The Truly Frightening Thing a Texas Teacher Allegedly Told One Mother

This is pure insanity. Who allows their kids to attend these schools? And why in the world aren't parents storming the gates of the local school boards?

I guess everyone is to busy watching stupid TV shows and texting to look up and care enough about their kids lives.

I would have punched the teacher had I been this parent.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...ng-a-texas-teacher-allegedly-told-one-mother/

 

Ahhhh Government schools, growing the best drones they can.

 

The children are the governments responsibility to educate, its better that way, since parents may have beliefs contrary to the best interests of the State such as religious nonsense or Creationism.

(I'm just being snarky.)

But if you don't like the way they are being taught home school or send them to a private school, you use government run schools then you have to accept their system of education no one is making parents use them. I believe in choice in this but the government funds them through collected taxes and the local school boards only have some say in the matter in the end.

 

I know I must have irritated some teachers in the past. My boys listen to me on different subjects (and on science, I am probably more informed than most of their teachers). That said, I have been in a situation where I was banned from helping my kids with homework--by my wife. When they were in elementary school (pre-Common Core), they would have the strangest operations being taught to them. Basically, it was either doing only part of the math, or doing it backwards. I'd get frustrated, because I saw where the problem was going, but the book didn't "finish" the problem. My wife decided it best to ban me from helping with math until high school.

 

Well when you have textbooks saying things like Moses was a Founding Father, then I can imagine the teachers lack of desire for parental 'correction'...

 

Yes, because everyone knows that is false. Darwin is a founding father.

 

This is too much... Even if parents might be mistaken when sharing some information with their kids or helping with the homework, no school has a right to discredit parents in the eyes of the children.

 

To use this incident to call for the shutdown of the Dept of Education is ludicrous, but then Cons are not exactly fans of education.

 

Glenn Beck? Lol. There's an 80% that the story is a complete work of fiction.

 

Not sure if your arguing, or being sarcastic.......?

 

Sarcasm begs for more sarcasm don't you think? Show me a text book that says Moses was a founding father.

 

http://www.alternet.org/education/texas-approves-textbooks-moses-honorary-founding-father

Sorry, "Honorary".

I'm curious as to what else is in the texas school books though...

 

This would be one of the reasons parents actually "TALK" with their children. It is up to us to educate our own kids on the basics of reality, and to do so we need to understand what THEY understand. Teachers in a school are but a part of the education game....and many will have beliefs we do not accept. I would forward the concept of spending a bit of time to get to know the midgets you bring into this extremely diverse and confusing world, so you have a chance of guiding them away from the stupid parts.

 

You deny that the old testament played a role in the drafting of the Constitution? Of course you are quick to believe that the text book calls Moses a founding father, which is just the fricking blogger editorializing, but hey you probably believe anything that confirms your bias.

 

This has to be the goofiest article I've read in a very long time. Not one piece of verifiable evidence in any of this.

I wonder if Beck cried his famous crocodile tears as well?

 

"However, the new textbooks also include passages that suggest Moses influenced the writing of the Constitution and that the roots of democracy can be found in the Old Testament."

This is quite different than text books saying Moses is a founding father. Many of the founding fathers were Christians so why does it come as a surprise to hear Moses influenced their writings?

 

Many of the Founding Fathers were not Christians, is that mentioned as well?

 

Ohp. Give some evidence of your statement, like you were complaining that the article doesn't. And many would mean at least 25% of them, correct? I mean 3% would not be MANY, right?
So give us the names along with non-left wing sources.

Because until then, I think you're wrong.

 

As a volunteer and then doing a stint as a teacher's aide for a few years I saw exactly these attitudes expressed by many teachers - specifically “don’t want parents confusing the kids” is one that permeates.


My children were then homeschooled through to high school. (My university training was in teaching).

 

Don't want adults getting in the way of some good brainwashing.

 

There are plenty of reasons to shut down the DOE, this being one of them:

http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.c...ucation-to-phase-out-the-authority-of-states/

 

Yep, brainwashing should be the exclusive domain of parents.

 

yep, especially the brainwashing about religion, that's just wonderful, assault little kid's brains before they can think for themselves. Religonists should be SO proud that such is necessary to get kids to "believe" in their bs.

 

Want me to send you one?

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Qwitcher lyin'. He cant cry without his handy-dandy jar of Vicks Vaporub.

 

What happened to Cons, you are not the same Conservatives I grew up around. The Conservatives of the past fixed things so they ran better, the Cons of today simply want to throw things away if something has any problems and replace them with nothing or something that does not work either. Such a loss to the Nation.