OT: America the Ignorant

And 80% believe than Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

Cheers

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Syd

Need to look at the cause of the ignorance. In the early years, what are they being taught in school?

Wasn't she ?>:-} ...Jim Thompson

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That big government will take care of them.

I rarely watch Hannity, he's so much the one-theme band, but he had a bunch of college students and recent college graduates on last night.

Uniformly, those that called themselves Democrats, wouldn't answer a direct question with a yes/no or numeric answer... they spouted leftist platitudes constantly.

THAT is the problem. ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

for-kindergarteners/ Video: Chicago makes sex-ed mandatory for kindergarteners posted at 2:51 pm on August 30, 2013 by Ed Morrissey Has Chicago solved all of its other educational issues? We?ll get back t o that in a moment, but that must be what the Chicago Public School Distric t believes. Starting this year, kindergarten classes must carve out 30 min utes a month for sex-education classes, and the local CBS affiliate reports that parents aren?t exactly thrilled: CPS emphasizes that the sex-ed effort is aimed at protecting children from abuse: CPS insists the curriculum will use language children understand and focus on topics like bullying, correct names for external body parts and the diff erence between appropriate and inappropriate touching. ?As you identify body parts, you talk about should you be touched here or not.,? said Stephanie Whyte, the CPS Chief Health Officer. ?And if som eone touches you, and it?s uncomfortable, you should tell a trusted adult .? ?I?m OK with it,? said parent Ayesha Ahmad. ?I?d like to believe it?s not necessary, but I think our culture dictates you can?t start ea rly enough.? But that?s not quite all that will be taught in these classes. Besides a natomically-correct nomenclature and a heads-up on identifying abuse, kinde rgarteners will also get taught the prevailing values of the school system about family structures: Students will also take a look at the different family structures that exis t in today?s society. ?Whether that means there?s two moms at home, everyone?s home life is different, and we introduce the fact that we all have a diverse background , ? said Whyte That?s a lesson some conservative organizations oppose. This brings up at least two big issue. First, children of this age aren?t going to have the sophistication to process this kind of instruction and c ompare it to the value systems which families use in their own homes. That ?s the kind of issue that mothers and fathers should address with their c hildren when they reach the appropriate age, not for schools to dictate as soon as they get kids in their clutches. Furthermore, when parents conflict with the teachers on this point, that will undermine the authority and cre dibility of the teachers, at the most formative age possible. There simply isn?t a need to address this at the kindergarten stage. Second, this shows why public schools are failing to educate students, espe cially in Chicago. Just this year, after CPS aligned its standardized test s to the actual outcomes of grade-level reading and arithmetic, Chicago par ents learned that only 52.5% of students between the 3rd and 8th grades cou ld pass that test: The number of Chicago Public Schools students that met state standards on t he Illinois Standards Achievement Test plummeted this year because official s raised the bar for what it takes to pass. Only 52.5 percent of 3rd through 8thgraders met or exceeded reading and mat h standards ? nearly a 22 point drop from last year. But officials said t he new test scores are a more accurate portrait of the performance of the c ity?s public school students and noted that 65 percent of schools actuall y showed progress. Since the state decided in January to raise the cutoff scores for the Illin ois Standards Achievement Test to get schools ready for the more rigorous C ommon Core curriculum, districts have been warning parents not to be shocke d by the expected drop in test scores. Chicago is the first district in Ill inois to release its scores, showing the steepness of that drop. The Illino is State Board of Education is expected to release statewide test data in O ctober. At CPS, the number of students meeting or exceeding state standards went do wn from 74.2 percent last year to 52.5 percent this year. CPS told parents not to worry, because it didn?t mean that their children were performing any worse than they had been before, but just that they? d raised the testing bar to ? expectations of grade-level performance. Th at?s more of an indictment of the tests CPS used in the past, and its con sistent level of incompetence. And this new effort is a good example of wh y only half of CPS students can perform at grade level ? because school d istricts are more concerned with social norming than they are with actually educating children. Schools should focus on education. Value formation is best left to the pare nts.

"Since people who cannot be contacted or refuse to take part in polls are more politically ignorant than those who do"

Seems to me that Richard Winchester, (who he?), doesn't understand the meaning of "non sequitur"

Or "privacy", for that matter.

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"Design is the reverse of analysis" 
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A lot of it is by design. After all if we really taught kids about how government works do you really think the corporate plutocracy would be able to get away with the shit they get away with today.

You mean the ....... 1%. :-))