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Originally posted by RANT
How can anyone look at this and make it into a liberal or PC slam, which actually promotes diversity?
Is this not obviously a direct result of the President's "war on TV screens" and the popularity of FoxNews entertainment based programming where more often than not the story is the media?
as posted by PistolPete
The problem isn't how kids are taught, it's what kids are taught. What do you expect kids learn in government schools? That it's good to speak out, good to rabble-rouse, good to question authority? Only if you were the founding fathers.
Originally posted by DontTreadOnMe
What is with this "preparing" for standardized tests? The only preparing I remember was to bring in two #2 pencils, sharpened and with erasers.
If schools are truly teaching, why would this preparation be necessary
The ones I have seen are really heavy on the 3 R's and leave little time for such things as civics, history, geography (How many teens can find say bangladesh or even Afganistan?