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Politics : Have you read your constitution today? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (87)	7/3/2002 5:54:56 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 403

X, or your 2nd & 3rd graders, I know not what parents today teach their children. I read to my step daughter.

To: epicure who wrote (87)	7/3/2002 6:10:55 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 403

I haven't looked at any history texts of in Colorado late or those nation wide, but was shocked that my step daughter's (years ago in Colorado) 7th grade history text spent 7 pages on the women's suffrage movement but only 2 on the revolutionary war! 6 pages were devoted to the black equality movement of the 60's but only 2 pages to the Civil War(1/2 of one of those was a large picture). WW-I was but a single paragraph and WW-II was 3 pages around 1/2 about the Holocaust.

To: epicure who wrote (87)	7/3/2002 10:41:50 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 403

They had never heard of the revolutionary war. They did not know that George Washington had been a general, and of course did not realize he had been a general in the revolutionary war because they had never heard of the revolutionary war. Far more important than the pledge- WHY do our kids not know any history???? "American education is in ruins. Students can’t read, write, add or think. Schools are plagued by gangs and mindless violence. Parents who can afford to, send their children to private schools, in the desperate hope of finding sane teaching but often find these schools beset by the same problems. More than ever, employers are left to pick up the pieces, training school graduates in the basic skills necessary for working life. Countless solutions have been proposed to save American education: computers, school uniforms, a voucher system, single-sex classrooms, school prayer. But none of these “solutions” will help, because they ignore the fundamental cause of the problem: the acceptance of false ideas, which leads to bad teaching and bad curricula. The real purpose of education is to teach students how to think, so they can lead productive, independent lives. Our education leaders, however, believe that knowledge is impossible and that truth equals majority opinion. Thus, our children are made to surrender their minds to the will of the group and are presented with a hash of frivolous, unsystematically organized topics. To save American education, we need a new, rational curriculum: Out with car maintenance, “self-esteem workshops” and every other politically correct time-waster, and back to a subject-matter curriculum of literature, math, science and history. Read on to discover the relationship between basic philosophic ideas and current education problems, including school violence, gangs, illiteracy, and others. This Web site argues that only with the right ideas — in the form of a rational curriculum — do we have a chance of correcting these problems." education.aynrand.org