Wednesday, March 10, 2010
News Nationwide Education Standards Announced; Kids to Be Indoctrinated with Socialist Propaganda Unless You Homeschool Them
Posted by Mark Asch on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:13 PM
- Why do our nations governors hate remote one-room schoolhouses with their idiosyncratic curricula and carefree games of Snap the Whip?
If a majority of states adopt them, they'll become standard nationwide—a major step forward, as you'll agree if you remember your belligerently ass-backwards local school board, or college courses designed to streamline an incoming freshman prepared or unprepared for an undergraduate education to wildly divergent degrees. (It's an outline of concepts and skills, not a proscription of teaching methods or reading lists.)
The nation's governors and their school superintendents began the project in the first half of last year; 48 states participated. The two that didn't, as I'm sure you can imagine, were Alaska and Texas. Rather than surrender their children's minds to the Big Bad Federal Government, with its gentle suggestion that middle schoolers read Little Women, noted aspiring populist demagogues (and secessionists, both of them) Sarah Palin and Rick Perry boldly stood up for the independent Alaskan/Texan Way of Life, defying government intervention, with its pernicious basic efficiency standards and commonsensical socially accepted life skills.
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