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2019-12-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

Kelleigh Nelson - 'Over A Century Of Corrupting American Education'

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-03 10:48|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Iron Rice bowls are not cheap. Those who possess them are loath to give them up.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-03 11:02|| 2019-12-03 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ We actually need a graphic added to Fred's graphic library with that widely applicable phrase.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-03 11:08|| 2019-12-03 11:08|| Front Page Top

#3 IMO, the real corruption is not the leftard world view they're pushing (any school kid worth spit knows not to trust teachers on soft subjects), it's the semi-illiterates they certify.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-03 12:01|| 2019-12-03 12:01|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember back in the late 1980's/early 1990's one evening when I tried to help my daughter read a book. When she came to a word that she didn't know, I told her to sound it out, which was a basic concept I learned in the first grade during the 1950's. She did know what I meant.

Aren't they teaching her phonics? I asked Mrs. Uluque.

No, said the wife. They're using the "whole language" approach these days, some new system concocted by the "experts" in Sacramento.

Four years later, when my son was in kindergarten, he had a wonderful older and slightly rebellious teacher who taught phonics to her students on the sly. So he learned it and now possesses stacks of books. He's still a socialist but at least he can read. Maybe that's the most dangerous kind.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-12-03 12:05|| 2019-12-03 12:05|| Front Page Top

#5 1895 8th Grade Exam

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-12-03 12:22|| 2019-12-03 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank you, Mullah Richard. Clarifying.

How many Ivy League undergrads today could pass this portion if the 1895-era Salinas KS 8th grade exam:

U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?

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