘gender identity expression’ and sexual orientation are a spectrum, and…that those [who are] opposed to homosexuality are stuck — quote — ‘in a binary box that religion and family create.'”
Well now, in a place where my kids and/or grand kids can’t seem to learn how to “read, ‘rite, and do ‘rithmetic;” when teens can’t spell, can’t use proper grammar, don’t know “obtuse” from “opaque,” and the drop out rate is alarming and surging, I suppose that I should now want those same teachers imparting knowledge regarding the items Ms. Schneider finds vital. (My apologies to all the great, effective, wonderful teachers out there)
The ugly truth is if our society spent less time majoring on the items in her agenda (and I suppose the NEA’s) our young folks might find more time for reading, writing, achieving competency in math, and learning how to communicate in real words (BFF, OMG, an “like, you know” excepted).
Ms. Schneider, please stay out of our classrooms. You’re thinking or proposing this sort of diatribe should be in children’s classrooms is dismaying, damaging, dangerous, destructive, debauched and decadent.
And, by the way, I like the “binary box” in which I am stuck!