To BAE (Bad Ass Ed)
How do you think a parent should feel when their children are taught
symbolic logic in school and the parents don't even understand a syllogism?
Thinking in sets? Parents are complaining about their children not
knowing arithmetic. And much of the literature the kids are taught seems
immoral in their religious mind set. Seems less an issue of availability
of money than a use of money to force teach the out of date thinking and
information embedded in the general population. i.e. it is a problem of
culture. The parents should get up off their bottoms and go to a real
artistic event or take a course instead of watching the news for
entertainment and betting on football. You can lead a Bork to Opera but
you can't make him higher think.
Crooked Face Harrell.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Magic Circ Op Rep Ens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: what's ailing kids
> Crooked Face Harrell:
>
> > In our community we have children refusing to go to school. Not because
> of
> > violence by recording but by the violence of professionals who bad mouth
> the
> > educational system in an unending vitriol that if loosed in the Stock
> Market
> > would destroy it. We expect our kids to filter the BS from the
> > constructive criticism while they have more homework, more difficult
> > assignments, more pressure from above then we ever had. The problem
is
> > not them but us. Why should they learn advanced physics if they are
> > taught by the society that it is impractical and that their teachers are
> > idiots? Why should they practice long term discipline in the arts
when
> > their parents are so unable to do the same in their lives?
>
> We have a bad scene in public education in Ontario right now. School
boards
> are being amalgamated and consolidated, schools are not being adequately
> funded, and the government is doing a lot of teacher bashing. Teaching
> seems to have moved from being an honourable profession to doing something
> if you are absolutely forced to. Young teachers are quitting because they
> can't stand the insults and the pressure. I'm sure the situation will
work
> itself out eventually, but right now it borders on chaos.
>
> Bad Ass Ed
>
>
>
