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Teachers?

Pch. It's not cool to listen to teachers, man.

 

but it's cooler than listening to coldplay

 

when did it become teachers' job to teach anything but the curriculum? i don't want my kids being taught anything by their teachers except the basics. the values, politics and morals i want to come from ME.

 

Sure. But in the USA, what is the curriculum?

It's my understanding that the curriculum is dolled out from the individual school boards, or the Educational School Boards in the USA.

 

Dunno. I think it's pretty biased if all kids were taught politics from their parents alone. Would be a pretty scary world if that's all they were exposed to.

 

Yes, but the goal of public schooling is to mold the way the child sees the world by instilling them with views and attitudes deemed acceptable to the state. So it's not education, but indoctrination. That is why I would recommend homeschooling to anyone who has children and really cares.

 

It has always, and always will be a teachers job to teach far beyond the curriculum. Only the most mediocre of teachers simply sticks to the curriculum.

 

From what I understood in school, it's the state board of education that decides on curriculum, but I'm pretty sure every state is pretty similar. If it was decided by the district school boards, it would be pandemonium because truth be told, I think our school board is pretty uneducated, lol.

 

That's not what I have heard.

I have heard that there are public high schools where there are Educational Board offices that are in fact located in the school itself, and in each independent school they have a basic curriculum guideline governed to them by the state, but the Board has ultimate and secular authority to put a stamp of approval on any curriculum that they so wish.

The individual school boards thus have the ability to say "this school will require students to complete 40 hours of community service in order to graduate" and so on and so forth while other public schools in the state do not.

 

Private schools barely have to answer to the state.

Public schools are pretty much forced to comply with the state's standard's for curriculum. The final decision is left to the school board, but it must adhere to state guidelines.

 

Thank you Pavel.

 

And what exactly is the "state's standard"?? A 10th grader with a 4th grade reading level?

 

i found a school i actually like. it's not all bullshit kool aid drinking. it's neither rah rah patriotic, nor is it "america is evil." i used to get so fucking tired of hearing about my teachers' freaking politics when i wanted to hear was about the actual topic at hand. wasting a freaking half hour during algebra about my teacher's latest rant on the president or whatnot go fucking tedious.


and what's wrong with parent's teaching their kids about these things than teachers? you want your kids marching in lockstep with all the other half educated idiots wandering around?

 

bullshit, we wasted so much time listening to our teachers ramble on about their fucking politics than nothing of substance was ever actually taught. it was all "feel good, give all your hard earned money to the state to support teachers who didn't teach you shit and feel guilty that your parents are successful."

 

I was AGREEING with you. It's up to the PARENTS -- not the state -- to instill values in the child.

 

Yes, American standards suck. I would never teach in America, NEVER.

 

i was ranting at aristartle and pavel.
kool aid drinkers. like teachers understand anything but what was spoonfed to them by other teachers. talk about biased.

 

I'd consider teaching at a Federal school up North to First Nations children.

Something about the challenge and potential reward seems very appealing to me.

 

At many times, teachers are the only role models in a young person's life... especially here in America.

I do not believe that teachers should bring politics into the classroom, but they should bring life and off-topic educational discussion in. They should serve as an example of character and as a role model of an adult. Politics do play a big role in this world and are at times unavoidable in the class, yet the teacher's job is to educate the kids about politics from both sides. Hell, even a Bush joke or two, no matter how corny, have never hurt anyone.

You have to realize that school isn't about brainwashing kids with pointless information. It's about developing analytical and critical thinking, problem solving skills, social skills, and character.

 

u2's joshua tree is fucking good.