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Originally Posted by PR_Tom
On home schooling, I think these sorts of insane school practices that we speak about are driving more and more people to home school. HOWEVER, laws are being passed in many states in the US now that declare you must have a teaching degree in order to home school. Most states already require quarterly and annual reports and testing results. And there's been no big story about how home schooled kids are failing. Besides which, if you home school, the public school still gets their taxes from you. Why do they want to make it harder to home school?
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I haven't really looked into the matter other than very topically, however there is a very big difference between the education I received in a public school and what this next generation is currently receiving, and it is not good. Those dictating the curriculum seem to have their own agendas in regards to how they present information.
As an example, I read an interview with several apparently successful, reasonably educated "Gen Y'rs" (I'm of the Generation X crowd) and the subject of Thomas Jefferson came up. For those of you outside the USA, this is one of the "founding fathers" of our country, and has always been portrayed (to the best of my knowledge) as one of the most important historical figures for the last 200+ years. Compare him to, for instance, an early King or founder of your country, in order to understand his relevance to our country.
If you asked someone from my generation about Thomas Jefferson, you'd get varying replies about the American Revolution, our Declaration of Independence, his philosophy of law that shaped our government, and other matters of substance.
The Gen Y'rs they interviewed, mentioned that he was "some guy who had illegitimate children with slaves".
Now I don't know if they got this slant on a historical figure from TMZ(etc) or from school, but it sure didn't seem like they picked up much knowledge about the man's accomplishments via traditional educational methods, if that was all they had to say about him. Other people I've spoken with who do have kids in school, have confirmed to me that they seem to be teaching less and less about our own history.
Ask yourself, what purpose does it serve to create generation(s) of people without a firm grasp of how our country came to be, and why our government functions in the manner that it does? Why is not only ignorance of these matters being pushed in our supposed "educational system", but at the same time they seek to chip away at what can only be described as American heroes? What purpose does it serve to discredit our heroes in such a manner?
It seems to me that through either willful ignorance or some manner of plan, those responsible for educating the next generation are trying to put their own slant on our country's history and traditions, and that to me is very disturbing
