You guys just like to rub it in my face, eh?

(January 16, 2014 at 10:43 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: You guys just like to rub it in my face, eh?

At least you get BBQ.

I saw many attack Texas also for reducing the high school exit requirement from Algebra 2 (was actually one of only 17 states to have this requirement, which is really just sad) to Geometry and then I saw California's requirement was algebra (a class you could normally complete in 8th grade).

If a state like Texas had education requirements that high (relative to the rest of the states that is) and still does stuff like this, I'd have to say America's education system as a whole isn't worth salvaging.

(January 16, 2014 at 10:50 pm)Polaris Wrote: If a state like Texas had education requirements that high (relative to the rest of the nations that is) and still does stuff like this, I'd have to say America's education system as a whole isn't worth salvaging.

Public education the way it is done now in America on the whole doesn't work. That is the entire point of the charter school movement. To reform the way public education is approached while having some autonomy to do things a little differently--the caveat being that each school is held accountable for improved student performance. This is why this is so sad. Taxpayer dollars sent to these schools where politicians and priests are hijacking the curriculum to satisfy a religious agenda and calling it education. Meanwhile the reading scores in these charter programs actually fell significantly and the mathematics showed no improvement.

The worst part is that in so many inner cities, charter programs do so much good. This sheds a tainted light on those programs.

Well I've got a bit of a surprise for all ya'll that ain't in Texas...

Quote:“What happens in Texas doesn’t stay in Texas when it comes to textbooks”

No matter where you live, if your children go to public schools, the textbooks they use were very possibly written under Texas influence. If they graduated with a reflexive suspicion of the concept of separation of church and state and an unexpected interest in the contributions of the National Rifle Association to American history, you know who to blame.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives...tion=false

The teaching of Christian Creationism as science goes on in many Evangelical Christian schools in Australia. Those schools receive a large slice of their funding from state and federal governments.

The grand scheme of things makes the ultimate goal of this situation to people to cheer when the public school system is finally abolished, in favor of private schools.

Welp. I'm staying in New England forever and ever and ever...

What's worse then a dumbass creatard? A dumb ass creatard with a gun

(January 17, 2014 at 12:08 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: What's worse then a dumbass creatard? A dumb ass creatard with a gun

Or an atheist with an army who sees that religion can be used as a tool.