Gotta add a big "yikes" to that one. Would like to know which charter school (I taught at one), which grade level, and what kind of class that dinosaur and people illustration was from. If it was a fourth grade Social Studies lesson, I would applaud it for making the kids aware that there is a past...something not done in the last public school where I taught. Social Studies was such an afterthought that even some "Turok, Son of Stone" comic book would have been an improvement.
It is kinda irrelevant which variation of knowledge is being ignored, anyhow. Remember the old story about the several blind men who describe an elephant by touch...it is like a snake, it is like a tree trunk, it is like a palm leaf, and so on? Well, the school system is like that. No matter which part you get a hold of, something is wrong with it.
You need look no further than the twin mandates under which we went about our mission in my teaching years: Race to the Top; and No Child Left Behind.
I don't doubt state meddling. We had plenty of it. But I would be much more concerned overall about the self-sustaining, self-justifying, certifocracy that rules a realm of research-based continuing progress in which nothing ever improves.
Yikes is right. I pulled the dinosaur info from the Orlando Sentinel series "Schools without Rules." Substack isn't letting me add a link here, but you should be able to find it easily enough. Also, Scott Maxwell referenced it in a column a couple of weeks ago. I am so proud to be a fourth-generation Lake Countian..,.
A pay wall on Bob’s Diner? That’ll never happen. Although I reserve the right to occasionally beg for folks to become paid subscribers. Thanks for reading my stuff, Jess.
One has to hand it to the British, they may have invented modern racism, f@cked up about 1/4 of the world, and created the world's worst flavors for potato chips (their "crisps), but they did gave us wonderful words like this (and to be fair, they also gave us the "full English breakfast").
On public education in Florida: "abandon all hope, ye who enter the Florida public school system".
What you save on taxes here, you pay for in private school tuition (for the small percentage who can afford it) or you pay when you are assaulted in the adult pull-up aisle of your local Publix by an inbred pillock (another good British word) with an assault rifle.
Of course, even a well funded education system can't be saved from enforced of suppression of science and history.
That reply above, “I think the Middle Ages might have been more advanced” was meant for you but somehow wound up in the general scrum. No matter, Thanks for dropping by and for becoming a paid subscriber.
Batshit-Crazy Cockwaddles ---I should know better than to drink coffee and read your posts. Gotta go clean up the mess!
Mission accomplished!
Gotta add a big "yikes" to that one. Would like to know which charter school (I taught at one), which grade level, and what kind of class that dinosaur and people illustration was from. If it was a fourth grade Social Studies lesson, I would applaud it for making the kids aware that there is a past...something not done in the last public school where I taught. Social Studies was such an afterthought that even some "Turok, Son of Stone" comic book would have been an improvement.
It is kinda irrelevant which variation of knowledge is being ignored, anyhow. Remember the old story about the several blind men who describe an elephant by touch...it is like a snake, it is like a tree trunk, it is like a palm leaf, and so on? Well, the school system is like that. No matter which part you get a hold of, something is wrong with it.
You need look no further than the twin mandates under which we went about our mission in my teaching years: Race to the Top; and No Child Left Behind.
I don't doubt state meddling. We had plenty of it. But I would be much more concerned overall about the self-sustaining, self-justifying, certifocracy that rules a realm of research-based continuing progress in which nothing ever improves.
Yikes is right. I pulled the dinosaur info from the Orlando Sentinel series "Schools without Rules." Substack isn't letting me add a link here, but you should be able to find it easily enough. Also, Scott Maxwell referenced it in a column a couple of weeks ago. I am so proud to be a fourth-generation Lake Countian..,.
I hate Florida and love it at the same time.
You and me both, baby.
Thank you for allowing comments and votes on the polls without demanding $$$ first! Me too. There should be more of us.
A pay wall on Bob’s Diner? That’ll never happen. Although I reserve the right to occasionally beg for folks to become paid subscribers. Thanks for reading my stuff, Jess.
I think the Middle Ages might have been more advanced.
You had me at "Cockswaddle"!
One has to hand it to the British, they may have invented modern racism, f@cked up about 1/4 of the world, and created the world's worst flavors for potato chips (their "crisps), but they did gave us wonderful words like this (and to be fair, they also gave us the "full English breakfast").
On public education in Florida: "abandon all hope, ye who enter the Florida public school system".
What you save on taxes here, you pay for in private school tuition (for the small percentage who can afford it) or you pay when you are assaulted in the adult pull-up aisle of your local Publix by an inbred pillock (another good British word) with an assault rifle.
Of course, even a well funded education system can't be saved from enforced of suppression of science and history.
Welcome to the Middle Ages!
That reply above, “I think the Middle Ages might have been more advanced” was meant for you but somehow wound up in the general scrum. No matter, Thanks for dropping by and for becoming a paid subscriber.
Hmmm Cockwaddle -- considered carefully, it conjures up a pretty good visual :-)
Don’t consider it tooooooo carefully.
Just until you need glasses...