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Keep in mind that our public school education system exists
for the purpose of training (with some education) brainless jocks. They
are trained to bounce a ball up and down or run around on a field of
grass. This exists so that colleges, TV networks, professional sports
teams and brainless jocks can make a lot of $$$. Just follow the money -
it will usually give the correct answer.
My $0.02 worth,
Ken Janusz, CPIM
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Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:04
AM
Subject: RE: Orawomen
The
public education is so pathetic... I took the mannual produced by US
scientists I guess commissioned by the Senate
(or
something like that) and used it to teach my daughter to read grade 3 level a
4 years old in 4 months spending only
20
minutes a day with here.. very easy to do. Will the schools use this manual?
My daughter in grade 2 or 3 rated better
than
97% of her peers in the US at that age level. My brother did the same with his
daughter and gave her some computer game to teach reading.. and she is even
better off.. I mentored kids who had trouble in math and physics for 10
years...
and
the same problem every time...smart kids with mental blocks developed by
the school system. I can't talk about it..
its
so pathetic.
Brian
I
don't like feeding an OT too much, but...
People wonder why I am completely self-taught. I wonder where they
were taught, because the time I spent in primary and secondary school was a
complete and utter waste of time. It wasn't until I took a few classes of
"higher" education at a decent school that it even occured to me that it is
possible to learn something from a lecture or classroom
setting.
Ugh. Sure glad my daughter's school system seems to be better than
average. If I were forced to live in the school system I grew up in
(Britton-Macon, Michigan), I'd home-school her.
April, I could tell back when I was in 8th grade that the Teaching
System in Texas was a joke. I moved from Missouri to Texas
that year and went from a math class where we were doing geometry,
trig, and algebra to a math class where they were teaching the Metric
System. This was back in 1975.
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Message-----
From: April Wells
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003
12:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: Orawomen
Be glad that you aren't in Texas. I
DESPISE the testing system here. I realize that to a great extent
it is needed (there are high school JRs who can't divide 6 by 3 and get
an accurate answer) but they TEACH to the TEKS (or whatever the stupid
name is this year). My 8 year old came home in tears because she
was going to flunk 3rd grade (she came home in OCTOBER telling me this)
because she went from getting an A in math to getting a B when
they started division. The logic in stressing her out like
this? "We have never taken this test before, and we want to
maintain our perfect school rating"... if our kids aren't perfect then
we aren't perfect and we will loose our status in the community.
She got a B... and it wasn't even on her report card as a B... just
on a test... she's 8. I would hate math and school too if
all that mattered to anyone was "the" test and the stellar
reputation of the school.
Sorry... sore
subject.
LOVED logic! If A then B, If B then
C, A therefore C... all dogs are animals with fur, but not all animals
with fur are dogs!
April Wells
Oracle DBA
Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds -- Albert Einstein
I don't know about you, but the first time I took a logic
course it was in university... It seems to me it would be fun
for high school students to take newspaper or magazine articles (Teen
magazine comes to mind) and pull them apart to show that statement B
doesn't necessarily follow from the previous paragraph, etc. In
our logic class we had a lot of fun examining statements made by
"pundits" in the media.
But ooops! Logic falls under philosophy, that's not
teachable in the public system, seen as
irrelevant.
Logic is done by unconscious habit by most people it seems to
me, rarely consciously applied. So generalized statements
abound, misperceptions spread...
My 6 year old son has asked me at least three times now if it's
OK for boys to play with Barbies... he doesn't have one but am
thinking of purchasing him one for his birthday, just to see where he
will go with that. My wife hates Barbies with a passion.
But I think she hates Universal Soldiers more.
; )
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified
DBA)
I will agree to some extent. But I have
TRIED to get my daughter on the computers, into math and science,
interested in anything technology... she tells me that Computers are
geeky (she's 8). She is my militant little feminist and into
sports and precision jump rope... I try to explain that I work with
computers. The geeky logic doesn't always
stick.
April Wells
Oracle DBA
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds -- Albert
Einstein
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