CA's Chinese Communist School Lessons?

[joe_peters]

http://www.thefoxnation.com/texas-t...lets-communist-china-supply-school-curriculum

Fawk!

The Progressive Socialist Peoples Party of California never ceases to amaze me.

Back in the day we used to say "Kill a Commie for Mommy", today in CA the commie IS mommy.

 

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And this surprises you why?

I consider it an unqualified success when I can reach down and make someone think for themselves. I don't really care what they think about, I just want to break the "party-line" mentality that has been infecting people. Too much duckspeak, y'know? (cf: 1984)

I saw as a sig somewhere something I actually find appropriate, given the times. "It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds."

Mum keeps telling me to get out of here, because people have gotten stupid. I view it as a cancer - it started in CA and the East Coast (MA-NY,) and has metastatised (sp?) from there. This is a cancer that need to be addressed at the source, as well as on the fringes.

You kickstart brains up there in Oregon, and I'll keep at it down here in CA.

The technique I find most successful? When someone presents a silly idea, take it to its logical (and usually useless) conclusion. Doesn't matter how absurd it works out to be. Then present that logical conclusion - and the chain of clear logic that took you there.

What many people think is a good idea now is the seed of something they will think is not a good idea - the problem is the lack of critical thinking and the inability to think past the ends of their noses. Take it forward, and let the idea blast them good and hard. Present the logic that generated the idea, and you can (sometimes...) manage to prime the motor.

NB: We are fighting against the tide here. Read my blog entry for 07MAY (jondkelley.blogspot.com. Yeah, I'll probably get controversial. Yeah, I put my proper name up there. Why? 1) If I can't support it, I'm not going to say it. 2) I'm not going to make them look for me - once they have my name, they know where I am. Besides, I'm always pretty easy to find, unless I don't want to be.

(Haul me into court, and I'll have a platform for ideas that will be public! You sure you want to do that?)

 

[WB9YZU]

IIRC they (Madison Metro School District) plans on taking the Chineese gvmt on their offer next year.

In Middleton, WI, they have launguage imersion classes where social studies is taught completely in "mexican" for a number of grades.

I think there is a plus and a minus side of this equation. The plus is that the kids learn something different. The minus is that the kids coming out of school can hardly speak or write english as it is.

At least in our school system, many kids are, as teachers put it nowdays "School Dependant", or translated, they are poor people who rely on the school system to feed their kids and to baby sit them.

They come from the inner city portions of Chicago & Milwaukee, also from South America, etc. I am unsure how that is affecting the quality of the student, but I know it is affecting the quality of the taught lesson because the lessons have to be dumbed down or the students can't pass the subjects. That last part needs to change. Expect the kids to attain a certain level of education before moving on to the next grade level, or hold them back until they catch up. I they can't catch up, send them off to a "special needs" school where they can catch up with the rest fo the students and be re-intigrated when they have achieved the expected academic level.

 

[joe_peters]

IIRC they (Madison Metro School District) plans on taking the Chineese gvmt on their offer next year.

In Middleton, WI, they have launguage imersion classes where social studies is taught completely in "mexican" for a number of grades.

I think there is a plus and a minus side of this equation. The plus is that the kids learn something different. The minus is that the kids coming out of school can hardly speak or write english as it is.

At least in our school system, many kids are, as teachers put it nowdays "School Dependant", or translated, they are poor people who rely on the school system to feed their kids and to baby sit them.

They come from the inner city portions of Chicago & Milwaukee, also from South America, etc. I am unsure how that is affecting the quality of the student, but I know it is affecting the quality of the taught lesson because the lessons have to be dumbed down or the students can't pass the subjects. That last part needs to change. Expect the kids to attain a certain level of education before moving on to the next grade level, or hold them back until they catch up. I they can't catch up, send them off to a "special needs" school where they can catch up with the rest fo the students and be re-intigrated when they have achieved the expected academic level.

Agree.

Limiting the amount of schooling in languages other than English raises the test scores of the students--fact. Getting the school districts to do it has not proven successful at all--I think they get extra fed/state money for "Balkanizing" the U.S.