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2020-04-11 Home Front: Culture Wars
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-11 07:24|| || Front Page|| [12 views ]  Top

#1 I read yesterday that it seems 47% of public school youts are not participating in online classes at all. Whuttasurprise...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-11 07:38||   2020-04-11 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 (a) Grom Jr is one of the ones not participating - I got him into Khan's Academy instead.
(b) IMO, all of the sins detailed in the article could've been forgiven, if they'd managed to produce some competent graduates.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-11 07:50||   2020-04-11 07:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Computer learning be hard. If you have no desire for meaningful employment, why waste time with on-line classes. Not unlike most gummit programs, gummit mandated school attendance has been overcome by events.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-11 07:50||   2020-04-11 07:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Our schools closed for the year. The teachers are complaining that they don't have enough time to grade all the homework!
However, found out my 4th grade homeschooler is doing some work that my 6th grade public schooler is doing!
Posted by Gomez Hapsburg1959 2020-04-11 08:18||   2020-04-11 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 It's only a matter of time before the NEA and the massive educational bureaucracy will mount an open assault against home-based computer learning.

Assistant superintendents for lacrosse and pelota will head up the effort.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-11 08:31||   2020-04-11 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 ...ah, yes.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-11 08:44||   2020-04-11 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Distance learning exposes the truth that our educationists dare not acknowledge: the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes.

If we would simply accept that iron law, we could then move on to accept a two-track system whereby the vast majority -- say, 80% -- are moved off of the college prep track by the age of 14 or 15 and into vocational schooling that leads to a well-paid, well-respected and absolutely necessary trade.

And the remaining 20% would be freed from busywork and BS virtue-signaling activities involving "diversity" and lefty volunteerism that detract from actual studies and that pimp their college applications to appease the BLT-BIGMAQ Diversity 'n' Inclusion Commissars in the Admissions office.

Which means, maybe, if we're lucky, we can halt the diversity shitheads' latest quest, to destroy STEM excellence in this country...
Posted by Lex 2020-04-11 09:44||   2020-04-11 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 ... the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes If we would simply accept that iron law

"We" can't, because it means accepting "can't make silk purses from sows' ears"
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-11 09:47||   2020-04-11 09:47|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Behold a massive truth in sarc !
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-11 09:49||   2020-04-11 09:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Most people can't hack the higher order thinking and abstract reasoning required for real college work. Among his many idiotic notions, Zero's push to get every American kid into college was surely one of the most foolish
Posted by Lex 2020-04-11 09:54||   2020-04-11 09:54|| Front Page Top

#11 ... the culture of the home is by far the biggest driver of educational outcomes If we would simply accept that iron law

The federal government runs two school systems, Department of Defense (overseas) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (reservations). One over performs the average, the other under performs the average. It's not about funding. It's about home environment.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-11 11:06||   2020-04-11 11:06|| Front Page Top

#12 ^^^Lets use the verbotten term "Genetics".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-11 11:19||   2020-04-11 11:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Let's use the verboten term, culture.

Books, reading, cultural pursuits esp. musical training, also memorization of poetry, lines from plays, and famous quotations.

Hint: in California, children of impoverished immigrants from E. Europe and E. Asia outperform middle- and upper-middle class "under-represented minorities." 100% due to the culture of the home.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-11 11:28||   2020-04-11 11:28|| Front Page Top

#14 ^Nonsense, culture depends on genes. If it wasn't, all the adopted children would be similar to their parents.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-11 11:37||   2020-04-11 11:37|| Front Page Top

#15 will not debate g
must not debate g
must run up hill before noon
Posted by Lex 2020-04-11 11:39||   2020-04-11 11:39|| Front Page Top

#16 Man, that picture of the derelict school building, I know it's standard gummint architecture, but boy do I remember seeing a lot like that back in PeeAye.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-11 14:00||   2020-04-11 14:00|| Front Page Top

#17 May I point out g(r)om two distinct 'cultures', Chinese (to include social dissemination to its neighbors) and Hebrews that have hundreds if not thousands of years of promoting education may well through social selection created a 'genetic' stock upon which such success is rewarded.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-11 15:55||   2020-04-11 15:55|| Front Page Top

#18 #17 Both achieved through selective breeding.
Among the Jews richest merchants were happy to marry their daughters to "genius" scholars from dirt-poor background.
With Chinese anyone could take scholar exams. These who succeeded joined the civil service and had dozens of wives.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-11 16:03||   2020-04-11 16:03|| Front Page Top

#19 The short answer is both play a contributing factor.

Take for instance, the concept of a Service Dog. Not that Shitsu couldn't be a service dog, but do we not see more German Shepherds? Conversely, a German Shepherd must go to a school to become a Service Dog.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-11 16:38||   2020-04-11 16:38|| Front Page Top

#20 No Shi Tzu can't become a service dog & and an idiot can't benefit from college degree - unless she goes into politics.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-11 16:53||   2020-04-11 16:53|| Front Page Top

#21 Let me amend that.
How do we know that our society in a lot of trouble? Because morons go to college & prosper thereby.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-11 17:56||   2020-04-11 17:56|| Front Page Top

#22 Can do something runs head first into Should do something. For example women can be fighter pilots but should they do so ? You lose the home culture drivers .
Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-04-11 18:20||   2020-04-11 18:20|| Front Page Top

#23 Then there is the opposite model the English aristocracy where inbreeding seems to trend to diminished the possibility of 'genius'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-11 20:21||   2020-04-11 20:21|| Front Page Top

#24 I guess I have been fortunate to see exceptions to those rules.

How do we know that our society in a lot of trouble? Because morons go to college & prosper thereby.

That, I'm totally in agreement with.

Interestingly, morons who go into Vocational-Technical College tend to get themselves hurt before graduating, and hopefully nobody else.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-11 20:33||   2020-04-11 20:33|| Front Page Top

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