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LA - 2006-09-26 23:26:08
In the short term do what I do with my kids, expand their minds outside of school. Talk about everything and live the principles I espouse as much as I can. Play Devil's advocate and make them think for themselves. There's always been censorship and jingo-ism in public education. In history class you'd think we never did a bad thing again after slavery. We can hold educators accountable for their shenanigans with insider-traded textbooks and such, but ultimately parents are responsible for educating their kids. ~LA
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Jim - 2006-09-26 23:28:39
I don't know why we seem to think that having the federal government run our schools is such a wonderful idea. It has never made any sense to me. In practice it has turned out to work even worse than I had predicted. No child left behind. Yeah, right.
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John Bailey - 2006-09-27 04:28:21
This one shocked even me, Doug, and I try not to comment on U.S. home policies and practice. It's a universal truth, though. Get education right and all else follows. Get it wrong, and all else suffers.
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l'empress - 2006-09-27 09:42:05
Why would I be surprised? By the time I was eight, I realized that schools bought the kind of books that reflected what they wanted to reflect. (If your school had a male principal, so did the schools in your reader; if female, then you read about lady principals.) LA has it; the schools leave too much to politics and not enough thought to what the pupils need. Parents much teach at home. Help the kids reach a balance, as when a teacher says, "I don't care what your mother says."
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gastongal leona - 2006-09-29 07:47:58
Home school with Christian State accredited credentials
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