On Oct 26, 3:26 am, Benj <
bjac...@iwaynet.net> wrote:
> Dan Bloomquist wrote:
> >
knews4u2c...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > >
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a> > You can continue your cross posts to misc.survivalism, and misc.taxes.
> > But, what is the point, unless you maintain idiocy on their level?
>
> > The tougher audience is on the sci groups. Not that most are capable of
> > critical thinking, but that there are some still around.
>
> > Usenet, just like the students in the reference, is full of 'belief',
> > and denial. So unscientific.......
>
> > Are you ready to do the 'science'?
>
> ---
> Dan, nobody is ready to "do the science"!
> Oh sure. Now heres a guy RESPONSIBLE for this mess and now having
> pissed in OUR soup decides he's not hungry any more!
>
> So LONG ago there began a push to take over American education.
> Associations of "educators" were started. Theories of "education"
> invented and promoted. And the teaching of real skillz and cognitive
> abilities began to cease. So the above mentioned "educator" is now
> appalled at his OWN handiwork. Where was HE when the dumb-downers took
> over his teachers union? Where was HE when "education theory" promoted
> the idea that students should be allowed to just guess how words are
> spelled rather than learn the true spelling because it might hurt
> their "self of steam"? Where was HE when the output of his classes
> were so ignorant as to not know that the word is pronounced "Master"
> and not "Massah" and the government began to try to FORCE teachers to
> actually teach with a series of testing programs. No, the problem
> isn't the tests. The problem is the TEACHERS!
>
> So I ask you. WHERE are the TEACHERS with the balls to stand up to
> their own associations? Where are the TEACHERS willing to TEACH
> instead of shuffle papers and keep all the window shades at the same
> height to please the principal? Where are the TEACHERS willing to take
> a STAND against the totally bogus "theories of education"? Where are
> the TEACHERS willing to TEACH rather than to simple be keepers for a
> herd of wild animals to be sure they keep getting their salary? Of
> course if they actually TEACH they know they'll get fired? Where are
> these people including parents willing to stand up to schools being
> turned into high-security prisons where armed guards, metal detectors,
> barred windows, "Lockdowns", hundreds of video cameras PER SCHOOL, and
> where even drug dealing and shootings are now considered "normal".
> Apparently there are more shootings in our schools than in our
> prisons...but nobody says "who is in charge here"? No principals or
> administrators get fired for abusing children and ruining their lives
> over idiotic political policies such as "zero tolerance" where
> children's lives are ruined forever or simple acts like pointing a
> chicken wing and saying "bang" in imitation of the very movies and
> programming provided by the SAME people providing the "zero tolerance"
> policy ideas!
>
> When in HELL are these people who we've put in charge of educating our
> children going to actually take some responsibility for their actions
> to date? And even more important when are they going to actually do
> something to REVERSE what they've done so far? Apparently all they
> intend to leave the country and the mess they made to try to save
> their own sorry asses. Hell, when are YOU going to take responsibility
> for this mess? Why aren't YOU out in front of the school board
> building demanding resignations at the next incident of "zero
> tolerance" child abuse?
>
> Yet teachers, like media people are always demanding public respect
> for the "wonderful" job they are doing. I'd have a lot more respect if
> the "job" they were doing wasn't the destruction of our future! Too
> bad the dunking stool is out of fashion!
>
> If you have ANY remaining doubt as to what "modern educators" have
> done to the future of this country, go find a copy of the old McGuffy
> Reader. Before "education associations" and "teacher unions" this was
> a grade school textbook. Today I challenge you to find even ADULTS
> who can read and understand it! And when you realize just how far DOWN
> everyone has fallen, remember to THANK A TEACHER!!!
>
> <end rant>
OK, we thank all the teachers. and hoorah for the "dunking stool"
But what about the scam idiots who promote Stanley Meyer water cars,
hydrogen electrolyzers, magnetic resonator levitation machines,
etc. ??