I was commenting on another blog and came across this example of the curriculum used in 8th grade in 1895. As Slim Pickins used to say "what in the wide, wide world of sports in a goin on here?"
I doubt if the average Freshman college student could complete this 8th grade final exam.
When are we going to realize that culture, activism, art and personal growth instruction are the function of the parents, not the schools? If you are passing all of you real courses, then you may take an elective, art or band or poetry. The liberals that control the teachers unions and the 'teach to the whole student' crowd are not helping our kids to compete for the jobs that America needs to remain a leader in science and technology. You remember science and technology right? That is where we could find an alternative to foreign oil and cure AIDS and cancer, you know, the kind of important stuff.
Let me, the parent, decide what cultural instruction my child needs. It seems the only college most children will be ready for is a liberal arts college. They should do quite well at UC Santa Cruz. Maybe the world will start outsourcing all its sociology, and cultural studies needs to the US, that is what we will be qualified to do. We may not be able to compete for this century's technology and science breakthroughs, but we can 'feel good' with the best of them.
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