Those darned Catholics
As predicted, no sooner has it been determined that Ontario’s Catholic school boards are disproportionately outperforming the province’s public school boards, than the call goes out to “correct [the] injustice” of a separate Roman Catholic school system. edward michael george
I tell you, those Papists are clever…too clever. They teach that reading, ‘riting and ‘rthmetic like no one’s business. They must be stopped! EMG has the details and the links.
Little buggers are outperforming the Prot/secular schools. That’s so unfair…I mean the Ctholics have nuns and all.
Occasionally people will ask us why we home school…er, well, because the industrial school system is not actually about learning. It is about keeping the kids as dumb as possible. Imagine having to watch “An Inconvenient Truth” five times a semester. Imagine having to be graded on collages. Imagine getting highschool credits for being able to work a mouse, (a skill my four year old has had for two years). Imagine schools where learning to share is more important than learning to write. Imagine taking as long as the slowest kid in the class to learn to read. Welcome to the industrial school.
Today, along with adding long columns of numbers, Sam and I learned about our old friend the variable “x”. “You mean it could be anything Dad?” “Yup, anything at all.” “No way.” “Way.”
It is not a big stretch for a seven year old. It is, rather, an idea. “Let “x” equal the speed of sound.” What would 7x look like? And what would that be in G’s.
Numbers are fun. They are also hugely powerful. Giving small children power is very scary indeed.
Written by jay on September 11th, 2008 with
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#1. September 12th, 2008, at 6:30 AM.
This week my daughter — who just started grade two — asked me, “Dad, would school be more fun if we didn’t have any ‘tards in my class? ‘Cuz we have to keep waiting for them and it’s REALLY BORING.”
She’s also annoyed that the teacher keeps handing her books with pictures in them. She gave those up in the spring.
I’m so proud of her.
*sniff*